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Loggings => Other => Topic started by: caylorman on February 16, 2019, 2147 UTC
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Snagged about a 20 minute recording of this station speaking what sounds like Japanese words or numbers. Any help would be appreciated.
https://soundcloud.com/e-j-caylor/unid-6990mhz-lsb-2019-02-14-2300-2319/s-VnSkx
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Possibly Japanese but if so, sounds to me like from a non-native speaker. The intonation sounds like a North American English speaker's to me.
Might also be a native (North) American language.
Best SNR in the recording is around 12:40-13:30 and again around 17:40.
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Snagged about a 20 minute recording of this station speaking what sounds like Japanese words or numbers. Any help would be appreciated.
https://soundcloud.com/e-j-caylor/unid-6990mhz-lsb-2019-02-14-2300-2319/s-VnSkx
OK, that is a very interesting catch. Questions: Did you tune this via a web SDR or with your own radio? (I'm asking because I want to try to catch this one myself). And what mode did you use (USB, LSB, AM)?
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Captured on my own SDR in Central Indiana. Mode was LSB.
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Sounds like Japanese words, not numbers (Ichi Ni San Shi Go Roku Hachi etc), maybe a Spy Station with a roll call? ;D
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Same frequency and mode - 6990 kHz LSB 6.990 MHz LSB - as the Native American chanters or chanting station heard in the US. This frequency seems to be a favorite for all kinds of users....see the threads in the peskies forum related to it as well:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/board,34.0.html
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I checked my SDR recordings, and I had this station, the same guy we've heard a few times chanting. Weaker signal than usual.
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Sounds like Japanese words, not numbers (Ichi Ni San Shi Go Roku Hachi etc), maybe a Spy Station with a roll call? ;D
I heard him say arigato as well as several common Japanese words and numbers when I bothered to monitor, however others seem to feel he's amerindian and there's merit to this as some of the words he used were not Japanese. I kinda get the idea he's just some guy reading a list of random words in foreign langs.
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Captured on my own SDR in Central Indiana. Mode was LSB.
Thanks. Have you heard this signal more than once? I noted that you copied it at 2300 UTC and I'm interested in trying to catch this signal on my own SDR, located in Seattle, Washington.
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Here is a very clear recording of what appears to be the same transmission (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMhXH5AbQ_g) on the same frequency, recorded January 5, 2019 at 2205 UTC.
From the YouTube description: "Heard in Michigan. Due to the signal strength and time of day here, I think it's safe to assume this is coming out of North America."
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Closer to peskies than pirates, but certainly blurring the line...regardless of if its Native Americans chanting to each other in rural areas or somebody messing with SWLs ;D
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This is most likely the infamous "Indonesian Chanters" that appear frequently on 7000 khz, 6995 khz, 6990 khz, 6985 khz, etc. LSB. I hear them often e.g. four days out of seven on several frequencies most mornings here (100 miles from the Pacific Ocean) from 1500 utc. until they fade out by ca. 1700 utc. Seems to be some sorta Village Radio-type thing. Usually, such loggings end up on the "Peskies" board, that is where I (and others) have been occasionally posting them. Sometimes they engage in routine-sounding QSOs (not so eerie) but when they repeat a phrase / chant in "call-and-response" mode, it sounds rather quite eerie!
Osborne White, Engineer
Radio Mysterious Mystic Radio / WMMR
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This is most likely the infamous "Indonesian Chanters" that appear frequently on 7000 khz, 6995 khz, 6990 khz, 6985 khz, etc. LSB. I hear them often e.g. four days out of seven on several frequencies most mornings here (100 miles from the Pacific Ocean) from 1500 utc. until they fade out by ca. 1700 utc.
Thanks for supplying the approximate times and frequencies. I've been trying to catch one of these transmissions for a few weeks now, with no luck (as of yet, anyway. But I am a persistent rascal).
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Think he's been tdoa'd in the masshole region.
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In fact, just now at 1512 utc on 11 March 2019, I am hearing them on 7000 khz LSB fairly well with intermittent group traffic, and on 6991 khz LSB, making "testing" monosyllabic noises. The "group" though is on 7000 khz., with repetitive phrases and etc. Based on the accents of the stations speaking, Indonesia is the likely QTH. There is a strong station "leading" the others at ca. S = 3 and numerous "replying" stas. at S = 2 or so, along with at least one voice recorder being used for playback. The din when they "reply" in unison is pretty darned cool!
Osborne White, Engineer
Radio Mysterious Mystic Radio / WMMR
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In fact, just now at 1512 utc on 11 March 2019, I am hearing them on 7000 khz LSB fairly well with intermittent group traffic, and on 6991 khz LSB, making "testing" monosyllabic noises. The "group" though is on 7000 khz., with repetitive phrases and etc. Based on the accents of the stations speaking, Indonesia is the likely QTH. There is a strong station "leading" the others at ca. S = 3 and numerous "replying" stas. at S = 2 or so, along with at least one voice recorder being used for playback. The din when they "reply" in unison is pretty darned cool!
Osborne White, Engineer
Radio Mysterious Mystic Radio / WMMR
Yes, I recorded a video of the chanters (https://youtu.be/lgaLbAJVuIQ) via a KiwiSDR located in Jakarta, Indonesia. Very strange stuff!
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Here is another video I recorded of the chanters (https://youtu.be/ypyxzLlkxKE).
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This morning, at 1525 UTC, they are at it again, on 7000 khz LSB, coming in like gangbusters here (100 miles east of the Pacific Ocean) e.g S = 4 and no fades. Besides the "call & response" chanting, there has been intermittent low-fi musical bits included during some of the "response" portions of the activity. Seems to be a fairly good-sized crowd "responding" to the "call" phrase(s) today! I wish we had an Indonesian-speaking resource available to translate some of this material here on the HFU! Signal diminished to S = 3 at 1532 UTC, and the "leader" is taking a break for a two-way QSO with another (?) unheard station. This seems to be a daily routine, based upon my observation over the years!
Osborne White, Engineer
Radio Mysterious Mystic Radio
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This morning, at 1525 UTC, they are at it again, on 7000 khz LSB, coming in like gangbusters here (100 miles east of the Pacific Ocean) e.g S = 4 and no fades. Besides the "call & response" chanting, there has been intermittent low-fi musical bits included during some of the "response" portions of the activity. Seems to be a fairly good-sized crowd "responding" to the "call" phrase(s) today! I wish we had an Indonesian-speaking resource available to translate some of this material here on the HFU! Signal diminished to S = 3 at 1532 UTC, and the "leader" is taking a break for a two-way QSO with another (?) unheard station. This seems to be a daily routine, based upon my observation over the years!
Osborne White, Engineer
Radio Mysterious Mystic Radio
I cannot vouch for the accuracy, but a person commented on the video I recorded of this same transmission at 7000 kHz with the following:
"They are talking in Indonesian (in a high level of respect) and some parts in Javanese, some parts "be aware," "be careful," and "we thank." It appears that they are performing mantras, to get barakah (Allah's blessings), but in the middle of these mantras, they are saying numbers. Very strange!"
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Wow, the Indonesian Chanters are pretty, well, chatty this morning 18 March 2019 at ca. 1540 UTC! They are on 7000 khz, 6995 khz, 6990 khz, and 7010 khz, all in LSB and all ca. S = 3 or so here! The 7000 khz "traffic" was their standard "call & response" (per a previous post, apparently of a somewhat religious nature) but on the other frequencies it seems more conversational. Very cool! Although I have heard them above 7000 khz in the past, it has been well over two years since I have heard them in the ham band! I wonder if they QSL?
Osborne White, Engineer
Radio Mysterious Mystic Radio
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I finally heard this superb "station" (or stations, or this station's friends) yesterday morning, out in an obscure valley far away from RF-noisy civilization. Thanks to Strange Beacons for the fine recordings, which inspired me to try again after failed attempts. Someone really needs to QSO w/ the chanters, not forgetting tape Echoplex, which would be right up their Strasse of the Ether, so to speak.
(No cell coverage where I was, either, and I didn't take notes, kind of an old-school spontaneous thrill.)
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As copied for a couple of minutes on 07 APR, 0200 UTC, at my QTH: https://youtu.be/S7rNdn3nDW0
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As copied for a couple of minutes on 07 APR, 0200 UTC, at my QTH: https://youtu.be/S7rNdn3nDW0
That is one very clear recording. Nice.
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The (presumed Indonesian) weird chanters reappeared around 7000 kHz LSB at 1417z 9/23/2020. 5/9 signal here, the other stations I heard higher up on 40m were Pacific at the time and would support the theoretical QTH of the stations. I made a recording but it really isn't good enough to post here, but I suspect we will be hearing these very interesting stations again through the winter.
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Well, the Indonesian "chanters" (or "Village Radio" users) are pretty active again this morning at 1340 GMT on 6985, 6990, 7000, and 7005 kcs. They are usually heard here on one or two freqs of a morning but seem especially busy today! Very, very eerie & cool when they get going! Heard on KFS Kiwi-SDR and pinning the virtual meter on theBandung Indonesia Kiwi-SDR!
Osborne White
WMMR - Radio Mysterious Mystic Radio
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Very, very eerie & cool when they get going!
Yes, the first time I stumbled onto that frequency in that part of the world and heard them going stront, I almost fell out of my chair in my radio shack. The Indonesian Chanters have to be one of the most unique radio oddities out there.
Thanks for the report. Good to know they are still on the air.
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The chanters are loud and clear most evenings here from 6.9 to 7.2MHz LSB and are on various Indonesian islands, some are radio amateurs as I have heard them using amateur radio callsigns in Bhasa Indonesia language.
Reason for the chanting is unknown, chants are various, many with village names being repeated over and over in the chant.
Quite odd, but they seem to take their chanting serious. :)