© Christoph Petermann DF9CY 2008

Last Revision: 26 November 2008

VHF Scatter of the LA8VHF beacon on the 2m band

The signal is quite strong all the time. I receive this beacon between 10 and 30 dB above noise all the time. As the distance is about 550 km other effect like scattering from airplanes become audiable and visible in a spectrum display.

Here in this image you see the constant signal and a lot of spurs from passing aircraft massing the signal appear on different. See how many aircraft are in the air ...