[Spooks] What's that?

[larry horochov]

It is polytone channel marker

> From: blueneon at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 13:43:31 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [Spooks] What's that?
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> Ahh yes, the "Whales Sound Station"... It's been suspected that these belong
> to the US military. There used to be one coming from down here in South
> Florida, in fact, at the US Coast Guard communications base in Richmond
> Heights.
> 
> It's likely that what's going on here is that a transmitter is left running
> all the time (it's stressful on large transmitters to shut down and restart
> them repeatedly, ESPECIALLY if they're tube...)
> 
> The audio chain is likely a line that's not particularly well terminated,
> isolated, or grounded, causing RF to leak back into the audio chain and
> cause feedback.
> 
> I've seen reports that someone will occasionally transmit on these
> frequencies and you hear a few moments of clear voice, followed by the
> feedback starting again. I've heard rather distorted voices, probably from
> co-sited transmitters leaking back into that audio chain.
> 
> Whatever it is, it's not quite up to the finest standards of broadcast and
> communications engineering. :D
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Token <T_O_K_E_N_ at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > I first ran into this station about a month ago.  No idea what it is but it
> > is there quite often.  I have never heard it direct in the western US, only
> > with remote radios in Europe.
> >
> > T!
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "David B. Scholz, DO1DBS" <do1dbs at gmx.de>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 2:36 AM
> > To: <spooks at mailman.qth.net>
> > Subject: [Spooks] What's that?
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> > > Hello group!
> > >
> > > I just "scrolled around" the shortwave-bands and found a signal I never
> > > heared before.
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4cNApiIgs
> > >
> > > The recording was made on 6208 kHz in the lower sideband.
> > > Does anyone have an idea what this could be and where it comes from?
> > >
> > >
> > > 73 from western germany, David
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> Tom Morris, KG4CYX
> Sun Electronics International
> Engineer, WRGP 88.1/95.3/96.9 FM, Homestead/Miami/North Miami Beach
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