[NLRS] new 2m beacon in En83fa

[James French]

Thought I would pass this along to the groups.

Please pass it along to the other groups that I don't have access to.

James W8ISS
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Hello everyone,

Because of the lack of a reliably heard 2M beacon in Southeast Michigan
I've been wanting to put a 2M beacon on the air for a while now. At Dayton
this year I picked up a nice used FT-290R and a small brick amp with the
intention of putting a 2M beacon on the air. This past week I finally got
around to home-brewing an antenna and getting it mounted at the 90' level
on the tower. The power to the antenna was measured at 10W and it's feeding
a horizontally polarized omnidirectional antenna.

The cw message is "V V V de K8MM/B EN83FA FLINT MI", repeating about every
10 seconds. Hopefully this will be of use to some of you before the Sept
VHF contest.

I have also plans for putting 50, 222 and 432 MHz beacons on the air in the
future as well.


73,
Ian - K8MM


K8MM/B 144.295 MHz 10W to horizontal omni in EN83FA.