Topband: Mystery Signals on 160

Merv Schweigert k9fd at flex.com
Sun Jan 4 22:21:27 EST 2009


Lee K7TJR wrote:
>      On occasion I hear the triple beep signals here on the low end of
>  160. I too believe it is a Hyperfix navigation system. Hyperfix has
>  several modes and therefore not all systems sound alike. I believe it
>  to be coming from the Bering sea area. It definitely arrives hear
>  toward JA as well. The loudest one here is on 1813.3 and another
>  around 1814. Sometimes I have heard several. 
>
> Lee  K7TJR  Oregon
>   
Those beeps at times are S9 out here in KH6,  seems to come from the north
north/west direction when propagation is right.  Between those and the digi
signal out of VK/Zl area the band can be totally useless from 1812 to 
1820. 
The digi takes out 1818 to 1820 almost daily here. 
Merv KH7C


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