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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Re: Big tonal mystery nationwide on 1610
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Re: Big tonal mystery nationwide on 1610
- From: JPOGUE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:36:58 -0600
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Has someone taken the approximate bearings that folks have posted and
tried to do a rough triangulation? This might narrow things down a
little.
Jim Pogue
Memphis, TN
P.S. BTW, rough bearing from Memphis last night was about 80 degrees.
----- Original Message -----
From: chris and anne <tantwo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:33 am
Subject: Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Re: Big tonal mystery nationwide on 1610
To: ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mailing list for the International Radio
Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hey all....I just phoned Kintronics....and they said it was not
> them. They have done no on the air testing in the last 24
> hours.Also, I agree with Adam Myrow.......This has a slight Deja
> Vu feel to it....I remember a similar situation about 2 years ago
> that went unsolved. BTW, the tone was faintly audible here in
> northern S.C. until about 0930 EST . Now gone!! Chris Johnson
> K4CME
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jerry Lenamon
> To: ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:49 AM
> Subject: [ABDX] Re: Big tonal mystery nationwide on 1610
>
>
> I wonder if Chris Johnson guessed right. After plotting the
> reported bearings from all over the country the most likely
> location is the Appalachian area of TN/VA/NC. The reports
> don't all agree but most of them do. Kintronics has a
> Bristol, TN mailing address.
>
> Jerry Lenamon, Waco Texas
>
> --- In ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "wghauser" <wghauser@...> wrote:
> >
> > Tone test on 1610 now? Glen[n], I just discovered a carrier on
> 1610
> > kHz with a 1000 Hz test tone. I am in Columbus Ohio. It fades
> a
> bit,
> > have any ideas? (Chuck Adkins, 0118 UT Nov 29, DX LISTENING
> DIGEST)
> >
> > At 2130 EST, I also heard the tone. And it STRONG!!! Slight
> fading,
> > but stays around an S-9 on the Drake. Someone getting ready to
> come
> > on the air???? Willis Monk, Old Fort, TN, IRCA via DXLD)
> >
> > Getting it --- not sure what it is. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross,
> > Barrington IL, 0232 UT Nov 29, IRCA via DXLD)
> >
> > I had the same tone here in northern South Carolina between 5
> PM
> and
> > 6PM, with some QSB, but dominant on the freqency. Isuzu SUV
> radio
> in
> > the Walmart parking lot while the XYL shopped (Chris Johnson,
> K4CME,
> > IRCA via DXLD)
> >
> > Bearings, anyone? Seems N/S from here on the first cuts (Gerry
> > Bishop, Niceville, FL, ibid.)
> >
> > Here is a guess with no substantiation. Maybe the guys up in
> Bluff
> > City, TN --- Is it Kintronics?? I've heard them before testing
> > antennas, etc. (Chris Johnson, K4CME, S.C., ibid.)
> >
> > Have it here in south N.H. S-9 with some fading. 2155 EST.
> Wasn`t a
> > new one coming on in Canada?? Maybe we will hear from up north.
> > 73 (Tom Jones, Mason N.H., ibid.)
> >
> > Neil, IRCA & Grupo DX FL Compays - OK, N-S of Gerry B & my NW -
> SE
> > lob to general direction of TN per antenna testing theory.
> Other
> > way, my NW-SE & Juan's NNW - SSE line cross around Sancti
> Spíritus -
>
> > Ciego de Ávila area. =Z.= (PV Zecchino, FL, ibid.)
> >
> > Very rough DF from Memphis indicates bearing of about 80
> degrees
> > from my QTH, S9+. (Jim Pogue, Memphis, Tennessee USA, NRD-535,
> ICF-
> > 2010 Wellbrook LA5030 loop, attic longwire, Quantum phaser,
> 0306 UT
> > Nov 29, ibid.)
> >
> > I now have the test tone here in Arizona at about S-8 (Bill
> Block,
> > Prescott Valley, AZ, Drake R8, 0309 UT Nov 29, IRCA via DXLD)
> >
> > It's in very strong in Delaware, with some fading (John Cereghin,
> > Smyrna DE, 0310 UT, ibid.)
> >
> > OK - this now comes in line w/dc's 035 & my 012 - 030ish lobs
> on
> two
> > different RDF's. As ever, dc on money, working wrong side of
> the
> > lobs w/Cuba, somewhere N? z (Paul Vincent Zecchino, FL, ibid.)
> >
> > Something here mixed with our local emergency station, WQPX,
> which
> > is just about a mile from here. Just when I thought I would
> never
> > hear anything but that on 1610... Can you QSL a Tone? (Bert New,
> > Watkinsville, Georgia, Proudly Serving You Since 1964!, ibid.)
> >
> > No stronger than S4 (with heavy fading), but there ... here.
> > (Bob Coomler, Cloverdale, CA, 0319 UT, ibid.)
> >
> > It's about S5 to S9 up here in Central Alberta, Canada.
> Stronger to
> > the SE on the K9AY (Chris VE6RDC Dorn, 0323 UT Nov 29, ibid.)
> >
> > UNID tone on 590: Also heard strong tone here on/around 590
> last
> > night, but nothing there tonight (11/29 0000 UT and onward).
> > However, same thing now heard 0100 and still on 0250 on/around
> 1610,
> > very strong here. Same thing? BTW, it's now 0335, and tone is
> still
> > blasting in on/around 1610. Related to following?
> >
> > UNID 1670: 11/28 around 1200 and also 1930 past 2025 but gone
> by
> > 2045 re-check, heard music loop, didn't time it but seemed
> repeated
> > every 10 or 15 minutes. All types of music, from classical to
> lite
> > rock to big band to gospel! Absolutley no announcements of any
> kind.
> > Strong signal here. As strong as only 2 other X-banders heard
> here
> > during day, 1650 WHKT/R. Disney in Portsmouth, VA and 1690
> WPTX in
> > Lexington Park, MD. So if not located here in WV, would
> definitely
> > think in one of nearby states of Virginia, Maryland, or maybe
> > Pennsylvania. Anyone have any ideas? (Alex Vranes, Harpers
> Ferry
> WV,
> > DX LISTENING DIGEST)
> >
> > 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 (W. Curt Deegan, Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida, 0325 UT
> Nov
> > 29, [Ten-Tec RX-320D; LFE H-800; GAP DSP; JPS ANS-4], IRCA via
> DXLD) >
> > Since you asked... :-) It's extremely strong here, and since
> CJWI
> > in Montreal is conspicuous by their absence, I strongly
> suspect
> it's
> > them. Meanwhile, I notice a possible format change on CHHA
> Toronto,
> > with a lot of EE talk in between musical numbers, though still
> > sprinkled with a bit of SS. PS: big signal from KRND-1630 in
> WY
> here
> > tonight... if you need 'em, check it out! -- (Barry McLarnon
> VE3JF
> > Ottawa, ON, 0327 UT Nov 29, ibid.)
> >
> > While trying for the tone station on 1610, I noted my new
> local HAR
> > (or Part 15 or whatever) for CA-125 "South Bay Expressway" has
> added
> > a second transmitter (seemingly not // the first but the tape
> loop
> is
> > several minutes long so they could just be a few minutes out
> of
> phase
> > with each other). I'll see if I can find out how many transmitters
> > they have and where they are located. 73, (Tim Hall, Chula
> Vista,
> > CA, ibid.)
> >
> > Now S-9 at times and the loop says its due East of me (Bill Block,
> > Prescott Valley, AZ, Drake R8, Quantum QX Loop, 0333 UT Nov
> 29,
> > ibid.)
> >
> > I have a weak station under the tone, fading in and out, but
> no way
> > to ID them --- the tone is too strong. It's absolutely pegging
> the
> S-
> > meter on my FRG-7 (John Cereghin, Smyrna DE, 0338 UT, ibid.)
> >
> > This thing is in well over half a country. Is CJWI due to
> upgrade?
> > I'll try a DF in a bit 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL, 0338 UT, ibid.)
> >
> > F*&%ing loud here in central NJ, about S30. Bearing about
> 285/105
> > here, just a hair north of due west or a hair south of due
> east.
> > Totally kills the channel here, not that I hear much under two
> > nearby TIS's anyway (Dave Hochfelder, Highland Park, NJ, Drake
> R8B,
> > Quantum Phaser, Kiwa Loop, Quantum QX Pro Loop, copper pipe
> loop,
> > and CB whip, 0347 UT, ibid.)
> >
> > It's S9+20 right now in New Brunswick at 0402 UT Nov 29 (Wade
> Smith,
> > New Brunswick, DX LISTENIING DIGEST)
> >
> > Finally had a chance to check it myself at 0405 UT Nov 29.
> It`s
> > about 85 (or 265) degrees from this angle, the strongest
> signal on
> > 1610, less than 1 kHz tone (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, ibid.)
> >
> > The tone on 1610 is a whopping S7 at 0424 on 29 Nov UTC. I'm
> using a
> > N/S longwire. I'm due north of Columbus but it sounds as if
> the
> > signal is stronger than in Columbus, based on Chuck's
> description.
> > 73/Liz (Liz Cameron, Detroit MI, ibid.)
> >
>
>
>
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