Dashes on 13559.8 kHz

[zackers]

I've been sitting here at 1745-1750Z on March 18 and listening to two dashers on about 13559.8 kHz. Both dashes are about a second long. They are on slightly different frequencies. They do not seem to be from the same source, as the spacing between the dashes is not the same for the two and at times they even overlap. I think they repeat approximately every 20 seconds. They disappear for lengths of time altogether due to QSB.

According to Spectrum Lab, they are about 100 Hz apart.

I have no idea of the source of these. Listening with a dipole.

Update at 1800Z: Yet another dasher has appeared another 120 Hz or so above the higher of the other two. This seems to be a busy frequency!

Updated/corrected posting again at 1824Z with more accurate info. The two lower dashers are consistently coming in quite well at the moment, maybe S3 or S3.

[cmradio]

Enter the world of HiFER!

http://lwca.org/sitepage/part15/beaconsmfhf.html

Nice catch, as legal HiFER's radiate ERP in the uW range.

Peace!

[zackers]

Thanks for the link! The dashers I heard are not on that list. I'm still curious about them.

My good friend Garry K3SIW near Elgin, IL runs the SIW beacon on 13555.44. The RIX beacon here in Champaign is not on the air now and I haven't heard it in some time.

[zackers]

I'm copying the signals I copied the other day again today March 24 at 1530Z. The wide-spaced dashers are on 13559.83 and 13559.93. There was another signal coming in on 13559.91 for a bit, not sure what it was.

I noticed that both the dashers fade out and peak at about the same time. It might be that they are close together in location but not necessarily true. But I did observe that.

[cmradio]

One should not underestimate these either... 2 milliwatt ERP beacon "NC" just broke a distance record (15,400Km)

http://lwca.org/mb/msg/2700.htm

Peace!

[cmradio]

Another record broken - RY @ 16,325 Km
http://vk2xv-hifer.blogspot.ca/

Peace!