[450] Very Strong 70cm Beacon

[John Foege]

Ok. I did actually manage to figure out a way to get one of those software
decoders to decode a WAV file. I guess I just didn't look hard enough
before.

The text follows:

k1iig/b fn31ln

It's loud as hell on 432.200 MHz and only on a teeny tiny little whip going
into my SDR.

Apparently the guy has got it going into a wheel (?) antenna up @ 450 ft.
Now I'm not sure if this is AGL or above sea level...

He has got the oscillator for the CW beacon phase locked to some kind of
standard. And what's really funny is, I can hear the same beacon on 61 Mhz
or so at much reduced SNR. Now, I wonder if this is just some kind of
mixing artifact from the SDR or I'm actually hearing his reference signal
that he might be transverting to different frequencies. He did say he wants
to get up a Ghz beacon soon.

Now I'm interested...doing a little radio detective work so to say. I'm
sure you all hear him loud and clear on 432.200 Mhz, but is anyone hearing
anything around 60-62 Mhz that is the exact same beacon CW string??

I'm going to contact him and ask him for some details of his beacon setup.
If it turns out he has a 60 Mhz phase locked signal somewhere that he is
converting up or down to do his beacon...then I'm going to be laughing my
ass off that I can hear it so far away, and I think he'd have to know about
it.

Anyway...thought I'd ask for some help from the crew in determining what's
going on there...

Cheers,

John

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:46 PM, John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know. I'm working on learning CW though...and I can't find a
> decent decoder that decodes WAV files...it's all live decoding
> software...bummer
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:13 PM, David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com>wrote:
>
>> what does the cw say?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:09 PM, John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > There is a very, very, very strong signal on 70cm @ 432.20 CW
>> >
>> > Sounds like a beacon...anyone know anything about it?
>> >
>> > 73s W1QEX
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > John
>> >
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