I think I did. I could hear voices and a broad peak of crud around 1820
that was several kHz wide. I did not try to identify it. I just grumbled
and went away and did something else. I heard it after sunset last
night, the 18th. Normally, if I hear any BCB crud it will be much later
when signals are horrendously loud. I have a BCB filter, and it is
effective with late night signals. I normally do not hear any BCB stuff
other than weak birdies on 1800, 1810, 1820 etc. I live in SW Maine.
I answered a few 160 CQs last night. Both were OZ signals. The first
station had trouble hearing me. He was 559. Station #2 was louder and I
gave him 579. I received a 339. Maybe I had the amplifier plugged into
the dummy load instead of the 160 feedline.
I went back to my workbench and got back at working on an old R-392
receiver. When I was a young guy just out of school, I was in the Army
and we had Collins R-392 receivers in our unit. It was similar to an
R-390, but was re packaged to fit in a jeep and be out in the mud and
dirt. It had a hermetically sealed case and ran with 28 volts on all the
tubes. My receiver had been "worked on" and the result was a basket
case with all of the cams out of sync. There were missing slug racks and
slugs. The main tuning dial did not cover the entire range. It was an
interesting night working on putting it all back together and trying to
get it to work. The PTO needed work too. I stayed up past 1:30 local
time, so missed my sunrise. :-(
Dave K1WHS
On 12/18/2019 1:16 PM, rgarrett5@comcast.net wrote:
Greetings,
Strange happenings this AM. I heard a lot of hash on 1.821 and listened on AM
to hear radio station WRCR. They were commenting on
the tower being covered in ice and other references to the FCC. Did anyone
else here this spurious signal? 73, Bob K3UL
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