On Saturday 24 May I connected my newly acquired K1EL keyer to a little homebrew 10 meter beacon transmitter that I’d built about 10 years ago. (The transmitter is based on the “Lil Slugger” design by Doug DeMaw — about 1 watt out.) Ten meters seems pretty dead these days, so when I turned the thing on and put it on the air, I had the feeling that no one would hear me. It sort of felt like throwing a message-in-a-bottle into the ocean. I put my e-mail address in the beacon transmission. I’ve had the thing on the air very intermittently over the last few days.
Imagine my surprise when this morning my e-mail box contained a message from Andre in Germany. He’d heard the beacon in its first day on the air! Wow!<\/p>\n
During daylight hours I can hear beacons from all over Europe on ten.<\/p>\n
I have left space in my “beacon box” for a very QRPP 30 meter transmitter. The K1EL keyer will generate QRSS. Where is the best place to get a crystal for 10.140 Mhz?<\/p>\n
See if you can hear my beacon on 28.240 MHz. I’ll have it on during daylight hours (Italian daylight hours).<\/p>\n
I’ll post some pictures soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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