Thank you for that observation, but I don't think they're CW literate. :-) My point (which I didn't make clear) was that you don't have to have a lot of ERP to make the beacons QSY. I was just using an inverted-L from my QTH in SW Missouri and about 650 watts.
73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Eddy Swynar <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-10-01, at 8:17 PM, Mike Waters wrote: > > Nearly every time I have ever called CQ on top of a fishing beacon on 160 > --except the very weakest ones-- it disappeared. I assumed they changed > frequency. > > I don't think it was a coincidence. I've heard others who had the same > experience. > > > > > *Hi Mike,* > > I've noticed that very same thing here myself, more often than not > (certainly not in ALL cases, though): it's like they're somehow programmed > to shift to another frequency if there's any interference to the one that > they're on. > > I don't know if they're that sophisticated, or not. Certainly the > fishermen who listen for these things would have to be savvy as to > frequency agility...which leads me to ask, are they somehow CW-literate, too > ... > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
