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P3 waterfall legend?

Gary Smith-2
Is there a resource on the internet where you can look at different
screenshots and see what the source is for some of the signals that
are translated by the waterfall? I see so many different geometric
forms based on the nature of the Rf and they are a mystery to me.  CW
is pretty easy to detect, same with RTTY. Some of the other digital
signals have their own appearance you see often. There are some
signals I have heard before but now to see them portrayed on a screen
as in a waterfall, they are surprising to me and I'd like to know
what they are.

For instance; I was on 10.1 MHz and there's that constant commercial
RTTY station around 10.101 but next to it around 10.112 is another
much larger signal and it takes a lot of bandwidth. At first I
thought it was some new digital mode I haven't yet seen but it is
continuous so it must be commercial. It looks to be a series of
curled sections spiralling with each other. I've heard this signal
before but just now with the P3 with its SVGA larger output, am able
to see it.
 
http://doctorgary.net/p3screen.jpg

I'd like to be able to identify what kinds of signals make the QRM
that we hear but can now see with the waterfall display.

73,

Gary
KA1J

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Re: P3 waterfall legend?

pa0pje
Hi Gary,

The signal you are referring to is a STANAG 4285 military transmission
from Turkey. The curly things you see in the spectrum is in fact
selective fading in the sent spectrum, which is roughly 10 kHz wide.

<quote>
10.1102 MHz-USB-Izmir, Turkey Turkish Navy - STANAG 4285
<unquote> from:

http://qrg.globaltuners.com/?q=STANAG%204285&o=qth&m=0&m=1

The RTTY on 10.101 is DDK9, A German Meteo service sending SYNOP to
(probably just a handful now, I suppose...) ships. Germany seems to have
enough money to maintain a 10 kW transmitter active 24/24 for ancient
services.

73,
Peter



Op 2014-02-19 21:22 schreef Gary Smith:
> but next to it around 10.112 is another
> much larger signal and it takes a lot of bandwidth.
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