[HFbeacons] Re: How many beacon signals?
- From: Herb Tate <kc5mo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 16:10:11 -0500
Hi Bill,
I just finished building a remote antenna/coax switch using vacuum relays I
will send you some photos soon. All I have to do is trench and put in some new
conduit. I will have a dipole and my vertical when it is all finished. This
should aid in hearing more beacons.
73
Herb KC5MO
Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S™ III, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
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From: WJ5O <wj5o@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
To: hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,10mprop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [HFbeacons] How many beacon signals?
Good morning All,
Well, I've been asked.....again..... how I can have beacon logs of 30 on a
given day when others log closer to 10?
I have at least two things working in my favor...... I have four different
antennas to hear beacon signals.....and I've been logging beacons for twenty +
years.
Two vertical and two horizontal at different heights with one horizontal being
a rotatable 2 element Yagi. Quite often I can hear beacons on one polarization
and not the other.....plus there are times when even the different heights of
the same polarization will hear signals differently.
.......and knowing that the band can change in minutes (seconds), I try to tune
through with each antenna as rapidly as possible....What helps me is beacon
message experience.... I often ID a beacon and move on just hearing a small
portion of the signal. (like chirpy PY2WFG) ....About 90% of the current
beacons that frequent my location I can ID by only seeing the frequency and
hearing several characters of the message. (like "...2RF....on
28.226.5MHz)..... Even the message speed is a characteristic I can ID quickly.
(Think LU1FHH and N6UN).... and for those multi "grandfathered" 28.250 MHz the
three most regular for me all have very identifiable keying characteristics.
(plus a few Hertz separation)
73 Bill WJ5O
Southern Alabama
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