Welcome to the Beacon homepage!

 

This webpage contains information about my Beacon experiments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Email:

 

beacon (at) sm7zfb.se

 

 

 

 

 

Click here for Schematic!

 

Click here for Software!

 

 

The 17m Beacon Project

 

Updated: 2014-01-04

 

 

Beacon project #1  -  A 100mW CW Beacon in the 17m band.

 

 

General information:


Transmitter frequency: 18.098MHz

 

Output power: 100mW (measured at antenna connector, into 50 Ohm)


Antenna: 2 x 21m Doublet 10m above ground. Open wire feeder and K.W. (E-ZEE) Match Balanced ATU.

 

Modulation: CW

 

Message: "CQ CQ CQ SM7ZFB/B BEACON 18.098MHZ 0.1WATT WWW.SM7ZFB.SE"

 

QTH locator: JO77HO16

 

Please feel free to e-mail RST report to:  beacon (at) sm7zfb.se

 

Here is the logbook with received reports!

 

73 DE SM7ZFB

 

 

Installed beacon with ATU.

 

The open wire feeder is the brown cables that goes from the ATU and then outside the window.

 

Some close-up pictures of the transmitter.

 


 

The pictue above shows the doubler and power amp stage in it´s compartment.

 


 

This picture shows the finished 100mW transmitter with the PIC10F206 Microcontroller attached.

The red wire that goes between the to compartments, is the the 9.049MHz signal from the oscillator.

 

 

sm7zfb.se © 2011