Topband: Steady Carrier on 80 CW

Don Kirk wd8dsb at gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 07:33:25 EDT 2013


Approximately 128 deg from WD8DSB (EM69) using small DF loop.


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> >
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