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.