[CW] QTC - Unknown Station 3647.5 kHz

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Thanks to all for submitting their reports.

I think the allocation in region 1 and 2 is now exclusively amateur to
3,800 kHz.  There was Curacao Radio / PJC who listened on the 4 MHz band
for cals from ships, but they're now gone.  He was on 3530 or there
abouts.  3600 and upwards was full of RTTY - SITOR from the UK coast
stations but was gone by 1990 or so.

73

DR

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 10:18 -0600, D. Chester wrote:
> I copied it on 3640.0 about a week ago.  579 here, but a station I was 
> working in New England said it was 599+ there, so I assumed it was coming 
> from Europe. They send 5-letter cipher groups, like some kind of military 
> traffic.  Other nights I have  heard it, but not sure the exact frequency. 
> Last night it was very strong here on 3647.5.
> 
> Although 80m is allocated exclusively to amateurs in the USA, as I recall, 
> the ITU allocation for Region 2 calls for sharing with the "fixed" service, 
> so it could be coming from somewhere outside USA, perhaps Canada or St. 
> Pierre-Miquelon, or south of the border, and be perfectly legal.
> 
> Or it could be something similar to the longstanding mystery of the 
> "numbers" stations that have been popping up on AM, SSB or CW, anywhere at 
> any time on any frequency, for the past 40 years.
> 
> Don k4kyv
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