On 20 Sep 2007 at 13:19, Bob Stewart wrote:
John and all,
There are apparently several stations. I heard a part of a call "?A9??" on voice and at another time "/R" on CW on the 20:00Z pass of AO-27 over the US. Someone else was complaining of a strong unmodulated carrier for awhile. I guess I'll have to set the computer up to start recording. I doubt it's malicious. Hopefully it's just "I didn't know". But, as time passes, they will perceive ownership of the frequency, of course.
Bob
On the 2000Z AO-27 pass i was on this pass and i hear 2 folks discussing about a hamfest and they seems to be on a trunking system as we can copy clearly the "trunking tone" at the beginning of their transmission. AO-27 was over the eastern side of NA. If someone is aware of an amateur trunking like repeater this can give a clue even if the path of AO-27 was covering near all North America...
P.S. with 50W on a 14 elem cross yagi their signal capture mine!!! at a time!!!
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