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From: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Russian Woodpecker Gets Company
Message-ID: <392@anasazi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 10:17:17 EST
Article-I.D.: anasazi.392
Posted: Fri Dec  6 10:17:17 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Dec-85 20:55:14 EST
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Reply-To: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore)
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In article <72@ky2d-2.UUCP> ka2ugq@ky2d-2.UUCP (Tom) writes:
>(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.

So that's what that was! I heard it 10/28/85 at 1450-1501 UTC. It
was 20 over 9 in Phoenix, AZ, and covered the frequencies 14320-14344.
The edges of the signal were extremely sharp, going from S9+20 to
nothing an about 3 Khz. Other stations in the net in Detroit and
San Diego heard it at the same strength. Bearing for all was NE.

At the time I thought it was a military jammer, because it was clearly
designed to occupy a chunk of bandwidth, and because the ERP required to
cause S9+20 signals over 24 Khz over all of the US is enormous.

-- 
John Moore (NJ7E/XE1HDO)
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