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Do you suffer from Broadband over power line QRM all over HF here in the UK? A Sound Sample is here (This is a "Comtrend" as used by BT-Vision, and others.) Well, don't any more...
Solve your Power Line Networking QRM at www.ukqrm.org Help is at hand! For those in Europe interested in VHF DX. The future of the UK VHF beacon GB3VHF is still a little uncertain! Go to www.gb3vhf.co.uk for details. This linked page has not changed for some time, but I'll keep the link here for the time being. Just so it is said. This site uses JavaScript. Any script blockers will prevent the reception report data from showing, so if you have something such as NoScript installed in FireFox, you will need to tell it to "Trust" this site. Oh yes, and you must have the correct date and time set on your PC, or you may get the wrong status chart, or no chart at all!2009 November 2nd (21:00z) The access to the needed NTP services by/via my ISP is still very slow and erratic again. Performing a traceroute, they seem to now be running NTP on the same machines as some of their routing services. Oh dear, not good. 73. Dave G0WBX. IARU/NCDXF HF Beacon Reception at G0WBXLocation: Maids Moreton, North
Bucks, England (UK). IO92ma The radio is an ICOM IC-R70, the antenna is an 'OGN vertical, (Built by Dennis G7OGN) fed via a bypassed ATU at the far end (via a Yaesu FC1000, with ground wires.) The Icom IC-R70 seems reliable and sensitive (dispite my odd mistake with another radio, that shares the antenna via a passive splitter.) So it is now the main beacon RX. If anyone wants the details as to how I interfaced it to Faros for remote control, please drop me a line at the contact email address shown later. This is a "demonstration page". If
you would
like to create a web page to monitor beacon reception from your
location, it
is not difficult. Other Beacon Monitoring web pages are linked from the International Beacon Project Monitors site. Sometimes, this site/page will be unavailable. For that I apologise, but at times I need the radio or computers for other things, or to do routine maintenance, like system updates, on or just after the second (patch) Tuesday of any month. Also, there is the odd failure, and finger trouble of course...
If you think there is something wrong with this site/page, please tell
me what and why, and how I might improve/fix it.
Thanks.
Feel
free to contact myself at 73 etc. Dave G0WBX (G8KBV)
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if any questions. I check that account two or more times a
week,
so any reply may not be instant. Please put "FarosWeb" in the
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Just so you know. 
With thanks to VK3AVV for the alternative chart layout idea.
