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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on March 18, 2018, 1240 UTC

Title: UNID 9025 AM 1238 UTC 18 Mar 2018
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on March 18, 2018, 1240 UTC
I am not sure this is a pirate... not sure what it is in fact. But logging it here for now so all will see the report and tune in, then we can sort it out.  Dave Valko reported this station the other day.
1238 Very weak here, an OM... ranting? about something.
1418 Nice peak now to SIO 333.
Title: Re: UNID 9025 AM 1238 UTC 18 Mar 2018
Post by: flexoman61 on March 18, 2018, 1250 UTC
1249 Hearing OM talking at peaks, I'll try to get some details.
1300 Still very weak, OM still going on. Almost sounds Preacher style but can't tell what's going on. Possibly some music.
        Very poor copy.
1330 Still there with the same reception.
Title: Re: UNID 9025 AM 1238 UTC 18 Mar 2018
Post by: Skipmuck on March 18, 2018, 1303 UTC
Threshold carrier here fading in and out of the noise floor since 1258 UTC. No detectable audio yet....interesting posting!
1322 UTC Getting bits and pieces of an OM talking now
(I do believe this is a link to that speech https://lib.msu.edu/vvl/presidents/coolidge/ )
Title: Re: UNID 9025 AM 1238 UTC 18 Mar 2018
Post by: hammarhead on March 18, 2018, 1311 UTC
Just above the noise at S4 here. Sounds like preaching or a motivational speech, but can't make out what is being said.
Title: Re: UNID 9025 AM 1238 UTC 18 Mar 2018
Post by: Helicaster on March 18, 2018, 1329 UTC
0124 tough copy here but talk about government and money
Sounds like someone is commenting on parts of the speech.
Commenter stated something about part of vintage radio at some university
maybe Michigan State university?
Commenter every few minutes
Sounds like a loop over and over keeps repeating the same thing
Title: Re: UNID 9025 AM 1238 UTC 18 Mar 2018
Post by: Token on March 18, 2018, 1407 UTC
Threshold carrier here fading in and out of the noise floor since 1258 UTC. No detectable audio yet....interesting posting!
1322 UTC Getting bits and pieces of an OM talking now
(I do believe this is a link to that speech https://lib.msu.edu/vvl/presidents/coolidge/ )

Yes skip, that is exactly the loop, unmodified, direct link here  http://archive.lib.msu.edu/VVL/vincent/presidents/mp3/coolidge.mp3

This station is repeating that loop over and over.  Locally here it is very weak, however remotes made it possible for me to hear it well.

This is probably not a pirate, but what it is is unsure.  These kinds of stations show up periodically.  Interestingly, I have logged one of these kinds of stations in March of the last two years.

Here is one from last year, March 16, 2017.  It was a 5 minute loop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfO42qkOrF0&t

Some speculation is these may be part of SIGNIT training, however I am not sure I buy into that.

(edit)  Looking through my log and recordings I find similar transmissions on 9225 kHz in Aug of 2013, 17795 kHz in March of 2014, 14965 kHz in March of 2016, 4947 kHz in March of 2017, and then today, 9025 kHz in March of 2018.

(edit 2)  This station was still on air at 1930z, but when I checked last, at 2045z, the station was off air.

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Title: Re: UNID 9025 AM 1238 UTC 18 Mar 2018
Post by: MDK2 on March 18, 2018, 1452 UTC
1452 I have it here in Denver, poor copy. Interesting.
Title: Re: UNID 9025 AM 1238 UTC 18 Mar 2018
Post by: fpeconsultant on March 19, 2018, 2257 UTC
This is crazy!  What's the March connection......?
Can any of you tell me if its only been copied in the (US) morning?
Thx
FPE
Title: Re: UNID 9025 AM 1238 UTC 18 Mar 2018
Post by: JimIO on March 19, 2018, 2316 UTC
The K3FEF WebSDR has a label that says "SkyKing 4" at 9025.