[Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

[Christmas Peter]

I just checked and the top band contest was not till the 9th of Feb...I looked at harmonic relationships and the second harmonic going down would be in the AM broadcast band and the 3rd showed nothing relevant on 543 khz for a beacon, either an aviation NDB or marine beacon.

I still think it was overloading on the receivers part.
Cheers
Doc
W2MFT 

--- On Mon, 2/11/13, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast
To: "Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations" <spooks at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Monday, February 11, 2013, 6:54 PM

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That's a good point. I was just thinking that myself.

A lot of us are into "contesting," or "radiosport," where a goal is to
contact as many other radio amateurs as possible within a time period.
Most ham radio contests are on weekends, but not all of them. It's
possible some amateur radio contest activity took place on a
Wednesday.

A station will often "run" other stations, that is, sit on one
frequency and call CQ and respond to to their replies. The exchanges
are usually short and repetitive, e.g. on Morse code "5NN 08." Others
do what's called "Search and Pounce." These are the people who answer
the "running" stations. You would hear these people sending their own
callsigns over and over, followed by the "5NN 05" or whatever. Some of
the exchanges used in various contests are not so repetitive.

If you heard a station "running" other stations on one frequency, it
might sound like what you described.

The 160 meter band is not too far above 1630 kHz. It's possible you
were actually hearing someone in that band.

If you hear it again, try to get a recording of it.

73, Zack W9SZ


On 2/11/13, David Goren <shortwaveology at mac.com> wrote:
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> It's possible that you were near the QTH of an amateur radio operator
> transmitting in morse code and the rf energy was bleeding into your walkman.
> Did you try to see if could hear it on other parts of the dial?
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2013, at 1:20 AM, Ruthie Rader wrote:
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>> My little Walkman radio picked-up an unusual series of morse code
>> messages on Wed. Feb. 6. I discovered it on 1630 on the AM dial. It
>> was broadcast from 11pm until it faded out at 1am Thursday morning.
>>
>> I was in Ashland, Oregon at the time.
>>
>> The loop sounded almost like a distress signal and then it was
>> interrupted by a long string of morse code. The code continued to
>> interrupt the original loop, every ten minutes or so, with a new
>> string of morse code. The long-string changed...so the message was
>> different each time.
>>
>> I have never heard anything like it in that part of Oregon, before
>>
>> Just thought I would send it along to you.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Ruth Rader
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