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Offline syfr

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Mojave beacons from central Cal
« on: June 25, 2018, 0209 UTC »
Not sure what they are officially called nor the exact freq since I am on the Degen 1103.

4097ish @ 645 PM PDT....W beacon...pips in between the W.

4096 @ 655 PM PDT.... single dasher about 4 sec interval.

Pretty amazing on telescopic whip.

Can some of you western swls id for me?

Fun to listen to what I hear about so often on this board.
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Re: Mojave beacons from central Cal
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2018, 0217 UTC »
Ah its windy... tuned up to 4102 and its loud!!!  98F right now. Toasty!
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Re: Mojave beacons from central Cal
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2018, 0032 UTC »
105F @ windy at 1730 pdt. Windy coming up out of the noise.
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Re: Mojave beacons from central Cal
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2018, 0210 UTC »
1900 PST.windy is easy copy to central coast. 103 F.   Amazing copy to a portable with telescopic whip.
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Re: Mojave beacons from central Cal
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2018, 0217 UTC »
Windy is a little bit more QSB affected tonght but good copy on peaks. 104F out this evening.

Hrd several below in the 4096 region. Hard to ID with just a portable but Im  pretty sure Haystack is the strongest.

QTH is near Lompoc
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Re: Mojave beacons from central Cal
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2018, 0217 UTC »
HI syfr,

Tnx for the reports from Lompoc area - "Windy" (W and the temp/battery data) a friend and I actually DFed it in 2000 and all I'll say is that it is in the Mojave and its dipole faces E/W.  At least 1-watt.  The "owners" fixed it up  and better with the battery v. numbers since late 2017.  It was once on 4095.5 or so long ago, clustered along with a very busy 4096 region once ago.

The 4-sec dasher is a daytimer "Coxie" (once 24/7) down in a remote section of Joshua Tree NatPark put on in 2001. N/S facing dipole.  A deacde ago its battery failed and we just decided to let run day-only but it gets out owing to being about 800 mW output with a tuned L/C filter to keep its harmonics weak.

Chris' beacon list atop this page should help you ID some.  73 MB
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