10 Meter Amateur Radio Propagation CW Beacon Demo

This is a short demo video I made of amateur radio CW propagation Beacon station K6FRC/B3 at Mt Diablo, California being heard here in Denver, Colorado on the ten meter amateur radio band . The station I was receiving was transmitting in CW (Morse code) on 28.274 Mhz and the call sign of the beacon station is K6FRC/B3 (The letter "B" signifies a beacon station) and this station was transmitting from Mt Diablo, California (Not far from San Francisco) and it was transmitting at a low power level of only 1 watt and I was hearing them 927 miles away! I heard them on September 1st, 2009 at 02:15 UTC.

The propagation conditions on the ten meter amateur radio band will continue to improve as we get further into solar cycle 24 and in a year or two, it should be possible to easily communicate world wide with other amateur radio stations using low power and simple antennas!

For more info about the K6FRC/B3 beacon station, go to their website at http://k6frc.10mbeacons.com/ and for more information about ten meter amateur radio propagation beacon stations, go to http://www.monitoringtimes.com/MT-10meters.pdf

For a recent list of different amateur radio ten meter propagation stations, go to http://userpages.troycable.net/~wj5o/bcn.htm

My website is a http://www.ki7f.com and my amateur radio blog page is at http://ki7f2.blogspot.com/

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• CW
• beacon
• 10
• meters
• ham
• amateur
• radio
• k6FRC/B3
• KI7F
• Propagation
• Realistic
• HTX-100

[paulshinn]

Was sent a link to this video. Now I know why!

Nice job, OM. VY 73 DE K6FRC.

[Philovideo]

Paul,

Thanks for the comment! I saw the photos of your Beacon station setup on your website and you have a nice set up there on the mountain! Very neat and pro looking installation! I am constantly checking your beacon frequency for possible band openings.

Just got a 1/2 wave dipole installed on my apartment balcony, so, that should work better than the mobile mag mount being used indoors!

[WTFBSYT]

Just happened to catch this video.Very cool.

Jim,N2NXZ

[Crazyworld1975]

Nice Demo,that's one sensitive rig! Cycle 24 really should be showing some of it's glory by now,if it's to peak at 2012 it should be "Good" now. It's almost 2010

and the sun is spotless.not good! Kinda spookey actually!