”My God, It’s full of code…”
April 21, 2006
Well, I was tunning around 7240 khz tonight to try my hand at copying some morse code from the ether. Well, I experienced what a pile sounds like - for real - for the first time.
Basically, a “pile-up” happens during a contest or an expedition.
Someone is off in some obscure country or on some expedition to, say, Antarctica, or some other place that people all around the world want to contact - really, really, really badly. For some, they want to just work a wierd station. Others want to get that last country or continent for some award. Whatever the reason… a few dozen people try to answer the same call to the same station at the same time.
And, oh, what a sound it is…
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… did you get that? I’ll give $10 to anyone who can tell me how many people are sending in that pile up and what their call signs are! I’ll give another $10 to anyone who can convince me that they really figured it out… no guessing!
April 21st, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Sounds like aliens are attempting to attack….
April 22nd, 2006 at 5:42 am
Sounds like people with too much time on their hands. Oh–to be there.
73
April 23rd, 2006 at 4:22 pm
I would listen and try except I have too many other more inportant things to do like birthday presents & cards. Maybe if you came and did the rest of my garden I would have time?
April 28th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
I could only pick out two clearly enough to hear the codes. One is NSMUA (tone is right at A4) and another is AB3CX (tone is around G6). Any more than those and I’ll have to break out cooledit and cheat!
My first though was that the guy running the merry-go-round had a few too many cups of coffee…
April 28th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Well, I couldn’t find anything on NSMUA - it doesn’t have a number, so I wonder if two of those letters might go together to form a number - may be “SM” was a “3″ ?? That pulls something up:
http://www.qrz.com/callsign/n3ua
I got a hit on AB3CX:
http://www.qrz.com/callsign/ab3cx
Good job, man! I pulled about 6 of them out using Cool Edit. I would have gotten more, but I got bored quick.
So, I take it you’re working a bit on the morse code?
April 29th, 2006 at 8:07 am
Shows what I know, I guess! I was trying to come up 5 characters, and I’ll admit “SM” was a little run together! I play with that Koch Method CW Trainer every once in a while. I’ve always wanted to learn a foreign language, and if I sat in a mall and had a conversation with someone in Morse code, it’d be Greek to most!