[Skimmertalk] RTTYserv and Russian beacon

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Thanks, Wes.  A little knowledge.....

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 3/3/2015 7:13 AM, Wes Cosand wrote:
> I think Dai's solution is probably better.  The Japanese RTTY 
> frequencies changed this January so Japanese hams have been requesting 
> us to lower our RTTY window to cover from as low as 3520 on 80 meters 
> and 7030 on 40 meters.  You can find the new frequencies at 
> http://hflink.com/bandplans/japan_bandplan.pdf
>
> I will go ahead with Dai's solution for inserting the beacon in Bad 
> Calls.
>
> Wes WZ7I
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com 
> <mailto:n4zr at contesting.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Dai - and thank you for a thought-provoking report.  It's
>     interesting to me that these beacons are being decoded by RTTY
>     Skimserv - I wonder what is causing that.  I had understood that
>     stations in ITU Region 2 were not using RTTY on 40M below 7040. 
>     If that is correct, then maybe a solution for this would be to set
>     a 40M RTTY segment's lower limit at no lower than 7040 unless you
>     wanted to see thise beacons.  This is just a first thought.
>
>     73, Pete N4ZR
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>     <http://reversebeacon.blogspot.com>.
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>
>     On 3/3/2015 5:36 AM, Dai NAGAKURA wrote:
>
>         Dear members,, de JF2IWL
>
>         About the subject.
>         I and N7TR ,9V1RM JK4USW catch well known "Russian beacon"as
>         callsigin,
>         OU5TK, OA5TU ,etc by RTTYSkimserv on 40mb.
>         This is a report of OU5TK on RBN
>         http://www.reversebeacon.net/dxsd1/dxsd1.php?f=0&c=ou5tk&t=dx
>
>         Here is a frequency sheet of Russian beacon in amateur bands
>         (article is written in Japanese but you can read sheet)
>         http://jq1yda.org/topics/russiansbeacon/index.html
>
>           We catchs Vladivostok's consecutive morse code "F"
>         as amateur callsign OU5TK etc
>
>         I have talked with WZ7I Wes about this the other day.
>         He agreed my opinion leave these be a good beacon of
>         low band propagation.
>
>         However, it happens frequently day by day and
>         callsign variety increases TU5TA,TU9TU and so on.
>         This shall make trouble now.
>
>         Then I decided  I will put all these to BadCal.txt when find,
>         refering to QRZ.com
>         Please allow when strange callsingn is listed on 7039.2
>
>         Dai JF2IWL
>
>
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