IARU/NCDXF HF Beacon Network –
Beacon in
The
Altogether there are 18 Beacons throughout the world, and RSSL is
hosting one of them in
The locations of the beacon could be viewed at http://www.ncdxf.org/Beacon/BeaconLocations.html
The beacons transmit every three minutes, day and night. A
transmission consists of the callsign of the beacon
in Morse code sent at 22 words per minute speed followed by four one-second
dashes. The callsign and the first dash are sent at
100 Watts. The remaining dashes are sent at 10 Watts, 1 Watt and 100 milliWatts.
See the transmission schedule at http://www.ncdxf.org/Beacon/BeaconSchedule.html
Full details of beacon project is on : http://www.ncdxf.org/beacons.html