Hello AMSAT;.......Regarding my earlier message copied below asking for reports of the usage of our 2401MHZ beacon.
We have received sufficient positive reports to continue to maintain this 24/7 beacon.
I would like to thank all that responded with your comments and hope to hear from you from time to time with signal and TLM reports.
Charlie K3VDB
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Hello AMSAT;......I am trying to determine if the W3HMS beacon on 2401MHZ is being use by the Satellite community located in South Central PA. We have not received any reports for some time and will not continue to support it if not needed.
It Is located in FM19qv (S/E of York PA.).
For those who are not familiar with it, it has been on 24/7 for >3 years and located at 1000ft on a 130ft tower. Its output is 1W to a RHCP Lindenblad Ant. Its CW Message contains 5 Telemetering (TLM) channels and about 15 sec of solid carrier (then it repeat). A spread sheet TLM decoder is available on request. The beacon is useful for Receive system testing and propagation analyzing etc.
The 2401MHZ beacon is co-located with a 1296MHZ beacon and a 5760MHZ beacon.
More info is available at k3vdb@amsat.org
Please Let me know if any of these beacons are useful to you!!!
Charlie