Ride of the Valkyries Pseudo Numbers Station 6925 USB 0353 UTC 29 Apr 2016

[ChrisSmolinski]

SDR recording catch. Came on overtop another UNID pirate at 0353 with the "Ride of the Valkyries" electronic music, then into an OM repeating the numbers. The best signal I have heard from this station yet, but unfortunately there was the other pirate on at the same time, so tough copy.

48 46 55 repeated (decodes to HFU)  "standby" (The symbol sent are all ASCII characters in hex)

47 72 65 61 74 22 77 6f 72 6b 2c 22 43 78 72 69 73 21 22 51 53 4c 22 69 6e 66 6f 22 63 6f 6d 69 6e 67 22 73 6f 6f 6e 2e
G  r  e  a  t  “  w  o  r  k   ,  “  C h  r  i  s  !  “  Q  S  L  “  i  n  f  o  “  c  o  m  i  n  g  “  s  o  o  n  .

0401 Back with the "Ride of the Valkyries" electronic music. The other UNID station was still playing along at this time.
48 46 55 standby repeated.

Message repeated.
out?

I am not sure if the 22's should be 20 for a space?

Can't wait for the QSL info, next message?  

"CQ TEST DE ICOM" repeated in CW until 0413.

"CQ TEST DE ICOM" repeated in CW again starting around 0419, with the other station sending the song about an Irish pub again.

[flexoman61]

Very cool Chris, could you explain the decode.

[ChrisSmolinski]

Very cool Chris, could you explain the decode.

Sure. Each two character value sent is the hex code for an ASCII character. There's an ASCII table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

So looking at the three hex codes that were sent at the beginning, 48, 46, and 65, they are the hex codes for the letters H, F and U respectively.