Thank you for that observation, but I don't think they're CW literate. :-)
My point (which I didn't make clear) was that you don't have to have a lot
of ERP to make the beacons QSY. I was just using an inverted-L from my QTH
in SW Missouri and about 650 watts.
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca> wrote:
> On 2012-10-01, at 8:17 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
>
> Nearly every time I have ever called CQ on top of a fishing beacon on 160
> --except the very weakest ones-- it disappeared. I assumed they changed
> frequency.
>
> I don't think it was a coincidence. I've heard others who had the same
> experience.
>
>
>
>
> *Hi Mike,*
>
> I've noticed that very same thing here myself, more often than not
> (certainly not in ALL cases, though): it's like they're somehow programmed
> to shift to another frequency if there's any interference to the one that
> they're on.
>
> I don't know if they're that sophisticated, or not. Certainly the
> fishermen who listen for these things would have to be savvy as to
> frequency agility...which leads me to ask, are they somehow CW-literate, too
> ...
>
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