USING BEACONS FOR PROPAGATION
There’s a lot of worldwide beacons on 28 mhz to check the propagation. They are beetwen 28.100 and 28.300 on CW mode.
I use CW/W (cw wide) on my yaesu and a software called cwget to decode CW.
When you find a beacon (your transceiver must be connected to the micro input of the computer, you can use the headphone out from the transceiver)
tune to the beacon until the signal is on top of the black mark (the signal, black mark and red mark must be aligned):
here’s a list of beacons i received during july 2014 using the skypper beam (Signals are the best i received)
Exact frequencies might not be very exact
Most of these beacons use beetwen 1 and 15 watts only
28187.8 AUTRIA oe3xac S7
28204.8 GERMANY JN57MT MUNICH S3
28213.9 NORWAY HA9TEN JP50EV S3
28221.9 ITALY iz0kba/b S7
28.222.6 ????? test de ew1oz/t S2 ?????
28224.7 HUNGARY HA5BHA Nr Budapest S7 1 WATT
28229 CROATIA S3
28230 ITALY IQ8CZ S4
28234.1 GREECE SV2AHT/B 1W HORTIATIS S5
28237.2 NORWAY OSLO LA5TEN S0
28242.8 FRANCE F5ZWE TOULOUSE S5
28250.1 USA ED4YAK Shell Knob USA S2
28244.7 GERMANY DB0TEN S6
28248.8 MOLDAVIE ER1TEN
28282 EGYPT SU0EG S9
28291.8 SWEDEN SK0CT S3
28295 ITALY iz0cww/b S7
28298 SWEDEN S1
