You beat me to it Steve, RNA has it last logged as Fort Eustis this month and first logged in 2007.

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> On Feb 2, 2019, at 5:51 PM, STEVE <ratzlaffsteve@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Should have sent that to the list. Folks in the area DF'd it to Ft. Eustis later on, so Fort Rucker is no longer considered its location.
>
> Steve
>
>> On 2/2/2019 6:48 PM, Chris Black wrote:
>> I have it in my log when I lived on Cape Cod from 2007 as Fort Rucker AL with a ? But not sure the significance. Am sure some of our beaconeratti will chime in.
>> Chris, Kirkland WA
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know anything about this beacon on 505 kHz? Transmitting
>>> NEED on cw
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Russ Johnson
>>> Lexington NC
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Should have sent that to the list. Folks in the area DF'd it to Ft.
Eustis later on, so Fort Rucker is no longer considered its location.

Steve
On 2/2/2019 6:48 PM, Chris Black wrote:

I have it in my log when I lived on Cape Cod from 2007 as Fort Rucker AL with a ? But not sure the significance. Am sure some of our beaconeratti will chime in.
Chris, Kirkland WA
Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 2, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Russ Johnson <radiok3pi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know anything about this beacon on 505 kHz?    Transmitting
NEED on cw
73
Russ Johnson
Lexington NC
											

Some actual real audio this morning, all from Down Under, and down lower on the band; upper band Asian carriers only.

pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly):

no

Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise):

612 4QR woman on phone to man 1530UT; had noted ABC fanfare and news on 1500UT, but weaker.

702 2BL man in DU English 1509UT had been parallel with 612 earlier,

not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker:

the above passing through

Burbles in the splatter and noise (if lucky, language might be guessed at by cadence of talk, or parallel established by changes in talk or music)

576 woman talking, DU English intonation 1507UT

594 3WV man talking //612 1443UT

738 2NR teletalk //612 1522UT

Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter)

1287 1458 1503 1566 1575 seemed to be Asian;
891 seemed to be DU

best wishes,

Nick

Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada

I recall the days in the 1970's when we had a couple of active foreign DX'ers in South Florida, it was often

the case that when we had good TA's up here, they didn't. At the time the thought was that their signal

paths were longer, and their location close to the tropics had a higher atmospheric noise level.

Russ Edmunds

WB2BJH

Blue Bell, PA

Grid FN20id