I believe we might all be reporting the same beacon on this freq. I have it reasonably strong and can watch it for extended periods of time. I see it changing the character it is sending from time to time. Because of the nature of the changes I suspect it is not intentional. I have not seen something I can definitely tie to temperature, for example, but I have been trying to see trends.
Most frequently it sends the letter “L”, dit-dah-dit-dit. Here is a spectrogram of that being sent:
The next most frequent I see is “L” with an extra little short dit at the beginning. The short dit is clearly heard when this happens, and I occasionally catch myself thinking “was that UI or a question mark minus a dah”? Here is a spectrogram of that happening:
Other times I hear the dah shortened up, with the short dit at the beginning, and then it sounds like “WM”. Here is a spectrogram of that happening and followed by a dit-L, you can tell the missing portion of the dah is actually there but reduced in power, to the ear it sounds gone.
I also have heard AO out of it a few times. The short leading dit is present and the dah partially drops out. If you look closely the dah is actually there but appears to sometimes be low in power for a portion of it. I sometimes hear this repeated for many cycles. Here is a spectrogram of the AO:
As for zackers question as to where this is located. Based on the fact I can often hear it in daylight and have it fairly strong I am betting in the northern Mojave Desert area. As I said, I have it about the same conditions/strengths as I used to have the TR beacon, I would not be surprised if they were not from the same general area.
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