[VHFcontesting] New 2M beacon in EN83fa - 144.295 MHz K8MM/B

[George Sintchak]

Ian - send your beacon info to Ron, WZ1V, so he can update his list. 
I will look for band openings with your beacon. Tnx for your efforts.

73's, George, WA2VNV
HF+50-1296, SOLP, FN30kv

 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Hill" <ihk8mm at charter.net>
To: <mvhfs at k8tb.org>; <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>; <mrrc at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 4:04 AM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] New 2M beacon in EN83fa - 144.295 MHz K8MM/B


> Hello everyone,
> 
> Because of the lack of a reliably heard 2M beacon in Southeast Michigan 
> I've been wanting to put a 2M beacon on the air for a while now. At 
> Dayton this year I picked up a nice used FT-290R and a small brick amp 
> with the intention of putting a 2M beacon on the air. This past week I 
> finally got around to home-brewing an antenna and getting it mounted at 
> the 90' level on the tower. The power to the antenna was measured at 10W 
> and it's feeding a horizontally polarized omnidirectional antenna.
> 
> The cw message is "V V V de K8MM/B EN83FA FLINT MI", repeating about 
> every 10 seconds. Hopefully this will be of use to some of you before 
> the Sept VHF contest.
> 
> I have also plans for putting 50, 222 and 432 MHz beacons on the air in 
> the future as well.
> 
> 
> 73,
> Ian - K8MM
> 
> 
> K8MM/B 144.295 MHz 10W to horizontal omni in EN83FA.
> 
> 
> 
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