[Elecraft] ECN - Info on 20m jammer

[Kevin Rock]

Thank you Ray.
    I've included a note to move up or down for tomorrow's 20 meter net if  
anyone hears the music.  Hopefully my 'hearing' will not be impaired too  
much by working from a city with a less than optimal antenna.  If all goes  
well I'll pull your KX1 out from the noise floor.  But, your KX1 has done  
phenomenally well thus far; Wayne must have put a little something extra  
into that one ;)  However, a good antenna and a bit of hardline has won a  
certain op from Colorado a great signal up into the wilderness above  
Buxton!
    I do hope tomorrow's nets go well for many reasons.  We can have our  
usual enjoyment and some ARES/CERT folks can see the big grin on the Net  
Op 5th Class' face :)  I get a big kick out of running these two nets each  
week and would miss them dearly if I could not run them.

Thank you for all the enjoyment I've received over the years,
    Kevin.  KD5ONS




On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:01:24 -0700, Albers <albersrs at verizon.net> wrote:

> If this has been posted before, forgive me for the bandwidth.
>
> The following is excerpted from the ARRL letter:
>
> As the so-called "Firedragon" jammer continues to transmit in one or more
> Amateur Radio bands, the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) and  
> three
> of its Region 3 member-societies so far have appealed to the jammer's  
> target
> to move elsewhere. The Firedragon's all-music transmissions from the
> People's Republic of China (PRC) appear aimed at blocking the much-weaker
> broadcasts of the clandestine "Sound of Hope" (SOH), located outside the
> PRC.[ .....] the SOH said its supporters use various avenues "including  
> Amateur Radio
> frequencies" to get their message into the PRC.
>
> "Through our investigation, we learned that the transmissions of SOH
> programs through Amateur Radio frequencies come from areas around China,  
> and
> they each only target a local area of China with very low power, only for
> the intended audience and would interfere with nobody else," said SOH's  
> Yue
> Chen.
> <snip>
> Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) Director Glenn Dunstan, VK4DU, told
> the Sound of Hope via e-mail this week that if it wants the support of  
> the
> international community, it should move its transmissions into legitimate
> broadcasting spectrum.
> <snip>
> Bihlmayer said September 6 that the Firedragon was back on 14.050 MHz --  
> a
> part of the 20-meter band allocated to the Amateur Radio Service on an
> exclusive basis worldwide -- after spending two days on 14.400 MHz. Over  
> the
> past several months, the jammer also has been heard on 10.135 MHz, 14.260
> MHz, 18.080 MHz and 18.160 MHz.
>
> The music jammer takes apparent monitoring breaks on the hour. When the
> jammer's carrier is off, Bihlmayer, who lives in Southern Germany, says  
> he's
> heard a weak carrier on 14.050 MHz broadcasting a Chinese program that
> included speech.
>
> Note the use of 14050, and the breaks on the hour - just in time for  
> Kevin to get the net started!
>
> 73
> Ray K2HYD
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