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HF Beacons / Re: Russian MX beacons log.

« on: March 26, 2020, 1253 UTC »

These are some fantastic logs from your QTH.

I'm going to give a try for some of these, thanks for posting them!

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: March 25, 2020, 1237 UTC »

A little chirpy this morning on the KFS SDR (Also a ton of noise...) Batt 11.4.

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: March 20, 2020, 0000 UTC »

Just the occasional "H" there now....

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Equipment / Re: What Radio Did you start your listening hobby with?

« on: March 12, 2020, 1449 UTC »

Radio Shack STAR ROAMER regen that I built with the help of my dad.

It worked to the extent the design allowed it to work! 

Sure looked good though.

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HF Beacons / Re: "A" Beacon 2097 Returns

« on: March 11, 2020, 2227 UTC »

Been listening for it on KFSKiwi for a few days with no joy

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The RF Workbench / Re: Solar SLA charging and maintenance for unattended transmitters

« on: March 11, 2020, 2204 UTC »

Hard to imagine that you'd need a Pi .  For beacon work, an Arduino seems more than enough .   There's more than enough IO pins to sense/control things.  You can put the thing to sleep in ultra low power mode (low single digits mA at LEAST  without a lot of work.
There's a LOT of capability in the nanos for $2. 

My .02

S.

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: March 11, 2020, 2155 UTC »

Windy is back to its normal self.    I copied battery voltage at 12.3 temp 65 degrees, via KFS

S.

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Spy Numbers / Re: Recording Buzzer + chatting operator?

« on: March 11, 2020, 1358 UTC »

That's a very nice logging... thank you for sharing it so well.

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HF Beacons / Re: KPH and the desert beacons

« on: March 10, 2020, 1737 UTC »

Thanks Chris

I guess I used to use photobucket, but I wouldn't go near them with a 10 foot pole any more.

Next time I'll use my Google storage and open a directory so it's viewable.

Sorry about that!


PS:  It was a hoot to hear Windy last week just with a 4' whip on the Degen... but I was in central CA.  Now back on the EC.

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HF Beacons / KPH and the desert beacons

« on: March 08, 2020, 2224 UTC »

KPH is a wonderful resource (albeit it's cheating :-) )  for desert beacon listening.

The 4096 pair is visible here as is Windy up just below 4103.

I can't figure out how to paste images here any longer, but head to

http://198.40.45.23:8073/

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: March 08, 2020, 1541 UTC »

Listening to the kfs kiwi and windy it'd doing well this AM. While it's much more fun to hear it on the degen when I'm traveling out west, it's nice to be able to log out from the east.

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: March 04, 2020, 0108 UTC »

Nice signal from Windy today (just now) 

TMP 71
Batt 11.9 (full charge these days?)

Really nice signal

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Pirate Radio History / Re: Vintage reception report MEGA THREAD!

« on: March 03, 2020, 0240 UTC »

Those are really fun to look though (and to fill in the last names of many of them :-) ).

I was active listening at this time but I don't recall logging WARI or ECPR

Thanks for the scans. I'll look forward to more!

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Evening Beacon Log

« on: March 03, 2020, 0218 UTC »

Was just outside listening to it on the Degen (signal is up!)

It is chilly down there !

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: March 03, 2020, 0102 UTC »

Logging Windy on the central coast of CA this afternoon (5PM local) using just the Degen and its built in whip.

Lots of wind pips and the battery voltage is 11.9v (even on a very sunny California day like today). Might need a new cell....

Really good to hear it again.