10368 MHz Beacons - North America
I need to add or update a Beacon

Frequency Callsign Grid Location Antenna - Direction
10248.000 N6IZW DM12mq San Miguel,CA wbfm mcw
10256.000 WA6EJO DM04hi Ventura, CA Horn - Southeast
12265.000 NW7O DM25gv Las Vegas, NV  
10265.000 WB6NDX DM13fr Brea, CA  
10367.970 WB6IGP DM12lt    
10368.000 KI4NPV EL98hr Longwood, FL 10W Slot @ 80'
10368.014 NU7Z CN87 Seattle, WA 8 dB Slot - 0.7 W
10368.020 KK6TG CM88qq Santa Rosa, CA  
10368.030 WB6IGP DM12no Mt. Otay, CA  
10368.045 K3SIW/9 EN52xb Elgin, IL 6 Meter Dish - West
10368.080 WB6IGP DM12mq San Miguel, CA  
10368.160 K3UO FM09rc No Mt, WVA 24 el slot 5W
10368.240 K1FFK FN32jp Mt. Greylock, MA Slot Antenna @ 88 ft
10368.265 K1JCL FN31us Coventry, CT 16 Slot Ant @ 190 ft
10368.275 KS2D FN20ok Cranbury, NJ 6 Slot
10368.292 WA7GIE DN30vo Nelson Peak, UT 13dBi slot 200mW
10368.300  ** W3LPL FM19lg Glenwood, MD Slot
10368.300 NE8I EN82jm Beverly Hills, MI 0.16W 2' dish aimed at Chicago
10368.300 N6CA DM03ts Lomita, CA 16 dB Omni
10368.310 N6CA DM03 Lomita, CA  
10368.320 WD4MUO DM79gx   Waveguide - Omni
10368.325 W6ASL CM88wj Concord, CA  
10368.350 NW7O DM25gv Las Vegas, NV  
10368.368 W5HN EM13kf Denton, TX 8 Slot WR90
10368.900 W3HMS FN10ni Harrisburg, PA 8 Slot Horizontal
10369.150 AD6FP/R CM97BL Fremont, CA 50mW 10i Omni

**  This beacon features a CW store and forward processor to help folks verify that their 10 GHz systems are working.

Here is how to access the beacon receiver:

Point your antenna at W3LPL, FM19LG, tune in the beacon in CW mode Set your transmitter to transmit CW 3 KHz below your receive frequency You can transmit to the beacon any time it is not IDing or repeating back another signal.

Send a minimum of 5 or 6 characters, a maximum of less than 12 seconds of CW. The beacon will repeat your CW (keep it under 40 WPM) followed by your signal strength in dBm (the minus before the number is left off). This means that smaller signal strength numbers are stronger signals.

The acceptance bandwidth of the receiver is about one KHz. With a little practice, you can figure out what Tx offsets will work for you. For those with good receivers, you will need to have 40 dB of receiver S/N before the beacon will hear you - that is a strong signal!

If you hear the beacon repeating garbage, one of five things is likely happening:

  1. It's raining at W3LPLs QTH (local rain scatter)
  2. The wind is high at W3LPLs QTH (vibration noise)
  3. Somebody is trying to send SSB or FM through the CW detector (IT WON'T WORK)
  4. The beacon is measuring the insect population of Glenwood, Md.
  5. The beacon receiver is a little noisy at times and will occasionally capture random noise.

Most of those events lead to "104" or "105" signal levels (very weak).