Buddy,

THanks for providing the link. You know as I listen to that I had this image in my mind of a CW op pounding on a duck instead of a key.

On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> 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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