[TowerTalk] Noise on 80 meters...

[dennis o'connor]

Anyone know the source of the pulsing tones on 80 meters?... It's not 
the old woodpecker, this one sounds like a digeri doo being pulsed 
about 2 times a second... It is there morning and night... It's 
crimping my weak signal dxing...

This morning 80 sounded dead, just static crashes to S7 (with the 
preamp off and the RF gain dialed back) <and the digeri doo pulsing>... 
So in boredom I sat there a while sending CQ into a dead band... Just 
as I reached over to punch the power button to the amp and shut down, I 
thought I heard a really weak signal coming back, I mean right down in 
the noise - thought I was hallucinating at first, you know how it is 
after a contest and you are trying to go to sleep and the refrigerator 
is sending code - I wasn't sure the signal was really there or if my 
brain was morphing static into code... Probably took twenty repeats to 
get his call.. It was JA1HQT...   I gave him a 449 but he was more like 
a 329... The strangest part of the qso is one time, for just one letter 
' Q', the signal was literally S9+20 (even with the preamp off and rf 
backed off)... Here I am with my hands squeezing the head set against 
my ears to try and pull the call out of the static crashes, and this Q 
blasts me backwards in my chair and leaves my ears ringing... Strange 
stuff, this radio business.. Shut the radio off and walked outside into 
a gorgeous sunrise, not a bad way to start the day...

Denny/Doc -   K8DO

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