Band Portion Blocked

[ZenithSWL]

Why is 17592.0 to 17940.0 "Blacked Out" ? Im guessing its for cell phone or Police Trunking or..?

[ChrisSmolinski]

Blacked out where? You need to be more specific.

[ZenithSWL]

Blacked out where? You need to be more specific.

Between 17592 and 17940.
When I posted this yesterday, It was just a blank space. Today I noticed its been labeled as "Masked"

Masked

[ChrisSmolinski]

Again... *where*  ?  It looks like a KiwiSDR. There's hundreds if not thousands of KiwiSDRs online. Which one.

[ZenithSWL]

This one.
http://sdr.hfunderground.com:8074/

[ChrisSmolinski]

Just 17946 kHz was masked. Looks like it's an aviation frequency. I blocked it most likely because I got tired of people sitting on it for hours at a time.

I removed the mask, I'll keep it removed as long as users behave 

[RobRich]

@ZenithSWL More info about the frequency in the HFU wiki.

https://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/MWARA

@Chris Long-term HFGCS campers were generally my worst SDR abusers. "Were" as they have largely disappeared since blocking the popular HFGCS frequencies and a small notice in the headers. Otherwise, I have a few regular users that seem to forget closing their browser tabs.

[ZenithSWL]

@ZenithSWL More info about the frequency in the HFU wiki.

Ahhh, TY

[ChrisSmolinski]

@Chris Long-term HFGCS campers were generally my worst SDR abusers. "Were" as they have largely disappeared since blocking the popular HFGCS frequencies and a small notice in the headers. Otherwise, I have a few regular users that seem to forget closing their browser tabs.

Yes, I frequently see some bozo from Wichita, Kansas who will park on 11175 forever. I think the longest I saw him there was over 70 hours before I finally booted him (I wanted to see how long he'd stay and finally gave up). Also the folks who seem to fall asleep after turning in, here's the current winner, almost 12 hours on 160m!