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« on: September 11, 2016, 0205 UTC »
I got an e mail from someone a month ago and they asked me if I was hearing a dasher up on 4070.3 khz...
I listened occasionally for it but the static levels caused me to move on to a higher band where the qrn was not so bad. Then I stopped listening all together.
This morning at 1200 utc I decided to listen again I was up anyway, and low and behold there it was clear as day but very weak...a dash every 2 secs is what I counted...
this went on for 20 mins and then it faded down a couple of times into the noise and then back out of the noise...about the third fad down, it never appeared again.
I found the strange e mail address of the person who asked me to listen for this beacon and it doesn't exist any longer which adds to the Radio mystery.
P.S. I haven't heard the 4096 beacons in a long time mainly because I have a carrier on that freq. I haven't heard the X beacon either...so having a 4070 beacon to listen to this winter will be fun....