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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio 48 / MRI 6845 USB 2229 UTC 18 Nov 2023

« on: November 18, 2023, 2349 UTC »

Radio 48 with nice signal and waterfall images. 6845 KHz 18NOV23 23:26z Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire

https://youtu.be/95seY9Hi8kE?si=paM2K4nVFgq2vIVU

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22 Meter Band HiFER Beacons / Re: K6FRC

« on: November 18, 2023, 1931 UTC »

K6FRC weak to fair signal strength with fading. 13565.035 KHz 18NOV23 19:30z Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire

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HF Beacons / Re: HexY2K

« on: November 18, 2023, 1928 UTC »

HexY2K with a nice strong signal, moderate fading. 6700.47 KHz 18NOV23 19:26z Airspy HF+ 60ft SE/NW longwire

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HF Beacons / Re: Long dasher 8039.82 KHz

« on: November 18, 2023, 1659 UTC »

Long dasher fairly strong this morning with moderate fading. 8039.8 KHz 18NOV23 16:55z Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire.

It was suggested this might be a second harmonic of 4019.9, in monitoring both simultaneously I have not seen that so far. Thanks to DSL (all we have in rural Pinal County AZ) I have a higher noise floor from roughly 3815 to 5100 KHz which does not help with weak signals in the 4 MHz range.

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22 Meter Band HiFER Beacons / Re: DYG Beacon 13564.82 KHz

« on: November 17, 2023, 2231 UTC »

Nov. 13 Time 0036 utc  good copy on DYG...

Thanks Bill, been tied up the past few days, and was just over helping AC7GZ find a nasty noise source was clobbering him DC to daylight, rouge switching power supply. I should be back listening now. Also had an issue with my HFU notifications going to spam, that should be fixed now I hope. Cloudy with rain the past few days, first time for the DYG solar power and it has performed great so good to go.

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22 Meter Band HiFER Beacons / Re: K6FRC

« on: November 12, 2023, 2322 UTC »

K6FRC moderate signal strength, fades for two or three passes then back in there. 13565.035 KHz 12NOV23 23:22z Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire

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22 Meter Band HiFER Beacons / Re: PCO

« on: November 12, 2023, 2319 UTC »

PCO weak with fading but copyable on the upswing. 13563.48 KHz 12NOV23 23:18z Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire

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HF Beacons / Re: HIKER

« on: November 12, 2023, 2314 UTC »

HIKER with very nice signal this afternoon, long dashes. 7998.16 KHz 12NOV23 22:54z Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire

https://youtu.be/QoAtko37lF0?si=EQb4deJvX5CKccjt

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Spy Numbers / Re: V07 22 Oct 2023

« on: November 12, 2023, 0301 UTC »

Ran across V07 this evening with good signal into central Arizona. 16131.00 KHz 12NOV23 02:31z Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire

https://youtu.be/OUMaNff-yM8?si=qQC9tMxDCfOkGoaF

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HF Beacons / Re: Long dasher 8039.82 KHz

« on: November 08, 2023, 2307 UTC »

Monitored this long dasher for several hours today while doing other things, from around 19:00z it came up solid and strong, by 22:00z it began to deteriorate as if it's power supply voltage was decreasing. Dashes became more chirpy and more delayed as time went by. By 22:41z it was down to just a chirp every seven or so seconds. 8039.80 KHz 08NOV23 22:41z

Today's YouTube posting:
https://youtu.be/jrz6ZjYHAgA

Previous YouTube posting from 27OCT23:
https://youtu.be/WkeS6CXKZOQ?si=aOZVRAx_kwyCkBv6

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22 Meter Band HiFER Beacons / Re: DYG Beacon 13564.82 KHz

« on: November 08, 2023, 1847 UTC »

Nov. 7 Time 0027 Utc  DYG faded up.  Also on a special note
I first heard TON fade up and went over to DYG freq. and as I supected
DYG was there.  Both beacons out of AZ.
This is only the second time I have heard DYG.

Thanks for the report Bill!

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HF Beacons / Re: Long dasher 8039.82 KHz

« on: November 06, 2023, 2015 UTC »

Long dasher was very chirpy, about three seconds from key down to landing on a solid frequency with dashes running longer than normal, all total about five seconds per key up. Within a few minutes it got much stronger and much more stable with minimal chrip and about a three second solid dash and three seconds between dashes. Maybe the sun came out from behind the clouds and kicked up solar panel output, that's purely a SWAG on my part. 8039.87 KHz 06NOV23 20:07z Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire

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HF Beacons / Re: Hexy2K

« on: November 06, 2023, 1910 UTC »

Nice signal on HexY2K this mid day, solid with minimal fading. 6700.55 KHz 06NOV23 19:10z Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire

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HF Beacons / Re: S

« on: November 06, 2023, 1907 UTC »

S in there weak this mid day with some long fade outs then back in. 7999.92 KHz 06NOV23 19:06z Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire

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HF Beacons / Re: Long dasher 8039.82 KHz

« on: November 05, 2023, 1903 UTC »

Long dasher fairly strong with moderate fading. 8039.79 KHz 05NOV23 19:02z. Airspy HF+ Discovery 60ft SE/NW longwire.