[TowerTalk] Noise on 80 meters...

[k2qmf at juno.com]

Hi Denny,

I am located on Long Island, New York.

Those pulses on 80 Meters are very loud here.
I copy them all the time.

73,  Ted  K2QMF

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 05:37:36 -0700 dennis o'connor <k8do at mailblocks.com>
writes:
> 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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