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RE: Radio Reminiscences - VK5PJ - 12-08-2020
okay, love it or hate it here are a few tales from my Jindalee days.
RE: Radio Reminiscences - VK3RX - 12-08-2020
Fascinating
Thanks for this. This should be published elsewhere also e.g. AR - where is Roger Harrison?
Edit: I remembered seeing these on You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk8G0gfi-tQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVionry3AY4
RE: Radio Reminiscences - VK5PJ - 12-08-2020
here is a youtube video with stuff from my era, you even get to see the OP's room, old and new... stuff I could not describe without getting in trouble but here it is in full colour on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI8zmnls-aM
and again.... public approved information.. from a period just after I left, its a bit adhoc as was done by then then small local TV station (Impaja)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy2jHH2Gpmw
RE: Radio Reminiscences - VK3RX - 13-08-2020
Very good - I particularly liked the second one
With the first link I posted, what's the significance of the CW WQAB964 at the 4:13 mark?
RE: Radio Reminiscences - VK5PJ - 14-08-2020
Hi Damien,
the signal he shows at that time is not an OTHR signal as far as I know, it was shown as an adjacent signal but not related in my experience. I would imagine things have moved on considerably but could not ever imagine a Defence department asset ever giving a CW ID
Peter.
RE: Radio Reminiscences - VK2CSW - 14-08-2020
(14-08-2020, 09:21 AM)VK5PJ Wrote: Hi Damien,
the signal he shows at that time is not an OTHR signal as far as I know, it was shown as an adjacent signal but not related in my experience. I would imagine things have moved on considerably but could not ever imagine a Defence department asset ever giving a CW ID
Peter.
WQAB964 appears to be this mob:
https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=2616358
https://sailmail.com/
They do HF SSB email apparently (amongst other things).
RE: Radio Reminiscences - VK3RX - 14-08-2020
Interesting that ident came up right in the centre of the passband when the JORN transmission finished and at about the same strength, hence my query.
RE: Radio Reminiscences - VK2CSW - 14-08-2020
I wonder if sailmail's instruction for HF SSB use caused someone to think JORN signals were sailmail ones?
"Check all of the frequencies by scrolling through the stations and frequencies in the pull down menus. Your radio should be remotely tuned by the PC/modem to a frequency that is 1.5 kHz below the frequency that you select via AirMail, if you hear a periodic “chip, chirp” or a periodic “rasping” sound at 2-4 second intervals, that’s somebody else using that station. Listen carefully, and when the station is idle then click the left-most green button (from the Terminal Window)."
RE: Radio Reminiscences - VK3RX - 14-08-2020
Could very well be the case