This thing (or rather, thingS) has appeared in the last few months. It
occurs at intervals across the CW band, at widely different signal
strengths, regardless of time of day (high noon, for example), so it must
be near field or groundwave. The intervals appear to be roughly every 1.8
KHz, but the signal strengths vary so much that I'm tempted to speculate
that it may be a number of identical devices at different distances from
me, and with slightly different frequency-determining components. Or,
conceivably, they are all harmonics of a 1.8 KHz source. I can't DF it at
all precisely, due to a lack of sufficiently directive RX antennas (a K9AY
loop just doesn't cut it hi), but most of them appear to be north of me.
The enclosed recording was done in CW position, on my Mark 5 with 2.8 KHz
filtering. Looking at it on Spectran there are two distinct, fairly narrow
alternating carriers, each of which shifts frequency slightly during its
"on" period. I caught one of them with the screen capture, but you can see
from the waterfall that the other, which is slightly lower in frequency, is
similar. Nothing is audible in AM mode.
If you think you might be able to help ID this thing, please go to
www.pvrc.org/n4zr/80m_mystery_noise.htm to listen to it and look at the
Spectran signature. Thanks!
73, Pete N4ZR
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