[CQ-Contest] CQWWSSB weird noises on 10 M and other bands

[wigi at kl0r.com]

If you're describing what I think you're describing, we hear them frequently in the evening... they peak up to the west and northwest... I have always thought they were fishing boats in the Indian ocean... there are frequently voices heard in the signals, like they are AM or FM. Whatever language they're speaking isn't one I can identify.

As annoying as they are, I take it as a good sign that 10 is open to SOMEWHERE.

Wigi, KL0R

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWWSSB weird noises on 10 M and other bands

The squigglers were audible in EU too, Bob...early as well as later, so coming out of the East I guess.  Not as loud as the usual Russian OTHR but something different.  Mobile drone missile radar in Eastern Europe maybe, or do I have a powerful imagination :>)?
Al G0XBV


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Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQWWSSB weird noises on 10 M and other bands

On Saturday in CQWWSSB I heard some very strange noises on 10.

One was a constant multi-toned carrier that was simultaneously transmitting between about 28.815 mhz and 29.125 mhz.  I The other type of noise was what I'll call a "Squiggler" which was loud and about 3 - 5 khz wide.  It sounds "squiggly" - with audio like someone was very rapidly shifting their tuning dial back and forth while transmitting, but doing it within an extremely narrow range of frequencies - maybe 500 - 1000 hz wide.  If you took a pencil and rapidly moved it back and forth repeatedly in a narrow space on a piece of paper, you would see "squiggles" - a physical representation of the audio that I was hearing.

The squigglers were loud and annoying and then would drift in and out of the frequency very, very slowly and obliterate any callers for several minutes at a time.  This happened all over 10 M but also made brief appearances on 15 and 20.  I have never heard this before.  It was NOT at all the spurs and carrier type signals to which I am accustomed.

Any idea what these are and where they are coming from?

Tnx & 73


Bob, KQ2M
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