New Beacon "L" on 4096.12

[Teotwaki]

DW is so strong here that I can hear a low whoop in the passband of my NRD-525 tuned to "L" 4096.12

Maybe I should rename this thread "Beacon L  4096.12 malfunction?" so we can encourage the owner to get it back on the air ASAP 

I miss it already!

[zeak]

The very few HF experimenters I know tend to be an obsessive lot, one will drive 800mi R-T to retrieve his “pet beacon” just to make a few changes, another can’t seem to leave his creation in the field “too long”, so its hard to tell about “L”, is it a malfunction or is it an over attentive creator?

I guess its like kids and animals we just have to be happy we have them for the time we do and hope they come back to stay or just hang around for a while.

From this location at 0200Z, 2, May “L” was 589 with no QSB and then at 0520Z, nothing when it was usually ~569?

Receiver KiwiSDR
Ant: 80m dipole at 15m
location:  DM12

[Teotwaki]

The very few HF experimenters I know tend to be an obsessive lot, one will drive 800mi R-T to retrieve his “pet beacon” just to make a few changes, another can’t seem to leave his creation in the field “too long”, so its hard to tell about “L”, is it a malfunction or is it an over attentive creator?

I guess its like kids and animals we just have to be happy we have them for the time we do and hope they come back to stay or just hang around for a while.

The way I look at it, 800 miles is $120 or more of gas and that money could be spent on more robust components for the beacon. Driving time could be used for performing in depth testing to ensure increased reliability. (The remote dataloggers I built and deployed three years back only require a new SLA battery every 14 months).

Mojave Beaconeer built his "auroral chorus" based on very simple low power circuits and some of them are many years old and functioning well, even without batteries holding a charge any more.