What is the beacon frequency? Google doesn't know.
bryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Melia" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 29 October 2006 12:03
Subject: LF: Poldhu Beacon
> Hi all I know this is not LF, but It strikes me that this experiment to
look
> at the propagation over the North Atlantic at the Solar Min could yield
all
> sorts of extra bonuses. I am suggesting that it would be extremely
> interesting to get logs from stations in the UK and in Europe ( and
possibly
> further away) during the period of operation. It is very unusual to be
> allowed to mount a beacon in Europe below 10MHz, and because this is the
> last winter of this solar minimum the timing and conditions are such as to
> yield interesting information.
>
> I logged the beacon during its tests in June when It was located in
> Southampton and I did get some very interesting (and unexpected, to me,
> results) There is a lot of anecdotal propagation information on top-band
but
> little hard data. This is an opportunity to correct this shortage.
>
> I past a message from Keith at the Poldhu club which conatins information
> about the monitoring software availablity ( the same soundcard softaware
as
> is used for 5MHz beacon monitoring)
>
> I would be interested if we could also relate this data to 136kHz and
maybe
> also 500kHz observations during the period, thus bracketing the frequency
> believed to have been used by GM.
>
> Thanks de Alan G3NYK
> Member of the RSGB Propagation Studies Committee
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> Hi Alan,
> Thanks for the e-mail. Yes, beacon will be on from the 1st Nov
> to end of Jan. Bursts will last about 2mins and be on the hour and every
> 15mins. Format will be similar to the 5MHz beacons, with some PSK31 info
> with location and reporting details etc. Reporting will be to
> [email protected]. I'll be downloading it every day or so. I've had
> incredible difficulty getting info out. People keep 'editing' my stuff
until
> it makes little sense. It didn't help that I only got semi official
> confirmation of the licence less than a month ago - thanks to OFCOM I now
> have a 'letter of confirmation' - nearly as good as a licence! Good to
know
> that you and Joe are friends - I got across to Newfoundland and met him
the
> year before last and did the pilgrimage!
> Hope this helps and keep in touch, 73,
> Keith, G0WYS
> PS We will keep our website up to date with developments www.gb2gm.org.uk
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