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Zebra Beacons
« on: May 27, 2017, 1202 UTC »
Caught ZN 4070.3Khz at 1200 utc....caught Z 4175 khz at 1145 utc.

I guess I'll name the Z beacons Zebra ...LOL  Z is a good catch pretty rare.

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2017, 1304 UTC »
May 28 started hearing Z on 4175 khz at 1253 utc...
S3 noise floor on the old R4B receiver...at 1303 some strange local electical noise has now moved up the band
and is sitting right on Z.

ZN occasionally was fading up at 1200 utc but has disappeared by the time Z came into the picture today...

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2017, 1211 UTC »
May 29 I got up late started listening at 1200utc no joy on Z,
only caught a few fade ups of ZT at 1205 utc.
Maybe poor condx...I will go up to solarham.net and see whats going on in the ether.

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2017, 0402 UTC »
May 29 0350 utc  started hearing Z  with the rf gain cranked back do to QRN
q4 copy...q3 copy on ZN ...

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2017, 1207 UTC »
June 1 Time 1156 utc   Z q5 copy   
ZT Time 1205 utc q5 copy...


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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2017, 0247 UTC »
Hearing Z on 4174 tonight at 0245 utc.

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2017, 0302 UTC »
Am also hearing ZT on 4070 at 0300 utc,

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2017, 1220 UTC »
June 3  1200utc...Z and [ZT 4070.3 khz/b] both were peaking at s5
ON THE OLD R4B receiver..noise floor was s3-s4

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2017, 1226 UTC »
June 4  at 1200 ZN, Z were solid copy   at 1220 utc ZT faded up and ZN disappeared
I checked Z and at 1226 utc and it was still there.  All in all I caught three Zebra Beacons once again.

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2017, 1204 UTC »
June 6 Time from 1130 utc-1200 ZN was Q4-Q5
At 1200 utc ZT started coming in and ZN seemed to go away.

NO Z...

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2017, 1129 UTC »
Am Hearing "ZN" this morning, or night, at 1115 utc on about 4070.400

Also the "A" beacon and Windy as well!

Nice!

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2017, 1249 UTC »
July 30   Time 1240 utc ZN   q5 copy very nice signal considered day light out side
« Last Edit: July 30, 2017, 1251 UTC by tesla »

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2017, 2209 UTC »
Aug 10 1130 utc   ZN faded up nicely and competed with the static...

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2017, 1521 UTC »
Aug. 11 time 1130 utc  ZN was Q3 copy  heard maybe 4-5 ids then deep fad outs...
Glad to hear it since Wind no longer being heard...maybe electrical storms took it down.

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Re: Zebra Beacons
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2017, 2012 UTC »
Heard ZN here last night/morning.

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