I ran the beacon for a few days on 30m with my 10.140MHz crystal but had no reports. On New Year's day 2008, I changed the crystal for 40m. I have several 40m crystals and chose to use a 7,014 kHz crystal. The frequency was set at about 7,014,130. Later, Peter DL6NL sent me a 7,000kHz crystal, and I was able to move to the favoured QRSS sub-band of 7,000,850 +/- 50Hz. The following reports are in reverse chronological order (most recent first): 10-Jan-08: Peter DL6NL's new crystal: 7,000,850 10mW | Les G3VYZ, 09:49 Thanks for the first report on the new crystal! Shows the horizontal line that Les sees at 50Hz intervals, TV QRM | | John GM0RZY, 15:17 |
07-Jan-08: 7,014,130 10mW | Les G3VYZ, 10:35 | | Peter PA1SDB, 12:00 G0UPL pops out of the noise just before noon, at 11:56 |
05-Jan-08: 7,014,130 10mW | Les G3VYZ, 08:58 | | Peter PA1SDB, 08:58 Shows the same hiccup at 08:54 as observed by Les (see above) at the same time. Nobody was in the shack! | | SWL Mark, 14:35 |
04-Jan-08: 7,014,130 Power was increased to 10mW | Pierre ON5SL, 10:42 | | Peter PA1SDB, 10:45 | | Johan ON5EX, 10:50 | | Peter PA1SDB, 14:15 | | Les G3VYZ, 18:59 | | SWL Mark, 19:02 |
01-Jan-08: 7,014,130 1.8mW | Peter PA1SDB, 09:15 | | Pierre ON5SL, 11:29 | | Les G3VYZ, 12:10 | | SWL Mark, 13:18 |
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