[Lowfer] An interesting signal on 1610 KHz A.M. last night

[riese-k3djc at juno.com]

that may be a beacon in theMidfer band,, before the BC expanded
there were a number of guys running 100 Mw to a 10Ft antenna
?? I believe that was the restriction
actually copied a station from Pittsburgh to york
and I maybe mistaken but W4DEX may have had/has a beacon
on down there

Bob K3DJC
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:26:44 -0400 "K2ORS" <k2ors at verizon.net> writes:
> Andy,
> 
>   Great story, its the mysteries like this that keeps one interested 
> in 
> radio!
> 
> 73 K2ORS
> 
> PS Let us know if you do find the source of the 1610 cw -
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andy - KU4XR" <ku4xr at yahoo.com>
> To: <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:19 PM
> Subject: [Lowfer] An interesting signal on 1610 KHz A.M. last night
> 
> 
> Greetings all: Coming home after mid-week church service last night 
> ( 
> 10/26/2011 ), my wife wanted to
> stop at the grocery store to get some ice cream, and caramel 
> topping... 
> While she and my son were in the
> store, I turned on the radio in the Chevy Blazer, and set it to 1610 
> KHz... 
> I got to listen for about 15 min.
> The factory radio isn't anything to brag about for reception, but I 
> was 
> hearing the usual spanish station,
> along with a second spanish station ocassionally, and I even heard 
> an 
> english station 1 time for about
> 30 seconds or so... But, that wasn't the interesting signal... 
> rising up, 
> and fading out, I was hearing a very
> raspy, and chirpy CW signal... It never stayed copyable long enough 
> to get 
> any really useful ID info on it.
> I did manage to hear the letters J J many times, but there was more 
> than 
> that in the transmission...
> I ruled out mixing products when I was able to hear it on the 
> Kenwood at 
> home too. Of course on the
> 160 Windom, and the much more sensitive receiver; it was harder to 
> detect it 
> than on the car radio...
> I finally found that the signal was 1700 Hz above 1610 KHz, so I 
> engaged the 
> DSP filter with a 200 Hz BW
> from 1600 - 1800 Hz, and switched to USB... Now; I could actually 
> tell that 
> there was a CW signal in there.
> Unfortunately, by the time I had all this figured out; the band 
> changed, and 
> the signal went away, and did not
> come back over the space of about an hour... The speed was about 15 
> wpm, and 
> I did clearly hear the J J
> in USB at 200 Hz Audio BW... A nice little trick to heterodyne ( 
> piggy 
> back ) a weak signal on a strong one.
> I mainly heard the signal when the spanish stations would rise up, 
> and it 
> was better during talking, or a
> dead space in programming... Curiousity of course will have me 
> listening on 
> the way home from work tonite
> on my Pioneer radio which is a much better A.M. receiver than the GM 
> radio 
> is... May hear something; and
> then again, may not...
> 
> 73: Andy - KU4XR
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