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10/11 meters / 11 meter DX Logs 11 Febuary 2016 1700 UTC +

« on: February 11, 2016, 1801 UTC »

More Latin American DX rolling in late morning/early afternoon:

26225 USB - Spanish language, strong signals
26235 USB - Spanish language
26305 AM - Spanish language, weak
26365 AM - Spanish language, fading
26375 AM - Spanish language, similar to 26585 AM...lots of roger beeps, etc
26405 AM - Spanish language
26555 LSB - Latin American SSB Calling Freq.  See also, 27455 USB
26585 AM - Mexican AM Calling Channel.  Lots of stations with beeps, music, echo, etc
26605 AM - Spanish language QSO
26635 AM - YL talking, Spanish, possibly taxi
26665 AM - Spanish language, very strong
26715 AM - Puerto Rico, the usual strong signals
26735 AM - US Truckers - channel 19 (27185) down one band (-450 kHz)
26765 AM - "73s from 303 in the tree, we'll see y'all later"
26775 AM - English language, Southern US accents
26815 AM - Similar to 26765 and 26775
26905 AM - Taxi Dispatch Lady YL Spanish Language S9 signal with music under her voice and roger beep
26915 AM - Southern US AM DX channel, active
26945 AM - Strong data signal
26965-27405 - US Legal CB band.  Also known as "mid band" "FCC band" "CEPT band" or "Legal 40"
27425 AM - Spanish language, YL talking with OM
27455 LSB - English language
27455 USB - Spanish language (see also - 26555 LSB)
27475 USB - Spanish language (with QRM from 27480 LSB)
27480 LSB - Southern US Stations having QSO, with QRM from 27475 USB
27505 AM - Truckers
27645 LSB - Spanish language, discussion about stations in Mexico (10 division mentioned)
27665 USB - Spanish language
27690 LSB- Spanish language
27695 LSB - Spanish language
27765 USB - Spanish language
27775 AM - Spanish language, possibly taxis
27805 AM - Spanish language, weak but there's a carrier there
27815 AM - YL Taxicab dispatcher
27845 AM - YL Taxicab dispatcher
27875 AM - Spanish language, weak
27935 AM - YL Taxicab dispatcher, with elaborate roger beep/noise toys
27965 AM - Spanish language, lots of stations on this freq

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: unID 6965 AM 2240z 2/9/16

« on: February 09, 2016, 2314 UTC »

Carrier visible on K2SDR WebSDR waterfall.  Very weak but its there.  Can't hear any audio though.  Seems to be closer to 6965.1 kHz.  There's a "meandering" data signal around 6968 kHz that isn't helping the situation.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio play on 6930USB on 9 February 2016 at 2016

« on: February 09, 2016, 2018 UTC »

"You see there's nothing sexier than a man with a 9-to-5 job"

Sounds like King of the Hill to me

CW at 2033 then signal gone.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 1925 UTC 2/9/16

« on: February 09, 2016, 2016 UTC »

Via K2SDR WebSDR.  S8 to S9 signal level with minor fades.  Good quality audio, nice wide signal and strong carrier.

2037 - Hindenburg disaster report audio "oh the humanity!"
2039-2041 - Audio gone.  Carrier keying on and off.  Weaker carrier popping up in the sidebands.  Signal is still a solid S9.  Data bursts on frequency at 2042 and then the carrier disappeared.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID Carrier/Tone 6888 kHz (6887 kHz USB) 0110 UTC 02/09/2016

« on: February 09, 2016, 0115 UTC »

Via K2SDR WebSDR.  Tuning around the band, came across this at 0110 UTC.  Seems to either be a 1 kHz modulated tone (tuning in USB mode on 6887.0 kHz) or a carrier sitting right on 6888.0 kHz unmodulated.  Fading in and out.  Was strongest at roughly S5-S6 but now (0113 UTC) it is hanging out just above the noise floor.  Some weak pescadore QRM when tuning in USB.  Flipped it over and tuned to 6889.0 kHz LSB and the QRM isn't as bad.  Still hearing the same tone of course.  Not sure how long this has been here but its there.  Slow fades but even at weakest signal level its still stronger than the distant marine SSB traffic nearby this frequency. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925.1 AM 0030 UTC 02/09/2016

« on: February 09, 2016, 0036 UTC »

While looking for/listening to the short CW sent in with the peskies on 6925 LSB - I noticed a faint carrier on 6925.1 kHz or thereabouts.  I'm not getting any modulation besides the two-way voice communications on 6925 kHz LSB but there's certainly a carrier there.  I'm guessing Liquid Radio going by the frequency? 

Now I'm hearing more CW - may still be on the "lower side" of 6925 kHz.  CW heard in AM mode while tuned to 6925.1 kHz.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID CW or MCW in USB 6923.9 kHz 0027 UTC 02/09/2016

« on: February 09, 2016, 0029 UTC »

Hearing CW coming in with the peskies.  S7 signal level.  

I should note that I'm tuned to this in USB mode on the listed frequency, 6923.9 kHz USB.

Seems to have disappeared into the noise and QRM on 6925 LSB around 0032 or 0033 UTC

More CW sent at 0034-0035 and now 0041-0044 UTC, coming in with the two-way voice traffic on 6925 kHz LSB

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 2100 UTC 02/08/2016

« on: February 08, 2016, 2107 UTC »

Crime drama. 6925 kHz USB.  S9 signal. Discussion about suspects, arson.  Sounds more "realistic" than the old time radio type dramas heard here recently.  At 2106 UTC, discussion of "3-D images" - so now I know this isn't a classic radio drama.

2109 - Detective interviewing suspect about his cell phone
2114 - Talking about executing a search warrant, dog barking in background, OM talking with music in background
2127 - 911 dispatcher audio and police radio audio, dramatic music
2135 - "He's a known drug dealer, he's got a lot of gold in his mouth, he runs this block like a storefront"
2136 - "That's his corner, and now we got a body in the street on his corner"
2140 - Off? Or rapidly faded

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10/11 meters / 11 meter DX Logs 7 Febuary 2016 1500 UTC +

« on: February 07, 2016, 1655 UTC »

Doing another quick "low - mid - high" (26.515-26.955 "low band" / 26.965-27.405 (CB band - "mid band") / 27.415-27.855 "high band") as well as UK FM band 27601.25-27991.25.  Then scanned the "full channel" export band, that is 25.615-28.305 AM/SSB.  

Galaxy DX 959 with modifications, Ranger Voyage VR 9000 and CRE 8900 (Alinco DR-135CB) radios used for receive.  VR 9000 and CRE 8900 both have FM capability.  CRE 8900 has UK FM "27/81" offset channels programmed in.  Dipole antenna and random wire antenna tuned for 27.5 MHz


25615 AM - Spanish language YL taxicab dispatch with roger beep, weak
25645 AM - Spanish language YL taxicab dispatch
25775 AM - Spanish language, sounds like a QSO (instead of the usual taxi/business traffic I hear in the lower parts of 11m)
25805 AM - Spanish language YL taxicab dispatch
26005 AM - Spanish language, sounds like truckers, weak
26025 AM - Spanish language, noisy het at noise floor or slightly above
26055 AM - Spanish language, OM numbers being read with roger beep - likely taxis
26105 AM - Truckers.  This is a common "low band" frequency for business/truckers/taxis
26140 FM - Data bursts
26175 - maybe FM - more data
26200 USB - Similar to 26225 USB
26225 USB - Spanish language, very strong.  Miami, Puerto Rico, Mexico mentioned.  S9+ signal levels
26235 USB - Spanish language, similar to 26225 USB
26265 AM - Spanish language, weak
26405 AM - Spanish language - this is another popular "low channel" or "low band" trucker/taxi freq
26500 USB - Spanish language, sounds like Puerto Rico
26515 AM - Spanish language, roger beeps
26520 LSB - Spanish language, strong signals
26535 AM - Spanish language
26540 LSB - Spanish language, weak
26545 LSB - Spanish language, stronger signals.  Sounds like a QSO - stations QSYed from 26555 LSB or similar
26555 LSB - VERY Busy, Spanish language.  Sounds like Puerto Rico and other Caribbean traffic.  Some signals S9+30 or higher
26560 LSB - Likely stations QSYed from 26555 LSB
26565 AM - Spanish language, with roger beep
26575 AM - Spanish language, Mexican accents with elaborate roger beeps, noise toys, music, echo/reverb etc
26585 AM - Latin American Calling Channel - active with stations from Mexico, etc
26595 AM - Spanish language, YL reading numbers, likely taxi
26615 AM - Puerto Rico - full scale S9+30
26625 AM - Carrier - fading up so S9 and down to S3, with music and sound fx
26685 AM - Somebody keying up in AM with no modulation.  S9+30 signal.  Probably one of the ops from 26715, etc, tuning up
26695 AM - Very strong AM traffic, Spanish language.  Same group of 1kW+ stations that hang out on the next few channels
26705 AM - Same group of OPs that hang out on 26715, 26725, 27065.  Seems to be Puerto Rico with some domestic US stations
26715 AM - Puerto Rico LOUD (often overmodulated)
26725 AM - See 26705 AM, 26715 AM, etc.  With some splatter from stations on 26705 and 26715
26735 AM - Hearing two QSOs here at once.  One in English (likely truckers) and another, stronger, in Spanish
26775 AM - Truckers - US - English language, fading
26835 AM - "361 in Mississippi waving a hand"
26905 AM - Spanish language taxi lady is there, but much weaker than she was this time yesterday
26915 AM - Southern USA Freeband AM DX Channel.  Similar to Channel 26 (27265) and 28 (27285).  See also 26815 and 26835
26945 AM - "How's this radio sound?"
-begin legal US "FCC" or "Mid" CB band 26965-27405-
26985 AM - CH 3 - Spanish language
27015 AM - CH 5 - Spanish language, strong het and QRM
27025 AM - CH 6 - "The Superbowl".  In past years, ops have retransmitted the actual Superbowl on this frequency!
27035 AM - CH 7 - Spanish language.  27015 and 27035 seem to be the Latin American versions of 27025 (see also 26585, 26705, etc)
27045 AM - R/C Channel "7A" - Spanish language with roger beep with data bursts on top
27065 AM - CH 9 - "La Florida Puerto Rico Buenas Dias Hellllloooooo!!!!!!!!" Spanish/English/Spanglish traffic, very strong
27085 AM - CH 11 - The original AM "Calling Channel" - active with stateside traffic
27165 AM - CH 17 - Truckers, possibly local
27185 AM - CH 19 - The Road/Trucker Channel.  S3 to S5 level heterodyne/noise.  Dozens of stations talking at once, roger beeps galore
27215 AM - CH 21 - "How about it skipland?! 701 in the Love Country Got Down!"
27225 AM - CH 22 - Active local channel, talking to distant stations
27245 AM - CH 25 - Spanish language YL taxicab dispatcher with single roger beep
27305 AM - CH 30 - "Hola Hola Hola la frecuencia a la gente de Puerto Rico!" S9 signal nice audio
27395 LSB - CH 39 - SSB QSO on-going.  Sounds like Canadian/midwestern accents
27405 AM - CH 40 - Spanish language with roger beep.  Heavy QRM
-end legal US "FCC" or "Mid" CB band 26965-27405-
27415 AM - Spanish language, weak at noise level
27425 USB - Spanish language, mention of Puerto Rico
27430 LSB - "You have a nice day now enjoy the rest of the weekend we're clear"
27440 LSB - English language, Southern US accents
27440 USB - Spanish language - discussing radio equipment, with QRM from co-channel traffic.  Strongest out of the group on 27440/27445
27445 AM - Spanish language taxi dispatch YL with roger beep
27445 LSB - English language, Southern US accents
27455 USB - Spanish language, stations calling CQ.  Very active (Latin American SSB Calling Freq, the "high band" version of 26555 LSB)
27460 LSB - English language, Southern US accents
27470 USB - Spanish language, QRMing 27475 LSB badly (and getting QRMed by them as well)
27475 LSB - "Grab us another cup of coffee and we'll be back shortly"
27475 USB - "Saludos a frecuencia!" - other Spanish language traffic underneath
27485 USB - Spanish language
27490 LSB - English language, very weak
27500 USB - Spanish language traffic, weak, right at noise floor
27500 CW - 11 meter CW/data/beacon frequency, weak CW heard
27515 LSB - Caribbean DX Calling Channel, active.  No sign of the taxicab dispatcher on 27515 AM
27540 USB - 416, 198 East Coast of Ireland nice to hear you in there best 73s! (distinctive Irish accent)
27555 USB - International Freeband 11 meter Calling Channel.  Hearing English and Spanish speaking traffic
27560 USB - British accented station heard, no ID/callsign readable
27575 AM - Spanish language
27580 USB - "QSL Mr. Franco?  It's a Radio Kenwood 150 whiskeys at the moment" - Albania mentioned
27600 USB - 10ADxxx callsign, Mexican station speaking English working a station down in the noise.  Severe QRM from 27601.25 FM
-begin UK FM "27/81" odd offset 40 channel CB band 27.60125-27.99125-
27601 FM - UK FM CB Channel 1 - 27601.25 FM (QRM from 27605 LSB and 27600 USB)
27605 LSB - Spanish language
27605 USB - "Located about 200 miles North of London, back to you sir" "nice to hear a station from Delaware" (British accent) callsigns 26LR333, Unit 135, other "Lima Radio" stations 26LR131 and others heard under heavy QRM
27610 USB - British accented station heard, right at noise floor.  This is close to UK FM CB Channel 2 - 27611.25 FM
27665 USB - South American SSB Channel - active with Spanish language traffic
27675 USB - Similar to 27665 USB
27695 LSB - Station IDing as "Unit 25" (in Spanish) QSO with another UNID station Spanish language
27700 USB - SSTV
27711 FM - UK FM CB Channel 12 27711.25 FM - Irish Church Service UKFM CADS/WPAS Church Relay Service
27721 FM - UK FM CB Channel 13 27721.25 FM
27725 LSB - Spanish language, QRMed by 27721 FM
27781 FM - UK FM CB Channel 19 27781.25 FM traffic from UK heard
27805 AM - Spanish language taxi dispatch
27815 AM - Spanish language taxi dispatch - YL with roger beep
27841 FM - UK FM CB channel 25 27841.25 FM - constant FM carrier signal heard - maybe church relay?
27851 FM - UK FM CB Channel 26 27851.25 FM, 26-series callsigns heard.  Nearly a constant signal on this frequency
27901 FM - UK FM CB Channel 31 27901.25 FM, British English accent heard, heavy fading
27905 AM - Spanish language with roger beep, likely taxis or truckers.  QRM from UK FM 27901 FM
27971 FM - UK FM CB Channel 38 27971.25 FM, UK traffic heard
-end UK FM "27/81" odd offset 40 channel CB band 27.60125-27.99125-

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10/11 meters / 11 meter DX Logs 6 Febuary 2016 1400 UTC +

« on: February 06, 2016, 1447 UTC »

11 meters is waking up this morning.  27385 LSB is nice and busy.  Most "outbander" or "freebander" traffic appeared to be from Latin America.  No sign of our taxi dispatcher friends on 27805 AM or 27815 AM.  26635, 26905 and 27515 were readable though.  Same YL dispatchers.

Here's some quick logs:

26520 AM - Some sort of strong carrier here.  Haven't seen this before
26555 LSB - Latin American SSB "Lowband" Calling Frequency - not as active as 26585 AM or 27455 USB but I hear traffic at noise level
26575 AM - Spanish language, Mexican accents
26585 AM - Latin American AM Calling Frequency - very active
26595 AM - Spanish language OMs talking (at noise level)
26615 AM - Spanish speaking OMs in QSO, S5 signal
26635 AM - YL Spanish speaker (solid S9 signal) talking to weaker OMs, "Los Angeles" and various numbers mentioned.  Likely a taxicab dispatcher
26715 AM - Spanish language
26735 AM - Station IDing as "4-3" working another station, very strong S9++ bleeding over several channels up and down
26750 OTH Radar Bursts
26775 AM - English language, Southern US accents, weak
26815 AM - Weak AM signals heard, unknown language.   Possibly US stations considering frequency.
26845 AM - "La Antenna"
26905 AM - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher
26915 AM - English language, Southern US accents, at noise level
26945 AM - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher with roger beep.  Reading numbers, weak
26955 AM - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher, hearing the taxis shes talking down at noise level (with various roger beeps)
27425 AM - Spanish speaking OM with roger beep, Puerto Rico mentioned.  Fading, S4 at peaks, down to noise level
27445 AM - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher
27455 USB - Latin American SSB "Highband" Calling Frequency - very active
27475 USB - Spanish language
27490 USB - Spanish language
27495 USB - Spanish language
27515 AM  - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher, with SSB QRM underneath her
27535 USB - Spanish language, peaking to S9+30.  "Alpha November Uniform Echo Lima" said in broken English
27540 USB - Spanish language.  Sounds like two stations having QSO.  One is at noise floor, the other a solid S5
27555 USB - International 11m Calling Freq - Stations calling CQ in Spanish language, heard Mexico, Aruba and Venezuela mentioned, various alphanumeric callsigns heard, requesting stations QSY for contact
27625 USB - Spanish language, weak
27635 USB - OTH Radar, preceded by three loud beeps.
27640 USB - Spanish language, at noise level
27675 USB - "Hola! Hola! Hola!", other Spanish language QSOs down at noise level
27695 LSB - Spanish language
27775 USB - Unknown language at noise level, possibly Portuguese
27785 AM  - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher with roger beep.  Reading numbers with some fading

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 1830 UTC 02/05/2016

« on: February 05, 2016, 1832 UTC »

Sounds like more CB/ham traffic being relayed

"He looks like Steve Urkal...in 50 years".  Recorded CB traffic

1915 - Clip from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" (The D.E.N.N.I.S. System)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6924.6 USB 1954 UTC 2/4/16

« on: February 04, 2016, 2307 UTC »

That thought crossed my mind as well.  Although OTR hasn't been transmitting the digital mode that the 24K0JID emission entails, and OTR hasn't IDed

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6924.6 USB 1954 UTC 2/4/16

« on: February 04, 2016, 2240 UTC »

That callsign is authorized for several HF frequency bands, 6770-6970 kHz being one of them.  25 kW ERP!  I wonder what 24K0J1D emission is.  24K indicates a decently wide signal (24 kHz bandwidth)

Edit:  I should have clicked the second link 

Rockwell Collins, Inc.
Form 442
Rockwell Collins, Inc. (“Rockwell Collins”) seeks to
 add four sites to its existing experimental
license, WF2XMP.  The four added sites, in
Tampa, Florida, Denton, Texas, Kansas City,
Missouri, and Arlington, Virginia, will be used fo
r over-the-air testing in
 support of the US Navy
Office of Navy Research (ONR) contract N00014-12-
C-0363.  The scope of this contract is to
research higher data throughput capability over
the High Frequency (HF) spectrum for mitigating
Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) data transport
risks in satellite denied environments.
The transmit sites at these four
locations will be used in the over-the-air demonstration of 4G
ALE software to analyze HF signal propagati
on and then choose the best frequency of
propagation and the supporting modem data
rate and bandwidth for high speed data
communication.
The 4G ALE software is designed to maximize
the data throughput that can be achieved using
HF communication equipment.  The data collected
 by the 4G ALE software will be used to
independently verify that the best frequency of
 propagation and data rate
s are being selected by
the software.
The over-the-air demonstration is the real time ve
rification of performance that has been tested
using HF channel simulators in the laboratory.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925.1 AM 1730 UTC 02/04/2016

« on: February 04, 2016, 1807 UTC »

Station had come and gone off the air several times in the past 30 minutes or so.  Now hearing it back on 6925.1 with a S9 level signal and snippets of voice and "warbling" sounds (not sure how else to describe).  There's music in the background but there's also some sort of noise on the signal.  

1807 UTC - OM voice heard under the noise.  Talking about the football season being almost over.  Something about rock n' roll, then back into music at 1809.  

1810 UTC - "Can you turn that off? Jesus Christ!"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6914 USB 1845 UTC 02/04/2016

« on: February 04, 2016, 1803 UTC »

Hearing what sounds like a WWV relay on 6914 USB.  Very weak but I can hear the time pips.  UTE/data burst QRM around 6916 or so at times.  Right at noise level but there is something there.