Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27344 invoked from network); 16 May 2002 11:36:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO marstons.services.quay.plus.net) (212.159.14.223) by excalibur.plus.net with SMTP; 16 May 2002 11:36:55 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: (qmail 699 invoked by uid 10001); 16 May 2002 11:40:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (193.82.116.70) by marstons.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 16 May 2002 11:40:53 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.33 #2) id 178JWT-0007s7-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:34:17 +0100 Received: from nat6.excitenetwork.com ([63.236.75.8] helo=xmxpita.excite.com) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 178JWQ-0007rz-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:34:15 +0100 Received: by xmxpita.excite.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5A811B6F8; Thu, 16 May 2002 07:33:40 -0400 (EDT) To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: RE: LF: 73k mystery signal Received: from [62.253.64.8] by xprdmailfe18.nwk.excite.com via HTTP; Thu, 16 May 2002 07:33:40 EST From: "john sexton" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: computernetworks@excite.com X-Mailer: PHP Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <20020516113340.5A811B6F8@xmxpita.excite.com> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 07:33:40 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: Hi Jim,
Right now (11.31 utc), 73.315 is clear but will continue to monitor.
73 John, G4CNN

--- On Thu 05/16, James Moritz wrote:
> Dear LF Group,
>
> The 73.25kHz Rugby signal has been on intermittently lately, and
> sometimes when it is off I have been hearing a strange bleeping and
> warbling signal, centered on about 73.315kHz. The attachment shows a
> couple
> of minutes worth of spectrogram - the frequency span is about 1kHz, and
> the
> signal occupies about 600Hz. The blips on the "carrier"
> frequency are
> actually shifting up and down in frequency by a few Hz, and seem to have
> some sort of modulation applied, although this is hard to see in this
> screen shot.
>
> The signal is about 20 - 30dB over the noise here - Can anyone else hear
> it, or is it some strange form of local QRM? Could it be a communications
>
> mode, or some sort of beacon? Would be interested if anyone has any
> ideas.
>
> Cheers, Jim Moritz
> 73 de M0BMU<73k315.jpg 36.60 KB>


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