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30 Apr, 2006

State of The Art GB3VHF Beacon

Posted by: peter In: digital modes| general

With GB3VHF returning to the air waves with a new state of the art beacon system running CW, JT65B, BPSK thought that it was a must to try and at least decode the digital signal at my home qth.Luckily the GB3VHF website had plenty information about how to get started in decoding the signal, I just downloaded the WSJT application onto the computer took the audio in to the soundcard made the changes which the website gave and within a minute or two I was receiving the JT65B digital signal on my screen!

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I’ve got to say I was rather amazed how easy it was to get going once I had the correct information to get going and was rather interesting playing with this new mode which perhaps at some point I’ll make my own qsos with on 2m using my 6 element crossed yagi and IC-706MKiiG

3 Responses to "State of The Art GB3VHF Beacon"

1 | LZ5AZ.com

May 4th, 2006 at 4:50 am

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Beacons evolving…

Last day I red the m3php’s article about GB3VHF Beacon. I was amazed for that 2m beacon’s abilities - CW, JT65B, BPSK. I won’t comment this baby, so even it’s on 2m and you can’t hear it, don’t miss to check out the …

2 | Simon

May 11th, 2006 at 2:00 am

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Am i the only one that can’t use WSJT!!!!!
I get nothink like that i get (fbwakvbJW35743T59) or something like that lol!
U will have 2 show me next time u up here!

3 | peter

May 11th, 2006 at 5:21 am

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haha, you just havent got the magic touch simon, lol took me ages to get it going too i’ve got to say,

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Welcome to the blog of Peter Goodhall, M3PHP who is 22 and a recent graduate after Multimedia Technology (Web Design) at Buckinghamshire New University. I'm keen about all aspects of amateur radio and run the e-learning website HamTests and recently got awarded the RSGB Kenwood Trophy.

I'm also evolved with a number of other amateur radio web applications and currently work as a freelance web developer.