[NLRS] Status of 2m beacons?

Clare Jarvis jarvis at jarviscomputer.com
Wed Jun 16 09:43:49 EDT 2010


Is that the beacon around 144.283?   near La Crosse?


73 de Clare K0NY  EN44db




On Tuesday 15 June 2010 16:35:45 Zack Widup wrote:
> 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:
> >  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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