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Re: [RFI] RTTY signal on 3595.5 kHz

To: Don Moman VE6JY <ve6jy.1@gmail.com>, "Rfi@contesting.com" <rfi@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RFI] RTTY signal on 3595.5 kHz
From: MICHAEL ST ANGELO <mstangelo@comcast.net>
Reply-to: MICHAEL ST ANGELO <mstangelo@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:28:10 -0500 (EST)
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Fat fingered it...

Can anyone decode it? 

Mike N2MS


> On January 25, 2018 at 10:22 PM MICHAEL ST ANGELO <mstangelo@comcast.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> I heard it about 0318 UTC. It sound like an AMTOR signal. Coud be an 
> experimenter.
> 
> 
> Can anyone decide it?
> 
> 
> Mike N2MS
> 
>  
> 
> > On January 25, 2018 at 6:01 PM Don Moman VE6JY wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >     checking a recording here... something similar was noted at 0558 Jan
> >     16th.... very weak in Alberta. looks like two digital signals centered
> >     around 3595.450 khz... at the beginning of each segment there was short
> >     pair of tones 100 hz apart. and at the end each "channel" sent some 
> > tones.
> >     the tones were about 300 hz apart.
> > 
> >     Another recording around the same time Jan 18 shows several digital 
> > signals
> >     in the area but not on the same pair, and then some USB voice and then 
> > some
> >     ALE soundings on 4596 - KE6IYC7 was decoded.
> > 
> >     I think this is a fairly active area for all sorts of experimental 
> > things.
> > 
> >     73 Don
> >     VE6JY
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >     On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 2:36 PM, David Eckhardt
> >     wrote:
> > 
> >         > > I do not hear it here in N. Colorado (Loveland area).
> > > 
> > >         Dave - WØLEV
> > > 
> > >         On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <
> > >         kgordon2006@frontier.com mailto:kgordon2006@frontier.com
> > > 
> > >             > > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >         > > 
> > >             > > > I am, again, asking for help from members of this 
> > > forum. Can anyone here
> > > >             help me and a
> > > >             friend, Joe WA7FWC, identify an RTTY signal which appears 
> > > > to be
> > > >             continuously
> > > >             transmitting on or near 3595.5 kHz?
> > > > 
> > > >             This signal is, apparently, on 24/7 and from my listening 
> > > > to it, appears
> > > >             to be sending the
> > > >             same series of characters over and over again.
> > > > 
> > > >             When I listened to it last night, I also heard someone on 
> > > > CW calling 1RN,
> > > >             the first region net
> > > >             of the NTS, so this RTTY signal is very close to the 1RN 
> > > > net frequency.
> > > > 
> > > >             I did not note the time last night, nor the call of the CW 
> > > > calling
> > > >             station, but will try to do that
> > > >             this evening. The signal level here in Idaho is "weak, 
> > > > readable". In
> > > >             Oregon where Joe is, it
> > > >             is often very loud.
> > > > 
> > > >             I and Joe have tried to decode this signal using FLDIGI, 
> > > > but so far our
> > > >             efforts have
> > > >             apparently failed....ALTHOUGH, I did copy for a bit what 
> > > > looked to me
> > > > 
> > > >         > > like
> > > 
> > >             > > > a series of 1's
> > > >             and 0's at one time.
> > > > 
> > > >             It appears to be at least 75 wpm RTTY and the bandwidth 
> > > > appears to be
> > > >             slightly wider than
> > > >             170 Hz, according to FLDIGI.
> > > > 
> > > >             Joe and I have tried both USB and LSB and our results are 
> > > > still pretty
> > > >             much nil.
> > > > 
> > > >             Can anyone help with this?
> > > > 
> > > >             We suspect it is either a governmental station, or a 
> > > > foreign station, but
> > > >             don't know any more
> > > >             than I have listed above. I also suspect (IF my copy of 1's 
> > > > and 0s' is
> > > >             accurate) that it is
> > > >             actually sending some sort of digital data.
> > > > 
> > > >             Has anyone else heard this station?
> > > > 
> > > >             Ken W7EKB
> > > > 
> > > > 
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