[Fourlanders] FW: [VHF] US Based 4 Meter Beacon

[Jim Worsham]

This is kind of interesting if anyone has a receiver and antenna for this
frequency.

73
Jim, W4KXY


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu [mailto:owner-vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu] On
Behalf Of Les Rayburn
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 12:51 PM
To: VHF List; VHF List Non-Contest
Subject: [VHF] US Based 4 Meter Beacon

Of interest to VHF Men-

time to turn your rotators in the coming weeks ahead ... this taken from the
4
meters website

At 1200 UTC today Brian, WA1ZMS, has commissioned a new beacon with the
callsign WE9XFT from Virginia in USA, FM07FM. The beacon operates on 70.005
MHz and is GPS locked. Callsign and a short message is sent continuously in
CW
at 18 WPM/90 LPM. It is a radio science beacon for E-Skip propagation
purposes. ERP is 3 kW from a 3 el. Yagi at 600, i.e. Europe, and at 1280
mASL.
The beacon is scheduled to run 24 hours a day until September 1st unless
there
are technical issues precluding that. The beacon is non-amateur and sadly no
2-way QSOs can take place.

Please send any and all reception reports via e-mail to Brian, WA1ZMS:
his_call at att. net.

cheers david
http://band1tvdx. blogspot. com/
http://uk.groups. yahoo.com/ group/pmsdr/
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