[CQ-Contest] The Old WoodPecker

[VR2BrettGraham]

W9SZ responded:

>Fascinating, Brett.
>
>Supposedly ZC4 was also the souirce of the shortwave spy numbers
>transmissions from the station known as "the Lincolnshire Poacher." It
>disappeared about a year ago and hasn't been heard since.

Yes, Her Majesty gets up to all sorts of stuff in ZC4.  I think the
4Xs are still doing something similar.  Thankfully, that sort of stuff
isn't in the ham bands (though we do have the Russian single-letter
beacons around 7038-7039 kc).

>When I was in grad school, the research station where I spent a lot of time
>had a vertical incidence ionosonde. It swept from 3 to 30 MHz but was
>programmed to skip the ham bands and WWV frequencies. But it was never on
>one frequency very long, anyway. It swept that whole range in about 30
>seconds.
>Where was the original Russian Woodpecker of the 1970's located?

UB5 & UA0C.

73, ex-VR2BG/p.