[Elecraft] XG3 6M beacon W7RDP/B on the air

Bill K9YEQ k9yeq at live.com
Wed Jun 22 15:27:46 EDT 2011


I may put one up in here in WI when I get my  alternative other side of the
house coax line installed.  Might as well use the XG3 near 100% of the time.
Line loss could be a detrimental factor, but I do have.75" heliax to help.

73,
Bill
K9YEQ

-----Original Message-----
We need more beacons :)

Wayne

On Jun 21, 2011, at 4:51 PM, n5ge at n5ge.com wrote:

>
> I'm watching this with great interest and anticipation from EM12jq!
>
> 73,
> Tom
>
> Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
> ARRL Lifetime Member
> QCWA Lifetime Member
>
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:48:15 -0700, Doug Phillips <w7rdp at msn.com>
> wrote:
>
>> After corresponding with Wayne a little today, I have my XG3 running 
>> a 0dBm into a Parr 6M stressed Moxon aimed South at about 45' agl, 
>> CN87xo, just east of Seattle.  The frequency set on the XG3 is 
>> 50.025MHz, my
>> K3/10 thinks it is a little lower but not by much.  The XG3 is set to 
>> send 5 seconds of 0dBm tone, then W7RDP/B at 15 wpm CW, then 10 
>> seconds of tone at 0dBm, repeating every 60 seconds.
>>
>> One thing I found out is to add a word space before the call 
>> otherwise the first letter is truncated, and I added one after just 
>> in case.
>>
>> 73, Doug W7RDP



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