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From: ka2ugq@ky2d-2.UUCP (Tom)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Russian Woodpecker Gets Company
Message-ID: <72@ky2d-2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 17:35:12 EST
Article-I.D.: ky2d-2.72
Posted: Tue Dec  3 17:35:12 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 06:15:23 EST
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(Seen on AI2Q Packet Radio BBS in Freeport, LI)

There seems to be a new version of the Russian woodpecker operating on
20 meters!  It is believed to be a new type of Russian over-the-horizon
radar and unlike earlier versions, seems to stay pretty much on 14 MHz.
The pulse-like noise is taking up approximately 30 kHz of spectrum.
There are 62 pulses per second and it sounds like a motor boat or a buzz
saw.  It is a different type of sound entirely from the "woodpecker"
which is more like tapping.

The FCC has obtained some very good bearings on it and the fix seems to
be at 35 degrees 26 minutes north, and 27 degrees 2 minutes east.  This
places it within a 1200-mile radius of Odessa, USSR, near the Black Sea.
The FCC case number of this is 85-WA295 and the Commission's Treaty
Division is in the process of lodging a complaint.

-Tom Brown KA2UGQ