[TowerTalk] Perspectve

[wa4dou@juno.com]

Hi Jim,
  Not sure where you're comming from but i think James had in mind that
beacons often have variable power levels and switch between them, i.e.,
10-1- .1 watts, or whatever. Gives one a pretty good sense of what the
differences in the power levels really mean, hands on, so to speak. 73
Roy WA4DOU

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:15:36 -1000 "Jim Reid" <kh7m@hsa-kauai.net>
writes:
> 
> 
> > To reiterate what somebody else said, I think that careful 
> > listening over a period of time to the NCDXF beacons is 
> > as good a learning experience as there is as to what 
> >different signal levels mean. - Dr. Megacycle KK6MC/5
> 
> Kind of tough to move the beam quickly enough between
> beacon azimuths,  however!!  Frustating to me,  anyway.
> Of course,  I am alway interested to which direction from
> KH6 land ought I to be winging by RF for best QSO chances;
> maybe this is a different issue than the present topic.
> 
> Maybe should do this test using only a vertical,  since that
> is what the beacon sites are using.
> 
> On the other hand,  Tom has written that if you can hear
> the signal, then moving the beam to get antenna gain
> to increase the percieved loudness will not help....hmmmm.
> Seems to me it "sounds" louder if the beam is directed to
> the beacon azimuth.   
> 
> Interestinger and Interestinger...
> 
> 73,  Jim,  KH7M
> 
> 
> 
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