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Offline Zoidberg

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Aviation weather on 6950 USB?
« on: April 23, 2012, 0222 UTC »
4/23/12, 6950 USB, 0215z: Aviation weather, Trenton military, seems identical to 6604 and 6754 aviation weather reports.  Fair via east coast remote SDR, inaudible here at home.

First time I've heard this on 6950.
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Re: Aviation weather on 6950 USB?
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2012, 1135 UTC »
Very interesting, I checked the SDR recording at 0215z, and nothing heard here in MD.
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Re: Aviation weather on 6950 USB?
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2012, 0318 UTC »
Possibly a heterodyne image from something rusty and a local carrier?
(when my gutters in Winnipeg oxidized, CFB Shilo in MB would come in all over the band)

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Re: Aviation weather on 6950 USB?
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2012, 1120 UTC »
Hmm... you had it on the SDR-14, Lex? Curious that I didn't have it on the netSDR. I do wonder if i was some sort of mixing product or image, as cmradio suggested?

I notice a spur/image/whatever from WWCR in the evenings on 6970, but I get it on both the netSDR and the NRD 545, so it seems to be "real" vs just heard on one radio.
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Re: Aviation weather on 6950 USB?
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2012, 0132 UTC »
Hmm... you had it on the SDR-14, Lex? Curious that I didn't have it on the netSDR. I do wonder if i was some sort of mixing product or image, as cmradio suggested?

I notice a spur/image/whatever from WWCR in the evenings on 6970, but I get it on both the netSDR and the NRD 545, so it seems to be "real" vs just heard on one radio.

Yup, via the SDR-14.  Didn't seem to be an image - that SDR seems bulletproof.  I did wonder whether it was a spur.  Haven't heard it on 6950 since that log the other day.
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Re: Aviation weather on 6950 USB?
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2012, 1440 UTC »
As it turns out... this is a receiver image in the SDR-14.  I decided to write up a short blog post about it:  http://www.hfunderpants.com/?p=882
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Re: Aviation weather on 6950 USB?
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2012, 0321 UTC »
Solved! ;D

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Re: Aviation weather on 6950 USB?
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2012, 1521 UTC »
Chris Smolinski
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Re: Aviation weather on 6950 USB?
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2012, 0726 UTC »
Via SDR-14, same image from aviation weather audible on 6950 overnight while listening to the TIMIT phrase loops (logged elsewhere as "aggressive policeman", although I prefer to think of it as the greasy wash water station.  Or maybe the oily rag station.  ???)
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Al: Palstar R30C & various antennae
Snoopy: Sony ICF-2010
Roger: Magnavox D2935
(Off-air recordings.)