[Mich VHF UHF Society] 2 meter beacon

[Roger Cox]

Tom,

The only 2 beacons that I have used in the past year are WD9BGA/B 
144.298 in Wisconsin and K8MM/B 144.295 near Flint.  My personal opinion 
is that it would be nice to have, but should be close to 144.280 +/- 
.005 if possible.  You might want to throw your question out to the VHF 
List, as the rest of the country would get more good out of our beacon 
than we would.

73 Roger W8IO

On 11/1/2015 1:18 PM, Tom wrote:
> There has been discussion about a 2 meter beacon for west Michigan. I 
> have the equipment and location to add a 2 meter beacon. It would be 
> located just north of Holland, Mi at EN62wu, at the same site as the 
> K8TB 6 meter beacon. I would expect it to run from 5-10 watts, omni.
>
> But there are two questions:
> 1.  Do we need it? Would a 2 meter beacon transmitting from Holland be 
> useful, or a frivolous exercise? Would it cause undo interference?
>
> 2.  What frequency? in looking over the existing beacon lists, I see a 
> hole at 144.286 MHz.  It should avoid interfering with any beacon 
> within 200-300 miles.
>
> If there is a consensus that we should have a beacon at this location, 
> I will order the Motorola channel element for this frequency 
> immediately so that i can run it continuously on the bench for the 
> winter time, to burn the channel element in.
>
> And in looking at the beacon list, I see the following listed as 
> operational in the lower peninsula of  Michigan:
>
> 144.282 WI8Z     EN84ca MI Standish
> 144.285 WB2LHP   EN74gq MI Traverse City
> 144.287 W8VHF    EN64sa MI Ludington
> 144.295 K8MM     EN83fa MI Flint
>
> Are these operational, and would the 144.286 frequency be too close to 
> the others?
>
> Tom Bosscher K8TB
>
>
>
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