[MRCA] OMRN CW Net

[Paul Beckwith]

I've heard rumors that the Russian Woodpecker OTH Radar has started 
up again, and is affecting our 80m CW band.

73's de Paul K2LMQ  Kingman, AZ



At 07:41 AM 5/6/2013, B. Smith wrote:
>Interesting conditions on the OMRN CW net last night (Sunday 21:00 
>EDT. 02:00Z Monday) Ted was booming in 0n 3570 Kcs with his GRC-19 
>and I checked in briefly with my TCS. But what was strange I was 
>hearing what I thought was a radar burst (my ECM training is finally 
>paying off  :-)     -    -     - anyway the buzz and brrrraaaaaapppp 
>for a second
>would start up and about every 2 mins it would burst for 
>another  quick second and then trail off. Since the nearby Dover AFB 
>radar antenna rotates much faster than once every couple of minutes 
>I suspect it was another over the horizon  radar quite a distance away.  LDE?
>Heard my very first PRC-47 on CW from  Dean's KK1K set , really a 
>punch signal, wish I had a scope on line  to look at it, for now I 
>will call it CW  with an  audio punch with excellent keying 
>characteristics.  And thanks to KW1I, for QRS.
>
>Z
>_