[Milsurplus] Really Spooky Signal on 20 Meters.

[Hubert Miller]

Remember that 73 article, "H5H, Comrade!"  ?
The gist was, you had to key back to him, as much like the pulse length and rate you heard.
I recall "answering" the  Woodpecker at his chosen pulse rate, on 40 back in the early 1980s. It "seemed" at the time to get through to the Peckerwood,
convincing him to QSY, but my imagination was probably involved, as i was running only a TCS.
As i recall, the Woodpecker's call of the wild corresponded to really good DX conditions, at least one winter.
I recall shaving one morning, listening to a transistor radio, and i swear i heard the Woodpecker in the background.  ( The radio had a front end alignment
fault too. ) Another time, i took a CB walkie talkie to 'Amateur Radio Supply' ( SK ) in south Seattle for their commission sales table ( really great stuff
showed up there often! ) and when i switched it on, to demonstrate that it worked, there was the Woodpecker going strong.
-Hue

From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kenneth G. Gordon
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 9:25 PM
To: KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
Cc: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Really Spooky Signal on 20 Meters.



On 20 Sep 2016 at 19:41, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:

> "Ha! I've been hearing what I finally figured out was the old Russian
> Woodpecker (OTH Radar) on both 40 and 20. I hear it periodically on 7052
> or
> thereabouts and on 14115 or thereabouts."
>
> Considering it shut down decades ago, that's quite the feat!

I had understood that the Russians had fired it back up for the Syria business. I suppose I am wrong.

> Perhaps you're hearing one of the currently dozens to hundreds of other
> OTHR
> signals heard across HF and VHF daily?

Could be. I belong to a forum dedicated to RFI. Someone there suggested that it was an OTHR. Others are hearing the damned thing too. I hear it daily.

Ken W7EKB
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