Topband: Steady Carrier on 80 CW

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I thought I read here in earlier posts it went from CW dead carrier to rTty for a while tho?

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On Nov 3, 2013, at 2:46 AM, "Tom W8JI" <w8ji at w8ji.com> wrote:

>> 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. 
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