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Rogue system currently repeating one of the Canadian repeaters, most likely the DJA in Nanaimo.

The 5.43 in, 4.83 out thing seems to hear poorly on 5.43, can't hit it directly with no tone like I could earlier, so have to run the 100 tone and let the other one repeat it back to kick it from here.

Anyone between Seattle and Lake Stevens with "rotatable directive arrays" they can bring to bear on this? Maybe scan through all the UHF
stuff and find any crosslinks if present???

N7NKO reports the stuff is South and West of his QTH near Machias,
I checked from the Kitsap repeater site last evening and both devices bear 45 degrees True North from there, and slightly East of North from
Kerwin's QTH.

A good place to start the hunt...
Eric
KB7DQH

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Currently using 444.300 (R) for "voice orderwire" from home here...
along with 224.78 (R) 222.1 (USB simplex) and 50.125(USB simplex)...

Sounds like the Cowichan Valley Morning net is done, time to play :mrgreen:

Eric
KB7DQH

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Ha I heard you. :)

934am

Amazing what you can do with an "eyesorepole" and 160Watts :mrgreen:

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Web page for VE7DJA:

http://www.ve7na.ca/node/176

VE7DJA footprint:
http://www.ve7na.ca/gallery/v/ITS+Repea ... .jpeg.html

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Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

1245 pm
I heard conversation on freq and went out to get a direction with my satellite antenna.
The signal was coming from the North of Seatac Airport.
I think it was just you guys talking simplex about the problem.

I have a contact at the club that runs VE7DJA if you guys want to contact them.

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Looking at the map my beam was pointed at VE7DJA.
I'm not able to determine that they are the problem.
There are a lot of people chatting on the frequency in question making getting a accurate fix very tough.

If you can get some of their calls maybe that would help to find the repeater by looking up their QTH's :D

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1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

Bear in mind that the transmitter "most likely to offend" will be heard on your receiving device tuned to 144.830 Mhz... This transmitter uses a PL of 100.0 Hz. It seems to be WEAK everywhere... As weak as this thing is I am really surprised to find out that is being heard in Seatac...

If the signal you hear is STRONG (and NOT running PL) it is NOT the transmitter or one of the
Canadian repeater users. Most people can NOT hear the VE7 devices unless they are in CN88 or CN98 or within a few miles of the grid line.
Nanaimo is LONG way from here and has much of Vancouver Island in the way. Most of the VE7 repeater users are up in the Bellingham/San Juan Island/Vancouver Island area based on what I hear... and easily covered by the rogue 144.830 transmitter REPEATING the VE7 repeater traffic back to 144.830......

NOW if we can get K7CAR to run back up Pilchuck with a 2 meter beam, make measurements and report back... That would be MOST APPRECIATED...

Currently VE7 traffic repeated back to 144.830...
Eric
KB7DQH

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Canadians complaining about "noise on their input"...

Wonder what that could be? :bowrofl:

As conditions deteriorate, Nanaimo having a hard time holding up the rogue link, and signal level on said link degrading severely...

Anyone have actual azimuths referenced to True North???

Eric
KB7DQH

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Instead of this witch hunt, I am just going to do you all a favor and ask someone I know over at NARA.

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Sure couldn't hurt to let them know what's going on...

Intercept User "excelsior the fathead" reports mid-scale signals on the
144.830 transmitter when driving on US 2 in Sultan... Strongest he's heard it on his mobile station equipment. :bowdown:

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Update: Excelsior the Fathead has traveled a bit further up the I-5 corridor and has had much better signals from around the Mount Vernon/Sedro Wooley area, but poorer up the North Cascades highway.

Bearings taken with handheld Yagi seem to indicate East of Burlington, but "there be mountains"... although these "seemed" to have little reflective garbage to confuzz things...

I suspect the N7NKO bearing to have been a "bounce" off of something...
or lots of somethings...

Best signal at KB7ZKA is off of the Olympics.... go figure. I also was able to find the bounce off of the Olympics, and what I believe is the "direct" path. Apparently my home QTH valley is aimed just right :mrgreen:

Why is it stronger in Gold Bar than in Sultan???

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100 more feet of elevation. Even though the area has relatively low elevation you can receive quite a bit from Gold Bar, especially toward Bremerton.