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Author Topic: Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC  (Read 2559 times)

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Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC
« on: October 11, 2015, 0012 UTC »
I am reporting this at around 0015 UTC on the 11th of October, but this dasher has been on since at least 1200 UTC on 10 Oct.

Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz.  Dasher is a dash about 1.15 seconds long each 5.1 seconds.  I have heard it all day, so I would suspect in the south west someplace.

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Re: Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2015, 0016 UTC »
I have an extremely weak signal here, just barely noticeable.
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Re: Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2015, 0028 UTC »
S2
0027 - Hearing a dasher, very faintly and occasionally
.......
0300 - Checking back, dasher still there, up to S3 to S4

Listening on the FT-450D tonight.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2015, 1114 UTC by ByteBORG »
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Re: Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2015, 0034 UTC »
Catching the dasher here too at 0030 UTC:

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Re: Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2015, 0125 UTC »
0124Z Pretty strong on the west coast of B.C....around S4 on the FT-2000 and G5RV

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Re: Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2015, 0259 UTC »
Still there at  0300, about S4, not much above the noise here tonight.
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Re: Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2015, 1117 UTC »
I'm still copying this one at about the same level at 1116 UTC.

Edit: 1400 UTC (daylight now) and it's still there but extremely weak.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2015, 1402 UTC by Kilokat7 »
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Re: Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2015, 1408 UTC »
1405 UTC, Oct 11, 2015, 30 minutes before sunrise, I still have this dasher.  It did drop down to almost unreadable 20 minutes ago, but now back up to S5+.  Looking at recordings it appears I had it all night.

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Re: Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2015, 1544 UTC »
Hearing it very well here this morning in Northern Utah.  Also heard it during the night as well around 0630 utc.  No 6939 heard yet.

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Re: Unknown dasher, 6940 kHz, October 10, 2015, 1200 UTC
« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2015, 1751 UTC »
This dasher went away for me about 1700 UTC on Oct 11.

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