New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (NZART) Web: NZART Online

Purpose:

Monitor those frequencies allocated exclusively to the Amateur Service and Log (for statistical purposes), Identify (where possible) and take measures to have removed all Non-Amateur signals detected in the amateur bands.

Organisation:

National Society Monitoring Services, in addition to any national activity, supply data on "intruding" signals to their IARU Regional Coordinator.

Coordinators:

New Zealand: Len Martinson ZL1BYA New Zealand. Email:

Region 1: Wolfgang Hadel, DK2OM, Germany. Email: Web Site: http://www.iarums-r1.org

Region 2: William Zellers, WA4FKI, USA. Email: Web Site: http://www.iaruregion2.org/

Region 3: B.L. MANOHAR, VU2UR, India Email: Web Site: http://www.jarl.or.jp/iaru-r3/ms/r3msnl.htm

Reporting:

Reports on 'Intruders' should be sent to the National Coordinator in the country of the person reporting. Where a coordinator has not been appointed, reports may be sent to the Regional Coordinator.

Signal Types:

A short sound bite of various 'intruder' types signals may be heard by selecting the appropriate button below. These are a few samples of some of the many strange sounds to be found, from time to time, in the amateur bands.

1. A1B - Machine sent Morse
2. A3C - Slow speed Weather Fax
3. F1A-FSK - Frequency Shift Morse
4. F1B - Radio Teletype - Wide Shift
5. F3C - Weather Fax
6. M7B - Phase Modulated, multi-channel, also known as "Vocoder" system
7. PIC - Picollo Transmission
8. AXX - Naval System, also known as "Alligator"
9. OTHR - Over the Horizon Radar
10. PXX - Complex pulse position modulation system
11. T-SCAN - Traveling Ionosphere Sounder