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Dave AA7EE alerted us to this attack.  Please follow-up by posting reception reports (and triangulations!) in the comments below.  Dave writ...

Frank's Lowfer Beacon Receiver It was great to hear from someone else who, like Scott KQ4AOP, heard his very first signals on a homebrew...

  So there I was, innocently checking the lower end of the tuning range on my now 17 meter SSB Barebones Barbados W4OP receiver.  I had it t...

https://aa7ee.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/putting-the-hifer-brs-boris-beacon-on-the-air-finally/ From Dave's blog:  The beac...

sTef DL1FDF/VY1QRP alerted us to this multi-band Michigan Mighty Mite beacon project out of Sweden. They certainly have some fine looki...

Wow.  Very cool.  Don't get hung up on the legalities or the environmental consequences.  Just enjoy the simplicity and the technique...

SolderSmoke Podcast 154 is available for download! http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke154.mp3 August 11, 2013 -- Alligators!  Real ...

Named for an Italian bar, produced by cool people in Ivrea who wield soldering irons and wear T-shirts that say "Make it Simple....

Ooops -- I got my keyer terminology wrong in this video.   The K1EL keyer just needs a "paddle keyer" input, not an iambic keye...

  I've succumbed to the lure of the tiny computers and microprocessors.  This weekend I was playing with the Arduino that I bought (...

From: Paul Darlington  Subject: Multi-mode QRSS beacon on the Raspberry Pi To: "Bill Meara"  Date: Sunday, January 20, 2013, 8:...

My fellow beacon fans will like this one. The ultimate (REALLY ultimate) beacon! http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21236-lets-build-a-...

Well, I didn't actually do it, but I thought about it. As the date of our departure from Italy approached, I was -- as readers and list...

From Wikipedia: UVB-76 is the callsign of a shortwave radio station that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz ( AM full carrier...

Dear Bill, It Hurts!!.... You have abandoned us visual Beacon Anarchists for the Instant gratification of the WSPR crowd. Hey, To refresh ...

Mark "MOJ" Johnson, W8MOJ, sent me a really amazing 73 Magazine article. It is from the APRIL 1983 issue. (The month of publica...

Wow, that's an exciting track. The intrepid radio amateurs at Cornell University have a balloon up over the mid-Atlantic. It is approa...

Eldon's effort to be seen by the 30 meter online grabbers (see below) reminded me of the big problem I faced when I first built my QRSS ...

1.5 watts out on 30 meters with total cost of 25 dollars. Here is the transmitter that Ben, N1VF, and friends are using for balloon operat...

Just a few shots of my new beacon rig. The first shows the Beacon Box on the shelf above the HW-8, attached to the battery. I've been ru...