Topband: Last night on 160
David Olean
k1whs at metrocast.net
Wed Mar 25 22:44:39 EDT 2020
That is good. I will see what happens when I call them. I suspect they
will do nothing as there is probably no engineer on staff. A VE3 ham
told me that this station is notorious in that area!
Thanks again
Dave K1WHS
On 3/26/2020 2:39 AM, Don Kirk wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I’m copying phone station again on 1830.0 KHz and tonight the audio is
> good copy (not distorted tonight). Station advertisements are
> Canadian and they did say they are on 610. Time once again is 10:30
> EDT 0230 UTC, and I once again recorded it.
>
> Don (wd8dsb)
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:33 PM Don Kirk <wd8dsb at gmail.com
> <mailto:wd8dsb at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> I’m hearing bursts of distorted audio right now on 1830.0 KHZ (it
> comes and goes). Bursts peak about 10db over my noise floor.
>
> I’m hearing it on my pennant pointing 40 degrees from near
> Indianapolis (02:30UTC).
>
> Don
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 6:43 PM David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net
> <mailto:k1whs at metrocast.net>> wrote:
>
> I turned on my 160 meter radio around 0100 UT on the 21st, and
> was
> greeted by a huge level of noise on 1830. It wasn't too long
> before I
> realized that I was listening to an AM BC station. Audio was
> distorted,
> but I could copy the ads and they all referred to Buffalo and St.
> Catherines, Canada. They finally identified as CKTB AM 610,
> so I was
> hearing the third harmonic and it was over S9 on my west and NW
> beverages! It also was cutting in and out, no doubt from the
> high winds
> near Toronto.
>
> I tuned it in on my BC band aircraft receiver and the main
> signal on
> 610 kHz was loud, but being interfered with by other stations
> on that
> frequency. It was not a bodacious signal by any means, so I do
> not
> suspect a problem in my back yard. There are plenty of louder
> stations
> that I did not hear. Being a third harmonic, the signal was
> wide at 1830
> and quite distorted. It covered 20 to 30 kHz of bandwidth. I
> e mailed
> the station but have heard nothing back. I tried calling but
> the offices
> were closed when I called last night. Did anyone else hear this?
>
> Dave K1WHS
>
>
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