Topband: Fishing beacons redux

[Milt -- N5IA]

Hey Eddy,

The irony is the beacons are floating in the environment we all would 
literally 'kill for' to have in our back yards underneath our BIG antennas.

There is nothing like a salt water ground plane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

de Milt, N5IA


-----Original Message----- 
From: Eddy Swynar
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 4:32 AM
To: Robin
Cc: Mike Waters ; topband ; Merv Schweigert
Subject: Re: Topband: Fishing beacons redux


On 2012-10-02, at 3:45 AM, Robin wrote:

>
> but they are a C H E A P crystal controlled "MOPA" with a 6-8 meter long 
> whip.  the ID runs on a cycle like Merv says.  The beacons have something 
> like 36 D cells for power - ballast and cheap batteries
>

Hi Robin,

I had to smile to myself when I read your note!

Here we are with our full-sized inverted "L" antennas & phased arrays 
coupled to legal limit amplifiers, yet we're receiving some stiff 
competition from rock-bound simple MOPAs with whip antennas...! Hi Hi

There's some sort of irony at play here, to be sure...!

~73~ de Eddy VE3cui - VE3XZ


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