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Beacons with a G5RV
I'm in Portland, Oregon, USA. Over the weekend I strung a G5RV horizonally
about 15-20' off the ground -- it'll go higher once I have the hardware to do so, however. It's connected to an Icom IC-745. In general, it's working in that I can get pretty good reception on, e.g., 20m from the east coast. However, I don't seem to hear any of the beacon states on 14.1MHz. Should I be able to? It appears that the US beacon state (W6WX) is somewhere in California, which seems like it should be plenty close, at least with 100W (i.e., I should at least be able to here the callsigns and the first dash.) I also have a shortwave receiver that came with a loop antenna. It's not quite as sensitive as the IC-745, and you need to put it into SSB mode and tune off-center to hear CW, but it wasn't picking up anything either. ---Joel Kolstad KE7CDV |
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