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3810 kHz LSB - Time station in Spanish 0445z

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SW-J:
about 9 -10 PM CST local

A beep every second, sorta like CHU but in Spanish!

I think the 80M band may have been long last night ...

Update: Will post vid/aud of event later

Pigmeat:
It comes from Ecuador running a killowatt. I'm not sure which town.

L Cee:
From Wikipedia:

HD2IOA is the callsign of a time signal radio station operated by the Navy of Ecuador.[1] The station is located at Guayaquil, Ecuador and transmits in the in the HF band on 3810 and 7600 kHz.[2].

The transmission is in AM mode with only the lower sideband (part of the time H3E and the rest H2B/H2D) and consists of 1 kHz tone pulses repeated every second and voice announcements in Spanish.

While sometimes this station is described as defunct, reception reports of this station on 3810 kHz appear regularly at the Utility DX Forum

Zoidberg:
That time signal on 3810 comes through fairly routinely here in Texas late at night, tho' not always very strongly.  Sometimes regional hamster chatter covers it up, but the carrier is usually audible.

Pigmeat:
Same here Lex. About three hours after dark if the noise isn't too bad.

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