[IRCA] Test tone on 1610.

["W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The tone could still be heard at 1400Z (9am EST) here in SE FL, a 
couple S-units above the noise, but heard only briefly.  Spectran 
showed the 1 kHz audio trace for another 15 minutes but by 1415Z the 
audio signal was gone, replaced by a barely audible nearby MIS.

Carriers however are a different story.  The same ones seen last 
night are still detectable with Spectran:
1609.89 very weak, UNID
1609.97 2nd strongest, UNID
1610.00 strongest, likely WPZK221 Fort Lauderdale FL MIS
1610.03 vying for weakest, the suspected test signal which is 
considerably reduced now that we are well into the day, but 
definitely still there.

Someone close to the source should be hearing the signal, still there 
as it passes 1500Z.

Curt
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W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida
[Palstar R30cc;  Quantum QX Loop]
[Ten-Tec RX-320D; LFE H-800; GAP DSP; JPS ANS-4]


At 12:44 AM 11/29/2006, you wrote:
>To add a little more detail to my original post...
>
>I've been monitoring the signal with test tone since first reported
>by David Crawford on the DX Florida list about 2300Z, 11/28.
>
>At 0500Z, 11/29, and for the last hour or so I've seen a steady S9+10
>and over, on the R30cc with Quantum Loop, with occasional slow fades
>down to S9.
>
>At 0042Z the signal stopped for a couple seconds and again a few
>seconds later, both times returning with the same tone.  Otherwise
>I've not noticed it vary aside from slight fading.  That fading
>brings up the level of the higher 1 kHz components and the 30 Hz
>sidetones associated with them.
>
>Spectran reports the primary tone peak at 1001.1 Hz, secondary at
>1999.7 Hz.  Occasionally they flip status briefly, but most of the
>time 1 kHz is strongest.  You can see an example here, where 2 kHz is
>strongest:
>http://scooterhound.com/WWWR/radio/1610Mystery0002.jpg
>This does show what I tried to describe regarding sidetones.
>
>Continues on at 0045Z 11/29.
>
>Curt
>-------
>W. Curt Deegan
>Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida
>[Palstar R30cc;  Quantum QX Loop]
>
>
>
>At 10:25 PM 11/28/2006, you wrote:
> >As others have reported, 1610.03 kHz with test tone heard here in SE FL.
> >
> >Shows on Spectran as 1, 2, and 3 kHz main frequencies in decreasing
> >strength, with sidetones 30, 60, 90 Hz either side of each main
> >frequency also at lower levels.
> >
> >Is that what it looks like to others?  Another way of saying, are we
> >all hearing the same thing, though it is most likely we are.
> >
> >Direction from here NNW/SSE consistent with other reports from the area.
> >
> >Curt
> >-------
> >W. Curt Deegan
> >Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida
> >[Ten-Tec RX-320D; LFE H-800; GAP DSP; JPS ANS-4]


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