Do you remember the book On the Beach where high power CW was being generated by a shutter blowing in the wind? And I think the transmitter was in Seattle.

----- Original Message -----
From: Alan R. Downing  <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2015 2:42 pm
Subject: Re: Are you hearing strange transmissions on the ham bands?

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>
> Every night we are entertained by five character cipher groups on 7163.
> Interestingly many of the characters are not contained in the Morse Code as
> we know it.  In addition to non-standard characters, the groups often
> contain 4 or 5 periods or question marks in a row.  As near as we can tell,
> the signal seems to emanate from the north west.
> 
> Alan - N7MIT
> 
> 
> 
> Alan R. Downing
> Phoenix, AZ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Martin McCormick
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 2:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Are you hearing strange transmissions on the ham bands?
> 
> 	I haven't heard anything recently but I sure remember a
> bunch of garbage that may have been coming from Cuba in the
> Summer of 1972 or maybe 1973. It was brutal. As you tuned through
> 20 meters, you could hear one RTTY signal after another as if
> somebody had a crystal calibrator that produced a mark and space
> tone and amplified a huge passband that covered most of 20
> meters. Every 4 or 5 KHZ was this digital-sounding signal using
> FSK just like RTTY
> 
> 	You could still hear hams talking over the racket but
> folks weren't very happy to say the least.
> 
> 	I guess it could have been coming from the Soviet Union
> but at that time, they were stationed in Cuba big time and could
> be as annoying as they wanted to be. What's somebody going to do?
> Call the police?
> 
> 	I heard that the US State Department filed an official
> protest to the Russians and the jamming finally stopped. The
> Soviets got hard to work on the woodpecker that we used to hear
> in the later seventies.
> 
> 	It's official bad behavior which has no scientific or
> strategic use except to foul the air with junk so nobody else can
> use it.
> 
> 	Anybody can do that so it doesn't even seem clever, just
> stupid and done only to pick a fight.
> 
> 	There is something really childish about it, kind of
> 14.313 on steroids, sponsored by no less than governments who
> want to be the sore-heads of the world because they don't know
> any other way to be noticed. They aren't going to get anywhere
> with this in the long run but they can sure be a royal pain in
> the back side in the mean time.
> 
> Martin
> 
> "Dr. Ronald E. Milliman" <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> > Are you hearing strange transmissions on the ham bands? IARU Monitoring
> > System Reports Increased Russian Military Traffic on Ham Bands The 
> > September
> > edition of the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System (IARUMS) newsletter has
> > reported that Russian Military traffic in the Amateur Radio 7 and 14 MHz
> > bands increased during August. At least some of these intruders were 
> > likely
> > to be audible in other parts of the world. Monitors in Europe reported a
> > Russian over-the-horizon (OTH) radar in Gorodezh on 14.108 MHz, causing
> > strong interference daily and often exhibiting splatter. In addition the
> > Russian Navy was reported active frequently on 14.192.0 MHz using FM CW.
> > Other monitoring stations in Germany reported numerous Chinese OTH radars 
> > in
> > other bands, including on 75 meters. Veteran IARUMS Region 1 intruder
> > watcher Wolf Hadel, DK2OM. Region 1 IARUMS Coordinator and veteran monitor
> > Wolf Hadel, DK2OM, recently told the Rusk County Amateur Radio Club in 
> > East
> > Texas that some of the worst offenders are OTH facilities in Russia and
> > Iran. The signals can result in broad swaths of noise in the 20 meter 
> > band,
> > he said. During his VoIP talk, Hadel pointed out that recruiting volunteer
> > monitors with the "right equipment" is difficult, and he encouraged club
> > members to join the hunt for ham band intruders. According to Region 1
> > monitors, intruding signals said to be coming from Spanish fishing vessels
> > have now been reported on all amateur bands -- shared and exclusive. A
> > beacon, reported to be in Kazakhstan, has been transmitting "V" on 7027.5
> > kHz continuously. Apparent North Korean diplomatic traffic from the DPRK
> > embassy in Moscow has been heard on 14.109.5 MHz. Mario Taeubel, DG0JBJ,
> > observed 31 OTH radars on 20 meters, 28 OTH radars on 15 meters, and 11 
> > OTH
> > radars on 10 meters during August. In addition, a Chinese OTH radar has
> > often appeared on 80 meters in IARU Region 3. Monitors in Europe also have
> > monitored transmissions between taxi drivers and dispatchers on Amateur
> > Radio frequencies, primarily on 10 meters. The ARRL recently forwarded
> > reports from IARU Region 2 and Hawaii to R2 Monitoring System Coordinator
> > Jorge Del Valle, TG9ADV. These included so-called drift net beacons on 10
> > meters (28.281 and 28.226 MHz), as well as digital, radar, and phone
> > intruders heard on 20 meters in Hawaii. Authorized by the IARU
> > Administrative Council, IARU Monitoring System volunteers work under the
> > guidance of the IARU International Monitoring System Coordinator and
> > regional coordinators. The IARU Monitoring System operations are 
> > coordinated
> > under the Monitoring System Committee.