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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