Automatic beacon scanner program for K3?

[Doug Faunt N6TQS [phone]]

Hi all,
Is there an automatic beacon scanner for the K3?

We're not on the air all the time, and it would be useful if we could
get a profile of openings to this location (VK9NN now) by having a
computer driving a K3 to scan the beacons when otherwise this gear is
sitting unused.

For future trips, I'm also thinking that something like that for the
SDR-IQ, too.

73, doug


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I use VE3NEA's Faros with my K2/100.
Don't know why it would work with the K3.

http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/

On 12/12/2010 2:29 PM, Doug Faunt N6TQS [phone] wrote:

> Hi all,
> Is there an automatic beacon scanner for the K3?
>
> We're not on the air all the time, and it would be useful if we could
> get a profile of openings to this location (VK9NN now) by having a
> computer driving a K3 to scan the beacons when otherwise this gear is
> sitting unused.
>
> For future trips, I'm also thinking that something like that for the
> SDR-IQ, too.
>
> 73, doug

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R. Kevin Stover

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[Peter, DL2FI]

Hi Doug,

Very interesting theme in times of DX-Clusters :-)

BeaconSee will do the job. It jumps from Frequency to frequency following
the beacon transmit time table, writing a small piece of waterfall diagram
to you computer screen for any beacon. So you can get a very nice
information how conditions have changed over the day incl. an idea how about
MUF.

Find more information here: http://www.coaa.co.uk/beaconsee.htm


73 de Peter, DL2FI

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>
> Hi all,
> Is there an automatic beacon scanner for the K3?
>
> We're not on the air all the time, and it would be useful if we could
> get a profile of openings to this location (VK9NN now) by having a
> computer driving a K3 to scan the beacons when otherwise this gear is
> sitting unused.
>
> For future trips, I'm also thinking that something like that for the
> SDR-IQ, too.
>
> 73, doug
>
>
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[Julian, G4ILO]

Doug Faunt N6TQS [phone] wrote

Hi all,
Is there an automatic beacon scanner for the K3?

We're not on the air all the time, and it would be useful if we could
get a profile of openings to this location (VK9NN now) by having a
computer driving a K3 to scan the beacons when otherwise this gear is
sitting unused.

For future trips, I'm also thinking that something like that for the
SDR-IQ, too.

73, doug

Faros, by VE3NEA. I am using it with my K3 right now: http://www.g4ilo.com/beacons.html to do exactly what you are suggesting. You don't have to upload the results to a web page, of course.