[50mhz] Beacon

[Christopher Boone]

Automatically "controlled" beacons can operate at any time between 50.06 
and 50.08 MHz....outside that range, you MUST monitor the freq WHILE the 
beacon is in operation and cease if any other operations appear on the 
freq...

Sooooo 50.06 - 50.08 is your best choice :) Power can be up to legal 
limit but 25-100watts should be more than enough (beacons are supposed 
to show propogation under normal or less than normal 
conditions.....running a KW on a beacon would not make much 
sense...since most ops won't be! :)

Now as to what it should say, all that is required by FCC Part 97 is 
your callsign....nothing else..What you decide to put on it is up to you...

MOST beacons use  "QST de <callsign>/BCN  <Grid Square> PSE QSL"
or similar....some use V instead of QST at the start......some include 
city and state, etc etc.....Some don't add the /BCN or /B (for Beacon) 
and just run their callsign (again perfectly legal either way!)

Hope that helps

Chris
WB5ITT

Jason Vierik - KC8SZU wrote:
> I want to setup a beacon to run maybe a few hours here and there a night
> from Michigan.  My FT-897 will beacon in CW.  I guess my question is, how
> much power can I run?  What exactly should the beacon say?  I am going to be
> using a PAR omni OA-50 at about 25 feet off the ground.  I live in a pretty
> high elevation for michigan though.
> 

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