I am just getting started in this mode and I'm curious as to what advantage is gained by the stations who are sending out beacons but apparently are not actively monitoring their radios. What is accomplished by this for them? I must be missing something here - isn't the whole idea to acively seek out stations to contact?
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Don VA7QU, Which bands? Times? Are you hearing and copying beacons and cqs?
I will listen for you. I would love to make a connect to a magloop station on the far side of the continent.
73 de w8nsi Jim [EN73eb]
I'm from the mainland (Vancouver area). I run an indoor Alpha Mag loop. I've called Beacon and then call CQ. I have not really connected. I have tried connected to those that CQ but not luck. I also run mobile va7dgp/p and have the same luck. Non
A beacon can serve to show where signals can be coming from. This can be useful information to some people. If you do not hear any signals, do you know if your antenna is hooked up? 😎
The CQ's are for stations seeking out a contact, the Beacon is just that, it is a Beacon that allow you to see the propagation paths. It also serves to alert stations that they can hear another station and if they hear them and have VMail waiting for them, it will alert them. I think you are confusing Beacons with CQ's.