Over-the-horizon
radar, whose rat-a-tat sounding signals got them dubbed "woodpeckers"
back during the Cold War, appear to be back on the ham bands.
Newsline reports
that the International Amateur Radio Union's Region 1 Monitoring System has
discovered two such systems in operation - one on 80 meters (from 3,555-3,590
kHz and 3,750-3,785 kHz) that it says has been traced to Russia, and another on
the 10-meter band that seems to be originating from Iran. The report says the
Russian Radio Society has been asked to help deal with the 80-meter
interference and that Germany's Department of Post and Telecommunications has
sent an official complaint about the 10-meter signals to its counterpart in
Iran.
