I am wondering though why don't they just use their HF allocated bands?
You would think they'd stay on those for this kind of a thing.





On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Phil Scovell wrote:

> Say Richard,
>
> Trying to keep this more ham radio in nature, I have heard that sound I
> believe you are describing on 15 meters back in the mid and late sixties.  I
> often wondered what it was but you could follow the dumb thing clean up the
> band.  I sure mis, tongue in cheak, the wood pecker days.  Man, I had a 4
> element 20 during the peak Russian wood pecker days.  One morning, beaming
> long path and working Europeans and eastern Russians that pegged the S
> meter, the wood pecker got so strong, the only frequency on the entire 20
> meter band, phone and CW, was about the bottom 10 to 15 KHZ.  I take that
> back, I don't miss those days.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>