[Spooks] Sam's back, sort of, on 3890 kHz DSB

[Utility World (Hugh Stegman)]

Actually the Spooks list might be more on-topic for this than the wun.

Friday, 18 March, an amateur near me e-mailed me that the "Yosemite
Sam" station was back, with the same tone burst we've gotten used to, then a
garbled voice saying something barely intelligible that sounded like
"inclines like this."  Still DSB, still coming back at 40 second intervals.

The station went QRT on 19 March, then resumed on 20 March.  On 21 March,
the voice vanished, and now you hear a second tone burst, which is lower and
more pulsed.  Also the interval between transmissions went to 90, and then
101 seconds.  No other frequencies have been found.

Various correspondence indicates that the same New Mexico hams who found
Yosemite Sam the last time have the same NVIS radius and have again located
it to the MATIC contract facility on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation west of
Albuquerque, NM.

Strong signal into Los Angeles last night around 0800 UTC.

-hugh