[450] Very Strong 70cm Beacon

[David McKenzie]

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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:22 AM, George Andrews <gandrews at ntplx.net> wrote:
> This is good stuff. The brain, as well as the body requires exercise and
> stimulation of the intellectual type. As the body turns to mush without
> exercise, so too does the brain. Anyway we need more technical discussions
> and talk of glow in the dark radios (reference to recent DX60 etc.
> discussions).
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> So when does the HF AM net start??? I don’t have an HR10, so I use either
> the FT950 or Icom 726 for the receive. DX60/HR10B for transmit.
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> I am also thinking about an SDR using one of those USB dongles. Anyone else
> explored this to the point of a working model?
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> George
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> From: 450-bounces at lists.vhfwiki.com [mailto:450-bounces at lists.vhfwiki.com]
> On Behalf Of Rich
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 9:10 AM
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> To: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
> Subject: Re: [450] Very Strong 70cm Beacon
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> Alright, Alright.....suddenly there is WAY too much technical stuff going on
> here for us appliance operators!
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> Good show, Herr Foege!
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> Merry Holidays to all....guess we won’t be getting together before Xmas, but
> maybe before the New Year?
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> Peace and Love to all......and Woody, are you still alive?!
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> Richard
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> From: John Foege
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> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 3:44 AM
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> To: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
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> Subject: Re: [450] Very Strong 70cm Beacon
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> 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.
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> The text follows:
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> k1iig/b fn31ln
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> It's loud as hell on 432.200 MHz and only on a teeny tiny little whip going
> into my SDR.
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> 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...
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> 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.
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> 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??
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> 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.
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> Anyway...thought I'd ask for some help from the crew in determining what's
> going on there...
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> Cheers,
>
> John
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> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:46 PM, John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:13 PM, David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com> wrote:
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> what does the cw say?
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> 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
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
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