TopBand: Boring Beacon report - morning edition

[Jeffrey Maass]

On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Tree N6TR wrote:

> 
> Pretty Boring this morning.
> 
> UA0LDY/mm was up on 1831 - not sure of his QTH.
> 
> The CZM beacon on 1828 must be running out of batteries.  It
> got the C out most of the time, but during the Z, it would often
> reset and then start all over again.  The signal is much weaker
> than before - so I am guessing the batteries are running out.
> 
> I hope they find it before it goes silent!
> 
> While listening on 1824 for VQ9SS, I heard another beacon - 3IG or
> something like that - pretty weak.  I even heard someone send a 
> question mark at it.  No sign of VQ9SS, but I will be away from the 
> radio for the next morning or two, so Pres might get an opening.
> 
> The ZL beacon was either not on this morning, or conditions were
 really poor.  Since no VK or JA signals were heard, it is possible
> the band was in very poor shape.
> 

Is there a compilation of known beacons and signal sources with frequencies on
160M available somewhere (on the Web or published elsewhere)? Where's the
1830 carrier coming from, and the others?

73,

Jeff Maass       (jmaass@freenet.columbus.oh.us)      Amateur Radio K8ND
      USPSA/IPSC # L-1192   NROI/CRO          NW of Columbus Ohio
      25000 Members in 2000!



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