Unid ditter beacon sending five dits 6779.79 KHz CW 17:35 UTC 27 OCT 2026

[DYGradio]

Unidentified strong signal here in east Tennessee, sending five dits and repeating. At 18:17 UTC it was sending six dits then faded. Recoding on my YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/P6ksSxQjjBE

[ditdah]

Five clean dits and then silence is an odd one — does it repeat on a fixed cycle, or was it a one-off burst while you were listening? These little ditters are what got me into listening around 6.7-6.8 MHz in the first place; half the fun is that nobody ever quite pins them down.

[DYGradio]

It sends the five dits, pauses for about two seconds, and sends five dits again with this pattern repeating as shown in the YouTube video. Like it is sending Morse "5 5 5 5 5..." Sometimes it pauses for a bit longer between sets of five dits. There might be a pattern to that, it has faded before I could really determine the overall timing.  It sometimes sends six dits. At one point I heard and saw in the waterfall both five and six dits slightly off frequency from each other at the same time. I have friends in Colorado and Florida who also hear it. Seems to be fairly regular here between 17:00 and 18:00 UTC.  I am hearing it today at 17:30 UTC.