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Peskies / UNID Spanish Language 6960 kHz LSB 0000 UTC 11 July 2017
« on: July 11, 2017, 0004 UTC »
6960 kHz LSB 6.960 MHz LSB 6960 LSB Spanish speaking Spanish language freebander radio checks 6960 LSB

Hearing a nice signal on 6960 LSB just past 0000 UTC (at 0003 UTC) hearing a station doing radio checks, tuning up (dropping an AM carrier on 6960.0 kHz, then switching back to LSB mode and saying "HOLA! HOLA! HOLA!" over and over again...often holding on the vowels, likely indicating that he's checking power levels).

0004 UTC - now whistling into microphone, then switched back to HOLAAAAA! and HOOOOOOOOOOOLLLAAAAA.  Sounds like the 11 meter guys have moved back down to 43 meters....even though 11 meters is still at least sort of active.

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Peskies / UNID Spanish Language 6915 kHz LSB 0000 UTC 11 July 2017
« on: July 11, 2017, 0002 UTC »
6915 kHz LSB 6.915 MHz LSB 6915 LSB 6.915 LSB Spanish speakers freebanders outbanders bootleg two-way traffic pescadores etc

11/07/2017 - 07/11/2017 - 11 JUL 2017 JULY 11 2017 0000 UTC

Tuned into frequency 6915 kHz LSB mode to hear several Spanish speakers chatting away.  Reminds me of the traffic usually heard on 6900 kHz LSB and other nearby frequencies.  Fits in line with 5 kHz channel spacing.  Mention of "Tampico". 

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10/11 meters / Re: 11m Activity 10 Jul 2017
« on: July 10, 2017, 2359 UTC »
Hearing faint traffic on 27.455 MHz USB / 27455 kHz USB - all in Spanish, as this is one of the more important Latin American / Spanish speaker calling channels, that makes sense.  Lots of in-band 26965-27405 AM traffic, centering around 27025 / channel 6, 27085 / channel 11 and 27265 / channel 26.

26.915 MHz AM / 26915 kHz AM is also busy with domestic US American stations speaking English, but not nearly as crazy as it was earlier today.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: FCC Whacks an Obscure New Jersey AM Radio Station. But Once Upon a Time, Kids...
« on: July 10, 2017, 1753 UTC »
According to the Wikipedia article for WKMB 1070 kHz AM, they returned to the air on July 1, 2017.

A 250 watt Class D AM station out of New Jersey, do you hear it on a regular basis in Maryland, Chris?

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10/11 meters / Re: 11m Activity 10 Jul 2017
« on: July 10, 2017, 1712 UTC »
Hearing some traffic on the lower freeband channels, especially on 26915 AM and other nearby frequencies.  Not hearing any Latin American traffic

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Peskies / Re: 6.990MHz LSB Indonesian Chanters
« on: July 10, 2017, 1637 UTC »
Fits in line with every-village-has-a-HF-radio.  7000 kHz, 6995 kHz, 6990 kHz, and various frequencies around 11 MHz according to the RadioReference forums tread linked.

L-G is probably right.  These guys are all over the place. 

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Peskies / Re: 3.053 AM
« on: July 08, 2017, 2008 UTC »
3053 kHz AM?  What language?

3104 kHz, 3127, 3158 kHz all AM? 

2850 kHz to 3150 kHz / 2.850 MHz to 3.150 MHz is an aeronautical / aircraft band, with voice communications supposed to be in USB mode.  Since you were hearing traffic in AM...I bet it wasn't aircraft comms you were hearing.

Could you give any more info about what you heard?

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Peskies / Re: 6.990MHz LSB Indonesian Chanters
« on: July 08, 2017, 2003 UTC »
I'll check out those SDRs,  I'm on the other side of the world (almost literally, I'm located on the East Coast of the USA) - so maybe grayline I'd be able to reach all the way around to Indonesia  ;D  The GMRS/FRS service at 462 MHz and 467 MHz here is the functional equivalent of UHF CB, and most everywhere has repeaters (which have to be licensed - as do the users of the repeaters).  The FCC is in the process of deregulating simplex FRS/GMRS use - since the vast majority of traffic on these frequencies is simplex.  Lots of adoption by businesses, I hear everything from bar/nightclub security to schools to road flaggers to drug dealers using the channels, with heavy use of CTCSS/DCS.


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10/11 meters / Re: CW 27.385 LSB 1709 UTC July 6th, 2017
« on: July 08, 2017, 1957 UTC »
Gotta love it.  Sounds like another ham operator operating on 11 meters.  "I've been licensed 8 years".  I have a ham license therefore I'm better than you - but I'm going to transmit on CB channels anyway.

Several years ago I recorded somebody calling CQ DX through the voice traffic on 27385 LSB / channel 38 LSB / 27.385 LSB.  I initially thought they were just trying to jam the frequency since they kept repeating it over and over again but apparently they actually were calling CQ DX.

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10/11 meters / Re: Spanish language 11 meter net 27.695 MHz LSB 27695 kHz LSB 30 June 2017
« on: July 05, 2017, 2246 UTC »
There's a taxi lady dispatcher with a distinctive roger beep that uses 27.515 MHz AM and I often hear her during band openings.

The 25.615 to 26.505 MHz range also seems to be a favorite for taxi radio communications. I've heard them on 27.195 MHz as well as legal CB channels 24 and 25 - 27.235 MHz and 27.245 MHz, all in AM mode with roger beeps.  Sometimes I can hear the mobile units replying, other times it's just a woman reading numbers in Spanish.

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Peskies / Re: 6.990MHz LSB Indonesian Chanters
« on: July 05, 2017, 1927 UTC »
Sounds like the Portuguese speaking stations often heard on 6925 kHz LSB and dozens of other frequencies....the chanting may be just them messing around and not realizing that they're "getting out" (reminds me of local freehand CB nets that I've logged hundreds of miles away) - lots of inside jokes, etc. I have a feeling "The Leader" station knows he's getting out but probably doesn't care - another CB-like characteristic (see: people having long-winded QSOs on 27.385 LSB / channel 38 LSB, etc).  If they're in remote areas and, like you say, there's an endless stream of these stations all over the bands...chances are they're not going to get busted.

If the stations talking on the 8MHz aircraft HF-SSB frequencies can operate with impunity, I know stations using 6990 kHz don't have anything to worry about.

In a way, this reminds me of the European "Echo Charlie" freebanders that use the 6 MHz aircraft channels in LSB mode.

They're all over the place, I would like to set up a SDR or a scanner in one of the bigger Asian cities and see how crazy the VHF/UHF and FM broadcast spectrum is.

I know Thailand has a VHF CB allocation at 245.0000 to 245.9875 MHz, and Indonesia has a VHF CB allocation at 142 MHz IIRC...then there's places that use the same band plan as 476 / 477 MHz Australian UHF CB. I bet the frequencies around those bands are heavily used too. Apparently the 245MHz VHF CB band is extremely popular with heavy use of repeaters, high power radios, etc.

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Peskies / Re: 6.990MHz LSB Indonesian Chanters
« on: July 04, 2017, 1858 UTC »
Somebody needs to call them back when they're on frequency and give them a signal report, especially if this Ring Leader station is putting such a powerful signal out there.  10db over S9 consistently is impressive by anybody's standard.

Wouldn't surprise me if these guys were running re-purposed military gear - that, or just higher-end amateur radio equipment and The Ring Leader has a good antenna setup. 

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10/11 meters / Re: WYTZ STL 26350 FM 1442 UTC 29 Jun 2017
« on: July 03, 2017, 2054 UTC »
Makes sense.  The usual suspects on 25.910 FM, 25.950 FM and 25.990 FM are licensed as base stations and I'm pretty sure they function as permanent studio-to-transmitter links, which would explain the fact that they pop up very often during band openings.  There's a lot of these IFB/STL frequencies in the 25 and 26 MHz band but it does seem like 25910 FM, 25950 FM and 25990 FM are the ones that anybody really logs on a regular basis.


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10/11 meters / Re: WYTZ STL 26350 FM 1442 UTC 29 Jun 2017
« on: July 03, 2017, 0811 UTC »
Just out of curiosity I did a FCC ULS license database search for active licenses on 26.35 MHz and it crashed the FCC DB search page.  So I searched for active licenses in Michigan on 26.350 MHz and it came back with one result - license KD4576, LAKE HURON BROADCASTING CORP - active since 02/17/1965 for 1 mobile unit at 40 watts output on 26350 kHz / 26.350 MHz 20K0F3E FM emission for the SAGINAW, MI area.

Not entirely sure if this is the same thing you heard or not.  It's possible the license is licensed in another state, I'll have to try the FCC ULS search later for nationwide USA licenses on that 26350 frequency.

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Peskies / Re: 6.990MHz LSB Indonesian Chanters
« on: July 03, 2017, 0618 UTC »
^Seconded (on both points).

KPL (Kilo Papa Lima) and AIM / AIMR (Australia, Indonesia and Mr. Robert) - well, the KPL part sounds like a callsign, or maybe part of a callsign...but who would use "Mr. Robert" as part of a phonetic alphabet?  I know using place names is popular but yeah, what?

Hopefully further monitoring of these guys on 6990 kHz LSB / 6.990 MHz LSB will clear at let some of this stuff up.  Have you heard anything else in English on this frequency? 

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