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Author Topic: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB  (Read 1875 times)

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NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« on: May 21, 2021, 1819 UTC »
CB runs about 10 mw into a dipole...located East of The Continental Divide some where high in the Rockies...
SOLAR ONLY.  No Battery.  I have been listening for it today and finally caught it
on the NUT SDR at 1801- 1805 utc on a long fade up...in fact it actually left a trace. Then it disappeared.
It went into action about two days ago.
FREQUENCY is 7956 kHz

It sends a dash about every sec.  but sounds like a baby crying due to freq. shift.
Definitely not easy to DX.

dogman

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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2021, 2059 UTC »
Coming into KFS OMNI antenna with some weak fadups..at 2055 utc...I'd say thats pretty good.

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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2021, 2124 UTC »
AWESOME TO KNOW as every beacon put on weak or strong contributes to the HUF fun and to propagation research, too! Thanks for the beacon info - it's small power reminds me of MarinDit's second harmonic well heard but only about 5-10 mW ERP on 8193.75 kHz or so...

73 and will try for in the Owens Valley - MB


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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2021, 0235 UTC »
Jim
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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2021, 1813 UTC »
CB into the shack with weak fade ups at 1810 utc and also on the NUT sdr...weak but in there...
Been days since I have heard it...not a bad catch regarding a 4m-10mw beacon..

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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2021, 1544 UTC »
No luck catching it yet. Hopefully it is built well and will be on the air for a long time!
Jim
NRD-525, Elecraft KX3 and Elecraft PX3 Spectrum Display
76' end fed long wire & 66' off-center fed dipole for 10/20/40 meters
Orange County, SoCal, The better half

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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2021, 1717 UTC »
For the last 15 min. I have heard  "CB" fade up a number of times on the NUT SDR
1700-1715 utc 

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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2021, 1934 UTC »
Which One of the Utah kiwis? I’ve been trying the LP Yagi facing east but no luck. 😢
Jim
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76' end fed long wire & 66' off-center fed dipole for 10/20/40 meters
Orange County, SoCal, The better half

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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2021, 1443 UTC »
Got CB on the NUT sdr the time 1440 utc...7956 khz

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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2021, 1528 UTC »
Got CB on the NUT sdr the time 1440 utc...7956 khz

Which receiver? Omni or directional NUT SDRs?
Jim
NRD-525, Elecraft KX3 and Elecraft PX3 Spectrum Display
76' end fed long wire & 66' off-center fed dipole for 10/20/40 meters
Orange County, SoCal, The better half

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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2021, 0045 UTC »
Omni...when I'm listening on KFS it is always the omni antenna also.
Boy I was lucky to catch it there...it faded out and never came back.

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Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2021, 1416 UTC »
Some good fade ups on the NUT SDR beginning at 1405 utc ...
http://kiwisdr1.sdrutah.org:8073/
Amazing this little beacon is still in operation ...