Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Ernie Rice
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Did you happen to record it Ernie Sent from my iPhone On Feb 11, 2013, at 1:20, Ruthie Rader ruth.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Lucien Van Elsen
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Did it sound something like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1mlponX_jw I can hear a similar thing on my (old, not very selective) car radio whenever my phone is nearby. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:20 AM,

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Tracy Johnson
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Maybe it's that Dornan guy on the lam trying to contact a buddy? Tracy Johnson BT On 02/11/13, Lucien Van Elsen wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread David Goren
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list It's possible that you were near the QTH of an amateur radio operator transmitting in morse code and the rf energy was bleeding into your walkman. Did you try to see if could hear it on other parts of the dial?

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2013-02-11 Thread Ary Boender
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2013-02-11 Thread Ary Boender
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Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Message

2013-02-11 Thread Christmas Peter
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list The fact that you heard it on a walkman makes the frequency suspect as most consumer devices are manufactured without much regard to rfi rejection. It could have even been swamping from a nearby repeater that

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread KD7JYK DM09
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list : I have never heard anything like it in that part of Oregon, before I suggest you monitor that frequency regularly, try to figure out what you heard. Use your original walkman receiver, when you pick it up

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list That's a good point. I was just thinking that myself. A lot of us are into contesting, or radiosport, where a goal is to contact as many other radio amateurs as possible within a time period. Most ham radio

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Martin VE3OAT
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Ruth and Zack, I checked the ARRL Newsletter for any Amateur contest or other radiosporting event on Feb 6/7 but didn't find any. But that doesn't mean it couldn't have been someone working a little DX,

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Christmas Peter
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Most of that traffic has moved up to satellite and no one runs cw from a fixed station anymore but KPH on special occasions. And they are down by San Francisco Doc W2MFT --- On Mon, 2/11/13, Martin VE3OAT

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Rene Matthijssen
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Since the IF frequency of most radios is 455 KHz for AM recption, that would make the received (mirror image) frequency 1630 + 455 = 2085 KHz. Some use 472 KHz and that could make the received frequency 2102

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Martin VE3OAT
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list But wouldn't the frequencies thus calculated actually be the local oscillator frequencies. And the RF image (transmitter) frequencies be another 455 or 472 kHz above them? But Doc makes a good point - nobody

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Sevart
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On 02/11/2013 16:45, KD7JYK DM09 wrote: I suggest you monitor that frequency regularly, try to figure out what you heard. Use your original walkman receiver, when you pick it up again, switch to another, see

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Greg Putrich
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Could it have been a MW station doing an on-air test? Have heard them do tests before and they can have odd sounds whatnot. Greg Minneapolis, MN On Feb 11, 2013, at 21:00 , Tom Sevart

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Christmas Peter
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Yes they do but commerical operations do not Doc W2MFT --- On Mon, 2/11/13, Todd Dokey justcallmebu...@gmail.com wrote: From: Todd Dokey justcallmebu...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast To:

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Christmas Peter
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Fromm Wikipedia regarding cw operations in commercial service: By the 1990s few ship stations were equipped for Morse code or had any use for it, so coast stations re-allocated their Morse frequencies to other

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Todd Dokey
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I generally agree, however, I still here bizarre, and out of place things on HF. Maybe its because I am up in Alaska? I dunno. But to just look at ONLY licensed and known stations or solutions seems a bit odd to

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Christmas Peter
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list This is a page from KPH describing the end of morse and the high seas. http://jproc.ca/radiostor/kph.html It is sad for me to read articles like this as I grew up listening to all those stations and it is how I