[NLRS] Status of 2m beacons?

[Zack Widup]

The WD9BGA beacon has been down since last year. Not sure about the other
one.
73, Zack W9SZ


On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Bill Davis Jr <cqbilld at msn.com> wrote:

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>  Does anyone know anything about the current status of the EN43 and the
> EN53 beacons? Bruce was asking me at Aurora and I didn't know anything about
> them. I know after Jerry HCZ passed away that his son was going to continue
> with the EN43 beacon. I in the past heard both of these beacons in the
> summer reliably. Not strong all the time, but I would hear them if I set on
> the freq for a few min. Often the EN53 beacon was heard as well as the EN43
> beacon. Now for many months I have heard very little from either of them.
> With "summer" close at hand, I would think prop would be "back".
>
> I think it was W9GM that said that he thought the EN53 beacon had been on
> and off quite a bit recently. Anyone know anything more?
>
> As near as I can tell, things are "ok" here, but we all know slow changes
> in equipment performance is difficult to detect. The rotator loop has been
> on the tower MANY years.
>
> TNX and 73  Bill  K0AWU  EN37ed
>
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