{"id":54356,"date":"2022-10-17T05:35:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=54356"},"modified":"2022-10-17T05:35:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:35:46","slug":"mario-reminds-us-to-log-10-meter-cw-beacon-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/mario-reminds-us-to-log-10-meter-cw-beacon-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario reminds us to log 10 meter CW beacon activity!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Mario Filippi (N2HUN)<\/a>, who shares the following guest post:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ten meter beacon band spans 28.100 \u2013 28.300 MHz (photo by author)<\/p><\/div>\n

Recent 10 Meter CW Beacon Activity<\/h1>\n

Mario Filippi, N2HUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 10m band has been coming alive lately and it\u2019s time for all hams and SWLs to take advantage of it.\u00a0 For several years I\u2019ve been listening to 10m beacons with mediocre results but this has all changed over the past few days with loggings of European beacons running as low as seven watts.<\/p>\n

These amateur radio beacons can be found from 28.1 \u2013 28.3 MHz, sending out their callsigns in CW along with other information such as power output, grid square, antenna type and other tidbits of interesting information.\u00a0 Most USA beacons are heard from 28.1 \u2013 28.2 MHz while international ones inhabit 28.2 \u2013 28.3 MHz. Some beacon ops will request QSL card reports the old school way via mail. I\u2019ve written out a few already, bringing back fond memories of my early days as a ham and SWL.<\/p>\n

Over the past few days at my central NJ QTH, using an Airspy HF+ Discovery and a ground mounted 31 foot vertical, here are some of the DX beacons logged:<\/p>\n

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  • IZ8RVA, 28.239 MHz, 1230 UTC<\/li>\n
  • OH9TEN, 28.265 MHz, 1253 UTC<\/li>\n
  • LA5TEN, 28.237 MHZ, 1300 UTC<\/li>\n
  • OK1AR, 28.249 MHz, 1214 UTC<\/li>\n
  • DA5TEN, 28.237 MHz, 1219 UTC (7 watts, vertical antenna!)<\/li>\n
  • DL0IGI, 28.204 MHz, 1251 GMT (50watts)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Note that most signals were 449 with QSB so a quiet room, a good pair of headphones, many cups of good hot coffee\/tea and a heap of patience are needed.\u00a0 Beacons will send a continuous CW tone as a preamble while others will transmit a series of V\u2019s (\u2026-).\u00a0 So, spin that VFO dial up to 10 meters, a band which comes alive as sunspots rise.\u00a0 If you are a QRP\u2019er, this comes as good news since this band is great for those who love to run peanut whistles.<\/p>\n

    Thanks and have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Mario Filippi (N2HUN), who shares the following guest post: Recent 10 Meter CW Beacon Activity Mario Filippi, N2HUN The 10m band has been coming alive lately and it\u2019s time for all hams and SWLs to take advantage of it.\u00a0 For several years I\u2019ve been listening to 10m beacons with mediocre results but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9496,3194,545,3,5099,43],"tags":[4777,9982,4342,4311],"class_list":["post-54356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beacons","category-guest-posts","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-qrp","category-shortwave-radio","tag-10-meter-beacons","tag-10-meters","tag-guest-posts","tag-mario-filippi-n2hun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-e8I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17408,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/guest-post-listening-to-10-meter-radio-beacons\/","url_meta":{"origin":54356,"position":0},"title":"Guest Post: Listening to 10 Meter Radio Beacons","author":"Thomas","date":"February 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mario\u00a0Filippi (N2HUN) for the following guest post: Listening in to 10 Meter Radio Beacons Mario Filippi, N2HUN (All photos courtesy of author--click to enlarge.) 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