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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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