I thought I read here in earlier posts it went from CW dead carrier to rTty for
a while tho?
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On Nov 3, 2013, at 2:46 AM, "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com> wrote:
>> This is looking like somewhere near the Florida/Georgia border,
>> Jacksonville, Fl to Brunswick, Ga area.
>
> The wave angle here at 0700Z is pretty high, so that makes it either a high
> angle radiator with multiple hops or fairly close (but far beyond
> groundwave). This makes it difficult to be exact on heading, but a reading
> just now still runs in a line from my house crossing somewhat north of
> Brunswick, GA to maybe as high as Blackbeard Island. (My mapping ability is
> limited, so I am just eyeballing this.) I'm reading about 2 degrees more
> north of what I was earlier, now centered on about 128 degrees, again with
> tolerance of several degrees because of wave angle and constant changing of
> the path. This is difficult to read accurately because heading moves around.
>
> I will see how it is around noon. I'm pretty sure it will be readable in
> daylight.
>
> One possibility is a Ham who works CW and has accidentally left his rig
> locked on. The abrupt disappearance around sunset was interesting. Someone
> flip a switch off for a while? I'm suspecting this is a Ham mistake.
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