Ten Meter CW propagation Beacon Station Reception Log

With the on coming sunspot cycle 24, I have decided to maintain a listener log here of every CW propagation beacon station I hear on the ten meter amateur band here in the Denver, Colorado area as of August 29th, 2009. Right now I have a CB mag mount antenna cut down and tuned for the ten meter amateur band sitting on top of a metal filing cabinet here in my apartment and connected to my Grundig Satellit 800 communication receiver, although I may hook up my old Ranger AR-3500 ten meter rig to listen on (It has a blown final transistor and has not been fixed yet, but, at least I can listen on it.) You can view a list of current ten meter beacon stations around the world at this link: http://userpages.troycable.net/~wj5o/bcn.htm

I just set up this old Realistic HTX-100 ten meter transceiver for monitoring
ten meter propagation beacons with a dipole set up on my apartment balcony.
May even attempt to actually get on the air and make a few contacts when the
band finally opens up! It might be interesting to try some PSK31 on ten meters
as PSK31 does not require much power! By the way 28.120 Mhz is the established
PSK31 operating frequency for Ten meters.

Ten Meter CW propagation Beacon Station Reception Log

Posted on August 31, 2009
Just heard the K6FRC/B3 10 meter propagation beacon between 02:15 and 02:30 UTC, September 1st, 2009 on 28.274 Mhz which is located at Mt. Diablo, California. The CW beacon was coming into Denver here with a signal strength of about S7 or so. I made a video clip of this beacon being received which you can watch on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8zc8zRaok According to a published beacon list, K6FRC/B3 only puts out 1 watt of power into a vertical antenna.

By the way, I am using an old CB magnetic mount mobile antenna (Re tuned for ten meters) sitting on top of my metal filing cabinet next to my radio desk till I get my ten meter dipole installed on my apartment balcony. Just a note of interest, There had been no sunspots for a while and on August 31st, a sunspot appeared according to this article on the SOHO website. See http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek Which perhaps explains why I was hearing the k6FRC/B3 beacon so well today!

Posted: Saturday, September 5th, 2009, 11:30 MDST
I installed a ten meter dipole antenna on my apartment balcony yesterday. I will be using this 10 meter dipole to monitor ten beacons now instead of the indoor 10 meter mag mount antenna!

Posted on November 22, 2009
I just heard the WA6MHZ 5 watt CW propagation beacon station on 28.278.5 Mhz which is located in Crest, California on November 22, 2009 from 15:50 to 16:00 UTC (08:50 t o 09:00 AM MST) The beacon was coming in with a signal strength of S7 or so.