Hi Alan!

Maybe it's American Morse. Here's a brief translation. International
question mark is American period. International slash is American question
mark, hi hi.

73,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Alan R. Downing
Sent: Friday, 25 September 2015 9:42 a.m.
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Subject: Re: Are you hearing strange transmissions on the ham bands?

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
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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.