[Spooks] What's that?

[Stefano M]

I'm according on polytone marker ... Whales sound was also sometimes
heard from USA navy stations in south Italy some years ago and sounded
very different from this one.
Regards,
Stefanazz

Il giorno 08/mag/2011, alle ore 21:12, larry horochov
<lhorochov at hotmail.com> ha scritto:

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> It is polytone channel marker
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>> From: blueneon at gmail.com
>> Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 13:43:31 -0400
>> To: spooks at mailman.qth.net
>> 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
>>
>>
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>> 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!
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>>> From: "David B. Scholz, DO1DBS" <do1dbs at gmx.de>
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>>>> Hello group!
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>>>> 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
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>> Engineer, WRGP 88.1/95.3/96.9 FM, Homestead/Miami/North Miami Beach
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