Re: [IRCA] Wandering hets on 1250 USB & 1430 LSB

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

50 miles north of you in Barrington aimed west (only serious antennas I can currently get at due to lots of snow)
I've noted absolutely no trace of these.

73 KAZ

-----Original Message-----
>From: amdxer@xxxxxxxx
>Sent: Jan 21, 2014 12:40 PM
>To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mwdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, am@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [IRCA] Wandering hets on 1250 USB & 1430 LSB
>
>
>
>A few weeks ago I noticed a wandering het on 1250khz
>USB.  
>
>Last night I found the mate to
>the 1250khz USB het on 1430khz LSB.
>Both were very
>active, changing pitch, sometimes rapidly, sometimes
>slowly.  They are not continuous, either changing
>pitch until it drifts out of the receiver passband and
>then returning or fading away and then returning.
>
>My suspicion is that the source is a station half way
>between the two (180khz separation / 2 = 90Khz), 
>1250khz +90khz = 1340khz.: 1430khz - 90khz =
>1340khz.  Suspect a station on 1340khz is
>producing summetrical spurs approximately 90khz out from
>their carrier.  
>
>Loop bearing for both
>wandering hets is the same, NW/SE from
>here.  
>Both are heard only at night. 
>My local on 1340 WJOL is almost at right angles and not
>the source.
>
>Similar activity was noted during
>the spring of 2013.  But, back then I never heard the
>lower and upper on the same day as I have last night. Last
>year on different days one was noted near 1270khz and a
>few days later on 1430khz. 
>
>Last night I
>could flip back and forth between 1250 and 1430 and hear
>them both.  They are not noted every night, perhaps
>due to drifting right on channel or ceasing and
>disappearing completely.
>
>Anyone interested send
>me an e-mail and I'll send a brief clip of this odd
>sounding drifter.  And, when you get a chance at
>night, especially if you are in the midwest, try for them
>on your rig.
>
>Tom Jasinski
>Joliet, IL
>R8A and Quantum QX Pro Loop
>
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