‰ NOW 20 WPM ‰ TEXT IS FROM AUGUST 2019 QST PAGE 38 ‰ BECAUSE DIFFERENT TIMES, YEARS, DISTANCES, AND PROPAGATION PATHS WERE INVOLVED IN EACH RECEPTION. CORRECTLY IDENTIFYING A BEACON AND ITS ASSOCIATED METRICS IS CRITICAL TO DATA INTEGRITY. IT CAN BE CONFUSING BECAUSE TWO OR MORE BEACONS CAN BE ASSIGNED IDENTICAL CALL LETTERS, BUT DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES, ONE FREQUENCY MAY BE HOME TO SEVERAL BEACONS, AND BEACONS MAY RELOCATE TO OTHER FREQUENCIES OR LOCATIONS. MATCHING BOTH CALL AND FREQUENCY ENSURES THE CORRECT BEACON AND ITS CORRESPONDING DATA ARE IDENTIFIED. NUMEROUS WEBSITES WERE SEARCHED TO IDENTIFY BEACONS CORRECTLY AND COLLECT THEIR ASSOCIATED INFORMATION METRICS. AN EXTENSIVE, SEARCHABLE DATABASE WAS THEN CREATED OF NEARLY 4,000 DATA POINTS FOR THE 436 BEACONS RECEIVED WITH THE FOLLOWING METRICS RECEPTION DATE AND UTC TIME LOCATION, ‰ END OF 20 WPM TEXT ‰ QST DE W1AW ƒ