01/17/2019
The International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 (IARU-R1) Monitoring System (IARUMS) reports that an over-the-horizon (OTH) radar located on Cyprus has been active on 21.170 MHz, which is inside an exclusive Amateur Radio allocation. "The Sovereign Base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia is a British Overseas Territory on the island of Cyprus," IARUMS Coordinator Wolf Hadel, DK2OM, explained in the December IARUMS newsletter[1].
Reported on December 11, the radar was said to be using FM CW, 50 sweeps/second and 20 kHz wide, on 21.170 kHz.
[1]
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/news2018/news1812.pdf
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