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HF Beacons / Re: New whooper beacon on 4095.6

« on: February 25, 2021, 0443 UTC »

pretty decent signal on the HFUnderpants

kiwi SDR V beam pointed at Europe
pretty decent signal on the 900 foot loop
weak but readable on the 400ft S beverage
weak but readable on the 500 foot NE beverage

Big signal on the KFS kiwi SE, omni & NW. Good signal on the SW kiwi

Big signal on the Northern Utah kiwi

Good signal on the Sedona kiwi

Nothing on my home receivers, LOL

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Afternoon Beacon Log

« on: February 25, 2021, 0147 UTC »

4095.670 KHz  DW Whooper. About 20 dB over the noise, sending  BAT 13.2  OTMP 68   ITMP 61   PV 26
4102.850 KHz  Windy. About 20 dB over the noise, sending "S" TMP 75  B 11.1 (?)

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Morning Beacon Log

« on: February 24, 2021, 1726 UTC »

Windy's anemometer was stuck. Long carrier interrupted by "W" or telemetry

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HF Beacons / Re: New Dasher 4097.22 KHz ?

« on: February 24, 2021, 1720 UTC »

using the KFS SE kiwi I see

fast dasher at 4097.29 (strong)
slow dasher at 4097.08 (weak)

785

HF Beacons / Re: 4093.2 New Dasher?

« on: February 24, 2021, 1717 UTC »

hearing it now on the KFS SE kiwi

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Morning Beacon Log

« on: February 24, 2021, 1443 UTC »

4095.675 KHz  Desert Whooper, DW: 15-20 dB above the noise here at home. BAT 12.8,  O TMP 49, I TMP 56,  PV 11 (mA?)
4102.850 KHz  Windy, just "s". Very weak
7039.400 KHz  Russian "M" beacon. Weak

787

HF Beacons / Re: New whooper beacon on 4095.6

« on: February 24, 2021, 1435 UTC »

Was up at 6am PST to look for beacons. At first I did not hear DW on my home receivers so checked the Western SDRs. Heard it really well on Utah and Sedona. KFS was a bit noisy but signal was there. Telemetry said the battery was at 12.8 but 0 for PV.  Temps were 49/56. Then around 6:25 I heard the whoops rise up out of the noise on my home receivers as the sun rose in the east. The PV reading gradually went from 0 to 11 so if it is a solar panel current reading it should rise sharply in full sun.

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HF Beacons / Re: New whooper beacon on 4095.6

« on: February 24, 2021, 0610 UTC »

It’s 10pm pst here and I tried out one of Chris’ SDRs

http://sdr.hfunderpants.com:8074/

I can actually get some clear whoops and even some Morse telemetry. Amazing propagation.

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Morning Beacon Log

« on: February 23, 2021, 1702 UTC »

4095.671 KHz  Desert Whooper, DW: fair signal here at home. BAT 13.7,  O TMP 55, I TMP 57,  PV 5 (mA?)
4102.850 KHz  Windy, just "H"
6626.250 KHz  Rainy. Fair signal
6700.445 KHz  Hexy2k. Weak but readable

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Morning Beacon Log

« on: February 23, 2021, 1626 UTC »

4095.671 KHz  Desert Whooper, DW: good signal here at home. BAT 13.7  O TMP 59, I TMP 57,  PV 2138 (mA?)
4102.850 KHz  Windy, just "S"

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HF Beacons / Re: New whooper beacon on 4095.6

« on: February 23, 2021, 1412 UTC »

DW is strong on all of the usual kiwis: KFS, Sedona and N. Utah. Just now I can hear DW starting to rise up in strength on both of my receivers at home.

BAT     12.8  (healthy!)
O TMP  53
I TMP   57
PV       0

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HF Beacons / Re: 4094 Beacon

« on: February 23, 2021, 1408 UTC »

Found a good signal on the Northern Utah kiwi SDR

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HF Beacons / Re: New whooper beacon on 4095.6

« on: February 23, 2021, 1405 UTC »

I'm getting copy again here on the east coast at 1114 UTC 23 Feb 2021. Fading in and out, but quite good, perhaps even strong, at times.

Which antenna/receiver combination did you use?

I've been trying out a number of kiwi SDRs and hear some things at one but not another so it's fun to see what works where. BTW, on the HFUnderpants kiwi family, can the frequency markers be updated easily? I still see "Haystack" and "Viking" but those are long gone.

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HF Beacons / Re: Teotwaki's Evening Beacon Log

« on: February 23, 2021, 0332 UTC »

Good propagation tonight with some good signals here at home.

4095.675 Desert Whooper, about +20 over the local noise, BAT 13.0,  O TMP 56, I TMP 61, PV 0
4102.85  Windy sending "S" a, about +20 over the local noise here

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HF Beacons / Re: Currently Active Beacons Chat

« on: February 22, 2021, 2312 UTC »

Master List updated today:

4095 Desert Whooper
4097 Dasher
4097 Ditter