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pro151

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Posted this on another forum and no one had an opinion, so I will throw it up in the air here for someone to shoot at.


Here is a good one for you skip aficionado's and experts to mull over and discuss.

Driving home from Huntsville to Scottsboro AL this evening, I hear a friend of mine who lives on Sand Mountain (Elevation 1500Ft) talking to another station on Ch 19 that I can not hear.
He is slow to start talking after he keys up and I noticed that every time he would key up I would hear a station out of New York loud and clear until he started talking.
After listening to this for about 10 minutes I broke the channel and asked him if he was hearing the New York unit. He said no, skip had been non-existent all day.
I then had him key up and just hold a dead key for nearly 5 minutes, wherein I could here the New York unit loud and clear.

Seen this happen before, but not in the past few years. We used to call it "Riding the Carrier".

Anyone else ever heard it before? I had forgotten about it until today.
 

I never heard of a name for it but have heard that often. I noticed it yesterday up on 27.7??? somewhere. There was a guy that sounded like he was in Italy.

Terry
 
I would think it means your receiver is typical of a CB. It's taking another local stations signal to get you reveiver going for some reason. What I mean by that is there's not a CB around with a receiver sensitivity that can be compared to even a low end rig designed for Amateur use. It's not unusual for propogation to cause signals to be received in one area and not in another. So, I guess it does have something to do with "riding a carrier". The signal was present where you were but your receiver was not sensitive enough to process it without the other carrrier present. Make sense?
 

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