D4C / B VHF 144Mhz Beacon listen in Ireland ( EI )

Posted date: May 21, 2015in: VHFNo Comments

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EI3KD and EI4DQ both spotted our 2m beacon from qth locator IO51 for a distance of almost 4200 km.
At 15.11 Z of May 20th,2015 rst was 599.

EI3KD received the beacon for hours with a steady and strong signal.

He made a video of his copy that can be seen at this link:

The D4C 2m beacon (HK76mv) received on 144.436MHz by EI3KD (IO51vw) via tropo, over a distance of approximately 4165km.

This recording was made at 18:38z on 20th May 2015, although the signal was actually heard between 14:35z (20th May) until 04:30z (21st May) – a total of 14 hours!

Also D4C/B listen on Bonaire PJ4

D4C/B Beacon Description

Callsign D4C/B
Locator: HK76MV
Altitude 750m ASL
Mode : CW

Frequencies:
– 50.034 Mhz, 30W

– 144.436 MHz 1×5 el to EU, 70W out + 1×5 el to Caribbean, 20W out

– 432.396 MHz 1×9 el to EU, 20W out

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