Remember the woodpecker

[K3ZS]

My son sent me this link of the antenna: http://deputydog.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-duga-3-radar/

[k4kyv]

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to "borrow" that antenna for a few hours on a cold Russian winter night.

[Glenn NY4NC]

"based just outside chernobyl"

No thanks!!

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to "borrow" that antenna for a few hours on a cold Russian winter night.

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

We discussed this not too long ago, I was hoping someone might have found a sound file by now. Cool photos, though. As annoying as it was to hear (especially in mid-QSO), it's a part of the past for many of us. It would be good to have a sample for the newbs to hear who never had to suffer through it. And then there's the Cold War nostalgia too...

[Jim, W5JO]

With Putin returning the bomber patrol, maybe they will crank it up again for all to hear.

[KC1XF]

Here is a site where you can listen to an audio clip of the Wood Pecker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Yard

There is a link at the bottom of the page.

73,

Fred

[k3zrf]

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to "borrow" that antenna for a few hours on a cold Russian winter night.

Cool on 'field day'.

Gooooood evening friends.............................

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

..... and welcome to the 49th edition.....

[W1UJR]

Thanks for posting the link, I've wanted to hear it directly.
What format is the audio file in, my Mac does not recognize "ogg".

[KC1XF]

Bruce,

When I opened the link WinAMp brought it up and played it fine.

73,

Fred

[W1UJR]

Tnx Fred, guess I need to download some new software for the old Mac.
Appears that ogg is some sort of new compression scheme.

-B

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Ogg Vorbis files can be played on a Mac with

Amadeus II
http://www.hairersoft.com/Amadeus.html

Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audion 3
http://www.panic.com/audion/

Harmony Assistant
http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/harmony.htm

MacAmp Lite
http://www.bigblueamoeba.com/~pxr/pub/

Mint Audio
http://mint.unsanity.com/

Ogg Drop
It also contains a QuickTime component that allows Quicktime Player and iTunes to play ogg vorbis files.
http://www.nouturn.com/oggdrop/index.php

Ogg Quicktime Components
Ogg plug-in for Quicktime
http://qtcomponents.sourceforge.net/


Ogg is the container or file format, Vorbis is the codec. Other codecs can be used with the Ogg container. Ogg has been around since at least 2003.

[AF9J]

I listened to the .ogg file of th woodpecker.  It brought back memories - of having QSOs trashed in the mid & late 80s on 20m by that stupid thing.  It even happened once in a while on 40, but I mainly remember it on 20.  Once it got going - forget it!, you were sunk. Remember all of the QRM fighting devices that were also marketed as being effective against the woodpecker?

73,
Ellen - AF9J   

[W1UJR]

Ogg Vorbis files can be played on a Mac with

Tnx OM, you 'da man!

-Bruce

[W9GT]

I remember the woodpecker very well...and before that... the buzzsaw jammer that some thought sounded like an airplane.  It was very strong and was used, I believe, to jam VOA broadcasts.

73,  Jack, W9GT

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

I remember the woodpecker very well...and before that... the buzzsaw jammer that some thought sounded like an airplane.  It was very strong and was used, I believe, to jam VOA broadcasts.

Hah, yes! Buddly mentioned this a while back, I thought the same thing as a kid. Sounded like a P2V wound up tight. The woodpecker file at that link doesn't sound like the one I remember, though. The one I recall was more staccato and sometimes paused, then started up again, moved up or down the band, and so on. It also seemed a bit slower. An aging memory, no doubt.

The woodpecker, though not as annoying as Baxtard, would really get your attention when it landed on your frequency: especially if you had the headset on, volume cranked, trying to pull out a weak signal. I clearly remember cracking my noggin on the sloping room beams in my old bedroom closet when this happened. Didn't help that I was leaned over the rig at the time, trying to 'will' the signal out of it.

KA1KAQ de G0GQK - - R R R  FB OM, TNX FER CALL. UR RST 5 5 9 559, NAME HR IS MEL MI *BAP*BAP*BAP*BAP*......*RAP*RAP*RAP*RAP*RAP*RAP*RAP*...*TICK*TICK*TICK* as it wandered up or down the band....

[WA3VJB]

The noise blanker on the R390A was among the most effective on that pulse-type noise. I don't think I have any recordings of it however.

[Ed-VA3ES]

How can I play the .ogg file on my PC? I have a P3/500 with Win2Pro, and Windows Media Player.

[W3RSW]

Neat !
Brings back memories, even in SWL mode.  I think the jamming signals were the most sci-fi like... .big brother and all. 

And then there's the 160 mtr. band wiped out completely several hundred miles from the coast by Loran.  TG for Loran C and now GPS.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

From a previous post by KC1XF

"When I opened the link WinAMp brought it up and played it fine."

How can I play the .ogg file on my PC? I have a P3/500 with Win2Pro, and Windows Media Player.

[Ed-VA3ES]

From a previous post by KC1XF
"When I opened the link WinAMp brought it up and played it fine."

Oh. I don't like WinAmp. It takes over my  media player; I prefer WMP.  Hmmmm....   This will be a quandary.   



 

How can I play the .ogg file on my PC? I have a P3/500 with Win2Pro, and Windows Media Player.

[N1IDU]

Who could forget the sound... Only thing clicking there now is a Geiger counter. Isn't that in the Verboten zone due to high radiation?  Google Earth shows it not too far from the smoldering core. I just don't trust my lungs to that sarcophagus. Both serve as mute testimony to "progress". They want to turn it into a wind farm now. Seems like "green power" might be an easy sell to the locals, since there are only a hand full left.
 But it would be fun to tie into that array!  Any idea what the ERP was on that beast? It probably took a big chunk of nuke just to fire it up. There must be a pile of Toobs in boxes just waiting for Democracy.

[AF9J]

From a previous post by KC1XF
"When I opened the link WinAMp brought it up and played it fine."

Oh. I don't like WinAmp. It takes over my  media player; I prefer WMP.  Hmmmm....   This will be a quandary.   



 

How can I play the .ogg file on my PC? I have a P3/500 with Win2Pro, and Windows Media Player.

Ed, try this link. It's for downloading a plug-in that Microsoft came up with to play .ogg files in WIndow Media Player:

http://www.wmplugins.com/SearchResults.aspx?keyword=.ogg

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[k3zrf]

..... and welcome to the 49th edition.....

I believe that would be the 39th..........

[AB3L]

And for a real look..........

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