[NLRS] Looking for Beacons

[John P. Toscano]

We are adding information on propagation beacons to the NLRS web
pages, thanks to the inspiration and background work of Jim (K0MHC).
At present, you can find the link near the end of the NLRS home page.
If you don't want to look at the home page to find it, here is the
page that is linked to from the home page:
  http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tosca005/NLRS-Dev/BeaconList.htm

It's still in its infancy, and we will be adding more information
soon, including links to other lists of beacons that we are aware of.

We are looking for any additional information you might have about
any of the beacons listed there, especially for table cells that are
blank or that you know to be incorrect or incomplete.  Unfortunately,
even knowing the callsign of the beacon's control operator doesn't
tell us the exact 6-digit grid square or the nearest city/state
location, so some of these cells are blank or only partially filled
in.  We'd like to correct those omissions if we can.  Jim is trying to
contact many of the beacon operators by email to fill in some of the
blanks, but some of you may already know things that we're missing.

We are also looking for any additional beacons that you are aware
of that we have missed so far.

Also, if you have suggestions of other ways to make that page more
useful, we are open to new ideas.  At some point, for example, I may
make up an Excel spreadsheet version that allows you to enter your
location (grid or lat/lon coordinates) and have the worksheet compute
bearing and distance to each of the beacons.  This will be easy, since
I've done something similar last year with the "Contest Station
Locator" spreadsheet.

73 de KB0ZEV