From: "Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@rsgb.org.uk>
Organization: Radio Society of Great Britain
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:25:08 +0100
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From:           	"M. Sanders" <misan@xs4all.nl>
Subject:        	Re: LF: Weekend reports 24/25 April
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> Is there some room on the narrow 136kHz band for a
> limited (low-ERP) beacon experiment and are there amateurs interested in
> operating/monitoring such transmitters? 

The trouble with beacons is that what is a nice weak DX signal to 
some is a huge interfering signal to others (this has always been a 
problem with VHF beacons QRMing DX operators). The ideal is to 
find a location remote from everyone, but which has someone 
locally to look after the station - difficult!

When this has been discussed before, it has been concluded that 
for most purposes there are enough commercial beacons to do 
tests with. I am sure that, if you wanted to do some tests, you 
could find someone to put out a beacon transmission - preferably 
not at weekends, though.


Mike