The COMMONER Beacon

After a week of fairy-tale operation with the Royal secondary locator, my multi-mode beacon (Blogs passim) has reverted to type and abdicated the Royal moniker.

The mr0xpd beacon's FSKCW and S/MT Hellschreiber modes usually were visible on Johnan, on5ex's grabber in Zevergem, Belgium...

but the best reported QRSS performance was the 2706.6 miles to Nova Scotia, where loyal Knight Vernon, ve1vdm, reported seeing "MR0XPD - still at the wedding LOL!!!"

(In fact, you can just see the closing "pd" of the royal FSKCW call and the opening "mr" - look just above the QRM at 7000808Hz - the S/MT Hell is faintly visible, but only if you know where to look!).

The WSPR emissions were spotted in the US several times, including in Illinois by Steven, k9an...


in Michigan by David, w8fgu...


and in New York by Daniel, kc2sta and Craig, kc2lfi...

Having abandoned the royal status, the commoner beacon was immediately spotted this morning on WSPR...

and is now back on Johan's Belgian QRSS grabber.

The Notice-of-Variation is valid until Monday, but this marks the end of all my "Royal" beacon working,

...-.- de m0xpd