[OZAPRS] RE: 145.175 being blocked in Sydney this evening

[Ian Mills]

The noise at my place stopped sometime around 9:00am today, it effectively
made my radio deaf which was a PITA as I wanted to try some DX on 2m over
the long weekend. Strange that the noise seemed to fade in and out over a
very long cycle.
 
Anyway, my igate is now able to work properly now it can hear ...
 
Ian

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From: Ian Mills 
Sent: Monday, 28 January 2008 10:04 PM
To: 'VK / ZL APRS Users'
Subject: 145.175 being blocked in Sydney this evening 


Geoff,
I'm glad you posted this, I have had the exact same thing down here at
Gerroa since last night off and on.
I am receiving S7-S9 noise most of the time, I noticed the same thing a
few weeks ago and it just disappeared.
This morning I thought it was just local but my D700 in the car had the
same noise.
For interest sake, I have an AIS system monitoring ships at sea (APRS for
ships) and it operates on 162.025 and 161.975Mhz.
These frequencies too have noise, enough so that I can only "hear" ships
in visual range 
http://ais.theshackbythebeach.com <http://ais.theshackbythebeach.com> 
I wonder if it is related to the high propagation at the moment? Maybe its
the over the horizon radar that
we don't have :-)
Cheers
Ian
vk2him
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Not sure who it is, but someone's gear is stuck on Tx somewhere in the

Western Sydney area.



There is a carrier being transmitted smack on 145.175 that is blocking a
lot

of activity in the Sydney region.



 



It's not coming from the IGate (2XJG) and I don't believe it's the
VK2RSW-1

digi, as I can hear that repeating my outgoing packets through the noise.



 



If you are in the Sydney area and on this list, please check your
equipment

for a stuck transmitter . . . 



 



Hopefully it'll disappear soon :-)



 



Geoff  VK2XJG
AWA Limited

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