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HF Beacons / 8Mhz trifecta

« on: December 18, 2009, 2306 UTC »

Pike dasher 8003.6

BC dasher 8498 (a little whoopy...but Q5 on QSB peaks)

TS 8189.5 also good copy on QSB peaks.... (TS CW ID)

CO is quite strong, excellent copy here in NC

John

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HF Beacons / Re: MO day time report

« on: December 16, 2009, 2129 UTC »

No go here on the East Coast....

678

HF Beacons / Re: BEACONS

« on: December 16, 2009, 0230 UTC »

Copying SVO here tonight. Quite good.

Where/what is SVO?

679

HF Beacons / 5154.2 busy

« on: December 15, 2009, 2100 UTC »

both the P and D single letter beacons active


Dasher is doing fine on 5157.5

CO quite good hr   20:50 UTC

John in NC

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HF Beacons / Re: First beacon logs

« on: December 03, 2009, 0124 UTC »

I'll certainly be listening. No luck on the 8Mhz family of beacons yet, but I'll stay at it.

Thanks for the welcome. I'm a CW guy too  !   

681

Other / Re: KSM

« on: December 01, 2009, 2218 UTC »

Dick Dillman at play! :-)

682

HF Beacons / CO

« on: December 01, 2009, 2149 UTC »

CO is doing fine today with a HI GREG  notice :-)

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HF Beacons / Re: First beacon logs

« on: November 30, 2009, 2240 UTC »

Thanks for the info.... I'll look forward to comparing loggings with you. We're probably not more than a couple hundred miles away.  I'm really going to enjoy listening for these, as it represents quite a challenge.

I always seem to do thing backwards...about 15 years ago I was heavily into listening for HF pirate stations , when I lived out west. At that time most of the stations were back east, so it was quite a challenge logging them.  Now that beacon SWLing intrigues me, the transmitters seem to be in the SW...where I came from.  I came into the world backwards and it's been the same thing ever since. :-)

John

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HF Beacons / "M" on ~8497?

« on: November 30, 2009, 2235 UTC »

Is this one of the Russian single letter beacons? I'm hearing it now ~2200

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HF Beacons / First beacon logs

« on: November 30, 2009, 2055 UTC »

My first beacon logs... fun stuff.


Hearing CO on 11002.7 20:43 utc. Some QSB but quite  copyable.

Logged Blinky last night on ~5157 with steady easy copy.


Location in North Carolina. Rx is JRC NRD525 , and antenna is a 160/80/40 sloper with feedpoint at 40' .

Im going to enjoy this kind of listening.

Any ideas of the power level of CO?

John

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HF Beacons / HF beacon plans?

« on: September 12, 2009, 0003 UTC »

Hi,
Does anyone have pointers to a low power (250mW) HF beacon transmitter?
I'd like to build a solar/battery version to plant out in the middle of nowhere