News Talk ZB Napier / Broadcasting in 80m Amateur / Nothing listed on http://www.short-wave.info

Possibly someone relaying?

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  • A KiwiSDR in NZ? Probably just a harmonic or an overloaded ADC.

  • It is, yeah, in Napier.

  • Cant find that signal on any other Kiwi's around Hawke's Bay.

  • Two or three times an actual MW broadcast frequency is often observed when very strong local transmitting stations are present.

    In this case 3 x 1278kHz = 3834kHz

    Sometimes these are actual harmonics being radiated by the transmitter, sometimes they are externally generated by objects such rusty wire fencing, that is rectifying and re-radiating signals, and sometimes they are produced somewhere in the reception chain.

    Many times it can be a combination of all of the above.

    Placing some attenuation, or better still an amplitude / frequency slope equaliser ahead of the affected KiWi can often help to minimise such problems.

    Regards,

    Martin

    smg
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