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Old May 8th 05, 03:00 AM
Brad
 
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Hi Brad. if your old enough to remember the "Russia Woodpecker"; you
would
remember the sound. i believe it was back in the 70s. can't recall the
freqs,
but, it played hell for a few years. i'll have to check out the cw
segment
of 40m...
Drifter...


I remember the Russian Woodpecker all too well. It would clobber a lump of
spectrum several hundred kHz wide and be S9 or greater for hours. It also
followed the propagation and was a nuisance from 40m to 10m. The Jindalee
OTHR has a different signature and keeps away from the various ham and
commercial frequencies, which is very considerate of them. I think the new
one has a much faster pulse rate than the old Russian one.

brad.