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From: "Peter Dodd" <g3ldo@zetnet.co.uk>
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After an exchange of e-mails with Alan Melia in which he says 


> Hi Peter thanks for the Spectran screen. I wonder.....
> The tranmission on the right is definitely Cesare........ I put a pair of dividers on the
> penultimate character of the strong signal and it was about half a dot
> shorter than the 'P'. (that might just be the brighness variation on the
> weaker signal. Also the inter letter gap on Dave's transmission is
> accurately equal to the first dash in the 'K' . Whereas the gap on the
> weaker signal above is much shorter.The penultimate character in the weak
> signal almost looks like it could be a 'C' ...this was not another weak
> station calling Cesare was it?? the two chars on the screen could be ...GC K
>............ I make the delay on the 'K' equal to a dash and el space and a dot. That would
> be nearer 15 secs, I think  (give or take another el space).  I know one of
> the southern German stations was calling Cesare earlier.

> When I have had intermod 'ghosts' they line up exactly with the keying of
> the  transmission that's intermodding of course.

In view of what Alan says, and after further inspection of the 
mystery signal on 137.738kHz, I am now convinced that it is another 
amateur signal and not a delayed 'image' of the strong signal from Dave. 

So who was it? The date/time of the mystery transmission was  24th 
Feb at 2025hrs.


-- 
Regards, Peter, G3LDO

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