Topband: Steady Carrier on 80 CW

[Tom W8JI]

> This is looking like somewhere near the Florida/Georgia border, 
> Jacksonville, Fl to Brunswick, Ga area.
>

The wave angle here at 0700Z is pretty high, so that makes it either a high 
angle radiator with multiple hops or fairly close (but far beyond 
groundwave). This makes it difficult to be exact on heading, but a reading 
just now still runs in a line from my house crossing somewhat north of 
Brunswick, GA to maybe as high as Blackbeard Island. (My mapping ability is 
limited, so I am just eyeballing this.) I'm reading about 2 degrees more 
north of what I was earlier, now centered on about 128 degrees, again with 
tolerance of several degrees because of wave angle and constant changing of 
the path. This is difficult to read accurately because heading moves around.

I will see how it is around noon. I'm pretty sure it will be readable in 
daylight.

One possibility is a Ham who works CW and has accidentally left his rig 
locked on. The abrupt disappearance around sunset was interesting. Someone 
flip a switch off for a while? I'm suspecting this is a Ham mistake.