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LF: Weak 'nighttime' carrier on 472.5 kHz ?

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Subject: LF: Weak 'nighttime' carrier on 472.5 kHz ?
From: wolf_dl4yhf <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:32:47 +0200
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Dear group,
Do others hear (or see) a continous carrier on 472.5 kHz as well ?
I first thought it was 'local' but since it's only there in the nighttime, and even suffers from QSB like the 'wanted' signals it must be from a distant transmitter. Don't think it's an intermod product in the receiver, because the signal is audible with an SDR-IQ and a Perseus as well - not just with the old IC706 which I use at DF0WD for reception on MF.

If this frequency is audible / visible in other parts of Europe as well, we may have to move the de-facto CW 'calling frequency' a bit... maybe by 50 Hz or so which makes it easy to tell an answering call from this carrier signal (which sometimes sounds like Morse but in a spectrogram one can see that it never disappears 'completely').

73,
  Wolf DL4YHF / DF0WD
  JO42FD .



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