Over the last few months I've been relying on the Radio Beacon Network to tune my antennas. It's a resource I overlooked far too long. Today and for the first time, I could not hear the 14.100 NYC beacon due to interference and I’m only a mile or 2 ‘as the bird-flies’ from the UN. After looking into it, I learned the noise is from digital QRM. Sounded like many competing signals on the same freq. rendered 14.1 useless! I found short QST article https://www.ncdxf.org/beacon/QSTpart3 it’s worth a read. A 40 or 80m beacon would be nice but I presume the antenna requirements are prohibitive.
Is the “Beacon Watchers Society” defunct? I saw this in 1998 QST article about Beacons. How about the rest of the country? Anyone else use the beacons?
Is the “Beacon Watchers Society” defunct? I saw this in 1998 QST article about Beacons. How about the rest of the country? Anyone else use the beacons?