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From: "M. Sanders" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: LF: Weekend reports 24/25 April
Date sent: Mon, 26 Apr 99 23:42:19 PDT
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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
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