[amsat-bb] Re: RADAR QRM on FO-29 video on YouTube

[Jim Wright]

One would be surprised how far those buzzards can be heard.  When I was 
still working for what is now Verizon, we tried for six months to turn 
up a 10 GHz microwave route from downtown Hampton, Virginia to the 
Easter Shore, a 27 KM shot using 10 foot dishes on 300 foot towers.  
There were these repetitive error bursts at random times both day and 
night.  We finally got it up to phone traffic right after the local 
paper said Langley AFB had been conducting exercises out over the ocean.

Surprise, but our dish was aimed almost due east and had all the 
problems.  The same setup looking west did not have a bit of trouble.  
We could have solved the problem with a few heat seeking missiles good 
to about 300 miles down range, but no govt. agency would admit to being 
within the path or range of our hop

Right across the river is Norfolk Naval Base.  Those 19 year old radar 
operators would never bring up their equipment in port before departing 
the next day, would they?  Surprisingly how quick they shut down after 
we called the Navy harbor master.

Jim


On 3/2/2011 12:18 PM, Rocky Jones wrote:
> It is the radar off of an E2-C...heard it many many times while playing cat and mouse games with it... Robert Oler WB5MZO
>
>> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 05:04:30 +0000
>> From: kq6ea at verizon.net
>> To: glasbrenner at mindspring.com
>> CC: amsat-bb at amsat.org
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: RADAR QRM on FO-29 video on YouTube
>>
>> Yow, that's pretty bad, Drew.
>> You're probably too far from Eglin, so you think maybe it's from MacDill?
>> Jim
>>
>> On 03/01/2011 03:35 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPSvVEjrTzY
>>>
>>> This is just a short video of the severe RADAR QRM I had today while
>>> trying to work FO-29. This is about as bad as I've ever seen it here in
>>> Central Florida. Please ignore my son coughing in the background (he's
>>> getting better fast), along with one of my male cockatiels crooning to
>>> the female one. :-)
>>>
>>> 73, Drew KO4MA
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