From: mercadal@diablonet.net   
      
   Hi folks,   
      
   Yesterday, 2 March 2022, around 22:30 GMT, I was listening to some   
   chatter on 5640 kHz USB, by way of the WebSDR server at the University   
   of Twente.   
      
   The conversation there was, mostly, in Russian, which I don't   
   understand, but I could understand the international language of   
   trolls coming on the frequency and heckling those who were already   
   occupying it.   
      
   But then, the strangest thing happened:  The frequency was peppered   
   with clicking noises.  Though I wasn't old enough when I took up   
   shortwave listening to have ever heard it myself directly, I had   
   definitely heard of the Russian Woodpecker.   
      
   Has anyone else run across this?  I wish I had been recording it   
   to share the audio.  The waterfall showed a pretty wide spread   
   pattern of what looked like very shallow stairsteps patterns of   
   transmission across it, and (audibly) it sounded like recordings I   
   looked up later of the Woodpecker.   
      
   I would have just put it down to trolls laying over audio of something   
   like the Russian Woodpecker, but it definitely didn't look like   
   typical voice transmission behavior on the waterfall.   
      
   Is it even feasible that it could be the same Russian Woodpecker   
   of yore?  From what I've read, the Russian Woodpecker was decommissioned   
   in the late-1980s, and was thought to have originated near Chernobyl   
   in the Ukraine.  What are the odds that a 30 year old system could   
   just be powered back up and operational, or that they would even do   
   so?   
      
   If the Lincolnshire Poacher comes back next, I think my jaw will drop.   
      
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