HI Jim:
Hmmm... I had not considered aurora, a real possibility. When I heard
the "rough" CW signals, it was late in the contest, around 7PM or so
EDST.
73 de Ray
K2ULR
On Jun 11, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Jim Sheldon wrote:
Gentlemen,
Those "rough" CW signals were caused by Aurora propagatio
Gentlemen,
Those "rough" CW signals were caused by Aurora propagation. There was a bit of
it happening during the contest due to a rather strong Geomagnetic storm that
happened just prior to the start of the contest. Visible Aurora was actually
seen as far south as Kansas!
W0EB
> I also hea
Gentlemen,
Those "rough" CW signals were caused by Aurora propagation. There was a bit of
it happening during the contest due to a rather strong Geomagnetic storm that
happened just prior to the start of the contest. Visible Aurora was actually
seen as far south as Kansas!
W0EB
> I also hear
I also heard a lot of rough CW signals in the VHF contest on 6 meters, but they sounded
like the effects of propagation to me. Sometimes I heard the same station with a clean
signal when it was coming in loudly, and a rough signal when it weakened.
These were signals from stations within the skip
>From the number of filthy signals that appear in contest, I'd wager that
most of them are deliberately transmitted that way. They act rather like a
beacon to attract the S&P guys and also are so much of a pest when chasing
Dx that they are worked just to clear the frequency. I've heard the same
This past weekend during the VHF contest, I heard several signals from
CW operators that were -far- from T9 in quality. I suspect that they
were using computer generated CW.. i.e. keyed tones generated by
software, and using a digital interface to send them. Problem was,
to my ear, there
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