[RFI] Strange Birdie

[Gary Smith]

To clarify:
Jr radios were at the top end of the band, Futaba was on the lower edge. 
I know `cause I flew Futaba years ago.
Gary...wa6fgi

On 8/16/2015 12:02 PM, David Harmon wrote:
> Tom....those freqs are not even close to any R/C activity on the ARRL band
> plan.
> http://www.arrl.org/band-plan
>
> Most of the R/C activity was on 53.100 and up every 100kc to 53.800 anyway.
> There are so few 6m repeaters and so little activity in the upper part of
> the band that guys were not happy going to the lower freqs in the ARRL band
> plan.
> Occasionally channel 2 TV stations might interfere with the upper freq....I
> think it was 53.8....but now that TV transmission has changed
> frequency....there shouldn't be any problems.
> But as Gary said....flying on 2.4G has totally resolved the interference
> problem.
>
> 73
>
> David Harmon
> K6XYZ
> Sperry, OK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RFI [mailto:rfi-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gary Smith via
> RFI
> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 12:23 PM
> To: rfi at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RFI] Strange Birdie
>
> To the group.
>
> This could be someone with a old R/C aircraft transmitter on 50 MHz.
> There was 10 channels at the low end of six meters that were (by gentleman's
> agreement) for the purpose of r/c flight years ago.
>
> Just a guess, as almost all r/c flying is now on 2.4 GHz.
>
> Gary...wa6fgi
>
> On 8/14/2015 5:15 AM, Tom Lizak wrote:
>> I have been having a strange "birdie", which is not coming from this
>> QTH but bearing around 60 degrees (NE) from my QTH.
>>
>>    
>>
>> This started about 3-4 weeks ago and is on 50.098.  It is a carrier
>> but sounds like there is which sounds like data, being sent
>> periodically.  It is present in the early mornings. This seems to
>> repeat itself every 100KHz or so (e.g. 50.098, 50.198..............51.498,
> etc.). I am using the CW mode.
>> Since I'm not at the radio all the time, I did notice that it was not
>> present one evening @ 9pm !
>>
>>    
>>
>> I do not have any HF antennas erected at present, just the 6m yagi on
>> the tower and 30m 4sq array but didn't notice anything on that band !
>>
>>    
>>
>> The only thing I can think of is someone has a defective modem/router
>> in a neighboring house to the N/NE of my QTH.
>>
>>    
>>
>> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>    
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Tom/k1tl...
>>
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