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HF Beacons / Re: Mixed CW / FSK beacon(?) on 4095.38

« on: February 28, 2023, 0038 UTC »

Good copy on this Fin Kiwi- Seems to be weather in morse.

http://sdxl-loh.ddns.net:8073/?f=4095.378cwnz14

Some fading but it does identify as a beacon and it's sending the time and shift and baud rate of RTTY info in its preamble.  It's machine sent code but cadence is odd to my ear.

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HF Beacons / Re: Central coast DXing

« on: February 03, 2023, 0351 UTC »

Listened today again, but at about 0200Z

The Slider was solid copy but weak.  The "slide" sure helps in finding the station.

DW was quite solid once again in the Goleta area.  In fact , I disconnected the mighty (not)  rain gutter antenna and placed the Belka DX on the sidewalk in the back yard and using only the 28" telescoping antenna could copy DW. 

Amazing signal from down south!

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HF Beacons / Central coast DXing

« on: February 02, 2023, 0141 UTC »

Got a chance to listen from a relatives house here in SB County.  Rig is a Belka DX hooked to a rain gutter downspout ... top drawer DXing!

0139 UTC and DW is in loud and clear,  and I was able to copy The Slider up the band a bit  with nice signals as well.

Will try again tomorrow from another location and will see what I can find

Congrats to the respective ops!

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HF Beacons / Re: Coastal Slider Back On 4109.5

« on: January 22, 2023, 0100 UTC »

Sure looking good tonight at 5 PM left coast time!



Good work!

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General Radio Discussion / Re: All right, fess up! :-)

« on: January 13, 2023, 2151 UTC »

Only government deployed solar panels are permitted on PUBLIC land....

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General Radio Discussion / Re: All right, fess up! :-)

« on: January 05, 2023, 2229 UTC »

Most anything the press reports on (especially anything technical) is wrong. This is a good example.

And how dare the public put up an antenna on public land without permission.

This cannot stand!           /s

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General Radio Discussion / All right, fess up! :-)

« on: January 05, 2023, 1829 UTC »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lARsgBr3SGg&ab_channel=KSLNews


"Illegal solar panels on public land"

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HF Beacons / Re: Coastal Slider Back On 4109.5

« on: December 02, 2022, 2357 UTC »

Could not copy it when I was in the central coast a couple months ago.

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HF Beacons / Re: Russian MX beacons log.

« on: October 06, 2022, 2309 UTC »

LG, have you been able to determine any impact the Russian invasion of Ukraine might have had on the MX beacon stations? Any regulars missing in action?

Thanks for your wonderful logs

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HF Beacons / Re: The Desert Whooper

« on: September 29, 2022, 0232 UTC »

Just did some listening from the back patio here in Santa Barbara County, and DW is whooping in here nicely on nothing more than the BELKA DX and it's 20" whip.

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HF Beacons / Re: Coastal Slider Back On 4109.5

« on: September 24, 2022, 1856 UTC »

I've tried several times to access that Kiwi , but it's overrun with WSPR bots. Thanks for the info though, I'll keep trying.

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HF Beacons / Re: Coastal Slider Back On 4109.5

« on: September 24, 2022, 1702 UTC »

Is the Slider still on the air?

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HF Beacons / Re: The Desert Whooper

« on: September 22, 2022, 0031 UTC »

Out in the yard here in the central coast of CA and DW is sounding good on the Belka DX with nothing more than the 20" telescoping whip.

Great job from down south!

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HF Beacons / Re: UNID New Beacon ? 8006.7 CW 1440 UTC 17 SEP 2022

« on: September 19, 2022, 1328 UTC »

Good on Chris's T2FD at the moment.

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HF Beacons / Re: UNID New Beacon ? 8006.7 CW 1440 UTC 17 SEP 2022

« on: September 18, 2022, 1325 UTC »

Copying it via your T2FD now, not bad!

EL SOL