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? > > > 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.