[Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-16 Thread Ruthie Rader
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I want to sincerely thank you all for your input and information. Your feedback is fascinating to me. I have listened to different distress signals (audio examples, online) and the broadcast that I heard sounded

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-12 Thread Stewart King
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Could it be this? http://marscan.com/billradiohighlights.htm On Feb 12, 2013 9:24 AM, 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

2013-02-12 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I seem to recall someone else mentioning hearing Morse code somewhere in this part of the spectrum within the last couple years. I forget what it turned out to be. Ruthie, I'm assuming you don't copy Morse code?

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-12 Thread Greg Putrich
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Still think this may be a BC sta on 1630 that was doing a test. What each station does is different, but some broadcast sweep tones MCW. Some have special music or speech. Can you listen again with that radio

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-12 Thread Brian Reedy
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I think the guy that posted the note about it being caused by a cell phone in dead on. Granted, I don't know nearly as much about this topic as probably 90% of you do but I work for a police dispatch center where

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-12 Thread EI0DB
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hi All, First the crud (QRM) out of a cellphone is nothing like a real CW (morse) signal. I offer as a suggestion that your receiver tuned to 1630 was responding to a signal round 2540 kcs what id known as

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-12 Thread Christmas Peter
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Great points Dave. I haven't listened to them in quite a while. Cheers Doc W2MFT --- On Tue, 2/12/13, EI0DB ei...@eircom.net wrote: From: EI0DB ei...@eircom.net Subject: Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

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?

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
...@storm.ca wrote: From: Martin VE3OAT ve3...@storm.ca Subject: Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast To: Spooks@mailman.qth.net Date: Monday, February 11, 2013, 7:36 PM Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Ruth and Zack, I checked the ARRL Newsletter

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

Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

2013-02-11 Thread Christmas Peter
: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations spooks@mailman.qth.net Date: Monday, February 11, 2013, 10:49 PM 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

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
when you could feel the heat and see the tubes glow... Thanks guys, for making me remember! Doc W2MFT --- On Mon, 2/11/13, Christmas Peter christmaspe...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Christmas Peter christmaspe...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations