[RFI] More on "my" noise.

[Robert via RFI]

Yep, heard in Portland on 4386 kHz about S3 less than 4 kHz wide!

Bob W7KD




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> From: Don Moman VE6JY <ve6jy.1 at gmail.com>
>To: "Rfi at contesting.com" <Rfi at contesting.com> 
>Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 10:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [RFI] More on "my" noise.
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>As other have said STANAG is very common on HF.  I have used SIGMIRA
>software in the past to decode it.
>
>I hear the signal on 4286 khz very loud here at almost any time, even now
>(almost midday) it is strong so I'd suspect the signal would come from CFS
>transmitters near Matsqui, BC.  I do not know this for a fact so don't turn
>it into one.
>I do know that the signal observed here is less than 4 khz wide and if it
>was truly as wide as you claim (over 3 mhz), that would be a serious issue
>and would be widely reported by the many amateurs in the PNW.
>
>Don
>VE6JY
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>On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Charles Gallo <charlie at thegallos.com>wrote:
>
>> There are a lot of STANAGs. STANAG stands for Standards Agreement, and the
>> are NATO agreements on standards for just about everything
>>
>> > On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:19 PM, "Dale J." <dj2001x at comcast.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've never heard of that term , STANAG before, you sure that's some sort
>> of digital communication?
>> >
>> > I looked around your area (satellite) and see no military complex for
>> miles around.  I suppose it could be a remote transmitter, but I'd have to
>> ask why Moscow Idaho?
>> >
>> > At that signal strength I would expect the interference to be very close
>> to your location.  Unless it is some sort of high power military remote
>> transmitter, then others would surely hear it too.  Is it on 24/7 or just
>> certain times?  Maybe you should log the times it's on then correlate with
>> times other commercial establishments are occupied.  If you have a portable
>> receiver that tunes that freq, take it for a ride out of town, park and see
>> if you hear it.
>> >
>> > Dale, k9vuj
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> On 28, Apr 2014, at 10:15, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> From one of our list members who has heard my smaller-sized recordings
>> of
>> >> this garbage, it is STANAG, which is the defacto standard military
>> digital
>> >> mode.
>> >>
>> >> This is very seriously depressing me.
>> >>
>> >> I cannot even imagine who in this area might be using that mode. We have
>> >> no military installations anywhere near this small town. The nearest
>> one, an
>> >> AFB, is in Spokane, WA nearly 100 miles north of us.
>> >>
>> >> It is centered on 4286 KHz and literally wipes out EVERYTHING at least
>> 1.5
>> >> MHz above and below that frequency.
>> >>
>> >> It is 25db over S-9 on 4286 KHz, and still 15db over S-9 on the LOW end
>> of
>> >> 80 meters.
>> >>
>> >> I intend to DF its location this week, now that I can easily recognize
>> the
>> >> signal.
>> >>
>> >> Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB
>> >>
>> >> "Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."--- John
>> Wayne
>> >>
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