Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
pickle wrote:

Ok. Thanks to all for the replies. I'll tune it in again tonight
(if I get woken up by another thunderstorm).


(good luck!) (If you're listening during thunderstorms I hope you have
an indoor antenna!)

I do.


I guess I'm used to the standard phonetic alphabet and his
use of other words threw me off a bit. That and I was
very much not all the way awake.


There's more than one standard phonetic alphabet. I know of at least
two and IIRC, the one pilots use is not the same one used by amateurs.

(but if you listen to amateurs long enough, you will hear some really
non-standard alphabets in use, not a good thing...)

You were listening to an amateur radio operator --

K7LR
BENTLEY F ADAMS, JR
4524 73RD PL SW
MUKILTEO WA 98275
USA

-- during a on-air dx contest. He was working duplex (listening on
7084 kHz) because certain regions of the world don't allow amateur
radio operators to transmit above 7100 kHz in the amateur band, and
U.S. hams (the contiguous 48 states) can't transmit voice below 7150
kHz.. This is why he's transmitting in one spot while listening for
others who are able to transmit in a second spot.

I'm surprised you didn't run by many, many more of these instances..


73 ES GUD DX

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:40:28 -0400, pickle wrote:

On 7180 kHz this morning about 0300 EST on SSB I heard an ongoing
transmission. It consisted of a male voice saying things like
"Kilowatt 7 radio lima, I gotcha". Then he would go on to the next
callin and say basically the same thing. Sometimes he would say
"Kilowatt 7 radio lima", sometimes he would say "7 radio lima 7084"
(although I wad recieving on 7180. There were lots of bravos and
charlies and zulus and all that. It sounded somewhat aviation but there
were no ATC instructions only what I mentioned above. I can't remember
the callins he was responding to because I was half asleep . The
callins were always short. No more than a few words.

Any idea what this was?
Thanks.