Capacitive loaded vertical?

Hi all,

did you tried this antenna in your QTH...?

73 - Petr, OK1RP

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160m band beacons list (update 3Mar20)

Hi,

there is an improved list of the TOP band beacons. As You can see it is still "trial" and it's not final version and many of the beacons listed over here was reported years ago... maybe an operation has been cancelled or so. I will be appreciated to get any report or info about beacons from 160m band in Your location to put it into the list.

(kHz)	Call	beacon (available) informations
1700.0	CRJ	Maraba (Carajas), Brazil, B 06:06.7S 050:00.2W
1725.0	GA	Goroka, Papua New Guinea, PNG 06:04.3S 145:23.3E
1730.0	FRA	Juiz de For a, Brazil, B 21:46.0S 043:23.0W
1734.0	XPC	Chapeco, Brazil, B 27:07.0S 052:38.9W
1735.0	XPR	Unid Oil Platform? Off coast of Brazil?
1804.8	VP8VHF	GD18DH, Stanley, 16wpm (26Oct17)
1805.0	VO1NA	gm38na, 1W -> inactive (29Nov17)
1810.5	YR2TOP	KN04RU, Zlatita "v v v", 8 s carrier, no 24/7 op., 100W, inv. L, via YO2LC, YR2TOP (11Oct17)
1812.1	AI5	beacon (0011 01 May)
1815.0	KB6FPW/B	beacon RBN reported by N6TV (0052z 20Feb20)
1816.0	GT1	fishnet beacon (0223 01 Aug)
1817.0	ZS1J	kf15pf, 1W
1818.1	4EMU	fish beacon (0450 16 Sep)
1818.5	DIGI	ZL beacon (0952 18 May)
1818.6	ZL	beacon ? (1429 02 Oct)
1820.8	3IBY	fishnet beacon (0059 01 Aug)
1821.1	UT8	beacon (2118 11 Sep 2008)
1822.0	3RPD	beacon (1007 18 Jan)
1822.2	BA4EE	fish beacon
1823.2	UMTL	beacon (2118 11 Sep 2008)
1824.0	PAU	fishnet beacon (0239 08 Aug)
1825.0	FG5	beacon, regular ID (0453 09 Sep)
1825.1	IS0	fish beacon (0209 29 Apr)
1825.4	9V1PC	beacon mode (2141 14 Apr)
1826.0	IV2	fishnet beacon (0215 20 Aug)
1826.9	4BOI	beacon (1103 01 Mar)
1826.9	3RAD	fish beacon (0504 02 Apr)
1827.0	3RAD	fish beacon (0456 13 Feb)
1827.0	4BOI	beacon, three ID's every few mins (0221 27 Oct)
1827.0	3RAD	fish net beacon (0615 03 Jan)
1827.0	3BOI	driftnet beacon (0157 13 Dec)
1828.0	3NQA	fishnet beacon (0107 15 Feb)
1828.0	LL5	fishnet beacon (0303 07 Oct)
1828.2	DST	Loud fishnet beacon
1829.0	3RLX	beacon, fishnet ? (1340 20 Nov)
1830.4	3LPB	driftnet beacon (0107 12 Feb)
1830.5	3LPB	driftnet beacon
1831.5	3LVP	beacon ?
1832.0	PW2	fishnet beacon (0247 24 Jul)
1833.3	NH1	beacon (2118 11 Sep 2008)
1835.0	KB4	beacon (0549 30 Sep)
1836.2	SK50AU	KP04LQ
1837.0	IW3FZQ	JN55VF, Monselice PD, 8W, Dipole
1840.0	OK0EK	JN89QG, 4W (29Nov17 -> inactive)
1843.2	I1YRB	JN35UB, Torre Bert, QRSS3, 0.2W, vert., 24/7, via I1RFQ
1843.2	I1DFS	JN54AC, Nr La Spezia, QRSS3
1854.0	OKM1	JO70UF, Stezery, on air 0400-1800UTC, 60m vertical, 100W, via OK1FMZ, http://www.ok0ev.cz
1875.0	DL3KR	JO63LV, Demmin “test”, 5W, dipole (27Dec14)
1960.0	GB3SSS	IO70IA, off (Poldhu), 9 pwr steps, -6 db each, id+carr(30s)+PSK at 0,15,30,45 min each hr, GB3SSS
1995.6	XE3EOL	EL51HH
1998.0	SA6RR	JO67KI, Oxaback, "qrpp+id+ttt", 0.8W, inv.L, SM6BGP (4Feb17)

Last update : 3-Mar-2020

Do not hesitate to email me if any information is not valid or if You have any new one...

73, Petr OK1RP

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Thanks for update to:

Per, SM2LIY (29-Jul-2015)
Jul, OK1SP (28-Nov-2017)
Jan, OK1FMZ (29-Nov-2017
Martin, LU5DX (29-Nov-17)

Beacons unconfirmed > under investigation (3Mar20):

1815.0   KB6FPW/B RBN reported by N6TV (0052z 20Feb20)
1836.2   SK50AU   KP04LQ                       
1837.0   IW3FZQ   Monselice PD, JN55VF, 8W, Dipole
1843.157 I1DFS    Nr La Spezia, JN54AC, QRSS3
1843.167 I1YRB    Torre Bert, JN35UB, 0.2W, Vert., QRSS3, 24/7
1995.6   XE3EOL   EL51HH
1804.8   VP8VHF   GD18DH, Stanley, (26Oct17), 16wpm
1875.0   DL3KR    JO63LV, Demmin "test", 5W, dip. (27Dec14)
1998.0   SA6RR    JO67KI, Oxaback, "qrpp+id+ttt", 0.8W, inv.L, SM6BGP(4Feb17) 

Another AGC setting of TT Orion 566 - by Doug, EI2CN

Another AGC setting of TT Orion 566 - by Doug, EI2CN
The following are my settings.


(Might set Sub Receiver the same as Main RX)

RX: (Slow AGC Setting) for all AGC settings

Sweep Range 72 kHz
Main AGC: Hang 00.21 S
[Slow] Decay 10 dB/S
Threshold 01.00 uV

Sub AGC: Hang 00.00
SDecay 40 dB/s
Threshold 01.00 uV
PBT Track OFF
BW Track OFF
Main RX Sql -127 dBm
Sub RX Sql -127 dBm
PBT/BW Step 10 Hz
AGC Slope Flat

(Medium AGC Setting:)
Main AGC: Hang 00.17 S
[Med} Decay 40 dB/S
Threshold 01.00 uV

(Fast AGC Setting:)
Main AGC Hang 00.04 S
[Fast] Decay 80 dB/S
Threshold 01.00 uV

(Prog AGC Setting:)
Main AGC Hang 00.30 S
[Prog] Decay 21 dB/S
Threshold 04.85 uV

These settings were posted by another of our group on a previous date and I have used them for some time and continue to use them with the latest Beta version firmware.

I use RF AGC and can find no reason for the AF AGC - perhaps I am missing something. There has been precious little discussion of this issue that I have seen. Some of our number have not been happy with the AGC currently in use and hanker back to an earlier release used on the original Orion.

They may be right? I must say the NR works on SSB for me. I also own a K3 which is another fine radio but even on their reflector some despair of the NR performance. I like both radios and both have advantages. We live in good times... 73 Doug, EI2CN.


73 - Petr, OK1RP
http://ok1rp.blogspot.com

RGO ONE transceiver 160m option available...

Hi all,

there is good news from Boris, LZ2JR - the developer and manufacturer of the new compact high performance transceiver RGO ONE...

"At last we have working RGO ONE on 160m (1.8MHz – 2.0MHz) and 60m (5.25MHz – 5.45MHz). All needed are two boards – LPF for  160m and BPF 160/60m"

If you do not know what is the RGO ONE then more infor you can find in three parts article here: https://ok1rp.blogspot.com/
...or directly here: http://lz2jr.com/blog/


73 - Petr, OK1RP
http://ok1rp.blogspot.com