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Jer wrote:

If you would 'google' it up, you would find that the military prempts the
FCC and can operate just about anywhere they want without 'permission' from
the FCC. I found some military stuff right in the middle of our 450 band a
couple years ago, and challenged the operator. He was only to glad to give
me a phone number to call, which I did, I ended up at a military base
talking to a high ranking officer who directed me to several web sites that
explained it all. He was right, they were legal, and I was supposed to 'bug
off' whenever I heard them even though my ham license said I could operate
there. The FCC couldn't do a thing about it...

For the 420-450 band in particular (and many of the other UHF bands as
well), the FCC's allocation of these bands to the amateur radio
service is "secondary", with government users being the "primary".
Amateurs "must not interfere" with the government users and "must
tolerate" interference from government users. There are certain other
services which have been granted "primary" use of these bands in
certain parts of the country, as well, and amateurs must not interfere
with these.

FWIW, I didn't see any indication in the ARRL article which suggested
that the 7238 kHz carrier cluster is from a government operation, and
as the signal doesn't appear to be actually carrying significant
intelligence in its carrier or sidebands it may just be some odd piece
of equipment which has started oscillating strangely.

I'll be really interested to learn what it eventually turns out to be.

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