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[KD7JYK DM09]

A friend of mine had the MFJ beacon map, he was very disappointed.  It's
basically a clock that lights up LEDs correlating to the precise timing of a
beacon network.  You could look at your watch and determine the same thing,
this just had a light for the beacon locations.

In QRSs or LTI, the beacons are CW, but, SLOW, a dot could be as much as an
hour or more.  The lack of power makes up with time.  People have had
contacts using EME, Earth-Moon-Earth using five Watt 2m handie-talkies since
early 1999, BUT, it generally takes more than a week just to get the
call-sign out.

Average condition estimates for Part-15 49 MHz equipment is generally 300
feet.  That's less than half way across my front yard.  With a very
efficient antenna, a thousand feet might be expected.  The location I have
in mind for the 49 MHz LTI beacon is about seven miles away from here.

Kurt

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Have you seen MFJ's Beacon locator? You plug it into your receiver and it
tells you which beacons are audible on it's world map. But it's for HF, not
49 MHz. Although if people used the same code to transmit it would seem to
work the same...