High Frequency Beacon
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| 6815 || X9Q || S.E. Europe or<BR>Middle East || No further info. (Source: [[UDXF]], June 2011) | | 6815 || X9Q || S.E. Europe or<BR>Middle East || No further info. (Source: [[UDXF]], June 2011) | ||
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| + | | 6815 || FU || N. America || Active June 2011, no further info. | ||
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| 6852 || PRV || Preveza, Greece || 15 W Op: SW6HMU (Source: [[UDXF]]). <sup>(2)</sup> <sup>(3)</sup> Occasionally active with irregular schedule. Former website [http://6852khz.blogspot.com/] closed. | | 6852 || PRV || Preveza, Greece || 15 W Op: SW6HMU (Source: [[UDXF]]). <sup>(2)</sup> <sup>(3)</sup> Occasionally active with irregular schedule. Former website [http://6852khz.blogspot.com/] closed. | ||
Revision as of 18:23, 23 June 2011
High Frequency Beacon is a colloquial term for an unlicensed radio beacon that does not follow government regulations for operation (such as Part 15), and is technically illegal. Unlicensed HF beacons which operate legally, according to rules for low power transmissions are classified as HiFERs.
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Description
There are many of these beacons, quite a few are run as propagation experiments. Due to their nature, the exact location of these stations is generally not published, although many are believed to operate from remote locations in the deserts of the southwest USA. Likewise, these stations tend to suddenly appear and disappear from the air. Most run with very low power levels of just hundreds or even tens of milliwatts of power, and are often solar powered, so they can be hidden in open areas. Some are switched via a photocell, so they only operate at night, running off of a battery that is charged during the daytime by a solar panel.
There is a message board where listeners can report reception of beacons, it is also useful to see what other folks are presently hearing:
Reported High Frequency Beacons
| Freq (kHz) | Station ID | Location | Operation Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2097 | A | Arizona | (15 watts) - 'A' ident or malfunctions as series of dits - 15 watts max., 24/7 (back on the air, recently reported on 6 April 2009) |
| 3450 | OK | OK | (Youtube video) |
| 3579.7 | "HPY NEW YEAR 2010 DE PIRATE BEACON” & dashes. December 28, 2010. (4) | ||
| 3810 | SV1TEST | Athens, Greece (KM18VB) | no further info. (Source: UDXF) |
| 4056 | dasher | Reported on March 11, 2011 by bryan24230 | |
| 4062 | C | SW, probably CA | Very drifty, but slow drift, logged form 4052 to 4063. Its morse is not timed correcctly, it is probably sending a C with a short first dah (longer than dit, shorter than dah), but it could be an ER with a long dit, or a TR with a short dah. 24/7 |
| 4078.14 | WW | Colorado | 300-400 mW Inverted L night time only |
| 4077.27 | MO | Oklahoma | Solar 200 mW 118ft end fed wire 24/7 (Youtube video) |
| 4079 | TMPnnn | SW Arizona | The TEMPERATURE BEACON - Temperature in deg. F. - sends 'TMP' then 2 - 3 digit temp. in CW every 10 seconds. 1 watt |
| 4089 | . | Death Valley N.P. | About 80 dits/minute, 24/7, 500 mW to inv. vee. dipole |
| 4094.2 | PA | Arkansas | Solar power 200 mW Dipole 24/7 |
| | WV | | |
| 4096 | ......_ | VA | 6 dots 1 dash |
| 4096.1 | Dasher | Joshua Tree N.P. | 4.5 sec long dashes (about 13 dashes per min.) - big signal - north-facing dipole ('Coxie') 24/7 |
| 4096.25 | Dasher | Joshua Tree N.P. | 1 sec dash (about 30 per min.), 400 mW to inverted vee, 24/7 ('Hexie') |
| 4096.6 | Dasher | Mojave Nat. Preserve | 2 sec. dash (about 16 per minute) 400 mW to inverted vee, 24/7 ('Kelsie') |
| 4097.2 | Dasher | Inyo County, CA near DVNP | 55 dashes per minute with chirp when sun is low; day-only, at 5300 ft. elevation ('Inyo-whooper'), inv. vee., 0.5w |
| 4097.4 | KX | "KX" ten times, then "TEMP IN F", then the temp (three times) inside the enclosure, then "TEMP OUT F", and the outside temp, again three times. | |
| 4102.3 | W... | s.e. California desert | The WIND BEACON - sends 'W' ident and series of dits - each dit correlating to a turn of its anenometer, so if it is windy in the , it sends lots of dits; and no wind, no dits. |
| 4194 | MX | Europe | Xtal controlled milliwatt beacon operated occasionally in europe. Sometimes sends straight carrier instead of ID. |
| 4608 | MXC | Europe | Xtal controlled milliwatt beacon operated occasionally in europe. Sometimes sends straight carrier instead of ID. Sister beacon to MX. |
| 5157.6 | Dasher | Florida | BLINKY 200 mW Dipole 24/7 |
| 5484 | SD | San Diego, CA | |
| 5499.13 | Dasher | WA | |
| 5678.4 | Dasher | Colorado | PIKE solar/battery 100 mW Dipole 24/7 "Honker" |
| 6549.3 | FL | Florida | 300 mW Dipole 24/7 |
| 6626.2 | S | Inyo County, CA, near DVNP | About 60-200 dashes per min., sun-only, ~200 mW ('Rocky') |
| 6626.4 | Dits | Mojave N.P. | Fast 'drippy' sounding dits about 100/min., sun-only, 1.5 watts ('Rainy') |
| 6661 | PSA | No further info. (Source: UDXF, June 2011) | |
| 6700.4 | Dasher | Joshua N.P. | About 62 dashes per min., 24/7 (Hexy2k) |
| 6815 | SV1TEST | Athens, Greece (KM18VB) | Active, no further info. (Source: UDXF) (Youtube video) |
| 6815 | X9Q | S.E. Europe or Middle East | No further info. (Source: UDXF, June 2011) |
| 6815 | FU | N. America | Active June 2011, no further info. |
| 6852 | PRV | Preveza, Greece | 15 W Op: SW6HMU (Source: UDXF). (2) (3) Occasionally active with irregular schedule. Former website [1] closed. |
| 6994.8 | - | Norfolk, UK (JO02) | "RRR RRR RRR UK BEACON PROJECT 0.8E 52.8N 0.1 WATTS RRR RRR RRR REPORTS TO UKBEACON _ GMAIL.COM" (Source: UDXF) |
| 8001.5 | S | S.W. Arizona | sun-only, 1 watt. strong signal daytimes. Recently reported on 8000.6 kHz (Source: UDXF). |
| 8003 | Dasher | Colorado | Solar/battery dipole 24/7 "Pike 78" 78 dashes/min |
| 8211.7 | OR | ||
| 8261 | F | Western Canada | 250mW into a 1/2 wave inverted vee, 1400-0500 |
| 8350 | Dasher | North Carolina | |
| 8497.7 | Dasher | Pike 26 26 dashes/min | |
| 10236.7 | Dasher | FL | |
| 11002.7 | CO | Colorado | Solar battery 300 mW dipole 24/7 |
| 11009.9 | S | ? | Discovered at 1032 UTC on 2011-03-26 in Australia (1) |
| 13168.1 | dasher | N. America | No further info. (Source: UDXF, June 2011) |
| | Obliterated by lightning in June 2010. Replacement is in the works. |
See also
- Pictures of high frequency beacons
- HiFER
- PHFER Beacon Madness - A glimpse into the Pathology and Symptoms of this Disease
- Radio propagation beacon - beacons with an official license
References
- Ary Boender: "Numbers and Oddities", issue 162, March 2011, pp. 17
- Ary Boender: "Numbers and Oddities", issue 156, September 2010, pp. 15-16
- "PRV" was often reported during the past few months and was unid until Linkz submitted a link to websites about this station. Linkz writes: I have no idea if this station is legit or a pirate. It's operator is Eystathios Karastathis (SW6HMU) from Preveza, Greece. He writes on his blog "PRV - 6852 kHz 15w cw BEACON with Dipole Ant on the air 17.30 pm- 8.00 am". According to his blog there is also a MF beacon "PRV beacon 500-531 khz am/cw 400 Watt" and a local AM broadcasting station "Studio 421" on 1655 kHz”. This beacon was last reported to UDXF on April 18, 2011.
- Ary Boender: "Numbers and Oddities", issue 159, December 2010, pp. 23.
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