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Loggings => Other => Topic started by: coastiedan on February 03, 2021, 2153 UTC

Title: UNID 7074 USB 2145UTC
Post by: coastiedan on February 03, 2021, 2153 UTC

Found someone on to of the FT8 signals playing Nirvana "Smells like teen spirit"
then I believe ID every 30 sec with "Waterfall?"
Very strange catch...

Title: Re: UNID 7074 USB 2145UTC
Post by: MDK2 on February 03, 2021, 2212 UTC

That would probably qualify as a "ham behaving badly" rather than a pirate, especially given the antipathy toward FT8 expressed by some hams. Anyway, interesting catch and a little different from some of the other illegal things some hams do.

Title: Re: UNID 7074 USB 2145UTC
Post by: autovon on February 04, 2021, 0005 UTC

Most likely is someone has their soundcard incorrectly selected in the JT software.   What's supposed to play over their speakers gets transmitted on the air instead.   Happens quite often, and sometimes pretty funny.

Title: Re: UNID 7074 USB 2145UTC
Post by: CJammer on February 04, 2021, 0123 UTC

Agreed on more than likely misconfigured sound card. I hear many people running JTAlert of GridTracker being accidentally broadcast over the air.
 
It's not nearly as bad as the ham that falls asleep in front of his microphone with his VOX on. The soothing sound of snoring.