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Friday, January 10, 2025

Please Listen for my 10 Meter Beacon! 28.2343 MHz

 
There it is, in all its glory.  The transmitter itself is a Doug DeMaw "Lil' Slugger" CW transmitter for 10 and 15.  I built it, maybe 25 years ago?  Still works.  3 Watts out, crystal controlled on 10.  Antenna is a 1/4 Wave groundplane up about 70 feet.  Mike WN2A kindly made me a PIC-based keyer that is generating the CW -- you can see the keyer board attached to the transmitter.  For the base I used a board and some socketry that had previously held a Ramsey-kit Q-AMP 20.  

I have it hooked up now.  It is transmitting.  Please see if you can hear it.  Send me a report!  The frequency is 28.2343 MHz. The callsign is HI7/N2CQR.  I am in the Dominican Republic. 

3 comments:

  1. Just started listening- I hear lots of others so it's just a matter of time.

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  2. Heard a very weak "N2CQR" in there, but not the full callsign. Band changing, so we shall see...

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