Did you listen to the audio Flavio posted?
I don't think it sounded like an automatic beacon at all. To me, it
sounded like a person sending, because it wasn't clean and well-spaced
like an electronic board would send as part of a beacon.
Well, at least, like it had been recorded from a person at some point.
It was also pretty regular intervals. I've heard CQ contest robocalls
like that.
It is an interesting dilemma though. But I still don't see how those
sort of driftnet beacons would be on 144.7 Mhz.
- Jake, K3uaz
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Lu <n2sln@frontiernet.net> wrote:
> It was probably a "driftnet beacon" which would explain why the beam heading
> was toward the ocean. The ones found between 26.500-27.000 MHz typically
> use 3-character callsigns, so I'm not surprised if the one he found on 2m
> was 6HE.
>
> http://www.qsl.net/n2sln/driftnetbeacons.html
>
>
> 73
>
> Lu
> N2SLN
> FN22
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Lauser" <23tauri@gmail.com>
> To: "PY2ZX" <py2zx.ham@gmail.com>; <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 3:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] "6HE" beacon?
>
>
>> Flavio,
>>
>> That doesn't sound like 6HE to me.
>>
>> It sounds like T3JT or TSMJT.
>>
>> I listened to it several times, and I just don't hear 6HE out of that.
>> Maybe the audio isn't as good on Youtube?
>>
>> Plus, the signal sounds very weak and watery.
>>
>> However, knowing that you were on 144 Mhz, I would say that it was
>> physically impossible to hear Kiribati from your location at that
>> frequency without a miracle of bizarre propagation.
>>
>> So, perhaps it was something else. What kind of antenna were you
>> using? You said you were pointing at the ocean, is it possible you had
>> some weird propagation? East Kiribati would be the longest ever 144
>> Mhz signal or something.
>>
>> - Jake, K3UAZ
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:24 PM, PY2ZX <py2zx.ham@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> During latest Comprida Island expedition (GG64, IOTA-SA-024) we heard a
>>> strange CW signal "6HE" at 144,470 MHz, CW, pointed aprox. 60 ~ 70
>>> degress, to our ocean toward Rio de Janeiro. Does anyone has heard
>>> anything like that? Seems like a radio buoy with similar ID of their
>>> counterparts on HF, but I never listen it on 2 meters. Any ideas? The
>>> video:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy98eqXrq-k
>>>
>>> Flavio PY2ZX
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