[Spooks] Bad day in Havana (17436/17435 SK01/ V02a)

Tom Sevart n2uhc at sbcglobal.net
Wed Mar 26 23:31:38 EST 2008


Hugh Stegman wrote:

> At 1605, an attempt was made to transmit a file in RDFT. Start tones 
> came up OK, but the actual file transfer was aborted after a few 
> seconds. This was followed by various strangling noises from what 
> sounded a lot like an RDFT signal being hung by the neck until dead. The 
> start tones would come up, only to be killed most horribly.  They'd 
> gurgle, shift, and fight for their lives all the way, but in vain.

The problem with the audio was that it had a very bad echo which really 
screwed up the signal, making it undecodable.

At 1730 on 17435 the carrier went off the air, then came back up with a 
clear signal without echo.  In spite of this I still couldn't get a decode.

-- 
Tom Sevart N2UHC
Frontenac, KS
http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc


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