Walter wrote:
I have a Radio shack Dx-394, it has AM, LSB,USB,CW1, CW2.
So I should use USB, and if it claims 14100, I should tune to 13400?

It would be (in USB mode) 14099.3 KHz -- but if your receiver
has CW mode, just enable that and tune to 14100 direct! I'm
listening right now and can hear a couple of the 20-meter
beacons weakly in North Carolina, so propagation is not very
good, as has been the case lately. Good luck!
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Here is my progress so far...

I can pick up a few of the stations. This maybe normal for this time
of year, and from what I'm told about the solar activity.

From St. Louis Missouri area, I can get the South Africa beacon once
and a while. Same with the Israeli beacon. The Madeira beacon off the
coast of Morocco is the strongest one I can get. I have gotten the
Argentina, and Peruvian one a few times, but not consistently. The
Venezuela comes in the second best after Madeira, and the UN beacon in
New York is a disappointment. I get it, but barely.. I can't get the
rest at all.

I am getting some sort of osculating interference at about 1 second
intervals. It sounds like a cricket chirping. Also something that
sounds like a cell phone ringing, but is this comes and goes. I don't
know if this is normal, or something in my house is generating this..

Thanks for the help!!






(Walter) wrote in message . com...
I have a wire dipole antenna mounted between two maple trees in my
yard.

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.

http://www.ncdxf.org/beacons.html

I don't know if it is my antenna, interference, the atmosphere, or a
combination that is giving me trouble.

Can anybody else pick these up?

Thanks.

Here is my progress so far...

I can pick up a few of the stations. This maybe normal for this time
of year, and from what I'm told about the solar activity.

From St. Louis Missouri area, I can get the South Africa beacon once
and a while. Same with the Israeli beacon. The Madeira beacon off the
coast of Morocco is the strongest one I can get. I have gotten the
Argentina, and Peruvian one a few times, but not consistently. The
Venezuela comes in the second best after Madeira, and the UN beacon in
New York is a disappointment. I get it, but barely.. I can't get the
rest at all.

I am getting some sort of osculating interference at about 1 second
intervals. It sounds like a cricket chirping. Also something that
sounds like a cell phone ringing, but is this comes and goes. I don't
know if this is normal, or something in my house is generating this..

Thanks for the help!!






(Walter) wrote in message . com...
I have a wire dipole antenna mounted between two maple trees in my
yard.

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.

http://www.ncdxf.org/beacons.html

I don't know if it is my antenna, interference, the atmosphere, or a
combination that is giving me trouble.

Can anybody else pick these up?

Thanks.

A surprising number of Hams are unaware of the beacon system.

"Derek Wills" wrote in message
...
I am getting some sort of osculating interference at about 1 second
intervals.

Some of the digital mode ops like to transmit right on
top of the beacons to make some point or other that is
lost on me!

Derek aa5bt

A surprising number of Hams are unaware of the beacon system.

"Derek Wills" wrote in message
...
I am getting some sort of osculating interference at about 1 second
intervals.

Some of the digital mode ops like to transmit right on
top of the beacons to make some point or other that is
lost on me!

Derek aa5bt

(Walter) wrote in message . com...
Hi,

I have a Radio shack Dx-394, it has AM, LSB,USB,CW1, CW2.

I've been using AM, because I didn't see anything on the NCDXF/IARU
website about it being anything but AM. I may have missed it.

So I should use USB, and if it claims 14100, I should tune to 13400?

thanks.

You can use the DX-394's LSB/USB/CW1/CW2 modes to receive Morse coded
interrupted CW. The CW1 and LSB modes have the same frequency
alignment and the USB and CW2 modes have identical frequency
alignment. The CW mode introduces a sharp audio filter that is
bypassed in the SSB mode. Ideally, both pairs of modes would have the
same frequency alignment and you would hear zero beat in all 4 modes
when tuned to the carrier of an accurate reference such as WWV. In
practise, improper factory alignment and drift result in a difference
between LSB/CW1 and USB/CW2. When properly aligned, you would tune
higher than the carrier frequency by 0.6 to 1 kHz when in LSB/CW1
modes and tune low by the same amount if in the other modes to hear a
beat note in the 600-1000Hz range. Due to misalignment, your practise
may need to be different.

For more on the DX-394, join the 450 member Yahoo!Group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RADIOSHACKDX394/ .

73, Tom VE3MEO

(Walter) wrote in message . com...
Hi,

I have a Radio shack Dx-394, it has AM, LSB,USB,CW1, CW2.

I've been using AM, because I didn't see anything on the NCDXF/IARU
website about it being anything but AM. I may have missed it.

So I should use USB, and if it claims 14100, I should tune to 13400?

thanks.

You can use the DX-394's LSB/USB/CW1/CW2 modes to receive Morse coded
interrupted CW. The CW1 and LSB modes have the same frequency
alignment and the USB and CW2 modes have identical frequency
alignment. The CW mode introduces a sharp audio filter that is
bypassed in the SSB mode. Ideally, both pairs of modes would have the
same frequency alignment and you would hear zero beat in all 4 modes
when tuned to the carrier of an accurate reference such as WWV. In
practise, improper factory alignment and drift result in a difference
between LSB/CW1 and USB/CW2. When properly aligned, you would tune
higher than the carrier frequency by 0.6 to 1 kHz when in LSB/CW1
modes and tune low by the same amount if in the other modes to hear a
beat note in the 600-1000Hz range. Due to misalignment, your practise
may need to be different.

For more on the DX-394, join the 450 member Yahoo!Group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RADIOSHACKDX394/ .

73, Tom VE3MEO