Are you a "beaconist" ?
This could be defined as; a person that monitors sections of the normally dormant radio spectrum (usually the upper end of HF assignment, and the VHF & UHF spectrum) in order to detect radio beacon signals.
These continuously running radio-beacons are used to indicate to distant monitoring enthusiasts that the band is "open"
i.e. significant long range propagation is evident, due to; tropospheric ducting, ionospheric reflection/refraction, meteor showers, sunspot cycle, auroral reflection, aircraft enhancement, etc (all which are well documented).
Here is a selection from the 10 metre (28MHz) band
that I logged/recorded during cycle 23 sunspot peak of c2000.
With some effort, I've managed to recover these audio files from an old hard drive.
I had used EXCEL 5 (95) with which you could store small (.wav format) soundbytes in any "cell" in the spreadsheet
However modern versions of Excel don't support this feature!
Therefore I had to rebuild an old Excel 5 and many files (esp .DLL files) were missing from my present PC's hardrive.
Luckily I found them all on the web.
I initially thought I'd lost the audio files for good!
| Beacon | Frequency KHz | Date Time | Audio file |
| DL0IGI Germany 48 watt |
28 204 | 24 Oct 2000 1215z |
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| IY4M Italy Marconi memorial beacon |
28 193 | 5 Oct 2000 1320z |
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| A47RB Oman | 28 192 | 25 Oct 2000 1000z |
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| 3LXO China | 28 141 | 4 Oct 2000 0930z |
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| VR2TEN Hong Kong |
28 288.5 | 18 Feb 2001 0840z |
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| SM3AQR/B Amalias Greece | 28 180.6 | 4 Oct 2000 0930z |
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| KH6WO Hawaii | 28 200 | 4 Oct 2000 0930z |
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| ZS1J/B Africa | 28 201 | 2 Oct 2000 1100z |
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| EA3JA Barcelona | 28 245 | 5 Oct 2000 1300z |
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| EA3QP Spain | 28 505 | 7 Oct 2000 0700z |
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| JE7YNQ Fukushima Japan | 28 187.5 | 3 Oct 2000 0000z |
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| VK3RMH Melbourne | 28 256 | 6 Oct 2000 0200z |
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| AX2RSY Sydney Y2K AX prefix |
28 260 | 5 Oct 2000 0600z |
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| VK6RBP Perth | 28 200 | 5 Oct 2000 1000z |
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| French ShortWave broadcast station |
25 820 | 12 Oct 2000 1230z |
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| Soviet TV carrier resolved as AM |
49 750 | 12 Oct 2000 0700z |
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