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HF Beacons / HA on 6,816k
« on: July 01, 2011, 2043 UTC »
Hearing it in the Atlanta area 20:40z on 6,815.91 kHz.
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HF Beacons / Hexie and Kelsie into Atlanta
« on: July 01, 2011, 1257 UTC »
Caught Hexie (4096.25 kHz) and Kelsie (4096.57 kHz) in Atlanta at around 10:20 GMT (just before sunrise here). Noise floor was S7 and they were fading in and out, but clearly audible at times.
Some of the others I check for propogation: No Russian letter beacons could be found, CHU was only audible on 3330 kHz, and I caught the CW ID during the SITOR idle from NRV (Guam) on 8521.9 kHz and WHO (Mobile, AL) on 8418.92 kHz.
Glad to be hearing something again, but the bands still seem pretty dead...
Some of the others I check for propogation: No Russian letter beacons could be found, CHU was only audible on 3330 kHz, and I caught the CW ID during the SITOR idle from NRV (Guam) on 8521.9 kHz and WHO (Mobile, AL) on 8418.92 kHz.
Glad to be hearing something again, but the bands still seem pretty dead...
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HF Beacons / Re: F U Beacon 6815
« on: June 18, 2011, 2334 UTC »
Any guesses on location anybody? Seems like it must be on the east coast somewhere. Probably in the US. Seems pretty solid during bad propagation conditions. So I'd guess a decent antenna and a few watts. Frequency is pretty stable so I'd tend to think it's not one of the "quick & easy" PiFER beacons.
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HF Beacons / Re: F U Beacon 6815
« on: June 18, 2011, 1657 UTC »
I'm also receiving an occasional single "dot" on 6816 kHz. At one point there were several that were a bit less than ten seconds apart. Now just seeing an occasional sporadic one.
FU is still there and seems to be within a few Hz of where it was earlier. Very weak with more fading at this point.
FU is still there and seems to be within a few Hz of where it was earlier. Very weak with more fading at this point.
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HF Beacons / Re: F U Beacon 6815
« on: June 18, 2011, 1245 UTC »
It's 1344z here in the Atlanta area and I have it. S7 to S8 noise floor and this is just a bit above it but clearly audible. Fades every once in a while for a half minute or so, but running solid several minutes at a time.
Frequency is 6815.88 kHz.
Frequency is 6815.88 kHz.
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HF Beacons / What's up with the sunspots?
« on: June 15, 2011, 1212 UTC »
I haven't had time to do much listening to HF over the past year. Over the weekend I got the station cleaned out and working. My homebrew active antenna (which was my best performer from LF up to 7 or 8 MHz) is broke and I need to rebuild it. I'm using my multiband vertical which is decent through most of the HF band. But so far, not a single PiFER beacon. Also no Russian Letter beacons which use to be regulars.
Came across this article on sunspot activity:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/
I've read a couple of things about this, but the graph in this article shows a pretty clear trend. Hope it's wrong because if it's right we might not have any great HF conditions again in my lifetime. Twenty years ago, it was all about the coming ice age. Then it was all about global warming. Now they are talking about a mini-ice age. Hopefully they are wrong (yet again) and propagation will pick up again.
73,
Jim
Came across this article on sunspot activity:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/
I've read a couple of things about this, but the graph in this article shows a pretty clear trend. Hope it's wrong because if it's right we might not have any great HF conditions again in my lifetime. Twenty years ago, it was all about the coming ice age. Then it was all about global warming. Now they are talking about a mini-ice age. Hopefully they are wrong (yet again) and propagation will pick up again.
73,
Jim
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HF Beacons / Re: Pike into Atlanta area
« on: December 25, 2010, 1727 UTC »
Looks like about 20 per second...
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HF Beacons / Pike into Atlanta area
« on: December 23, 2010, 1653 UTC »
I'm copying a dasher that I assume is Pike on 8000.260 kHz on Dec. 23 at 16:40z. Weak with QSB, but clearly audible at times. Watching it on the audio spectrum analyzer and it's kind of funny--some dashes are fairly solid and others trace an almost perfect "S" shape as the frequency shifts a bit.
Trying to get the station put back into working order after being off the air for several months...
73,
Jim W4JBM
Trying to get the station put back into working order after being off the air for several months...
73,
Jim W4JBM
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HF Beacons / Re: Saturday Morning logs
« on: October 25, 2009, 1029 UTC »
Typo. You're right. It was on 8211.92 kHz.
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HF Beacons / Re: TS 8189.5Khz
« on: October 25, 2009, 1028 UTC »
Coming into West Georgia with some QSB on 8189.69 kHz this morning at 1025z.
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HF Beacons / Saturday Morning logs
« on: October 24, 2009, 1821 UTC »
Had a chance to tune the bands this morning for the first time in a while. Between about 0900z and 0930z I caught OK, TMP, Kelsie, and KX. But the big catch was OR making it back into Georgia. Hadn't heard it for a while. Was fading in and out on 8221.92 kHz, but was clearly audible at times.
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HF Beacons / OR into West Georgia
« on: June 16, 2009, 1358 UTC »
I'm hearing OR, weak with QSB, but clearly audible at times, here in west Georgia again on 8211.86 kHz at 1345z.
Also have Echo on 10236.94 kHz and CO on 11003.19 kHz.
No joy on UFO or Pike either now or earlier this morning.
73,
Jim W4JBM
Also have Echo on 10236.94 kHz and CO on 11003.19 kHz.
No joy on UFO or Pike either now or earlier this morning.
73,
Jim W4JBM
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HF Beacons / Re: OR @ 0308 UTC
« on: June 02, 2009, 1310 UTC »
I had OR into west Georgia at 0957z this morning. Very week, but it was clearly visible on Spectrogram most of the time and barely audible a couple of times.
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HF Beacons / Re: unIDed on 11004.6kHz
« on: June 02, 2009, 1026 UTC »
Listening in USB mode now and the dash has a raspy sound. I think this is a NATO Link 11 signal. Don't see reports of it on this frequency in anything I've got, but that's what it's almost got to be.
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HF Beacons / Re: unIDed on 11004.6kHz
« on: June 02, 2009, 1016 UTC »
Whatever it is is getting stronger as day break gets here. Moving the s-meter from nothing up to S6 at times. The FT-857 has an LED that changes color with the s-meter and it's blinking away in sych when it's strong.
It may not be a PiFER beacon because it seems strong. If it is, I've got a neighbor putting one on the air :-)
Actually there's enough QSB at times to make me think it's coming over a decent length path.
It may not be a PiFER beacon because it seems strong. If it is, I've got a neighbor putting one on the air :-)
Actually there's enough QSB at times to make me think it's coming over a decent length path.
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