[50mhz] RE: 50 mHz beacon and related stations

[cboone@earthlink.net]

Excellent idea......by listening to lower freqs, it will give you
warning as to 50 MHz opening up....alas, most lowband stations in
the US have moved and gone to higher ground (my own former company
went from lowband to 800MHz in 1996)...THERE IS a system on 49.xxx
that uses meteor scatter operation..one way data to truckers...
I USED to hear the burst at my office with a GE Delta programmed on
it...but cant recall what freq that is (it was written up in MRT mag
soo many years ago)...

As for regular lowband operations in the US between 40-50, it is
somewhat hard to say...TX DOT (dept of Transportation) uses low
band at a couple of sites...but not frequently)..
Red Cross uses 47.42 but thats not active much except during crisis.
I'll do some research and see what I can come up with...
(A lot of us 6mtr veterans know the MUF can stop suddenly...
like 50.5 Mhz making the SSB portion open but the FM portion dead
as a doornail!)

73
Chris
WB5ITT


"Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich" wrote:
> 
> There is certainly a need not only
> of an updated list of the really active
> 6 meter band beacons, but also of
> the most significant 24 hours a day on the air stations that operate in the
> range from 40 to 50 mHz, that provide us with an excellent way of learning
> when the MUF is moving up !!!
> For those of us that do not have access to a chirp sweeping sounder
> that can operate from 40 to 51 mHz ( the ideal tool for knowing when 6
> meters is going to open ) knowing where to program the memories of the
> scanning receivers in the range of 40 to 50 mHz will be a nice substitute.
> Updating the in-band beacons list will also help a lot
> 73 and DX
> Arnie Coro
> CO2KK