Topband: Fishnet beacons on 160

[Mike Waters]

Edited subject and re-posted.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com> wrote:

> As was pointed out, this has been discussed here many times before. There
> used to be an informal fishnet beacon listening group; one ham has a list
> of them and invites others to send him reports. I forget the URL.
>
> I'm not suggesting that this thread shouldn't continue; but if you do a
> search in the Topband archives, there's a LOT of useful info there that
> hasn't been discussed in this thread. Maybe it's time to "resurrect" it.
>
> The search page is at
> lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Topband
> You might try searching for terms such as "fish net", fishnet, "drift
> net", buoy, buoys, and beacons.
>
> W8JI has a Web page about them; there are others who also have useful and
> varied info.
>
> 73, Mike
> www.w0btu.com
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:14 PM, <mstangelo at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> maybe we should start a Fish Buoy listening group. They propagate well
>> for such an inefficient antenna.
>>
>
>