Import of beacon data - michaelsteiner-arch/FT950rc GitHub Wiki

The HTML pages containing beacon data are now manualy downloaded from the web and renamed to hf.html and 50.html. This is because of non fixed positions on the web.

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Updated 27 July 2017
Freq     Call     Town            Loc   Pwr  Antenna   QTF Mode Status Last 
                                                                       Rept
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                                     40MHz Beacons

40021   OZ7IGY  Jystrup          JO55WM  20 H Dipole   Omni A1/P14  24 0317
40050   GB3RAL  Nr Didcot        IO91IN                     A1JT65B 24 NonOp
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                                     50MHz Beacons

 
                                     
  Beacons in IARU Region 1 will be moving to frequencies above 50400 
              
50000   GB3BUX  Nr Buxton        IO93BF  25 HTurnstilesOmni A1    24   0816
50000.7 F1VJT   Hyeres           JN23XD   2 GP         Omni A1    24   0517                   
50001   BV2B    Taipei           PL05SA  10 GP         Omni A1    24   0616

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This raw data is read in by the module "beacon.py" to get cleaned, some format error fixing and check of validity is done. Additionally to the frequency, call and locator data the country and continental data is added via d dictionary to allow selection for example only to European beacons or calculate distance and direction to the beacon.