Well, I've been away from ham radio for 30 years...man, have some things changed.
The first thing I did, was go out and have 500 QSL cards printed....what a shock!... Even the pony express doesn't come around any more!
I've also noticed that there are "marker signals" that delineate various boundaries of the bands.
Who broadcasts those markers?
Please have mercy and don't laugh at me too much...it does say "There No Stupid Questions". I may be stretching that statement.
Never heard of anyone actually transmitting band-edge signals but I know a lot of newer transceivers incorporate a band-edge notification feature. Many allow this feature to be user-defined based on the license class of the user.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
HMMM....I have a Kenwood TS-830...Not exactly state of the art. I only work 20mtrs. Very strange.
Thanks for the input
Which frequencies are you hearing these on - precisely 14.000 and 14.350MHz, or somewhere else? And what sort of signal - steady carrier, CW ID, FSK?Originally Posted by WA0JDE
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Hmmm...I just checked and it's a broadcast signal at 14.00 (and no it's not my calibrator).
Maybe its God, giving me a "heading Beacon".
Do some math with your rig...14.0 - 8.83 MHz = IF Trap mis-adjusted? That's one of the things I check on an x30 hybrid. FWIW, I learned about this several years prior to becoming a ham. Wondered why my Royce 641 always had a strong RTTY signal on Ch32 during the daytime hours. Turned out to be the cause.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
I was up at 4:00AM and checked 14.000 and checked again now....It's still there. It's a continuous wave RF signal. It also varies in strength, relative to propagation. As I'm listening to it, it's strength just was reduced by half. Like someone flipped a switch. It went from an S-3 to S-1.5
There is another signal at 14.335
I like the "Homing Beacon" thought.
Thanks for the input....I'm going to go crawl back under my rock.
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