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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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40m QRP beacon
« on: November 05, 2017, 1543 UTC »
I've been playing around with a QRP beacon on 40 meters. It runs on 7041.95, with 18 mW of power feeding a tilted folded dipole. It is only on when I am in the basement shack, since you cannot run unattended beacons on 40 meters, as you can on 10 meters.

It repeatedly sends my ham callsign - figure it out and send me a recording or waterfall for an eQSL  ;D

I'll be putting on the air this morning in a few minutes, probably around 1600z.
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Re: 40m QRP beacon
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2017, 1807 UTC »
That was easy.  :)
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Re: 40m QRP beacon
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2017, 1651 UTC »
One of them beacons and a squidlinski/mosquidski to take care of reactances on the wire and the budding hf beaconeer would be golden.
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Re: 40m QRP beacon
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2017, 0404 UTC »
Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on November 05, 2017, 1543 UTC
It repeatedly sends my ham callsign - figure it out and send me a recording or waterfall for an eQSL  ;D

So that's why you never answered my question on Facebook. It wasn't clear on that post that we were supposed to decode the CW.

Naturally, no such luck out west during the day. Let us know if you ever run it at night.
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Re: 40m QRP beacon
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2017, 1738 UTC »
The beacon is back on, 4071.75, with about 1 watt now. There is less chirping than before. Coming in nicely on SDRs in MI, OH, NY, PA and QC.

QSY'd to 7040.26. 2 watts.
« Last Edit: November 10, 2017, 2055 UTC by ChrisSmolinski »
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Re: 40m QRP beacon
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2017, 0322 UTC »
I tried this afternoon/evening, but didn't hear it.

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