[450] FW: [VHF] US Based 4 Meter Beacon

[David McKenzie]

I dont hear it on the 706, but then again the receive is pretty pathetic in
general coverage, plus they say it's pointing "600" towards europe.

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:26 AM, George Andrews <gandrews at ntplx.net> wrote:

> Bob,
>
> I dont know if we can. I don't think I have anything that goes that high. I
> have two Drake receivers, will check them.
>
> Maybe some day we will have a 70 MHz allocation. That is the frequency of
> the rf I used when smashing atoms. five RCA 2332's running four MW. 3 plus
> MW into one cavity and the balance to another. These tubes had about 5 kW
> drive. Wish I had scavenged the 4X500 and 4X250 stages!
>
> George
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <n1ujs at toast.net>
> To: <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5:53 AM
> Subject: [450] FW: [VHF] US Based 4 Meter Beacon
>
>
>
>  Anyone see this?
>>
>> I wonder if we could hear this....
>>
>> 4 meters has always fascinated me.....and the 706 can
>> do it....
>>
>>
>>
>>  ------- Original Message -------
>>> From    : Les Rayburn[mailto:les at highnoonfilm.com]
>>> Sent    : 5/4/2010 12:51:29 PM
>>> To      : vhfcontesting at contesting.com;
>>>
>> vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu
>>
>>> Cc      :
>>> Subject : FW: [VHF] US Based 4 Meter Beacon
>>>
>>>  >Of interest to VHF Men-
>>
>> time to turn your rotators in the coming weeks ahead
>> ... this taken from the 4
>> meters website
>>
>> At 1200 UTC today Brian, WA1ZMS, has commissioned a
>> new beacon with the
>> callsign WE9XFT from Virginia in USA, FM07FM. The
>> beacon operates on 70.005
>> MHz and is GPS locked. Callsign and a short message
>> is sent continuously in CW
>> at 18 WPM/90 LPM. It is a radio science beacon for
>> E-Skip propagation
>> purposes. ERP is 3 kW from a 3 el. Yagi at 600, i.e.
>> Europe, and at 1280 mASL.
>> The beacon is scheduled to run 24 hours a day until
>> September 1st unless there
>> are technical issues precluding that. The beacon is
>> non-amateur and sadly no
>> 2-way QSOs can take place.
>>
>> Please send any and all reception reports via e-mail
>> to Brian, WA1ZMS:
>> his_call at att. net.
>>
>> cheers david
>> http://band1tvdx.  blogspot. com/
>> http://uk.groups.  yahoo.com/ group/pmsdr/
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