Aurora & weird noises

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Posted by:  Nils/W8IJN

Posted On:  12/15/06

Subject:  Aurora & weird noises

Message Posted:

Gang,

Listened to the aurora on 2m last night (thanks to the CW gang there for the aurora bounces). Very interesting. Ain't heard like that since last time I had a beam & 10m - maybe 20 years or more.

But in the middle of it all was this weird noise (heard, if memory serves, from about 28 MHz down) that sounded like a sweep generator playing across every band.

Woop woop woop. I wondered if it weren't some kind of ionospheric sounder, being as I live about 6 miles for a Strategic Air Command, eLint-plane-harboring USAF base.

Comes and goes, but I can hear it solid through 75m.

And then I thought "BPL?" What a coincidence that would be. Ain't heard once of it being implimented hereabouts but then I live in Clark County, where even sociopathic parents carry AK47s in their cars.

Anybody heard similiar noises?

73

Nils


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