LA1BCN - 630m CW & WSPR Beacon
QTH for LA1BCN(630m Beacon) and LA2BCN (10m Beacon)
The antenna for LA1BCN is a home made Marconi-X or Umbrella type antenna. It is matched at it's feed point with a home made antenna tuner.
The antenna is 16.5m high with four 45 deg. sloping top-hat wires, four kevlar guy lines, 16 ground radial and 5 grounding rods.
Earth of the 16 radials is buried under ground and are 25m long (16 x 25m = 400m wire).
630m Beacon LA1BCN Transmission Schedule
Each transmission round is 10 minutes long as a programmed schedule, -and then repeated as in the following example: | ||||||||||||
Length | Time | Frequency (kHz) | Mode | Ident | Extra CW ident | |||||||
| 2 min | HH:00 | 476.500 | CW Beacon | LA1BCN | ||||||||
HH:01 | 476.500 | CW Beacon | LA1BCN | |||||||||
| 2 min | HH:02 | 475.625 | WSPR Beacon | LA1BCN | ||||||||
HH:03 | 475.625 | WSPR Beacon | LA1BCN | Plus ending CW ident: LA1BCN | ||||||||
| 2 min | HH:04 | 476.500 | CW Beacon | LA1BCN | ||||||||
HH:05 | 476.500 | CW Beacon | LA1BCN | |||||||||
| 2 min | HH:06 | 475.625 | WSPR Beacon | LA1BCN | ||||||||
HH:07 | 475.625 | WSPR Beacon | LA1BCN | Plus ending CW ident: LA1BCN | ||||||||
| 1 min | HH:08 | 476.500 | CW Beacon | LA1BCN | ||||||||
| 1 min | HH:09 | No transmission | Automatic Time & Frequency (Re-)calibration from GPS serial data & 1 PPS input | |||||||||
| Immediately | HH:10 | Goto top & repeat | ||||||||||