Topband: Fwd: Re: 1.99 and beacons

[Nick Hall-Patch]

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>At 13:00 5/6/2009, George W. wrote:
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>>(On May 5 at 0500 I had a somewhat promising experience 
>>listening to the beacons: on 1.9995 it was barely audible. 
>>On 1.8005 I could not hear it. This was the case both on 
>>my TX vertical and on my EU pennant. I was not listening 
>>to both FRQ at the same time, so it could have been 
>>QSB...)



This might be a good use for software-defined radios for those who have them.   Unfortunately, the 190kHz bandwidth of the RFSpace SDR-IQ is just too narrow for this, but one can record simultaneous spectral evidence using the SDR-14.  No Perseus here to try out, but that should be more than capable of simultaneous recording over this span.


best wishes,

Nick
VE7DXR






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Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada