[VHFcontesting] 222 Beacons near Wash DC

[George Sintchak]

Steve,
The Packrats W3CCX have a beacon in Philadelphia in grid square FM29JW on 
222.062 running 4 Watts to a single loop. That may be something to check 
out.

73's, George, WA2VNV
HF+50-1296, SOLP, FN30kv
146.760/448.825 UHF DMR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephan Greene" <ks1g04 at gmail.com>
To: <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 10:38 PM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] 222 Beacons near Wash DC


> Starting to assemble a 222 Mhz station - using an FT817 as a 28MHz IF
> and one of the made-in-Ukraine transverters that are available on
> ebay.  I can receive my VX8 HT and will try local repeaters once I do
> some antenna work, but would like to find non-FM signal sources.
> http://ntms.org/222Beacons.htm  says there is a beacon in Annapolis MD
> at 222.055, KL7GLK/3.  It isn't listed on
> http://www.newsvhf.com/beacons2.html, just 2 in VA (N4MW is 99 miles
> SSE of me, WD4GSM 320mi SW)  and K3DEL in DE 103 miles ESE.
> Suggestions?  Once I get things working, plan is to build a WA5VJB
> Cheap Yagi and hope my wife doesn't schedule me for something June 13
> & 14!
>
> 73 Steve KS1G FM18hx
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