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Here are a few pictures of my current beacon project.

I am currently working on finding a good location to put my beacon and some antenna designs.  Hopefully the beacon will be up within the next few months.  The radio is a Midland 13-892 23 Channel AM/SSB CB radio, that I converted to 10 Meters.  The keyer interface is a Serial Port based relay that keys the rig on and off.  The software that I am using to key to the serial port is CwType provided by UA9OSV, you can download it at http://www.dxsoft.com .  More information will be available when the beacon is fully operational and on the air!

The rig, sitting on the table.

The keying interface.

Pictures of the crystals in this rig.

This crystal was originally a 11.375Mhz, it was replaced with a

10.240Mhz that you can find in any newer PLL CB radio.