Re: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR
Not yet reading the other responses, yes, I did. I dropped down to .910 thinking I'd find them (hadn't heard their call). I scanned the broadcast band for maybe 15 minutes and oddly couldn't find them on so I gave up and went back to trying to find the grid current reading issue in my amp. But they were there this afternoon. 73, Gary KA1J > Greetings, > > Strange happenings this AM. I heard a lot of hash on 1.821 and > listened on AM to hear radio station WRCR. They were commenting on > the tower being covered in ice and other references to the FCC. Did > anyone else here this spurious signal? 73, Bob K3UL > > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR
All, I would like to thank Jon, AA1K, for taking on the lead by calling WRCR's attention to a technical problem. As a long, long time ago, contract AM BCST engineer, I would rather hear about a problem from a ham than an FCC engineer. Thank you Jon. 73 & Best DX Charlie WD5BJT See September 2006 CQ Magazine for a published work. www.qsl.net/wd5bjt _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR
Oh my! Of course, I meant Hello Jon et al. Bob K3UL -Original Message- From: Jon Zaimes Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 1:52 PM To: rgarre...@comcast.net; 'Topband' Subject: RE: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR It was loud here last evening and this morning. At first I thought it was some digital garbage from my computer since I had just started using FT8. I could not copy the audio in CW or SSB modes on my K3 but it was clean copy when I switched to AM on 1820 kHz. It peaked on my long 45-degree Beverage and the announcer mentioned something in "Westchester County" in New York so with some sleuthing online and dual RX listening I matched it to WRCR's signal on 1700 kHz in Ramapo, NY, about 160 miles NE of me. Fellow topbanders from Alabama to Massachusetts on the ON4KST Low Band chat also reported hearing it. I called the station's business phone line around 6 a.m. and the announcer (the only one in the building) answered and I explained the problem. He said it might be due to "heavy icing on the tower." He later mentioned this on the air and there was some chatter from listeners. He said he would relay the complaint to the general manager and chief engineer later in the day. I also sent the station an email with the same complaint but I've not had any response. I didn't notice any change in their signal at sunrise. They are licensed as 1 kw night and 10 kw day. At 1:45 p.m. I am not hearing the signal on 1820, so this may have been resolved. The station's phone number is 845-429-4695. An alternate is 845-362-5070. if anyone else would like to lodge a complaint should this return. 73/Jon Jon P. Zaimes, AA1K Tower climber for hire http://www.aa1k.us/ Cell: 302-632-2353 Reviews of AA1K tower work on eham website: http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/12922 Hug your favorite tower every day, and always stay connected to it. -Original Message- From: Topband On Behalf Of rgarre...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:17 AM To: 'Topband' Subject: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR Greetings, Strange happenings this AM. I heard a lot of hash on 1.821 and listened on AM to hear radio station WRCR. They were commenting on the tower being covered in ice and other references to the FCC. Did anyone else here this spurious signal? 73, Bob K3UL _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR
Hell Jon et al, Thanks for the follow up with the station. Hoping the issue has been resolved. Seems like they knew something was going on with the transmitter. 73, Bob K3UL -Original Message- From: Jon Zaimes Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 1:52 PM To: rgarre...@comcast.net; 'Topband' Subject: RE: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR It was loud here last evening and this morning. At first I thought it was some digital garbage from my computer since I had just started using FT8. I could not copy the audio in CW or SSB modes on my K3 but it was clean copy when I switched to AM on 1820 kHz. It peaked on my long 45-degree Beverage and the announcer mentioned something in "Westchester County" in New York so with some sleuthing online and dual RX listening I matched it to WRCR's signal on 1700 kHz in Ramapo, NY, about 160 miles NE of me. Fellow topbanders from Alabama to Massachusetts on the ON4KST Low Band chat also reported hearing it. I called the station's business phone line around 6 a.m. and the announcer (the only one in the building) answered and I explained the problem. He said it might be due to "heavy icing on the tower." He later mentioned this on the air and there was some chatter from listeners. He said he would relay the complaint to the general manager and chief engineer later in the day. I also sent the station an email with the same complaint but I've not had any response. I didn't notice any change in their signal at sunrise. They are licensed as 1 kw night and 10 kw day. At 1:45 p.m. I am not hearing the signal on 1820, so this may have been resolved. The station's phone number is 845-429-4695. An alternate is 845-362-5070. if anyone else would like to lodge a complaint should this return. 73/Jon Jon P. Zaimes, AA1K Tower climber for hire http://www.aa1k.us/ Cell: 302-632-2353 Reviews of AA1K tower work on eham website: http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/12922 Hug your favorite tower every day, and always stay connected to it. -Original Message- From: Topband On Behalf Of rgarre...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:17 AM To: 'Topband' Subject: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR Greetings, Strange happenings this AM. I heard a lot of hash on 1.821 and listened on AM to hear radio station WRCR. They were commenting on the tower being covered in ice and other references to the FCC. Did anyone else here this spurious signal? 73, Bob K3UL _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR
It was loud here last evening and this morning. At first I thought it was some digital garbage from my computer since I had just started using FT8. I could not copy the audio in CW or SSB modes on my K3 but it was clean copy when I switched to AM on 1820 kHz. It peaked on my long 45-degree Beverage and the announcer mentioned something in "Westchester County" in New York so with some sleuthing online and dual RX listening I matched it to WRCR's signal on 1700 kHz in Ramapo, NY, about 160 miles NE of me. Fellow topbanders from Alabama to Massachusetts on the ON4KST Low Band chat also reported hearing it. I called the station's business phone line around 6 a.m. and the announcer (the only one in the building) answered and I explained the problem. He said it might be due to "heavy icing on the tower." He later mentioned this on the air and there was some chatter from listeners. He said he would relay the complaint to the general manager and chief engineer later in the day. I also sent the station an email with the same complaint but I've not had any response. I didn't notice any change in their signal at sunrise. They are licensed as 1 kw night and 10 kw day. At 1:45 p.m. I am not hearing the signal on 1820, so this may have been resolved. The station's phone number is 845-429-4695. An alternate is 845-362-5070. if anyone else would like to lodge a complaint should this return. 73/Jon Jon P. Zaimes, AA1K Tower climber for hire http://www.aa1k.us/ Cell: 302-632-2353 Reviews of AA1K tower work on eham website: http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/12922 Hug your favorite tower every day, and always stay connected to it. -Original Message- From: Topband On Behalf Of rgarre...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:17 AM To: 'Topband' Subject: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR Greetings, Strange happenings this AM. I heard a lot of hash on 1.821 and listened on AM to hear radio station WRCR. They were commenting on the tower being covered in ice and other references to the FCC. Did anyone else here this spurious signal? 73, Bob K3UL _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR
A friend over here told me he was bothered by QRM on 1822 last week and we don't have any harmonically related MW stations that could cause that, so, it could be the same source. David G3UNA/G6CP > On 18 December 2019 at 15:09 David Olean wrote: > > > I think I did. I could hear voices and a broad peak of crud around 1820 > that was several kHz wide. I did not try to identify it. I just grumbled > and went away and did something else. I heard it after sunset last > night, the 18th. Normally, if I hear any BCB crud it will be much later > when signals are horrendously loud. I have a BCB filter, and it is > effective with late night signals. I normally do not hear any BCB stuff > other than weak birdies on 1800, 1810, 1820 etc. I live in SW Maine. > > I answered a few 160 CQs last night. Both were OZ signals. The first > station had trouble hearing me. He was 559. Station #2 was louder and I > gave him 579. I received a 339. Maybe I had the amplifier plugged into > the dummy load instead of the 160 feedline. > > I went back to my workbench and got back at working on an old R-392 > receiver. When I was a young guy just out of school, I was in the Army > and we had Collins R-392 receivers in our unit. It was similar to an > R-390, but was re packaged to fit in a jeep and be out in the mud and > dirt. It had a hermetically sealed case and ran with 28 volts on all the > tubes. My receiver had been "worked on" and the result was a basket > case with all of the cams out of sync. There were missing slug racks and > slugs. The main tuning dial did not cover the entire range. It was an > interesting night working on putting it all back together and trying to > get it to work. The PTO needed work too. I stayed up past 1:30 local > time, so missed my sunrise. :-( > > > Dave K1WHS > > On 12/18/2019 1:16 PM, rgarre...@comcast.net wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Strange happenings this AM. I heard a lot of hash on 1.821 and listened on > > AM to hear radio station WRCR. They were commenting on > > the tower being covered in ice and other references to the FCC. Did anyone > > else here this spurious signal? 73, Bob K3UL > > > > _ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR
I think I did. I could hear voices and a broad peak of crud around 1820 that was several kHz wide. I did not try to identify it. I just grumbled and went away and did something else. I heard it after sunset last night, the 18th. Normally, if I hear any BCB crud it will be much later when signals are horrendously loud. I have a BCB filter, and it is effective with late night signals. I normally do not hear any BCB stuff other than weak birdies on 1800, 1810, 1820 etc. I live in SW Maine. I answered a few 160 CQs last night. Both were OZ signals. The first station had trouble hearing me. He was 559. Station #2 was louder and I gave him 579. I received a 339. Maybe I had the amplifier plugged into the dummy load instead of the 160 feedline. I went back to my workbench and got back at working on an old R-392 receiver. When I was a young guy just out of school, I was in the Army and we had Collins R-392 receivers in our unit. It was similar to an R-390, but was re packaged to fit in a jeep and be out in the mud and dirt. It had a hermetically sealed case and ran with 28 volts on all the tubes. My receiver had been "worked on" and the result was a basket case with all of the cams out of sync. There were missing slug racks and slugs. The main tuning dial did not cover the entire range. It was an interesting night working on putting it all back together and trying to get it to work. The PTO needed work too. I stayed up past 1:30 local time, so missed my sunrise. :-( Dave K1WHS On 12/18/2019 1:16 PM, rgarre...@comcast.net wrote: Greetings, Strange happenings this AM. I heard a lot of hash on 1.821 and listened on AM to hear radio station WRCR. They were commenting on the tower being covered in ice and other references to the FCC. Did anyone else here this spurious signal? 73, Bob K3UL _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Interference on 1.821 From WRCR
Greetings, Strange happenings this AM. I heard a lot of hash on 1.821 and listened on AM to hear radio station WRCR. They were commenting on the tower being covered in ice and other references to the FCC. Did anyone else here this spurious signal? 73, Bob K3UL _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
