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HF Beacons / Ditter on 6939.4 ?

« on: April 25, 2016, 0318 UTC »

Have not heard this before, about 4 dits per second, on 6939.4.  First at at 0310 utc here in northern Utah.  Some QSB. Anyone else hearing this one?  Don't think it is anything local.

73

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HF Beacons / New Dasher or Kelsie has come back to life!

« on: October 11, 2015, 1552 UTC »

Heard a 3 sec dasher just above Hexie last night around 0630 utc  I have it on my radio at about 4096.320, Hexie is at 4096.254.  Also had a carrier right on 4096.0.  Prop was way up last night compared to what it has been recently with the geomag storming.

Also heard A on 2097 and X on 4094.5. 

Rocky, Rainy, Hexy2k, Marin Ditter, Ghost of Inyo as well as the dasher on 6940 have all been heard.

73, Mark
Northern UT (NUT)

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HF Beacons / T beacon and Rocky, Rainy, Hexy2k

« on: July 18, 2015, 1725 UTC »

Am hearing a "T" beacon this morning on ~7998.2 at 1715 utc. 

Heard Rocky ~6626.2 and Rainy ~6626.3 this morning again off and on over an hour or so.

Have been hearing Hexy2k in the late afternoons off and on over the last couple of weeks.  Usually just after 2300 utc.

73, Mark
Northern UT (NUT)

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HF Beacons / Rocky and Rainy doing real well this morning!

« on: April 11, 2015, 1507 UTC »

Rocky and Rainy are being heard real well this morning at 1500 utc here in northern Ut.  No sign of the unknown ditter, though it has bee heard in the last month at least once.

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HF Beacons / UFO on 8000

« on: October 11, 2014, 2155 UTC »

Am hearing UFO on CW on 8000 KHz at 2150 utc.

Have we heard this one before??

73, Mark, Ku7z

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HF Beacons / L beacon again on 6917.5

« on: October 04, 2014, 0154 UTC »

Am hearing continuous L's at the moment on 6917.5. 

Heard this one back in the spring.

mark-n-nut
Northern UT

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HF Beacons / Ditter on ~7997.7

« on: June 22, 2014, 0013 UTC »

Am hearing a ditter on about 7997.7 first heard about 0005 utc.

Mark in northern UT. (NUT)

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HF Beacons / M Beacon 7998.8

« on: February 21, 2013, 0114 UTC »

Copying a beacon sending M on about 7998.8, not very strong with QSB here as the sun is setting at 0100 utc here in northern UT.

mark-n-nut

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HF Beacons / CZ Beacon back on the air

« on: October 05, 2012, 2206 UTC »

I believe I am just starting to hear the CZ beacon here (Northern UT) at 2150 utc this afternoon.  I have it on about 11428.830.  I don't recall if it moved around with temp or voltage changes.

mark-n-nut

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6925 KMUD

« on: January 22, 2011, 0051 UTC »

Music, KMUD id in CW.  6926 USB 55 signal here in UT.

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HF Beacons / Saturday Morning

« on: July 31, 2010, 1532 UTC »

Went looking for some beacons this morning and only found the following.

4079 - TMP
4089 - Ditter
4096 - Hexie
4096 - Kelsie
4096 - Calif Whooper
4097 - Dasher (T?)
4102 - Wind
4102 - Dasher
6626 - Ditter
6626 - Rocky
6626 - Rainy
8000 - S
8189 - TS
8261 - F

The A beacon on 2097 is still missing?  Anyone know if it will be back?  Thought I was hearing WW-4078 but it turned out to be a carrier I was hearing. 

73, mark-n-nut

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HF Beacons / 4102.8 Dasher

« on: May 08, 2010, 0029 UTC »

Checked in on the Wind beacon last night and found the 4102.8 dasher making an appearance.  I attached a Argo capture below.

Mark
Northern UT (NUT)

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HF Beacons / another mystery beacon on the air

« on: March 29, 2010, 0213 UTC »

Since were talking about mystery beacons here is another one.! I have been listening to another new/mystery beacon out here this last week.  I guess I have heard it for several days now.  I regularly here Rocky, Rainy and Hexy2k here and started hearing a new ditter beacon on 6626.100 early this last week.  I thought at first that it was Rocky and was running much slower than normal but then both rocky and rainy came up out of the noise and caught all 3 on the air at once.  Its been there every day at one time or another.  Its appears to be ~80 dits a minute.  Stable in freq.  Thinking it was out west and perhaps on solar power, I listened to the sun set on it a couple of days ago.  The number of dits slowly decreased and turned into dashes each getting longer and it faded away.  Probably took about 5 min or so.  Here is a screen grab of all 3. 

Mark

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HF Beacons / UFO - Lord Almighty! (CO and Calif desert Dasher)

« on: February 10, 2010, 2219 UTC »

Just got home from the doctors office (not quite 2 hours) and sat down and ran thru the daytime beacon memories on the R75 and found CO coming in on the 40 meter dipole so switched up to the 30 meter dipole and it was stronger there!  First Time I have been around to catch some prop to CO since last year!  Feeling frisky why I punched up the next memory to the 12889 Calif Desert dasher beacon, and there it was/is!   Well now should I go for the next one!  The infamous and never heard here before UFO memory location.  I pushed the button, nothing, but wait right there at the bottom of the argo screen there was something...  a little counter clockwise spin to the VFO dial and there is a dash!!! be still my heart!!  both on the screen and in my ears!  Lord Almighty!!  The UFO dasher is paying a visit to Northern Utah at 2200 UTC Feb 10 2010!  I turned the 1000mp on with the 3 ele tribander and its audilbe there as well.  Get this tho, I was hearing UFO better on the 12 meter dipole on the R75 than the tribander on the the 1000MP,  Go figure...   

Alleliua!!

The 8000 beacons were all audible as well!  Except the S beacon 8000.

73, Mark in NUT

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HF Beacons / Beacon Report from NUT

« on: January 16, 2010, 1646 UTC »

Hi all, been a few since I last posted.  Here is a list of what I have been hearing the last 24-36 hours here.  Noise has been a problem with the Power company hopefully on the way to fix soon.  Sally has been doing well, most I have heard since probably Nov.  The A and Kelsie beacons seem to be regular in the early evenings.  I finally heard PA last Sunday.  KX was last heard here Sunday as well. 

FREQ     ID      Location

2097.00 A       AZ Desert
3449.70 OK      Oklahoma
4077.27 MO      Oklahoma
4078.20 WW      Colorado
4079.00 TMP     SW AZ
4088.8   Ditter  Death Valley, CA
4096.24 Dasher  Joshua Tree, CA Hexie
4096.59 Dasher  Mojave NP Kelsie
4097.24 Dasher  Inyo County, CA Whooper
4102.40 Wind    SE CA Desert- Wind Speed
5157.60 Dasher  Florida - Blinky
5205.34 Dasher  Sally
5484.00 SD      San Deigo, CA
6626.30 Ditter  Mojave NP Rainy
6700.40 Dasher  Joshua Tree, CA Hexy2k
8000.50 S       SW Desert
8003.7   Dasher  Colorado Pike
8189.5  TS      Colorado
8211.70 OR      Oregon
8261.2   F       Canada


73 from Mark in NUT