Morse code/CW ?
 

Is anyone hearing any morse code on any of the frequencies outside the
hambands?
tnx
hank wd5jfr

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:28:17 -0600, Henry Kolesnik wrote:
Is anyone hearing any morse code on any of the frequencies outside the
hambands?

Yep. Numbers stations, occasional marine stuff (although the Italian stations
have just ceased operation on 500KHz), various military stations, mostly
Russian, I think (they use Russian letters anyway), sometimes with poor
sending - presumably training sessions from the style of them.
I also heard a station sending weather reports in standard meteo codes the
other night. Various other odd bits such as a station on 499.5KHz at Xmas.

Nothing like as much as a few years ago, of course!
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb .at. dial .dot. pipex .dot. com
(Remove any digits from the addresses when mailing me.)

The future was never like this!

If you have the time, please updated on here the shortwave frequencies and
time. My line noise makes it nearly impossible to get much except local
beacons.
tnc
hank wd5jfr
"Stan Barr" wrote in message
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:28:17 -0600, Henry Kolesnik
wrote:
Is anyone hearing any morse code on any of the frequencies outside the
hambands?

Yep. Numbers stations, occasional marine stuff (although the Italian
stations
have just ceased operation on 500KHz), various military stations, mostly
Russian, I think (they use Russian letters anyway), sometimes with poor
sending - presumably training sessions from the style of them.
I also heard a station sending weather reports in standard meteo codes the
other night. Various other odd bits such as a station on 499.5KHz at
Xmas.

Nothing like as much as a few years ago, of course!
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb .at. dial .dot. pipex .dot. com
(Remove any digits from the addresses when mailing me.)

The future was never like this!

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:26:01 -0600, Henry Kolesnik wrote:
non-amateur Morse code

If you have the time, please updated on here the shortwave frequencies and
time. My line noise makes it nearly impossible to get much except local
beacons.

I don't keep logs for this stuff, I'm usually listening in bed when I can't
sleep! But I find the 5MHz band in the early hours zulu (say from 0300z)
always turns up something, even if its only 4XZ ("Haifa Naval Radio")
sending code groups :-) 500KHz it pretty much dead now the Italians
have closed down. I have heard mention of a Turkish station still
operating but I've not heard it yet. Some Far-East stations are rumoured
to be still operating on 500KHz.

In fact most of the cw is pretty boring stuff almost always code groups
of some sort - very little plain text.

I did hear two, I think UK military, stations using cw as talk-back
when setting up a digital link - presumably the transmitter they were
working with had no voice capability. And I know the Royal Navy still
maintains some morse capability, as does the British Army.
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb .at. dial .dot. pipex .dot. com
(Remove any digits from the addresses when mailing me.)

The future was never like this!

Most of the CW transmissions outside of the ham bands have been done away
with.

Bill, N5NOB

Just about everyone knows that, even me! But I always what laggards are
lurking out there still using morse. And since I can listen everywhere I
asked for reports!
73
hank wd5jfr
"Bill Hennessy" wrote in message
. ..
Most of the CW transmissions outside of the ham bands have been done away
with.

Bill, N5NOB