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I have been trying to find information on the CW beacons I keep hearing on
160 meters, but no one seems to know what the heck I am talking about. Have
searched the Internet in vain trying to see where the call letters of these
CW beacons are located. I am also starting to keep a table of the different
call signs I hear on my new web page (URL http://members.aol.com/wd8dsb), and
have included the call signs and frequencies of the mystery beacons below.
My best guess is that they are some kind of radionavigation or radiolocation
signals (Loran-?)
Here are some of the signals I hear, and wonder if anyone can point me in the
right direction.
Identifier / Call Sign Frequency (MHZ)
YL57 1.815
CB14 1.842
LT67 1.915
GW166 1.915
YK52 1.924
The above beacons send their identifier followed by a 2.5 second carrier, and
it repeats this 3 times. ?Then it sends the entire sequence over again every
4 minutes (approximately). ?I have heard all of these around 5am EST (and
earlier) , and I am located near Indianapolis Indiana.
I also hear a continuous beacon on 1.810 MHZ that sends something similar to
VIAIT and it sounds similar to cw sent with a bug.
Thanks,
Don Kirk (wd8dsb)
E-mail : wd8dsb@aol.com
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