[Elecraft] OT - 6 meter beacon clicks followup ????

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> He is in Knightdale, in the general Raleigh area, and I am on the
> other side of Raleigh, in Apex. If I can hear his beacon on one of my
> HF antennas, I will check it out carefully.

You should not have any problem ... I regularly copy the Orlando beacon
which runs 6 watts at a similar distance (EL98gl to EL98kr - 26 mi +/-)
on an R5 vertical.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV



On 6/11/2012 11:54 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> What needs to be done is for someone at a distance to document the clicks,
> someone decidedly not "local local".  As long as only "local locals"
> complain, he always has it in his mind that it's overload.  If it CAN'T be
> documented at a distance, then there is the question how do you know that
> it ISN'T overload.  If it isn't down 50 dB plus and minus 500 Hz then it's
> not state of the art.  (All caveats about actually knowing HOW to measure
> key clicks accurately still apply.)
>
> And all the discussion here does little.  Without technically correct
> documentation and subsequent application to the FCC, all this is just
> shouting into the great big internet bit bucket.
>
> He is in Knightdale, in the general Raleigh area, and I am on the other
> side of Raleigh, in Apex.  If I can hear his beacon on one of my HF
> antennas, I will check it out carefully.
>
> 73, Guy.
>