[net.ham-radio] 14.563 MHz mystery signal may be US Navy

parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) (01/11/85)

The 14.5630 "feedback" signal remains a mystery, but has been on for
weeks now. I found some telling information in US Govt records, though:

  14.5625    call?_____US: Navy, ships, ssb and 3A7J emissions, 40kw [Atlantic 
                               Ocean] (govt recds)
             NAM_______US: Navy, ssb and 3A7J emissions, 40kw [NW, VA] (govt re
                               cds)
             NAU_______US: Navy, ssb and 3A7J emissions, 40kw [Isabela, PR] (go
                               vt recds)
             NBA_______US: Navy, ssb and 3A7J emissions, 40kw [Farfan, Panama] 
                               (govt recds)
             NSS_______US: Navy, ssb and 3A7J emissions, 40kw [Sugar Grove, WV]
                                (govt recds)
  14.5630    call?_____unidentified: several hours of what sounds like audio fe
                               edback, with varying pitch, am, @1850Z, heard du
                               ring daylight hours for at least 1 week, male Sp
                               anish voice communications in lsb heard undernea
                               th at times [location?] (B. Parnass)
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dwight@timeb.UUCP (Dwight Ernest) (01/13/85)

> 
> The 14.5630 "feedback" signal remains a mystery, but has been on for
> weeks now. I found some telling information in US Govt records, though:

>   14.5630    call?_____unidentified: several hours of what sounds like audio fe
>                                edback, with varying pitch, am, @1850Z, heard du
>                                ring daylight hours for at least 1 week, male Sp
>                                anish voice communications in lsb heard undernea
>                                th at times [location?] (B. Parnass)
> -- 
> Bob Parnass,  Bell Telephone Laboratories - ihnp4!ihu1h!parnass - (312)979-5414 

Curious (or is it?) that this appears to coincide with preparation for
Big Pine III, the combined naval/air/ground war games that are
scheduled to begin very soon in the Carribean...?

Conjecture: The carrier [which sounds like audio feedback] is
jamming from some source on the "other side," and the audio
SSB you are occasionally hearing underneath is legit from "our side."

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