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Yeh, I realised you were joking.

If you live in that part of the world, then I'm surprised you can hear anything other than radars :-(

The Wave radar you mentioned is very strong in Europe, which is why I thought it must be located over this direction, but I could be wrong.

Wave radars do occupy more than 50kHZ, so the SigID Wiki is incorrect.

The list of US Wave Radars can be found here (warning, it takes a long time to load) This also states their sweeprate (typically 1, 2 & 4 seconds) and bandwidth (some are 100, 600, 1000kHz)

https://hfrnet.ucsd.edu/sitediag/stationList.php

Another list containing European projects (also slow to load) click on the "download metadata" option to get a list.

https://www.hfrnode.eu/map/

If anyone does find a list for Asia, Australia etc. I'd be keen to see it.

Regards,

Martin

Sorry to dissapoint.

It's a Wave radar, but it must be a new one, as it's not on my list of European or North American ones.

"And I think the LT1083/1084/1085 stabilizer is a very good and cheap choice."

The 5A linear regulators do produce LF noise.

But adding a big electrolytic across the regulated output helps a lot.

Regards,

Martin

Most likely during a contest or similar.

When some of the big contests are running, like CQ Worldwide, the amateur bands are usually packed.

Most contests tend to held during the weekend.

Regards,

Martin

I'd also suggest emphasising the "works straight out of the box" aspect of the KiWi.

One competitor is making an attempt at this, so far unsuccessfully, but the majority of previous competitors have not been able to achieve this. Other options, such as OpenWebRX (moderate pain) or PhantomSDR/Plus software (really painful), are still in their infancy, and require a fairly extensive knowledge of Linux to get running initially, and then update and maintain.

Regards,

Martin