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New beacon - RVA 13566.32 khz
RVA:
CW beacon (RVA = Richmond, VA)
Currently in test mode and will move locations at some point. Antenna is an end fed dipole at approximately 30 feet above ground. Reports / comments appreciated.
**Freq corrected to 13566.32 (originally was .28)
Finman:
Congrats on getting your beacon on the air. I will give a listen although VA is probably too short of a path to NC... I'll give the remote SDR's a try.
Just an FYI... there is no such thing as an "end fed dipole". "Dipole" means two poles. A dipole is center fed. A wire fed at the end is just that, an end fed wire. End fed antennas that work against a ground are considered monopoles.
--- Quote from: RVA on January 03, 2022, 1713 UTC ---CW beacon (RVA = Richmond, VA)
Currently in test mode and will move locations at some point. Antenna is an end fed dipole at approximately 30 feet above ground. Reports / comments appreciated.
**Freq corrected to 13566.28 (originally posted wrong)
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Finman:
Hearing RVA right now (16:47) on the KX4AZ/T SDR. Typical fades but Q5 copy at times. Good Job!
RVA:
Finman, thanks for the first report!
Yes, a better antenna description would be a resonant half wavelength wire antenna, 49:1 transformer, horizontally polarized oriented east/west. Ever nicer to be heard in GA.
Finman:
--- Quote from: RVA on January 05, 2022, 2039 UTC ---Finman, thanks for the first report!
Yes, a better antenna description would be a resonant half wavelength wire antenna, 49:1 transformer, horizontally polarized oriented east/west. Ever nicer to be heard in GA.
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Yes GA would be nice but just as a point of interest, the KX4AZ/T SDR is located in Tustin MI. His main QTH is GA.
His MI SDR seems to be a pipeline for weak signals coming from our neck of the woods.
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