[Lowfer] Active 1750 meter beacons

[Andy - KU4XR]

Hello Eddy:

I started running my beacon with a CW Id, followed by QRSS-30 " XR ".
The CW was NEVER !! heard by any operator other than those who were
within 100 miles from me. The QRSS-30 was picked up over 500 miles
away. For my own operation; I determined the CW portion to be a 
waste of power, and wear and tear on the equipment. I dropped it,
and switched to QRSS-60, and have been received 1185 miles away.
If using QRSS in place of CW makes the difference in being received
" Or Not ! " Taking into consideration the time and effort I put into
getting my beacon operational, the choice was a simple one for me.
Try tuning my frequency, and see if you can hear my carrier, if you
are unable to hear the 1 min, or 3 min keydown sequences, I suspect
you couldn't hear a CW sequence either. I was actually thinking 
about trying some CW this weekend, really was going to try to find
some hams close enough to hear me, and do a crossband QSO from 1750
to 80 meters. If you want to try to hear it, I'll re-program my beacon
for CW only tonite. 73, and good listening:

Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN.
LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 184.322 KHz ( QRSS-60 )
Coordinates:  N:  35* 43' 54" - W:  84* 3' 16"
http://www.myspace.com/beaconxr


--- On Fri, 1/9/09, Eddy Swynar <gswynar at durham.net> wrote:

> From: Eddy Swynar <gswynar at durham.net>
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Active 1750 meter beacons
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 12:22 PM
> Does NOBODY ever transmit just a straight, simple CW beacon
> signal anymore,
> or has the incidious computer & its related software
> ruined that part of
> casual tuning for some of us as well...?!
> 
> ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>