Path: utzoo!utgpu!ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Sat, 10 Feb 90 09:56:35 EST Reply-To: Sriram Narayan Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: Sriram Narayan Subject: Re: All India Radio (Was: Re: Sony-2010 - Noise) X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb11.144031est.58262@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu In article <1990Feb10.015031.26955@IDA.ORG> roskos@IDA.ORG (Eric Roskos) writes: >narayan@photon.tamu.edu (Sriram Narayan) writes: > >>Continuing about All India Radio, I seem to notice severe interference >>on 11620 kHz 24 hrs a day! Sounds like a "car at highway speed" or something >>to that effect. Anybody notice this sound? > >My NTIA "United States Frequency Allocations: The Radio Spectrum" wall >chart from the GPO says that the broadcast band doesn't start until >11650; 11620 is in a band allocated to "Fixed, Government/Non-Government >Shared" service. Maybe the interference is from some non-broadcast >station, such as FDM RTTY, nearby? FDM RTTY sounds like a "car at >highway speed," so it could be something like that. Someone else also suggested the above. But this was centred around 11622 kHz which meant one had to tune into LSB of AIR to make out anything which confirmed my reception. Anyhow, this transmission disappeared about a week ago (approx) and things seem to be back to normal, at least temporarily :-). "Character is what you are in the dark" - Dwight L. Moody ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sriram Narayan 810446 Texas A&M University | INTERNET: narayan@photon.tamu.edu | Go Alain Prost! BITNET: narayan@TAMVXEE |