In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

N2EY wrote:
In article , Mike Coslo writes:

That wasn't a good signal W1AW was putting
out, and it was making a mess out of the local neighborhood.

Are you sure the W1AW signal was dirty? An overloaded receiver or
soundcard will do exaclty what you describe.

I'll never say never, but I don't think it was too likely.

OK.

I tried a
number of things with the RTTY party last weekend, and even though there
were lots of strong, wide signals, the few psk signals on at the same
time were no problem to copy. And the other people on the air had to be
suffering the same malfunction I might have been.

Certainly possible.

That doesn't mean it's impossible that W1AW had a problem, just that all
things
need to be checked out. Have you listened to W1AW since then?

The reason I ask is that if it only happened that once it was likely their
problem.

Usually PSK and OOK Morse get along just fine.

Depends on who's doing what. 3579 used to be a popular "glowbug"
frequency for
Morse folks using simple rigs and a colorburst crystal. Then the freq was
taken over by PSK-31 due to the popularity of the "Warbler".

My point is that by coming out with a ratty signal, W1AW was doing
what so many hams were complaining about K1MAN does. Fire it up, and too
bad for the rest of you.

W1AW transmits bulletins and code practice on a published schedule, and is
on
every HF amateur band simultaneously. Been doing that for almost 70 years
now.
However, the signal should be clean.

Didja email them? Even that "professional" Harris stuff can go wacko.

Well, I thought about it, but after the reaction of a number of people
here that I think know more about the suject than I do, I would imagine
they would write it off to pilot error.

As Hans said, I doubt that very much! At the very least they'd have someone a
few miles away listen in.

And they have a spare rig for just such situations, too.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone *did* let them know, and it got fixed right
away.

73 de Jim, N2EY