Lately, I've been listening around 27500 Khz for the digital activity on the band to copy psk31 and cw.
The past couple days I've been hearing a couple drift buoy beacons on 27500 Khz at roughly 2100 UTC. The beacons transmit cw with a dashed ID. The two I'm hearing are MBL and MRM. Since these are battery powered, I believe the batts are running down because the cw note is rather "chirpy". The signals are quite faint, but copyable. Sometimes I have to kick the 270hz cw filter in to make copy.
I'm using a Yaesu FRG-100 general coverage receiver with a vertical dipole up about 15 feet.
I felt they were good catches because I'm sure they're very low powered and they're probably a pretty good distance from my midwest QTH.
The past couple days I've been hearing a couple drift buoy beacons on 27500 Khz at roughly 2100 UTC. The beacons transmit cw with a dashed ID. The two I'm hearing are MBL and MRM. Since these are battery powered, I believe the batts are running down because the cw note is rather "chirpy". The signals are quite faint, but copyable. Sometimes I have to kick the 270hz cw filter in to make copy.
I'm using a Yaesu FRG-100 general coverage receiver with a vertical dipole up about 15 feet.
I felt they were good catches because I'm sure they're very low powered and they're probably a pretty good distance from my midwest QTH.
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