Hi,
Makes you wonder if we should be using them to get our astronauts to and
from the International Space Station!!
Howard #3
----- Original Message -----
From: "PATRICK GORMLEY" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 4:15 AM
Subject: Re: Example of Chirp on a CW Signal
> the russians are noted for that too and they also have a tendency to have
> a
> lot of a.c. on the signal. 73- pat kk3f
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 10:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Example of Chirp on a CW Signal
>
>
>> I've heard a signal like that once or twice, but yeah, that's pretty =
>> awful. Probably is Cuban, too.=20
>>
>> Anyway, if anyone wants the file, get it here:
>>
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1053407/chirp.mp3
>> --
>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
>>
>>>=20
>>> Thanks, Buddy.
>>>=20
>>> Here it is.
>>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>>> From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 9:28 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Anybody Remember What Chirp means??
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> Hi,
>>>=20
>>> Send it here, and I can stick it in the public dropbox.
>>> --
>>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>>> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:17 PM, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> Tonight on 40 meters, on about 7.118, I found and recorded the best
>>>> example of chirp, and of a bad CW note in general, that I have heard
>>>> in years..
>>>>=20
>>>> I believe the station was in Cuba, but he faded into the noise when=20=
>>
>>>> he
>>>> began sending his call.
>>>>=20
>>>> I also could not hear the W2 he was talking with, so it is possible
>>>> that I was hearing both chirp and a parasitic signal. Whatever the
>>>> case, I haven't heard such a good example of a terrible CW note in
>>>> years. It was common place on the Novice bands when I started out in
>>>> 1969, but even there it wasn't usually this bad.
>>>>=20
>>>> Even by the mid 1970's, the Russians and most of the Cubans had
>>>> cleaned up their transmitters to the point that a good example of
>>>> chirp was rare. That makes this one a keeper.
>>>>=20
>>>> The list won't allow attachments, so I'll be glad to send the mp3 to
>>>> anybody who wants to recall how chirp sounded on a CW signal, or to
>>>> anyone who wants to hear it for the first time.
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>>> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
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