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Loggings => HF Beacons => Topic started by: Strange Beacons on February 17, 2018, 1624 UTC

Title: Possible pirate beacon at 8656 kHz
Post by: Strange Beacons on February 17, 2018, 1624 UTC
While scanning for HF commercial aircraft voice traffic on Token's SDR, I spotted this signal (https://youtu.be/2b6TdScYULQ) in the SDR's waterfall. It has a one-second interval transmitted tone or dash, operating well outside of the amateur radio bands. Pirate beacon?

Curt / W9SPY
Title: Re: Possible pirate beacon at 8656 kHz
Post by: Token on February 17, 2018, 1853 UTC
Unfortunately I don't think this is a real signal.  This is probably some kind of RFI that popped up on my receiver a few days ago.  I have not yet chased it down to find the source.  If you look around you should find it on several different freqs, probably more than a dozen, all apparently on some multiple of about 61 kHz.

T!
Title: Re: Possible pirate beacon at 8656 kHz
Post by: Strange Beacons on February 17, 2018, 2138 UTC
Unfortunately I don't think this is a real signal.  This is probably some kind of RFI that popped up on my receiver a few days ago.  I have not yet chased it down to find the source.  If you look around you should find it on several different freqs, probably more than a dozen, all apparently on some multiple of about 61 kHz.

T!

Yes, that makes sense. Right after I discovered this signal, I spent a bit of time entering the 8656 frequency into a variety of other SDRs located all around the United States and could not find the signal anyplace else other than on your SDR.

Curt / W9SPY
Title: Re: Possible pirate beacon at 8656 kHz
Post by: Token on February 18, 2018, 1717 UTC
Yes, this is some kind of local noise.  Exactly what it is I do not know, I have killed all the power on the property and it is still there.  Time to break out the loop and drive around a bit.

T!