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Author Topic: Radio Free Spirit 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025  (Read 736 times)

Offline DangerKitty

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Radio Free Spirit 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« on: April 20, 2025, 0137 UTC »
0136: heard about 3 seconds of mx and then silent
0137: ditto
0138: ditto
0139: got about 10 seconds of mx, then silent
0140: mx back again
35444
0143: signal now steadily received, "100 (Johnny Aux Remix)" - Tiga & Boyz Noise
0145: Tone, followed by EDM mx, distorted audio or maybe I'm off freq.
0149: now some kind of digital signal
0151: YL: "no file corruption" and "7 minutes of dead air"; fairly distorted audio, continues to talk
0219: distorted music, can't ID
- definitely keeping it weird on 43M
0204: sounded like she said "Radio Nix" ?
0210: "Radio Free Spirit" in waterfall
« Last Edit: April 20, 2025, 0212 UTC by DangerKitty »
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Re: UNID 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2025, 0144 UTC »
0144 S7-9 @times. Audio a bit thin, but still punching through.
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Re: UNID 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2025, 0144 UTC »
0143utc good signal
Music
Taping sounds  weird sounds
« Last Edit: April 20, 2025, 0146 UTC by dxwingr »
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Re: Radio Free Spirit 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2025, 0145 UTC »
0143 "Conscious" by Ann Clue.
0145 "The World You See" by Cristoph, Franky Wah & Artche.
0149 Tones.
0151 YL with distorted audio.
0153 YL talking about maintenance and dead air. More distorted audio with feedback.
« Last Edit: April 20, 2025, 0213 UTC by Radiouser »
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Re: UNID 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2025, 0145 UTC »
0144 music ? S9
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Offline Molvania Poacher

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Re: UNID 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2025, 0150 UTC »
SINPO=45444

149- Tone, off and on repeatedly (cycles of 5, with a break in between).
151- Audio recording of YL with UK accent speaking (garbled). Mention of "seven minutes dead air" and "no missing tracks."
152- Tones again.
153- Silent.
153- Same YL mentions around 3 am, a maintenance engineer...Impossible with fail safe...Glitch...You can make out something under the static...A woman's voice...Like someone imitating a language they heard in a dream...Dogs howling...Then file gone. "Dead air that wasn't dead." The silent seven.

« Last Edit: April 20, 2025, 0155 UTC by Molvania Poacher »
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Re: Radio Free Spirit 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2025, 0151 UTC »
0150: tone with some gaps between them. S7 with noise.
151: Distorted talk. More tones. Radio Free Spirit?
« Last Edit: April 20, 2025, 1348 UTC by myteaquinn »
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Offline Markokpik

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Re: UNID 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2025, 0152 UTC »
0149 vague music for a minute or so off and on, tones, OM talk 0151, but can't make it out.

Noisy S4
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Offline ChrisLobdell

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Re: UNID 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2025, 0152 UTC »
0148 Tones, Talking and Silence S8
0203 Talking by a woman. distorted.
0208 ID by YL .... Radio Free ...?
« Last Edit: April 20, 2025, 0211 UTC by ChrisLobdel »
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Re: UNID 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2025, 0206 UTC »
S9 with the W3HFU KiwiSDR.

0205 UTC-Sounds like someone telling a story, very poor audio
0208 UTC-Same voice giving Radio Free Spirit ID, then OFF
« Last Edit: April 20, 2025, 0208 UTC by Shortwave_Listener »
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Re: Radio Free Spirit 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2025, 1337 UTC »
SDR capture. Beeps & tones. S7.
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Re: Radio Free Spirit 6953 USB 0136 UTC 20 Apr 2025
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2025, 1726 UTC »
SDR RECORDING


S-8


AUDIO DROPPING OUT FIRST FEW SONGS
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