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<p><font size="+2"><font face="Arial">Hi David, oh my gosh please do
not take it down. Beacons serve so many functions. So many of
the uW community build up their own transverters or antennas
or LNA's and need a signal source to test out their setup.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+2"><font face="Arial">Plus, like in my case, because
I am a home station with the dish that is tower mounted your
beacon allows me to fine tune my rotator. That is SO, SO
important esp when our dish antennas have a beam width of only
a couple of degrees. I now have my rotor fine-tuned and when I
sked with someone far away & I need my dish pointing at
some azimuth I am 100% confident I am pointing the right way.
If I were off 5 degrees I would never know he even existed !
TU for keeping it up. Lots more people use it than </font></font><font
size="+2"><font face="Arial"><font size="+2"><font face="Arial">unfortunately
</font></font>acknowledge. I enjoy letting beacon owners
know what fine signals their setups have. TU again ! 73</font></font><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Gedas, W8BYA EN70JT
Gallery at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://w8bya.com">http://w8bya.com</a>
Light travels faster than sound....
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/24/2022 12:42 PM, Dave DeVos via
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Thank you so much for this note, and your audio file! It’s so much
fun to hear that the beacon is getting out, and that people are
hearing it. Sometimes I think about taking those down because I
rarely get signal reports on the higher bands. But you have made
me feel like leaving them up. Thank you again.
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<p><font size="+2"><font face="Arial">The other
night/early morning around 1 AM I noticed a decent
red blob on APRS so I turned the 10 GHz dish towards
the KF8QL/B. It blew me out of my chair. Signal was
peaking S9+10 dB (on an honest, accurate s-meter).
DX is about 240 km (149 miles). Enclosed is a brief
WAV file. 73</font></font><br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Gedas, W8BYA EN70JT
Gallery at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://w8bya.com" moz-do-not-send="true">http://w8bya.com</a>
Light travels faster than sound....
This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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