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

[Wade]

> Listening while driving home; the 2 spanish
> stations started coming in, along with a english station... at 7:54 pm EDST the signal rose above the clutter to a
> readable strength, and I heard " CQ CQ ~ fade ~ 2 ~ fade ..... ~ / ~ fade ~ K "? fast CW, est. abt 15 wpm
> Listening on the rig at home, it was in and out until about 9 pm EDST...


Hi Andy


Interesting. Another possible sig source...a group of hams is building xmtrs using 1920's technology with vintage parts. They operate low power cw on 40, 80 and maybe 160. Your sig might be an off freq component from one of these old xmtrs. Let me know if you get any more info.


Wade W8BEE
lurking on this list for years
not using a 1920's rig
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