Please help decode this audio file!

Tom Azlin W7SUA tom at w7sua.org
Mon Mar 24 22:29:01 CDT 2014


Thanks Gary. Glad you all solved it including decoding the D-STAR text 
messages. Guess having an active text channel substantially changes the 
sound. 73, tom w7sua



On 3/24/2014 6:44 PM, Gary Chatters WA9ZZZ wrote:
> It was D-STAR data (according to someone, not me, who did manage to
> decode some of it).  There was no embedded callsign, so further efforts
> were required.
>
> The source of the problem has been found and the interference has
> stopped.  It was a couple of users sending text files via D-Star.  They
> just happened to pick 146.400 MHz, the input to the 147.000 repeater.
>
> The Ashton repeater has this problem from time to time, although it is
> usually analog FM users.  The ARRL band plan says simplex frequencies in
> the 146 range start at 146.40, but there are foot notes indicating local
> variations.
>
> Locating the source of the problem resulted from piecing together bits
> of information and making a call to the right person who made another
> call.  Tracking the signal was being worked on, but the source was found
> by other means before being tracked.
>
>
> 73,
> Gary
> WA9ZZZ
>
> On 03/23/2014 11:05 PM, Tom Azlin W7SUA wrote:
>> Does not sound like D-STAR. D-STAR sounds like a 9600 bps packet signal
>> with a very slight periodic ticking sound at the frame rate.
>>
>> Is this the output of a FM receiver?
>>
>> Sounds more like some sort of intermod given the bursts of what sounds
>> like pager signals.
>>
>> 73, tom w7sua


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