The direction finder is also remarkably sophisticated. tnx Mike
On Jun 12, 2012, at 2:37 AM, "Robin" <wb6...@socal.rr.com> wrote: > an experiment to see if a couple of photos will make it through- I shrunk > them to be small enough that they might be tolerated - but I suspect they > will be stripped off > > these are two of the fish beacons we found washed up on shore at VP6DX. you > can read the freq on one of them 2202 KHz. the smaller one we found actually > has a small micro and 3 boards.. in another shot you can read the ID on the > PROM- EK92. the bigger one with the D cell stack intact shows Z5 for the > callsign. What is amazing is that these two were virtually intact- and were > not the corroded pile of electronics you would have expected > > a pile of D cells for ballast, a buoy with a whip, and a simple CW ID timer, > and thousands of miles of sea water and you have QRP heard round the world > > 73 > > robin, WA6CDR > > I tried to find a better link, but here is one on a commercial fishing > supplies site > http://www.commercial-fishing.net/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&category_id=15&product_id=27&Itemid=179 > > if that doesn't make it through try > http://www.commercial-fishing.net/ > and marine electronics > Radio Beacon > > > I know nothing about these people, its just the first useful example I found > for a source for the beacons we hear > > Robin > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "GeorgeWallner" <aa...@atlanticbb.net> > To: <he...@vitelcom.net>; <topband@contesting.com> > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 19:20 > Subject: Re: Topband: Strange CW Coded Messages > > >> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:37:26 -0400 >> Herb Schoenbohm <he...@vitelcom.net> wrote: >>> These fish beacons are sometimes very strong and >>> normally out in the Gulf of Mexico. I just wish I could >replicate the QRP >>> transmitter and antenna....or is it >just the saltwater ground? >>> >> Herb, >> >> It is simple: 2 W output, 10 foot whip wiht loading coil, >> and a 3000 mile wide perfect ground plane. Easy. :-) >> >> 73, >> >> George >> _______________________________________________ >> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK