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Loggings => Utility => Topic started by: R4002 on November 13, 2018, 2257 UTC

Title: 6507 USB Presumed Marine Weather (UNID) 2255 UTC 13 Nov 2018
Post by: R4002 on November 13, 2018, 2257 UTC

YL giving marine weather forecast 6507 kHz USB, good signal on the Sigma SDR - CT/MA border.  Presumed VMC based on frequency and YL voice heard

Title: Re: 6507 USB VMC Australian Coast Guard Marine Weather 2255 UTC 13 Nov 2018
Post by: MDK2 on November 13, 2018, 2319 UTC

That's an unusual time to be copying VMC at that frequency, given that it's later in the morning there. I don't see it on the eibi schedule but I know that VFF Iqaluit Radio uses that frequency as well. Did you copy the ID?

Title: Re: 6507 USB VMC Australian Coast Guard Marine Weather 2255 UTC 13 Nov 2018
Post by: R4002 on November 14, 2018, 1308 UTC

No ID copied - presumed ID based on frequency (wasn't aware that VFF used it as well) - very well could have been VFF.  YL giving marine weather forecast in English (should have stuck around longer to get more specifics about where she was talking about)

Title: Re: 6507 USB Presumed Marine Weather (UNID) 2255 UTC 13 Nov 2018
Post by: MDK2 on November 14, 2018, 1339 UTC

I'm almost positive it was VFF. I was just now copying two stations on 6507 USB as of 1335 UTC, one with a YL voice which just signed off and one with an OM voice that's normal for both VMC and VMW Wiluna. Also, I saw a report from a listener in Canada that he heard VFF around the same time as your report.

VFF is a hard catch. I'm not sure what their power level is usually, but it must be low most of the time. I didn't hear any ID myself.

EDIT:
Here's that other listener's copy. He said he heard it at 2245 UTC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uPTlBWIZls