I hear it on 80m, often covers from ~3.3 to 3.750 in one chunk before it
moves on... Noticed it last winter/spring but it seems to be more regular
now and a bit stronger.
I must comment on your QRZ page - very nicely done. That's what a QRZ page
should be .....
73 Don
VE6JY
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Paul Christensen <w9ac@arrl.net> wrote:
> For the past month, I've been plagued with a "chopping" interference
> between 80m-30m. The interference is not local, it's ionospheric. This is
> not a form of interference you find by getting out and searching the
> neighborhood.
>
> Ops from Florida are hearing this and I hear it being discussed on the
> 80m/40m nets. it started about three months ago. It has the same level as
> the Department of Homeland Security's ROTHR system that detects illicit
> controlled-substance traffic in the Caribbean by triangulating pings from
> three high-power ROTHR systems located in Texas, VA, and PR. I have not
> heard the usual ROTHR sweeps during this time. This new form of sweep may
> have taken the place of the older ping that sweeps at a rate of 100
> kHz/sec. That sweep sounded like someone transmitting a carrier and
> spinning the VFO knob at a constant rate. The new sweep has a fast
> chopping component as well as fast pulses within each sweep. This lasts
> for a bit over 2 minutes and repeats at different parts of the spectrum
> between 3-10 MHz. If any of you recall the "Russian Woodpecker," it sound
> much like that system only with faster pulses.
>
> Like the DHS ROTHR, it's us folk in Florida that get the brunt of it. If
> you operate outside of the southeast U.S., you may not even hear it.
>
> https://www.txarmymars.org/downloads/RaytheonRadarOverTheHorizon.pdf
>
> I have attached a photo of the sweep at the opening of my QRZ.com page.
>
> http://www.qrz.com/db/W9AC
>
> Anyone know for sure if DHS changed the sweep pattern?
>
> Paul, W9AC
>
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