[Skimmertalk] RTTYserv and Russian beacon

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Hi Dai - and thank you for a thought-provoking report.  It's interesting 
to me that these beacons are being decoded by RTTY Skimserv - I wonder 
what is causing that.  I had understood that stations in ITU Region 2 
were not using RTTY on 40M below 7040.  If that is correct, then maybe a 
solution for this would be to set a 40M RTTY segment's lower limit at no 
lower than 7040 unless you wanted to see thise beacons.  This is just a 
first thought.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 3/3/2015 5:36 AM, Dai NAGAKURA wrote:
> Dear members,, de JF2IWL
>
> About the subject.
> I and N7TR ,9V1RM JK4USW catch well known "Russian beacon"as callsigin,
> OU5TK, OA5TU ,etc by RTTYSkimserv on 40mb.
> This is a report of OU5TK on RBN
> http://www.reversebeacon.net/dxsd1/dxsd1.php?f=0&c=ou5tk&t=dx
>
> Here is a frequency sheet of Russian beacon in amateur bands
> (article is written in Japanese but you can read sheet)
> http://jq1yda.org/topics/russiansbeacon/index.html
>
>   We catchs Vladivostok's consecutive morse code "F"
> as amateur callsign OU5TK etc
>
> I have talked with WZ7I Wes about this the other day.
> He agreed my opinion leave these be a good beacon of
> low band propagation.
>
> However, it happens frequently day by day and
> callsign variety increases TU5TA,TU9TU and so on.
> This shall make trouble now.
>
> Then I decided  I will put all these to BadCal.txt when find,
> refering to QRZ.com
> Please allow when strange callsingn is listed on 7039.2
>
> Dai JF2IWL
>