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To: Viking2002

Like this new one better. Found on YT. Sounds like Radar having a party.

The New Russian Woodpecker?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IpjPbdKSFM

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rEdf196
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I caught this strange OTHR like signal while surfing the websdr site sounding very much like the old classic Russian Woodpecker which originally operated from 1976 to 1989. I remember it well. This signal also at 10 beats per second which gave off a powerful variable pulsing sound when in AM mode but I think it is a problem related to websdr I have Heard other CW, RTTY and time signals with similar pops and pulses.The signal climbed in frequency through the 14 mhz ham band and many SW broadcast .stations with little regard for their band space. Could this be the new Woodpecker I have been hearing about for the last few months? I would say the signal is considerably less powerful and narrower than the classic woodpecker of old, which was up to 50+ KHZ wide or more back in the day. some say its the same Duga facilities making the signals but I would guess it is a much smaller more modern system. I don’t even know if its Russian or not. I have not heard it yet here on Vancouver Island.


22 posted on 11/04/2020 11:31:54 PM PST by Norski
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To: Norski

I remember hearing the Russian woodpecker all the time, in the 70s, when I was trying to communicate with other hams. It was usually 20 or 30 over S 9. Impossible to talk over.


32 posted on 11/05/2020 12:00:30 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot.)
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