[InHam] OT RE: QRM to Lafeyette repeater. New info

[Paul Webster]

Hi Duane, 
Thanks for the new info. I am sharing this w/the locals.  
I didn't think about echo link. 
I suggested to the locals that we listen to your repeater's input freq w/your repeaters pl programmed into the receiver so that when he keys up we will be able to hear him & hopefully get a beam heading &/or a call sign, since we are closer to the suspected source. 
I just remembered fingerprinting the signal to match up w/known IDed signals. 

Different hams are yakking about a mystery "A" beacon heard on 28.209 MC, on 1 of the ham beacon reflectors that I subscribe to. 
 
Very interesting indeed. 

Several years ago, we had a weird thing going down on 2Ms around here. 
It was a spur that was heard on different 2M freqs/repeaters & sounded like a PD dispatcher, but it was hard to pin down because it kept walking up/down the 2M band. 
Finally, Jim-W9MAQ heard the same signal on a ham freq & on Lake Station PD's freq while monitoring a scanner & a 2M rig. 

73/75 de ka9jwx, Paul Lewis Webster
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--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Duane Mantick <wb9omc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Duane Mantick <wb9omc at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: QRM to Lafeyette repeater.
> To: "Paul Webster" <ka9jwx at yahoo.com>
> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 3:07 PM
> Been doing a bit of research
> since the last email exchange, and I found out that since
> the
> publishing of the newest repeater directory that I
> have (2008-2009) the repeater's call has 
> changed to W9YPC.  Also found out that it is on
> echolink as W9YPC-L, and if you want 
> to look at a URL for the group that apparently runs
> it, that is:
>  
> http://www.w9ypc.com/
>  
> On the left side of that page, you can click on
> "repeater info".
>  
> Having looked at a map, I doubt that any of the other
> three machines I listed are the
> one we're catching now and then.  That one in
> Markham is most likely it.
>  
> Roger on needing a callsign.  That's one of
> the reasons I hastily got my echolink thing
> set up.....so I can periodically just listen to
> it.  Also, ifffff the band opens and I hear the
> guy
> I can run in and open the echolink to be able to hear
> all parties in the QSO.  I figure I may 
> be more likely to pick up a callsign that way.
>  
> I appreciate you getting back with me as quickly as
> you did and passing on some useful 
> information !!!!!
>  
> Duane
> WB9OMC
> 
> 
>