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I am hearing them tonight also in central California.  I am sure they are not coming from a low power desert beacon as they are heard all over North America and even in South America,

Tonight while listening to my own receiver on 7050 and using a nearby Kiwi SDR, I heard them simulcast on lots of non-ham frequencies:
3150, 4200, 4525, 6700, 7450, 7950, 8700, 9100, 9375, 9500, 9950, 10625, and 11200.  HF was very quiet tonight and it was fairly easy to spot the beeps with a Kiwi SDR set to wide steps.

First heard at 0709utc, off at 0740utc.

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Update:  also hearing the beep on 3150 at 0624 UTC.

Update No. 2:  signal gone at 0627 UTC.

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The half-second beeps spaced 2 seconds apart are being simulcast now on at least six different frequencies.  In CW receive mode I hear them on 3550 3900 6700 7050 7450 7950 here in central California.  Listening on several Kiwi SDRs around the US they are roughly the same signal strength.  I have heard them several times over the past year-- the transmissions last about 40 minutes.

I first noticed them on the 40 and 80 meter ham bands on 3900, 3550 and 7050.  There was a recent post on HF Underground/Facebook, which i no longer can find, by Jose Luis in South America who noticed them outside the ham bands. I scribbled down his frequencies--I could not hear all of them, but did hear the simulcast beeps on 6700, 7450 and 7950.

Any ideas?

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From the BBC:

Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back the federally funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being "anti-Trump" and "radical".

A White House statement said the order would "ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda", and included quotes from politicians and right-wing media railing against the "leftist", "partisan" VOA.

VOA, still primarily a radio service, was set up during World War Two to counter Nazi propaganda. It is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Mike Abramowitz, the VOA's director, said he and virtually his entire staff of 1,300 people had been put on paid leave.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge4l109r3o


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10/11 meters / Weak CW 27500 00:20 utc 25 September 2024
« on: September 25, 2024, 0032 UTC »
On the KFS Omni A SDR I heard a very weak CW signal at about 22wpm sending CQ CQ CQ DX DE 4RKJ--  not sure of callsign.  My CW copy is not that good above 20wpm.  Very ham-like--ended with "PSE"-- please.

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HF Beacons / Re: Beacon? 3.900.15
« on: June 09, 2024, 2147 UTC »
Jim, the Token/Mojave SDR is currently working--  http://tokenradio.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/ 

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HF Beacons / Re: Beacon? 3.900.15
« on: May 04, 2024, 0736 UTC »
The mystery "pips" were back tonight on 3550, 3900 and 7050.  I first heard them at 0720z and they went off at 0728z.  I monitored the 7050 signal on several Kiwi SDRs around the country.  It was the strongest in Miami at +10db, second strongest on the N. Utah Kiwi SDR at S9.  On the California Mojave Token SDR it was S5 and S5 on a New York SDR.  On a Hawaiian SDR it was S3.   It could not be heard on an Alaskan SDR.

Hmmm...  any guesses?

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HF Beacons / Re: Beacon? 3.900.15
« on: April 23, 2024, 0859 UTC »
Tonight around 0730utc I heard the same signal on 3900.  At the same time it is also on 3550 and 7050.  I also heard it several times a year ago.  It is typically on for an hour or thereabouts.   I have no idea what the source is.  Checking on SDRs in California, Utah, New York and Alaska, I heard the 7050 signal on all of them, with the Utah SDR having the strongest signal. 

Here's a link to a previous posting of mine about it:

https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=111833.0

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HF Beacons / Re: "F" Beacon On 7056
« on: March 14, 2024, 2244 UTC »
Last night I was listening around 0945 UTC and I again heard a similar signal, this time much more raspy with the letter "F" and a couple of other choppy CW characters.  It was slightly higher in frequency around 7056.8 and drifted slightly over the course of a few minutes.

Here's a SDR recording of it:  https://whyp.it/tracks/163884/kb6cproxykiwisdrcom-2024-03-14t09-42-37z-705683-cw?token=wusV7

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HF Beacons / "F" Beacon On 7056
« on: March 13, 2024, 0109 UTC »
Last night at 10000 UTC while using a Kiwi SDR about 40 miles from me in central California I heard a "F" CW beacon on 7056.  It was being sent at about one second intervals at about 13wpm, somewhat faster than the longtime Russian "K" beacon around 7039.4.

I Googled single-letter beacons but could not find any listing for a "F" beacon on 7056.  Russian or other spook?  Pirate or bored ham?

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HF Beacons / Re: 4108 "...dit dit dah..." Signal
« on: July 02, 2023, 2240 UTC »
Never mind... not a pirate.  After I posted this I remembered I'd heard a nearly identical signal in March of 2022.  For several days it had "5 dits and a dah", then an unknown digital signal appeared on 4108.  So what I heard is evidently connected to some non-pirate utility use.

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HF Beacons / 4108 "...dit dit dah..." Signal
« on: July 02, 2023, 0805 UTC »
Here in Central California I'm listening to 4108 in the CW mode around 0800z.  I am hearing a transmitter that sends about nine dits followed by a tenth dah.  Speed is around 18wpm.  A pirate beacon or a utility signal?


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A few weeks later, the mystery signals continue to be heard here in central California.  I've observed it as strong as S8 and on for as long as 40 minutes. I've heard them several times between 0700z and 0900z. The frequencies have shifted slightly higher and are on 3550, 3900 and 7050 simultaneously.

There is a thread on QRZ.COM about them. The 40 and 75/80m signals appear to be even stronger in the eastern US.  One member has heard the same signal on 14050, but thus far I've not heard it there.  The same poster got some detailed photos of the 14050 signal on a SDR. (https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/whats-that-beeping-on-7-047-and-3-547.856555/page-3)

(From QRZ posting of beep seen on 14050) "The bright trace to the left is foreign broadcast, just above the band edge. Note that at the bottom there are two strings of pulses close together, this double pulses occurs every 9 single pulses."


(From QRZ posting of beep seen on 14050) "Here is is with the waterfall sped up to max. Each burst looks like a group of pulses:
The span of these bursts is about 300 kHz. The bursts are about 2.5 - 3 seconds apart."


From a California SDR of 3550 signal:

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Tonight from 0820z to 0830z I am hearing a "pip" signal on 3549.6, 3899.6 and 7049.6. When listening in the CW mode it sounds like a CW carrier with a bit of modulation. Tonight it is about a half-second beep with about a three second interval.

There was no ID when it stopped.

Signal was about S7 here in central California and about the same strength on the KFS omni SDR up north.

Several hams on the QRZ forum have heard it also in the central US, also around the same time.

Any cluess?

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HF Beacons / Re: Rapid Ditter On 4097.3 & FT8 (?) On 4095
« on: December 13, 2022, 0254 UTC »
I can't hear either signal at 0240 UTC on the KB6C SDR.  The next time I hear the FT8-like signal, I'll time its transmissions, as it may be FT4.

Recently I sent Dennis/KB6C an email thanking him for the use of his excellent SDR in northern Ventura county and got back a pleasant reply.  He also sent a photo of its antenna, a large home-brew 6 to 30mHz discone.

I can't get the [img] feature to load the Imgur.com link of his antenna, so here is the direct link:  https://imgur.com/a/UljqfSi

Here is the link to the KB6C SDR: http://kb6c.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/

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