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HF Beacons / Dasher, 6954.7 kHz, March 29, 2014, 0025 UTC

« on: March 30, 2014, 0036 UTC »

I have been seeing this dasher (and the one on 6954.85 kHz) off and on for a while, but never got around to actually looking at it.  It has been pretty weak, but today it fairly jumped out of the waterfall at me.

Frequency is 6954.7 kHz, but looks like it does shift over time.  Dashes are about 0.53 seconds long and happen about every 2.04 seconds.

T!

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HF Beacons / AZ Beacon, 13554.18 kHz, March 28, 2014, 1455 UTC

« on: March 28, 2014, 1503 UTC »

A beacon not in my log book before this morning, March 28, 2014, 1455 UTC.  Sending "AZ" in CW about once each 4.7 seconds.  Frequency is 13554.18 kHz, but is pretty drifty, so take that as a general area to look.  Bearing and propagation this morning are consistent with the beacon maybe being in Arizona, but also could cover quite a large area outside AZ.

I have seen AZ down around 4 MHz before, not sure if this is the same beacon on a new freq or what.

T!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 11130 kHz AM March 09 2014 2315 UTC

« on: March 09, 2014, 2320 UTC »

Radio station YHWH on 11130 kHz, AM, March 09, 2014, 2315 UTC.  Religious pirate.  Saw him tuning around and then tuning up on freq.  He swept around from 10800 to 11400 kHz before settling on 11130 kHz.  S8 into my location in the Mojave Desert.

T!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio YHWH 6995 AM 0033 UTC March 02 2014

« on: March 02, 2014, 0039 UTC »

Yahweh Radio, YHWH, 6995 kHz AM, March 02, 2014, I turned on the radio at 0033 and he was already on.

Religious pirate, kind of Old Testament leanings.  Good audio, S8 or a little better here.

T!

(edit) Off air at 0048.  He really needs to run a bit later to make it east.

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Spy Numbers / MOVED: 15016.xx usb HF GCS, 1835 utc Feb, 28 2014

« on: March 01, 2014, 0353 UTC »

This topic has been moved to [Utility].

http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=15575.0

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Spy Numbers / MOVED: Odd flute sound on 4020khz

« on: February 26, 2014, 0226 UTC »

This topic has been moved to [Other] as it is not Spy Number related.

http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=15545.0

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Utility / MOVED: 6943 USB 0148 UTC Feb. 4, 2014

« on: February 09, 2014, 1736 UTC »

This topic has been moved to HFBeacons.  Digital IDed, dasher still present.

http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=15215.0

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Other / Pips network up, multiple frequencies, Feb 08, 2014, 1616 UTC

« on: February 08, 2014, 1814 UTC »

The Pips Network is up again today, Feb 08, 2014, starting before 1616 UTC.  Mostly the same freqs as yesterday although seeing higher freq stuff.  Could just be conditions.  At this time (1815 UTC) all freqs are still up and active.

A listener in CO is hearing all the way down to the 3450 kHz freq very weak, probably indicating one of the TX sites is in his general region.

Looking at the double pulse on 16725 I am able to peak one on about the 070 and the other on about the 095, reinforcing two transmit sites.

I will post a list of freqs here after I have a chance to review the recordings, but it looks about the same as yesterdays list here:   http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,15259.0.html

T!

(edit)

A quick shot at the freqs seen here today.  Others were reported by other listeners, but this is what was heard here.  I am sure more will show up as I sift the recordings.

28800, 27450, 26650, 26500, 26150, 24050, 23100, 22600, 22450, 22300, 22050, 21150, 20250, 20175, 20100, 19650, 19300, 18675, 18625, 18450, 18050, 17975, 17950, 17650, 17475, 16725, 16550, 16000, 15625, 15100, 14400, 13875, 13325, 13250, 12025, 11300, 11225, 11150, 11025, 10575, 10050, 9225, 9050, 8975, 8825, 8275, 7700, 6725, 6550, 6225

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Other / Pips Network up, multiple frequencies, Feb 07, 2014, 2217

« on: February 07, 2014, 2251 UTC »

The Pips Netowrk appears to be active right now, Feb 07, 2014, noticed at 2217 UTC.  Short pip every 6 seconds on multiple frequencies.

(edit)  Off at 2248:30 UTC, while I was writing this.

Freqs seen at first glance:
24050
22600
22450
22300
22000
21150
19300
18625
18450
18050
17975
17475
16725
16000
15550
15100
14400
13875
13325
13250
12025
11300
11225
11150
11025
10575
10050
9225
9050
8975
8825
8275
7700
6750
6725
6550
6225

That is all for now, I am sure I will find other freqs when I play back the recordings.

T!

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HF Beacons / MOVED: 6943 USB 0148 UTC Feb. 4, 2014

« on: February 05, 2014, 1443 UTC »

This topic has been moved to Utility.

http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=15215.0

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Spy Numbers / MOVED: What is this station? Need help figuring out what it is.

« on: February 04, 2014, 1454 UTC »

This topic has been moved to Other.  This is a Ham digital mode, JT65, and not a Numbers Station.

http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=15217.0

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HF Beacons / Possible new dasher, 4050.34 kHz, 09 Jan, 2014, 0220 UTC

« on: January 09, 2014, 0344 UTC »

Another possible new dasher / beacon tonight, 09 Jan, 2014, at 0220 UTC.  This one sends dashes.  One dash about 0.19 second long each 0.92 seconds.  Values not very exact as I was jsut eyeballing it on the spectrogram.  Frequency is 4050.34 kHz.  Signal level fair but not strong.

T!

(edit) going through the logs here I see this is very similar, virtually identical timing and pulse, to a dasher I had on 4096.87 kHz on November 28, 2013.

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HF Beacons / New desert beacon, "MOJAVE DES" 4096.54 kHz, 09 Jan, 2014, 0215 UTC

« on: January 09, 2014, 0306 UTC »

There appears to be a new south west beacon in operation around the 4096 kHz range.  I have not been checking these freqs very often, the last time was probably a couple weeks ago, but tonight this one is very clear.  There is enough fading on it that I am not ground wave to it, but a nice signal all the same.

4096.54 kHz, Jan 09. 2014, 0215 UTC.  Sends three long dashes, each about 1.3 seconds long, the third is slightly longer than the rest.  The three dashes are followed by MOJAVE DES in CW.  The cycle then repeats, each cycle is about 18.9 seconds long.

Go to it guys, lets see where else this one is heard.

T!

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Spy Numbers / MOVED: HF-GCS 6739KHz USB 0755UTC 12/30/2013

« on: December 30, 2013, 1455 UTC »

This topic has been moved to Utility.

http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=14680.0

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HF Beacons / "A" Beacon, 6291.93 and 10486.55 kHz, Dec 6, 2013, 1715 UTC

« on: December 06, 2013, 1720 UTC »

Many people are pretty familiar with the "A" pirate beacon on 2097.31 kHz.  As beacons go this one is a power house.  Today I stumbled across the 3rd and 5th harmonics, on 6291.93 kHz and 10486.55 kHz.  They were weak but mostly copiable here at 1715 UTC on Dec 6, 2013.  I looked for other harmonics, but those were the only ones I found for sure.  The 7th harmonic on about 14681.17 kHz may have been in there, I kept seeing repeating noise changes at about the right interval, but never really heard or saw the A.

T!