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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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The ATtinys are perfect for this. You can easily get the standby current down to a mA or less by putting it to sleep for 8 seconds at a time ...of course you can loop the sleep statement to sleep it for longer times as needed. Code is cheap and you can really minimize burning mAh's by sleeping the micro whenever possible.
I've not played with the 45 , but I've spent a lot of time with the ATtiny85. Great little chips.
I'm getting ready to build another beacon with mine, and you can do neat stuff like lowering your transmit duty cycle based on battery voltage, etc in order to put some hysteresis in the charge time. That's a powerful little chip for short money.
You've got a lot done with your project. Very cool!
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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!
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
EL SOL
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HF Beacons / Re: The Desert Whooper
« on: September 02, 2022, 2132 UTC »
Great fun to see the DW protos , after hearing it on the air for so long. While I've never been able to log it from the east coast, I've always heard it during trips to the central coast and of course via the Kiwis up in the bay area and Utah.
Thanks for providing a great deal of fun for us weirdos that enjoy listening to things that go beep in the night (and day)
Thanks for providing a great deal of fun for us weirdos that enjoy listening to things that go beep in the night (and day)
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HF Beacons / Re: Coastal Slider Back On 4109.5
« on: September 02, 2022, 0019 UTC »
Good signals into the KFS SE just now.
Well done, op!
Well done, op!
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HF Beacons / Re: New beacons on the way!
« on: August 19, 2022, 1916 UTC »
Can't wait to try and DX them . Somewhere around 8Mhz would be great to give us East Coasters a fair shot at logging you.
CW is always good!
CW is always good!
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HF Beacons / Re: Mojave Beaconeer's Rants, Opinions and Demands
« on: July 24, 2022, 1323 UTC »
Thanks for those Archive posts.... lots of good stuff from those days!
Steve: More like this please.
Steve: More like this please.
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22 Meter Band HiFER Beacons / Re: PIEDNB FL on 13564.58
« on: July 10, 2022, 1423 UTC »
I've seen this reported as coming from the Clearwater FL area. No op noted.
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22 Meter Band HiFER Beacons / FL PIE/B
« on: July 09, 2022, 2342 UTC »
Nice copy with some QSB and lightning noise @ 2340 UTC 7/9/22
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The RF Workbench / Re: Hellschreiber beacon - with some oomph!
« on: July 05, 2022, 2313 UTC »
Yes, the Attiny45 carries the code for keying the transmitter and sending the Hellschreiber message. The Attiny works well, despite beeing in close proximity with the 10W transmitter.
The ATtinys are perfect for this. You can easily get the standby current down to a mA or less by putting it to sleep for 8 seconds at a time ...of course you can loop the sleep statement to sleep it for longer times as needed. Code is cheap and you can really minimize burning mAh's by sleeping the micro whenever possible.
I've not played with the 45 , but I've spent a lot of time with the ATtiny85. Great little chips.
I'm getting ready to build another beacon with mine, and you can do neat stuff like lowering your transmit duty cycle based on battery voltage, etc in order to put some hysteresis in the charge time. That's a powerful little chip for short money.
You've got a lot done with your project. Very cool!
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Pirate Radio History / Lost another Free Radio friend
« on: July 05, 2022, 1453 UTC »
For those of you who knew Ben Fuller, I just found an obit from 4 yrs ago. We kept in touch for many years after he moved from Cape Cod to live in Namibia, but I lost track of him some yrs ago after I moved out of New Mexico.
Ben was a very prolific logger of pirate radio in the 80's ... if you have occasion to glance through old issues of The Ace (doesn't everyone?) you'll be hard pressed to find any issues without his name in the reception reports.
73 Ben.
https://icannwiki.org/Ben_Fuller
Ben was a very prolific logger of pirate radio in the 80's ... if you have occasion to glance through old issues of The Ace (doesn't everyone?) you'll be hard pressed to find any issues without his name in the reception reports.
73 Ben.
https://icannwiki.org/Ben_Fuller
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HF Beacons / The Mud Duck 4095.16
« on: July 05, 2022, 1312 UTC »
Logged via KFS Omni on 4095.16 at 1300z with nice signals.
Good work, whoever planted this.
Good work, whoever planted this.
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22 Meter Band HiFER Beacons / RF
« on: July 02, 2022, 1534 UTC »
Beacon RF on 13.564.9 is Q5 here this morning. It's odd that it's making about a 90 mile hop!