[Mich VHF UHF Society] Vhf + beacon modes?

[Tom]

James,

I think there are some beacons that go cw, then psk, then wspr.

The pertinent rules;

§97.203   Beacon station.

(a) Any amateur station licensed to a holder of a Technician, General, 
Advanced or Amateur Extra Class operator license may be a beacon. A 
holder of a Technician, General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class 
operator license may be the control operator of a beacon, subject to the 
privileges of the class of operator license held.

(b) A beacon must not concurrently transmit on more than 1 channel in 
the same amateur service frequency band, from the same station location.

(c) The transmitter power of a beacon must not exceed 100 W.

(d) A beacon may be automatically controlled while it is transmitting on 
the 28.20-28.30 MHz, 50.06-50.08 MHz, 144.275-144.300 MHz, 222.05-222.06 
MHz or 432.300-432.400 MHz segments, or on the 33 cm and shorter 
wavelength bands.

(e)....

(g) A beacon may transmit one-way communications.

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So we are limited to agreed to CW portions. I had a friend who was going 
to put a 6 meter FM voice beacon up in the 53 meg range. Until his 
friend told him, um, you can't.

Interesting in that we can legally use the same call for all kinds of 
beacons on the same band, as long as they are not at the same location.

But, my thought from a few years ago. Not necessarily original. With the 
SDR radios the cost they are, add a Rasberry pi, and CW skimmer, one 
could have a receive beacon site, that could monitor 50.060 to 50.100 
for example, ignore the callsigns of local beacons, and what is now 
called "reverse beacon" them to a web page. Or have it bother you on 
that supposingly smart phone. This would catch the beacons, and any cw 
activity. I used to have a remote base on 6 up on 92nd st hill just 
south of Grand Rapids (tower is still there). I have a 6 meter omni up 
50 feet, which is about 300 feet HAAT, and I've thought of hooking up a 
receiver to that. It's only time and money.

Tom K8TB