OZ7IGY - 4m beacon now on Next Generation Beacons platform

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On 26 January 2012, the 4m OZ7IGY beacon has been migrated to the Next Generations Beacons platform.

The beacon is now frequency and time locked to GPS.

The sequence is timed to start at 00 second sending JT65C2 followed by a short pause then CW ID sending callsign and locator, then pause and carrier until next cycle. The nominal frequency remains the same, i.e. 70,021 MHz. To decode JT65C2 tune your receiver 1270 Hz below the nominal frequency. On most radios this is a USB dial of 70,019730 MHz.

The plan is to replace all the old beacons with the new platform as time permits.

Listeners reports and feedback are highly appreciated.

OZ7IGY status page - http://www.rudius.net/oz7igy

GB3JB - Off-The-Air

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Following storm damage the South Wiltshire repeater GB3JB (145.7875 MHz) is off-the-air.

Dave G3ZXX reports, “It seems like the end of December / beginning of January, each year brings us bad luck. Two years ago, it was the theft of the solar panel. Last year, it was the damage to the mast and antenna, in the early January gales.”

“This year, it's a repeat of last year. Although the gale came a couple of weeks earlier this year. The temporary mast, is still intact. No problems there. Unfortunately, what is left of the antenna is hanging from the top of the bottom antenna section. I recovered what was left of the top two sections, of the white fibre class shroud, from the field.”

The repeater will probably be off-air now, until such time as the tower is finally sorted.

GB3JB Blog - http://gb3jb.blogspot.co.uk/

VK5VF Adelaide beacons back on air

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In time for the VHF DX season, the 6m, 2m, and 70cm beacons have been serviced and put back into operation at Mount Lofty near Adelaide, Australia.

As the VK5 Mount Lofty 6m beacon has been off air for some time, in restoring the operation of the beacon it has also had a frequency change in accordance with the WIA band plans. Part of the rebuild included referencing the 6m and 70cm beacon frequencies to the GPS.

The VK5VF beacon frequencies are:-

  • New 6m frequency is now 50.320 MHz
  • 2m frequency is 144.450 MHz and
  • 70cm frequency is 432.450 MHz