Walter wrote:
I have a wire dipole antenna mounted between two maple trees in my
This allows me to pick up The BBC World Service on 5975 VERY loud,
along with the Atomic Clock on 10000, and 5000.
However I can't seem to pick up any of the NCDXF/IARU Beacons.

The last time I noticed, a couple of days ago, all the beacons
seemed to be working OK. Of course, propagation has been pretty
bad lately. You probably know this, but these are CW beacons,
so you'll need to tune a little differently than you do for an
AM station--say, set your receiver to USB mode and tune 700Hz
below the listed frequency. It's rare that I can't hear at least
a few of the beacons on 20 and 17 meters, if I camp on the frequency
and listen for two or three cycles (I think that's 3 minutes to
each cycle.) HTH!

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