Topband: Spurious Signal on 1810.8

Gary Smith Gary at ka1j.com
Tue Oct 2 13:00:21 EDT 2012


I hear it as well. I went as far as to run off battery power and kill 
the main breakers but it remained. I live near Amtrak with their 
overhead electrical lines and thought it might be from some of their 
equipment.

Gary
KA1J

> For some while I have been hearing a strong spurious signal on about 1810.8 kHz. 
> 
> I thought it was a local SMPS or similar until I started trying to find it.
> 
> It is not local to me it - I can hear it on several different antenna systems, and also 
> 
> from my remote station 15 km away. It beams south west and is inaudible during 
> 
> the day. This morning it faded out about 30 minutes before my sunrise, so I presume 
> 
> it is somewhere on the US east coast or in the Carribean.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 73 Roger
> VE3ZI
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