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VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Military Low VHF Skip

« on: February 17, 2023, 1709 UTC »

For a few days now I've been receiving good quality voice skip from Fort Bragg, North Carolina on 38.900 MHz. It's in mil wide FM (+/- 8KHz) with a 150 Hz tone.
They've self identified as Fort Bragg Range Control, mentioned 46.750 MHz as another range frequency and at one point seemed to have conversed with another mil radio station that was far away.

Jim
Orange County Calif.

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Evening Beacon Log

« on: February 16, 2023, 0350 UTC »

2097.315 KHz "A" beacon, good signal here on the MLA loop and the R8600
4095.700 KHz DW. Good signal on the KX3 BAT 13.0 OTMP 46 ITMP 54 PV 1 (at 0638 PST it was 35 degrees!)
4109.400 KHz Coast Slider, weak but readable slow whoops on the KX3

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Evening Beacon Log

« on: February 02, 2023, 0431 UTC »

Just a note that I enter these loggings right after I hear the stations. The date and timestamp of this message is good for anyone interested in guessing at propagation to SoCal.

2097.315 KHz "A" beacon, good signal here on the MLA loop and the R8600
4095.670 KHz DW. Good signal on the KX3 BAT 13.0 OTMP 51 ITMP 55 PV 1
4109.400 KHz Coast Slider, weak but readable slow whoops! Good job to the builder!

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Group W Bench / Re: FCC Cancels W6WBJ License

« on: February 01, 2023, 2237 UTC »

Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on January 29, 2023, 1214 UTC

As of Jan 27th, the total is 767760, per http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts

Thanks for the assist Chris!

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Group W Bench / Re: FCC Cancels W6WBJ License

« on: February 01, 2023, 2236 UTC »

Quote from: Sealord on February 01, 2023, 1936 UTC

I'm not a Ham, but try to share my interest of shortwave with most folks I come in contact with. The static either scares them off or peaks their interest and then I've got their attention. I recently gave my Tecsun PL-660 to an Afghan Vet who was a translator and speaks multiple languages. He was more than excited by the idea of listening to a portable radio to practice his skills and when I explained reception quality varies with time & season similar to tidal activity (he's a surfer) that was it. Don't know if he'll get his ticket, but at least someone else digs it

That's exactly the way to do it. You don't have to convert the world, just introduce one person at a time. I got one friend started by showing him some HF beacons using the on line kiwi SDRs, He just let me know that he bought a small portable HF SDR and is bringing it on our next camping trip. Pretty cool!

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Group W Bench / Re: FCC Cancels W6WBJ License

« on: January 26, 2023, 0448 UTC »

Quote from: Pigmeat on January 26, 2023, 0338 UTC

Nothing but old men with ham licenses is going to be the death of ham radio. When they pass on, it will be gone. Young people aren't interested in old technology.

I hear that often from people who do absolutely nothing to share the hobby with others, young or old. There's a Young Amateur Radio Club Discord server out there. My teen aged niece has a shiny new license and handheld radio. There are kids out there who are using SDRs, building wireless linked microcontrollers and so on who don't yet realize there is a bigger community of radio hobbyists out there. All they need is some outreach. Europe has YOTA (https://www.ham-yota.com/)

I'd like to find a version of this chart that has the last four years of data but the growth is something like 12% on this one. Maybe Covid killed all the old hams and made the plot nose dive.
https://www.kb6nu.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/number-of-radio-amateurs.png

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Evening Beacon Log

« on: January 26, 2023, 0308 UTC »

2097.315 KHz "A" beacon, good signal here on the MLA loop and the r8600
4095.670 KHz DW. Good signal on the KX3 BAT 13.0 OTMP 54 ITMP 59 PV 1
4096.861 KHz Marin ditter, slow ditter, only heard on KFS, nothing here at home
4109.400 KHz Coast Slider, weak but readable slow whoops

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HF Beacons / Re: Coastal Slider Back On 4109.5

« on: January 26, 2023, 0303 UTC »

Can hear CS at home, faint but recognizable.

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HF Beacons / MOVED: All right, fess up! :-)

« on: January 25, 2023, 1401 UTC »

This topic has been moved to General Radio Discussion.
It's funny, but belongs in a general discussion area as it could relate to all solar powered pirate radio equipment
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=107800.0

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Morning Beacon Log

« on: January 25, 2023, 1355 UTC »

2097.320 KHz "A" beacon, good signal on the mag loop and long wires
4095.700 KHz DW. Fair signal. BAT 12.8 oTMP 45 iTMP 48 PV 1
4109.400 KHz Coast Slider, weak but readable
7039.300 KHz Russian K beacon, faint signal

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HF Beacons / Re: Coastal Slider Back On 4109.5

« on: January 25, 2023, 1348 UTC »

I guess that CS has been repaired and the battery is well charged. It is 5:45am with dawn a ways off and I can hear CS faintly at home and it's also coming in very good on KFS omni.

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Group W Bench / Re: FCC Cancels W6WBJ License

« on: January 24, 2023, 2051 UTC »

Quote from: 2WR3505 on August 19, 2020, 1726 UTC

time for a little maul of truth, W6WBJ is actually a good operator, lol.

the real jammers where the hamtifa clownworlder hippiecrites that wouldnt check in W6WBJ.

the case against W6WBJ was built on irrelevant and falsified info, taking into account today's pc extremism.

the still on going memorex jamming still going on 3908 and 3890 KHz are recordings of the real racists.

K6TXH, WA7BZI, KW6BUZ (superstation of warfa), and W6QI (Moody).

the real blight of ham radio is these four hippiecrites, never was W6WBJ.

WARFA and similar hypocritical groups are a cancer on ham radio and will be the death of it.

That sounds like Billy Boy talking. If not, then it's just a jammer's shill.

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