[DSP-10] Hearing Tehachapi Beacon in DM05!

[Dick Kolbly]

Dear Leonard:

Nice to see you are still around and active. We hope to see you at the 
Reunion in October.  All sorts of interesting things happening here, most 
of them in connection with putting on the Microwave Update 2005 in Cerritos 
at the end of October.

Take care.                                      Dick, K6HIJ

At 09:47 PM 9/9/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>WA6KLK  Len  CM89 here.
>
>N6NB is a permanent beacon in the Tehacapie (sp?) area and is a super good 
>signal check.  I am north of Ukiah CA and hear it regularly at s2/4  and 
>at times up to s9.  Another full time beacon is on 144.282 and is KJ6KO 
>located on the western side of the Sacramento valley about 10 miles north 
>of Esparto CA.  It has been heard into Idaho and mid Oregon.  Hope this 
>helps. Enjoy and have fun.
>
>73 Len  WA6KLK  CM89hi
>
>Courtney Duncan wrote:
>
>>Hey Guys,
>>
>>Listening to the calling frequency, 144.200, on the eve of the ARRL QSO 
>>Party, I overheard somebody mention the Tehachapi Beacon up on 
>>144.292.  The story and the screen dump are at the bottom of my DSP-10 page:
>>
>>http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ejccool3/dsp10.html
>>
>>What is remarkable here is that I'm blocked by mountains to the north and 
>>have never heard anything in DM05 or DM15 or CM95 or further north than 
>>that from home before.  I knew I could work San Diego and Tijuana from 
>>here, having a good view to the south, but I didn't think anything north 
>>of Saugus was possible.  This is something like a 100 km shot over 
>>mountains in the 2000 meter range.  (Elevation here is about 390 meters.)
>>
>>Does anyone on the list know if this beacon is "permanent" or if it's 
>>just up for the contest?  Does anyone know of other beacons that should 
>>be hearable regularly or occasionally from Southern California?  There is 
>>talk of hearing the Hawaii beacon from here and I hear other people 
>>trying but haven't copied it myself (even in the waterfall, which is 
>>_great_ for this sort of thing!).
>>
>>Unfortunately, it's not quite loud enough to use to get a good beam 
>>pattern for my new M^2 2M12, but you can sure tell the beam is working 
>>while it rotates around on this!  Maybe there will be a tropo opening 
>>sometime.  (Maybe this _is_ a tropo opening.)
>>
>>n5bf/6
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