[VHFcontesting] 2M Prop

[Pat Patterson]

Paul,
There was a presentation made at the VHF Forum at Dayton on building a VHF/UHF Reverse Beacon network "node".  N8UR described a scheme using RTL-SDR dongles and Alex, VE3NEA's CW Skimmer software to monitor the beacon segment of each bands, decode the received signals and post them to the RBN.    Tony, K8ZR, can probably provide a copy of the presentation or provide a link.  There are a couple of Beacon transmitters that offer CW and JT mode output.  Haven't seen any beacon scheme using FT8 but probably wouldn't be difficult to implement.

73,
Pat, W5VY

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> On Jun 21, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Paul Rollinson <Paulrollinson at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> Good morning all,
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> After yesterday's hot actively (Es) here in the northeast, I have activated
> my FT-8 software to monitor and report via PSKreporting.
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> It should give info as to the propagation on a live basis (2 min delay).
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> Does anyone know if there's a beacon mode using WSJT-X/FT8?
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> Thanks,
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> Paul Rollinson, KE1LI
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