G'Day Topbanders,
These beacons are not frequency agile. As Mike points out,
they are on a schedule. The entire environment they are
used in is pretty primitive. They certainly do not know
morse code, the beacons are pre-programmed and the
fishermen just turn them on or off (and recharge the
batteries).
During my July survey trip to PY0S (for the PT0S
DXpedition) I was on a small long-line fishing boat and I
looked at both the beacons and the receivers. I will post
some pictures on the PT0S.com website later. For now, you
can see an example of a direction finding receiver at
http://www.taiyomusen.co.jp/pdf/TD-L2200.pdf
73,
George
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 19:45:54 -0500
Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Merv Schweigert
<k9fd@flex.com> wrote:
They do not change freq out here in KH6, if they did
how in the world
would the boat know where to look for the beacon and DF
it to find the
net??
I don't remember how they work. There was quite a
discussion about this
hear about 3 years ago. I forget the details.
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
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