[Elecraft] The "d" at 7038 is growing

[Margaret Leber]

V Cortina wrote:
> I've been meaning to ask about this for months.  Not continuously,
> but consistently, there is a CW signal which just sends the letter
> "d" over and over, with an occasional other letter.  This goes on day
> and night literally at any time.  Now today at about 7038 I hear my
> old "d" friend, and now somebody else at nearly the same frequency
> sending "p".  Does anyone have any idea what the heck is going on?


You're probably hearing Russian military HF channel marker or 
propigation beacons.

More information at:

http://www.smeter.net/propagation/beacons/7039.3-k-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy.php

or use

http://tinyurl.com/6puag

..if the other URL is mangled in the email...

  73 de Maggie K3XS, who has only been a ham since 1999, but was a SWL 
long before that

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