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Re: [CQ-Contest] remember this? Russian Woodpecker

To: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>,"CQ-Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] remember this? Russian Woodpecker
From: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:51:52 -0700
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
To: "CQ-Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] remember this? Russian Woodpecker


> Boy,no wonder it was so loud here.
> I can remember when people used to say they pointed their antennas towards
> the site and send a bunch of dits on their keyer and stopped it.  I think
> that would be a little hard to believe.  73
> Tom W7WHY
>


There are two possibilities, Tom. The woodpecker was pretty frequency
agile as I recall, so it didn't necessarily stay in the same band very long. 
It
could be that people sending the dits just assumed that their 
counter-jamming
was the reason it hopped to a new frequency (correlation without causation).
On the other hand, over the horizon backscatter from an ICBM has got to be
pretty weak even when the radar's transmitted power is so bloody large, so 
it
is not unreasonable to think that big yagi's with KW's pointed back at the
receiver would be as least as loud as the backscatter from a relatively 
small
object like an ICBM.

73, Mike W4EF..................... 


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