[RFI] More on "my" noise.

[k1fz]

The wide width is most likely coming from receiver overload, or a noise 
blanker that somehow elecrically is still on.

73
Bruce-K1FZ
www.qsl.net/k1fz/beveragenotes.html


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert via RFI" <rfi at contesting.com>
To: "Don Moman VE6JY" <ve6jy.1 at gmail.com>; <Rfi at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [RFI] More on "my" noise.


> Yep, heard in Portland on 4386 kHz about S3 less than 4 kHz wide!
>
> Bob W7KD
>
>
>
>
>>________________________________
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>>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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