I heard a local New England signal today that sounded like auroral scatter but just worked him and didn't play with the Hi-Z RX antenna & just left it in one place depending on time & DX. Might have been the same person, I don't remember his call. I was S&P until this morning so I was listening for the faint sigs as much as anything.
Now to get my logging program to produce a proper cabrillo... Gary KA1J > I didn't notice the keyclicks so bad, but what did bother me was one > local who had an incredible amount of (?) phase noise (it was keyed > broadband noise plus whiny synth noise) up and down from his very > enthusiastic CQ'ing, and a number of guys who had some pretty bad > 120Hz ripple, bad enough their sigs were most of a kHz wide. > > There was one very loud guy in new england Sunday AM, who for the > life of me I could not copy his call when my RX antenna was pointed > at him (my memory was jarred by someone talking about "UFO" sounds), > but when I pointed away he sounded just fine. I'm guessing some sort > of multipath. It's more than just the ghostly sound of a local when > the the band is "being long", my guess is something is actually > happening to dynamically shift phase so much that it sounded like > the reflections are an audibly different different tone. > > Tim N3QE > _________________ > Topband Reflector > _________________ Topband Reflector
