ARLA/CLUSTER: UK_Beacons in 80m and 5 Mhz

[João Gonçalves Costa]

GB3SSS from Poldhu, Cornwall, is back again for a few months. Only this time it is transmitting on 3597.0kHz for 80m Transatlantic propagation tests over the winter months.

Transmissions are every 15 minutes, starting on the 00/15/30/45 minute interval and use the same format as the 1.96MHz beacon last year, ie callsign followed by two sets of 6dB power steps, then a PSK31 message starting at the 30 second boundary.

The 5MHz beacon monitoring software available from :
http://www.rsgb-spectrumforum.org.uk/5mhz%20beacon%20monitoring.htm can be used to automatically log this beacon, which appears on the red trace as if it were GB3RAL.

Andy G4JNT