I am in favor of any beacon in a ham band. The more beacons the merrier.

You are establishing a "presence" in a infrequently used ham band.

My estimate is that less than 10% of the users of a beacon ever report their use of a /B.

If I had my way, I would have a /B on every hamband 900 MHz and above, thru 240 GHz.

Just be sure to keep out of the passband of a satellite downlink or uplink.

Beacons are valuable and best considered a "labor of love".

We appreciate your /B.

Stan, W1LE Cape Cod

On 2/4/2011 6:55 PM, Charlie -K3VDB- wrote:

              Hello AMSAT-BB;......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.) It has been heard

in MD and NJ.

      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 4 Telemetering channels and about 15 sec of solid carrier (then it repeat). A spread sheet 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. The ID message and telemetering is common to all 3 beacons.

      More info is available from k3vdb@amsat.org

      Please Let me know if any of these beacons are useful to you!!!

      TNX
      Charlie K3VDB

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