Topband: Steady Carrier on 80 CW

K4SAV RadioIR at charter.net
Sat Nov 2 20:46:34 EDT 2013


For anyone doing plots, I'm at
34°33'49.68"N,  86°55'4.83"W
Plug that into Google Earth's "fly-to" box and you can see my house, if 
you like.

Jerry

On 11/2/2013 7:23 PM, K4SAV wrote:
> Well darn.  The signal on 3501.6 stopped at 2301 UTC.  I thought maybe 
> it would have some RTTY when it came back on like it did last time 
> (maybe with a station ID), so I recorded it.  It didn't.  It just 
> started up with a constant carrier.  It came back at 0011 UTC.
>
> It's at S9+10 on my vertical.
>
> Tom thanks for the measurement.  Makes me feel better about my 133 
> degree estimate.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On 11/2/2013 7:08 PM, Tom W8JI wrote:
>> I can only give a rough direction from here, because right now the 
>> multipath is terrible.
>>
>> I'm at 33-04-38N and 84-03-28W       That's EM73XB or EM73XC
>>
>>
>> It appears to center on 130 degrees true from me. Because of 
>> multipath it could be off +-5 degrees. The direction keeps shifting.
>>
>> That's a line from my house (midway between Forsyth and Barnesville 
>> GA) down past Brunswick GA, down the islands, eventually crossing the 
>> area of Puerto Rico and J3.
>>
>> I just went out to check it again, and it appears to be gone.
>>
>> 73 Tom
>>
>>
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