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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6921 AM 0005z 12 Jan 2022

« on: January 12, 2022, 0122 UTC »

Through heavy fading, I heard "Interval Radio - we love interval signals" and "The best interval signals of the 60's, 70's and 80's" (or something to that effect). Also, several addresses given out (for QSL?) including ones in Canada, New York and Pennsylvania. Not hearing on networked radios in the midwest nor New England.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / N.A.P.R.S (WLIS relay) 6921 AM 0105 UTC 12 Jan 2022

« on: January 12, 2022, 0109 UTC »

Just came on the air (@ 0000z ?) - audio's a bit weak, but ID sounds like "WLIF". Voices only (no music) but too much QRN to make out what I'm hearing.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6919 LSB 0024 UTC 6 January 2022

« on: January 06, 2022, 0101 UTC »

I'm pretty sure the language is Portuguese, NOT Spanish. (I used to be fluent in Spanish, and I can barely understand a word of these announcements. Plus, most if not all of the selections are Brazilian, which is a Portuguese-speaking country.)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6919 LSB 0024 UTC 6 January 2022

« on: January 06, 2022, 0055 UTC »

I had previously logged a few minutes of this station on New Year's eve before it went off the air (https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,91033.msg291089.html). Excellent signal here now (55444). I think I'm hearing announcements of the time on each minute.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDOG 6925 USB 2027 UTC 1 Jan 2021

« on: January 01, 2022, 2152 UTC »

Caught the last minute (off the air at 2049z) - minimum S9+15 with slight fading (maximum approximately S9+19). A weak carrier remains, as well as a weak USB station (pirate?) and a Spanish pesky on LSB.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDDR 4015 (was 6955) USB 0058 UTC 01 JAN 2022

« on: January 01, 2022, 0559 UTC »

Quite the powerhouse here - ranging between S9+30 & S9+40

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 AM 2304 UTC 31 Dec 2021

« on: December 31, 2021, 2335 UTC »

Frank Zappa - "Peaches en Regalia". Averaging about S9+25 with S9 noise floor; some fading.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6919 LSB 2326 UTC 31 Dec 2021

« on: December 31, 2021, 2330 UTC »

...and POOF! Off at 2329 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6919 LSB 2326 UTC 31 Dec 2021

« on: December 31, 2021, 2327 UTC »

"Giorgio by Moroder" by Daft Punk (thank you SoundHound!) - excellent signal here - well above the noise floor with very little fading

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Shortwave Broadcast / unid 6865 AM 2240 UTC 31 December 2021

« on: December 31, 2021, 2245 UTC »

Very weak - can make out a man's deep voice narrating something (no music). Presumably a pirate (based on frequency) but not totally sure.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WBOG 6974 AM 1832 UTC 30 December 2021

« on: December 30, 2021, 1901 UTC »

Excellent signal (nearly S9+30) here with very little fading. I'm seeing the carrier centered on 6973.4 (using WWV on 5, 10 & 15 MHz for calibration).

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HF Mystery Signals / Re: All 1 PPS pip / pulse / tick logs here please

« on: November 29, 2021, 0015 UTC »

I forgot to mention the frequency - 6965 kHz (probably obvious from the filenames I provided). That was the first time I came across this one, and I haven't seen it since, although as I mentioned, I don't spend a lot of time monitoring MW (when I do have the time to turn on the radios, I'm generally engaged in FT8 communications (callsign KC2KLC).

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HF Mystery Signals / Re: All 1 PPS pip / pulse / tick logs here please

« on: November 27, 2021, 0407 UTC »

I'm not aware of any implementation of G-TOR that uses data packet bursts of well under 1 second, at 1 second intervals. It looks much more like CHU's Bell 103-compatible 300-baud modem signal. SigIDWiki notes that "CHU is the only time signal station that uses this format", but since this almost certainly isn't a time station, maybe they're using it anyway? I have no idea what Windows-compatible software might be utilized to attempt a decode.

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HF Mystery Signals / Re: All 1 PPS pip / pulse / tick logs here please

« on: November 26, 2021, 0326 UTC »

Occasional HF monitor here. Have not been following threads regarding these type of signals lately, but I was hearing one earlier (02:30z on 26 Nov 2021) that alternated between 1 s pips and short (1 s interval) data bursts. The pattern appeared to match CHU to some degree, except (1) Wrong frequency; (2) No announcements; and (3) went off the air prior to 03:15z.

Any ideas about this - especially the data format? (I'm not yet up to speed on the Universal Radio Hacker software.) Refer to the following:

Waterfall: https://www.lutins.org/temp/sdr/6965/6965_waterfall.jpg
Audio: https://www.lutins.org/temp/sdr/6965/6965_audio.mp3
Spectrogram of pips: https://www.lutins.org/temp/sdr/6965/6965_pip_spectrogram.jpg
Spectrogram of data: https://www.lutins.org/temp/sdr/6965/6965_data_spectrogram.jpg

Thanks for any ideas!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Genix (tent.) 6950 USB 0015 UTC 23 Aug 2021

« on: August 23, 2021, 0228 UTC »

Positive ID at 0227z. Signal booming in (solid 55555) - if it wasn't USB, I'd swear it was local. Quality is, as usual, outstanding for sideband.