Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Some time in the last decade, out at NY4A in the CQ WW DX CW, on 40 meters,
I started hearing CW that I initially thought someone was sending over the
top of me, mocking me. I sent an FU. and got an FU back. Then the lights
went on in my fatigue-soddened brain. I sent a spastic random
twiddle-diddle of dots and dashes and got the exact same thing back.

Probably sending my usual 28 WPM, I would switch into RX hearing "A NY4A"
sending on top of me when I stopped after a CQ, or U NY4A after a Q, or NN
05 after sending the exchange.

The signal went on for nearly a half hour, and was 20 over 9 until it
suddenly diminished to nothing inside of a minute. At the next PVRC chapter
meeting, others reported something similar at the same time.

Have heard a lot of explanations for it, but honestly can neither dispute
nor lend support to any of them.

I only know for sure that every now and then it happens on a time of its
own picking.

73, Guy

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Gary Smith <Gary at ka1j.com> wrote:

> It has not been recently but in the past I
> have heard my signals, it was around the
> year 1990, I was on CW and I had been a
> ham about 10 years at the time. I remember
> hearing a faint mirror of everything I
> sent and very disconcerting to focusing on
> sending properly.
>
> I do not recall the band I was on but I do
> remember I was working EU at the time,
> most likely using a G5RV & I was in
> Missouri. I've never experienced this
> since.
>
> 73,
>
> Gary
> KA1J
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