• [EI7GL] IW0HK QRSS beacon heard on 28 MHz - 12th Nov 2021

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    IW0HK QRSS beacon heard on 28 MHz - 12th Nov 2021

    Posted: 12 Nov 2021 02:00 PM PST https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/11/iw0hk-qrss-beacon-heard-on-28-mhz-12th.html




    Friday 12th November 2021: Normally it's during the Summer months and the
    main Sporadic-E season that I have a look for QRSS signals on the 28 MHz
    band (QRSS - Very slow visual form of morse code).
    During a short Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz the 12th of November, I noticed that I was hearing the IW0HK beacon near Rome on 28.3219 MHz. I didn't recognise the callsign and I had to check the cluster to see that I last
    heard it back on the 25th of May 2019.
    I noticed on the beacon list that it was also a QRSS beacon so I fired up Spectrum Lab and grabbed the screen shot above.
    As you can see, the QRSS ID is 'H K' which is sent over the space of about 1-minute.
    The power is listed as 1-watt and the antenna is a vertical.
    The distance as seen from the map below is about 1900kms which is pretty
    normal for Sporadic-E. It's just a little unusual to get it at nearly 9pm
    local time in November.

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