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<p><b>Hi Patrick</b></p>
<p><b>I Listened For Your Beacon Last Night On About 222.058 Mhz
and Was Able To Hear It OK ....Signal Strength Was Not very
Strong However ....</b></p>
<p><b>I Think It Was Because Your Antenna heighth Above Ground Is
Not very High And Could be Blocked To Your North East Where I Am
Located In Sterling Heights</b></p>
<p><b>In Grid EN82LN ....Approx. 17 Miles Away ..Really Not That
Far and Signals From Ur Beacon should be a Lot Stronger ...But
Don't Be Discouraged</b></p>
<p><b>Continue The Beacon upgrade and Improvements To The Antenna
.....Make Sure Ur Halo Is Actually Resonant On 222 Mhz... Will
Help With The projection of </b><b><br>
</b></p>
<p><b>The Signal A Lot ...</b></p>
<p><b>Hope That helps You Pat ....Be Glad To Run More Checks With
You In da Future..</b></p>
<p><b>73,s</b></p>
<p><b>Jack Ancona K8JA</b></p>
<p><b>EN82LN</b><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/21/2018 11:14 PM, Patrick Thomas
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
I will be smoke-testing the new beacon power supply with the old beacon hardware (~10W out of a crystal-controlled radio to a halo around 12ft AGL), starting 6pm to 10pm EST on Feb 22nd. Signal reports (strength AND quality) are especially welcome during this time! Note that it may drift as much as a few hundred Hz depending on environment... after all it is about 40 years old!
If successful, I will start it back up on Saturday and leave it in service until something goes wrong, or until the new beacon hardware is ready (hopefully within a couple weeks). The new beacon is much more stable and precise, as well as being about twice as powerful, so I'm sure you will hear the difference when it is put in service. Of course I will also post here.
Thanks,
Patrick
KB8DGC
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