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Reverse Beacon Network
Experiment
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20170007906 2020-02-27T08:25:34+00:00Z
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Ionospheric Radio Propagation
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Amateur Radio (Ham Radio)
• Local and Global
o In nearly every country on Earth
o Licensed, with privileges
o Diverse
o All ages, backgrounds, interests
o Makers, electronics hobbyists, communicators
o Voice, video, wifi, digital (CW, RTTY, other modes)
• Activities
o DX, rag chews
o Clubs, contests, “foxhunts,” special events
o Emergency communications
o Satellite, aircraft, high altitude balloons
o Electronics, antenna design, RADIO PROPAGATION
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Ham Radio Jargon
• Contact – An exchange of information via radio
• DX – A distant station; or a contact with a distant station
• CW - Continuous wave radio transmissions in international
morse code (the oldest digital text format)
• RTTY – Radio teletype (a very old digital text format)
• Spot – A formatted description of a received radio signal
(date/time, frequency, call sign and signal strength)
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Beacons and Reverse Beacons
• Beacon
o Examples: lighthouse or emergency alert siren (e.g.,
tornado, tsunami warnings), radio transmitter
• Radio Beacon
o Automated or manual radio transmissions
o Purpose: An aid for communicators to determine
radio propagation conditions
• Reverse Beacon (or Skimmer)
o Automated HF radio receiver and computer system
for logging and reporting radio beacon spots
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Reverse Beacon Network
References
• www.reversebeacon.net -> About
• Robert Capon W3DX, Reverse Beacon Network, 14 February 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fwilBr1WoU
A network of automated radio receiver stations that listen to
Amateur Radio transmissions and report what stations they
hear, when and how well (signal strength).
These reception reports are called ”spots.”
RBN stations collect spots and send them back to central
databases where they are displayed on the RBN website.
Our team will be operating one of these RBN sites to conduct
radio science.
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Reverse Beacon Node
System Data Flow
Internet
Antenna
SDR
Hardware
SDR
Software
Skimmer
ServerAggregator
RBN
DatabaseRBN
WebsiteInternet
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Half Wave Dipole Antenna
Coax
insulator
rope
wire
l/4 l/4
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Software Defined Radio
insulatorwire
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Software Defined Radio
USB to PC
Antenna to
SDR
Other Antenna
options
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Links
U.S. Amateur Radio Frequency Bands
o http://www.arrl.org/graphical-frequency-allocations
No Nonsense Amateur Radio Study Guides
o http://www.kb6nu.com/study-guides/
Reverse Beacon Network
o www.reversebeacon.net
Reverse Beacon Network Tutorial, Robert Capon W3DX, Feb 14, 2017
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fwilBr1WoU
N6TV’s CW Skimmer Presentation at the 2015 Dayton Hamfest
o http://www.kkn.net/~n6tv/N6TV_Dayton_2015_CW_Skimmer.pdf
Northern California DX Foundation
o http://www.ncdxf.org
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Thank You !
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