Topband: Steady Carrier on 80 CW

[Mike Waters]

A steady carrier from fish net beacons doesn't fit the pattern of the ones
everyone has heard on 160. That would deplete the batteries fairly quickly.
All the ones I know of send a short carrier and a CW ID followed by a long
period of silence. That lets them be unattended for several days.

If it is a FNB, perhaps it has a large-capacity battery and solar panels,
or the batteries are manually replaced daily.

Maybe it's RFI from that floating Google data center barge. ;-)

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Charlie Cunningham <
charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Seems that I saw something a while back about some fishing beacons on the
> low end of 80m ( or maybe 160m -but I think it was 80m)
>