[aprssig] Clueless WA4SZE Beacon Trashing 30M HF APRS

[Wes Johnston, AI4PX]

Have you contacted him or are you just griping in this sig for the sake of
griping?  Or are you soliciting offers for someone to visit his house with a
tire tool?  :-)

Wes
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God help those who do not help themselves.


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 04:38, Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2 at aol.com> wrote:

> About 3 or 4 days ago, WA4SZE started operating a non-stop 24-hour beacon
> on 10.149.100 MHz.   This seems to be a stepped-power beacon similar to the
> NCDF/IARU propagation beacons on the higher frequencies  This signal,
> originating from Manchester TN, is now disrupting the 10.149.200/.400 FSK
> APRS channel over a large part of North America.
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> Here on the west coast, this signal is peaking at S7-S8 for many hours each
> day, triggering the AGC on my 30M APRS igate receiver, rendering most APRS
> signal un-receivable.    Being only 100 Hz below the lower of the two tones
> for APRS FSK, there is no practical way to notch this signal out  of the
> receiver IF passband without damaging the FSK signal.
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> Details from QRZ.com:
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> David L Frantz Jr
> 691 Brandon Road
> Manchester TN 37355
> USA
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> wa4sze at gmail.com <mailto:wa4sze%40gmail.com <wa4sze%2540gmail.com>>
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