IARU Monitoring System Seeks Over-The-Horizon Radar Reports:
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The ARRL Letter, Vol 25, No 40
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October 6, 2006
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IARU Monitoring System Seeks Over-The-Horizon Radar Reports:
IARU Region 2
Monitoring System Coordinator Bill Zellers, WA4FKI, says Amateur Radio
stations on the West Coast and as far east as Arizona have reported hearing
over-the-horizon radar signals on the low bands. VE7BZ in British Columbia
recorded the radar's signal October 1, 1353 UTC, on 3.795 MHz
http://www.arrl.org/news/crawlies/10081/OTH-R-3795-VE7BZ-100106.mp3. The
radar, apparently located on Hainan Island, Peoples Republic of China, has
shown up on 160, 80 and 40 meters and sometimes is quite strong. On 80/75
meters it appears as high as 3.8 MHz, while on 40 meters, it's showing up on
the lower 25 kHz or so. Typically there are about 50 seconds between signal
pulses. He said the radar signals are strongest on a heading of between 285
and 320 degrees from California or Arizona. Zellers requests reports from
stations hearing the over-the-horizon radar signals as well as any other
signals that do not appear to belong on the amateur bands. He suggests the
following report format: Your call sign, time in UTC, frequency, emission
type, signal strength, propagation and signal bandwidth in kHz. Send reports
to Zeller via e-mail
wa4fki@nc.rr.com.
Source:
The ARRL Letter
Vol. 25, No. 40
October 6, 2006
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by K4RAF on October 8, 2006
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This wouldn't bother me in the least, except that the band was open to China. I hear strange sounds on HF everywhere, can I have the hotline number for the IARU?
However: Hainan Island ring a bell?
Remember the US Navy spy plane was forced down by Chinese fighters some years ago for "violating China's airspace" around that island? They were 'sniffing' DC-Daylight...
The crew was held captive & eventually returned but not the plane itself. The plane's sensitive ECM electronics was disassembled for reverse engineering by the Chinese, thus none of it was ever returned to the US. The officers never got to fully 'dump' the gear, codes, etc. That was by their own admission that the Chinese got really lucky that day.
I'd say leave it alone. There is a national security aspect to its' continued magnetic emmissions. It might be looking for that promised nuke cloud coming from a hole just Northwest of Pyong Yang!!!
The alternative is fiber optic cables like the ones sold by China to Iraq so forward air radar relays could not be jammed by our ECM transmitters (in the no-fly zones) in addition to enhanced concealment of such forward installations. You can't intercept light, unless you are into the fiber. Unlikely...
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