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North American Shortwave Pirate / Space Junk Radio 6950 USB 0100 UTC 27 DEC 2024

« on: December 27, 2024, 0104 UTC »

Solid S9 signal with awesome 10 kHz bandwidth audio and no fading - killing it over the S6 noise floor. No ID yet, but I'm going to take a wild guess and say maybe Mix International based on that audio. SINFO 55555.

EDIT: More like 8 kHz bandwidth, but when I include the upper end, the treble is a bit weird - sounds best dialed down to around 7 kHz bandwidth (albeit with slight loss of fidelity).

EDIT2: I believe the ID at 0113 was "Space Junk Radio"

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HF Beacons / ODZ (beacon) 6783.9 kHz CW 2215 14 Dec 2024

« on: December 14, 2024, 2221 UTC »

Hearing CW beacon ODZ (SINFO 35354) with carrier centered at 6782.07 kHz. Can someone tell me where it is located? I couldn't find anything searching the web. and searching "ODZ" on this website yielded 5 pages of posts with "gODZilla" in them lol. Thanks!

EDIT: I see a thread that notes, "Please use this thread for chat about the beacon list" but I can't seem to locate the beacon list; perhaps if I knew where to find it, my question would be answered.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Indy Radio 6931 AM 0321 UTC 11 FEB 2024

« on: February 11, 2024, 0322 UTC »

Music coming in very faintly with a lot of QRN (inc. lightning crashes) and fair bit of fading (SINFO 35432). Signal appears to be relatively narrowband.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6919 USB 0420 UTC JAN 20 2024

« on: January 20, 2024, 0420 UTC »

Hip Hop. Decent audio from 3 kHz bandwidth signal. Peaking at S9+25 SINFO 55545

ADD: Pink Floyd "Welcome to the Machine" @ 0422

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Peskies / UNID 6919 LSB 0321 UTC 29 DEC 2023

« on: December 29, 2023, 0322 UTC »

"Don't You Want Me (Baby) by The Human League. Reasonably strong signal (S9) above minimal noise floor, with slight fading - SINFO 45444. Definitely has that "SSB" audio (not high fidelity) but copy is good.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Two Dog Radio 6955 USB 0046 UTC 23 NOV 2023

« on: November 23, 2023, 0047 UTC »

Just came on the air at 0046 - awaiting ID. S7 signal (with moderate fading) in Binghamton, NY with some interference from a wideband digital signal in the background.

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HF Mystery Signals / PSK? narrowband signal at 5358.62 kHz

« on: December 26, 2022, 0323 UTC »

Unidentified approximately 30 Hz bandwidth signal (markers are 50 Hz apart); unchanging nature suggests idle marker. Falls in 60 meter amateur band, but doubt it's amateur-related. Can't find a close match at sigidwiki. Any ideas? Thanks!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Thunder Chicken Radio 6935 USB 2110 UTC 30 OCT 2022

« on: October 30, 2022, 2110 UTC »

Twilight zone music followed by Bach's "Toccatta and Fugue in D minor". SINFO 45444 with peaks about S9.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Russian Retard Radio 6920 USB 0030 UTC 15 SEP 2022

« on: September 15, 2022, 0030 UTC »

Repeatedly ID'ing "You are tuned to Russian Retard Radio" with S8 signal.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WDOG 6850 FM>USB 0227 UTC 11 SEP 2022

« on: September 11, 2022, 0228 UTC »

Edited by Ray Lalleu. Was :
UNID 6850 AM 0227 UTC 11 SEP 2022

Hard to make out due to heavy interference from a STANAG station on the same frequency. Rock & roll (Led Zeppelin?) SINFO 42342

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Man Cave Radio 6931.5 AM 0019 UTC 29 AUG 2022

« on: August 29, 2022, 0022 UTC »

Unusual signal on the waterfall - looks like DSB, but I think there might be heavy interference from a VFT station. SINFO 53334 (peaks up to S9+20)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Damn Skippy 6930 USB 0135 UTC 28 AUG 2022

« on: August 28, 2022, 0136 UTC »

Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge. SINFO 44343 (reasonable reception, with peaks at about S8, above S7 noise floor).

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Two Dog Radio 6925 USB 0252 UTC 18 JUN 2022 New

« on: June 18, 2022, 0253 UTC »

Music (can't identify) somewhat above the (significant) noise (lot of static crashes).

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YEAH MAN RADIO 6925 AM 0120 UTC 22 May 2022

« on: May 22, 2022, 0123 UTC »

0120: "Up Up and Away in My Beautiful Balloon" (The Fifth Dimension).
0123: "Happy Together" (The Turtles)
Carrier is fading between S8 & S9+20 (interrupted by numerous lightning crashes) but audio is a bit difficult to make out a lot of the time. (Yes, I know technically SSB doesn't have a carrier, but I'm not sure how to otherwise describe what I'm seeing/hearing.)

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VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Inmarsat-4 F3 voice gone?

« on: April 10, 2022, 2103 UTC »

I went back to monitoring Inmarsat-4 F3 after a long absence. I'm picking up STD-C LES and Classic Aero 600/1200/10500 bps signals, but I don't see any 8400 bps voice signals where I saw them before (1546.130 – 1546.190 MHz). I have a note that says that 600 & 1200 bps signals are scheduled to be phased out by 2023; are those voice channels gone now, or just very infrequent? Thanks!