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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:02:22
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From: "Rik Strobbe" <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be>
Subject: Re: LF: re:136.150 beacon
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At 11:50 25/07/99 +0100, you wrote:
>                     BEACON  ON 136.150 KHZ
>I have put on air an LF beacon, running  H24, on 136.150 khz. This is of a
temporary nature and the frequency can be shifted to accomodate those who
have a problem with their xtal freq transmitters or who have local
reception problems. 
>I would very much welcome reception reports on these transmissions, my
callsign, EI0CF, is repeated continuously.
>Checking with other LF operators, my transmit power has been increased
from  low power to medium power on this test. Antenna current is  2 amps.
>The rig is my normal Mosfet one, running with a much lower voltage. There
are a pair of IRFP450  in the final.
>Loading coil inductance is  1200 uH.
>NOTE.  This transmitter uses a vfo, so there will be  a certain amount of
drift, but I have set it up with a freq counter and I will try  to keep the
transmitter running on this declared frequency. Initial drift took it up to
 136.156 khz but it seems to remain quite close to  136.150 khz.
>Once again, I will be delighted to hear from those who can hear this
transmission and under what circumstances they are receiving it.
>Best regards
>Finbar          EI0CF     Malin Head.

Hi Finbar,

I will try to copy your baecon tonogh or tomorrow morning and let you know
the results. Maybe it would be interesting to add 2 long dashes (10
seconds, separated about 3 seconds) every 2 or 3 minutes. This would make
the detection of you signal using DSP (Spectogram) much easier for those
outside the audible range of your signal.

As I'm writing to the LF-group I add a short weekend report:

heard (seen) in slow-CW : G3XDV (539), DF3LP (529)
heard in normal CW : G4GVC (549), G3KEV (579), GM3YXM/P (539), PA0SE (589),
DL3FDO (549), G3BDQ (539), OZ1KMR (559), OZ5N (529), G3AQC (529, DF8ZR (429)

73, Rik


Rik Strobbe  ON7YD
rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be
Villadreef 14  B-3128 Baal  BELGIUM   (JO20IX)