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

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Bob K3DJC

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Andy - KU4XR <ku4xr at yahoo.com>
writes:
> Hi all: Hoping not to bore you, here's more now on the mystery CW 
> signal I'm hearing on 1610 KHz...
> As I posted on Thurs. night; I have determined the carrier frequency 
> to very close to 1611.07 KHz...
> I was able to switch from USB to CW and found the signal, and kept 
> narrowing the BW, and looking
> for it again, moving the VFO to center the signal in my BFO 
> passband... With the signal running about
> 15 wpm; a 100 Hz audio BW gave the best copy for me here... It's 
> kinda hard to tell though when I'm
> able to hear the signal for only 10 to 20 seconds at a time, fading 
> in and out over about a 1 minute
> period..... Wow !!! This is the old fashioned way... sit, and listen 
> for hours...
> I have 9 audio clips I recorded of the signal, so I'll be editing 
> them for clarity, and trying to see if I can
> glean any useful info from them... observations from a 2 hour 
> listening period Thurs. night; at different
> times the signal woud peak above the band clutter, and I could hear 
> it at slower speeds, and changing
> speeds during the transmission... I heard the letter " O " , and the 
> letters " E P " sent in repetition a 
> few times, and one transmisson had the " AR " - End of message 
> sign.. A couple of times I heard the
> number " 7 " being sent, and most of this I should be able to go to 
> my recordings and listen over and over
> to hear what was being sent...
> The 4th harmonic would be coming from 402.767 KHz, or 401.767 if 1 
> KHz tone modulated.. There are a 
> bunch of NDB possibilities there, but this appears to be sending 
> some random stuff..
> I listened for the hour drive to work this morning, and even left 
> home about 45 minutes before dawn
> but didn't hear a single peep from it... I'll listen to the audio 
> clips, but I'm not gonna loose any sleep
> over it... hi - hi
>  
> 73 for now:
>  
> Andy - KU4XR - Friendsville, TN.
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