Notes:
- The beacon monitoring station is part of an amateur radio station that does get used sometimes. At those times, monitoring is suspended to prevent damage to the receiver.
- The Faros measurements are saved to two files every 15 minutes, the time it takes to make a measurement on all 18 beacons on all 5 bands. The two files are then uploaded within a minute to the web site. The display should therefore update on the quarter of each hour.
- If the flag is 'flying', then beacon monitoring is (or should) be in progress. If the flag is 'still', then monitoring has been intentionally suspended.
- However, if the display does not update for a long time, there are a couple of other possibilities. The Internet connection may be down for maintenance, or the program performing the uploads to the web site (freeware version of Save2FTP) which is normally very reliable, but may sometimes fail to recover from a broken connection or firewall problems and may require a manual re-start. In these case the display will catch up when the uploads are restored.
- Another possibility is that your ISP has implemented a cache for your web access which takes some time to refresh. You may be able to force a refresh by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking on the browser refresh button (that works here) or some other combination for your browser or ISP.
- Archived beacon measurement data exists for online access as from 2007-09-13. The data can be traversed in either direction in one day increments (<-d or d->), one week increments (<-w or w->), aproximately one month (30 days) increments (<-m or m->), or in yearly increments (<- y or y->). If display goes blank, you have probably moved beyond the range of available data, use smaller increment.
- Raw Faros data logs are available on request. Please email as below.
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