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From: tedk%ihuxv%ihnp4%cbosgd@mtune.att.COM
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Continuously Ringing Telephone (on VHF)
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Date: 13 May 88 14:31:36 GMT
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In article <8805090023.AA00938@csed-47.csed.com> roskos@csed-47.UUCP (Eric Roskos) writes:
|Recently, in a futile attempt to receive WEFAX satellite transmissions,
|I bought a VHF converter for one of my shortwave radios.  Since the
|satellite broadcasts turned out to be discontinued, I started looking for
|other things of interest nearby, and found something unusual.
|
|On 152.780 MHz, there is what sounds like a telephone ringing, all the time.
|I have been listening to it for about 3 hours now (while doing other
|things) to see if anyone ever answers, but all that happens is that the
|amplitude of the ringing changes from time to time.  It is a very normal
|sounding ring signal, like you hear when you place a phone call.
|
|I am wondering what this is?  According to my frequency allocation tables,
|it says this frequency is allocated to "Mobile Telephone, Landline Companies,"
|and that it is channel "JK".  It is sent in FM mode, and is a very
|strong signal.
|
|The channel names listed in this table also do not seem to make much
|sense mnemonically, does anyone know what they mean?  The channels listed,
|in order, are JL, YL, JP, YP, YJ, YK, JS, YS, YR, JK, and JR.

I am sure that if you repost your question to the HAM RADIO newsgroup, that
the folks over there would know.


Ted G. Kekatos