Early next week I am going to install a personal 3 cm beacon at Graham Knight's QTH (IO87WB) near Aberdeen. I will have an excellent take-off over the north sea to the south towards East Anglia! The frequency will be 10368.450 MHz and it will run a reasonable power into sectorial horn pointed at about 160 degrees. It will send callsign and QRA in FSK and JT4G. I will post here once it is up and running.
This project has a long history. Back in the mid to late 1970s there were plans to put a wideband Gunn diode based 3cm beacon at Graham's QTH, but for reasons I am unclear about it never came to fruition. Recently I met Graham at a rally and he had heard about the beacon at Chris Tran's (GM3WOJ) place and he said to me "Why don't we put one on at my place?" which seemed a good idea.
