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Spy Numbers / CW Stn on 4088.5 KHz
« on: November 24, 2018, 1457 UTC »
Not sure if this is the right place (I don't want to look like a noob)

Been looking at some online SDRs lately, and this morning seeing/hearing some cw on 4088.5 KHz.  Seems to be a one way transmission (not a qso) - seems to be repeating lines of code, always starting with N3N.

"N3N UA56D3 6NU5DN4 AA3 36"
"N3N UA56DD 74U6UU5 AT5 5N"  and so on.....

Always starts with N3N, and ends with what seems like a sequence number, like 36, then 37 - just now heard 4N instead.

Some fades, so I can't vouch for the accuracy.  About 20 WPM.  I dialed up an SDR in Ft. Collins, CO and was copying it pretty ok there too at the same time as the KPH SDR in CA.

Thoughts anyone?

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HF Beacons / 40M dasher? 7129.3 khz (with SDR screenshot)
« on: February 17, 2018, 0701 UTC »
Found this while snooping around on 40M on Token's online SDR receiver - 7129.3 KHz.  Weak to medium signal strength, nice traces on the waterfall display.

28 dashes per minutes at 0635z.   Cannot hear it directly here at home NW of Denver....  Been steady like this for 20+ minutes....

I may upload a screenshot later - it's getting late...




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HF Beacons / 80M dasher? 3549.98 KHz @ 0545Z
« on: February 06, 2018, 0611 UTC »
Checked the SKCC page late this evening and was browsing the comments, and one guy in MO posted "Our signal is back on 3549.98".  I was curious so I tuned in there and sure enough I heard a dasher of sorts - a short dasher every 5 secs or so.  Rather weak, some qsb but consistently in there.  I asked him how long he had heard it and he said he had it 40 minutes earlier, then tuned off to do something else and came back and it was still there.  Also reported hearing it "sometime last week".

This was very beacon-like, not a guy on a key or keyer.  I listened for maybe 10 minutes before it went off the air around 0550z (or simply faded out altogether).

I hear things from time to time on the ham bands which make me stop and verify that I'm not hearing things (things that sounds like beacons but aren't) - however, as this was heard before, I'll check this freq from time to time.  BTW, 3550 KHz is also the SKCC 80M calling freq.

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HF Beacons / Hexie
« on: March 26, 2017, 1421 UTC »
Tuned around the handful of beacon freqs I often hear stuff on and had nothing this morning.... Parked it on 6700.4 and eventually started hearing Hexie pop in weak at 1355Z.  Was in and out with a few good dashes heard at times until 1405z or so.

Decided to post it and at 1415 heard some strong dashes, but not quite regular - almost as if someone was tuning up.  Happened a couple of times in a 30 second period.  Unless Hexie decided to fade in super strong...makes me wonder what that was, but I think the 'dashes' were longer.  Seemed to be on or very near the same freq.

Gotta love mysterious HF.

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HF Beacons / Shorty 7998.3 KHz
« on: January 12, 2017, 2242 UTC »
Hearing Shorty at or about 7998.3 KHz, the usual short dashes.  Pretty easy to hear above the local static, with occasional fades to nothing - but it's in most of the time. 

Just showed up around 2235z.

Is Shorty it's official name?  Seems like a good one - I have heard Hiker in the past on 7998.8 or so, and those dashes are noticeably longer.  Makes it easy to tell them apart.

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HF Beacons / 40M CW Beacon? Dasher at 7065 KHz
« on: September 05, 2016, 2352 UTC »
I hesitated posting this morning, but after hearing this dasher again this afternoon (and into the early evening) I think it's worth seeing if others hear it too.

I was tuning around 7065 KHz and came across a dasher just above the noise - 1.5 seconds on, 5 seconds off (timing approximate).  This was around 1700Z, and as the day went on the signal improved.  Now at 2330z, the signal is clear, maybe an S-unit above my local noise floor.

Anyone else hearing this?   

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HF Beacons / L Beacon - good sigs @ 6668 KHz
« on: July 16, 2014, 2129 UTC »
Haven't heard L for some time.  Suddenly came up with fair-good signal at 2120Z.  Still consistently good after 10 minutes of listening.  Not sure if it had been off the air or ???

6668 khz.

Sometimes it's mornings only, sometimes evenings....

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HF Beacons / Beacon at 28.000 mhz?
« on: November 21, 2013, 1839 UTC »
I'll be darned 'cuz it's gone now - but this morning I was hearing what almost sounded like a time standard at 28.000 MHz.  I heard a dit I believe every second, with no ID, for about 10-15 minutes since I discovered it and then I got interrupted and stopped monitoring - when I got back to the radio it was gone.

Time was approximately 1745 - 1800Z or so.

The signal was varying in signal strength, from S0 to S8 on peaks.

I know propagation has been hot on the upper bands lately... Anyone have any input on this?  This didn't sound at all like a typical ham beacon you'd find in the 28.2 MHz range....

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HF Beacons / "L" beacon this morning 6668 KHz
« on: November 13, 2012, 1552 UTC »
Thought I'd start the thread again (with an "L" in the subject line) since I'm definitely hearing an "L"...

Hearing L with some noise @ 1545Z  -  6668 KHz.  Weak - Moderate strength at times, ionosphere must still be warming up (!).  I too hear the little burp before the first dit at times...  Gives it some personality!

Any chance this is the L that was reported back in September?  There weren't too many posts on that one...

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HF Beacons / Are there any left??? I'm talkin' 8 MHz....
« on: April 06, 2012, 1532 UTC »
Been listening on and off as time permits, but haven't seen nor heard of any 8 mhz beacons lately...  I miss them - has anyone been listening there?

 ???

I'll sometimes park the rig on 8 MHz and I find I will hear (if I listen long enough) sometimes a tuner-upper, on occasion a dasher, and I heard a ditter there on and off a few months ago.  Maybe not quite on 8000 kHz exactly, but these oddities seem to pop up near there from time to time.

Things seem to be quiet on the board lately - there's gotta be something interesting going on out there!

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HF Beacons / 30 meter dasher, or ???
« on: January 10, 2012, 1600 UTC »
1540Z - Tuesday morning - hearing random dashes on 10136.5 MHz.   Possibly hand sent, but this has been going on for minutes at a time.  At one point it stopped, and I could hear, 200khz away, another series of odd dashes.  Then the initial station came back on, and I could hear both sets of dashes, about 200 khz apart.  At this point I don’t think this is hand sent.

Started around 0840 mtn time (1540 Z) – still hearing this 20 minutes later.  It does not sound at all like someone tuning up or anything like that at all.

Anyone else have a minute to listen in?

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HF Beacons / Dasher on 10.1335 MHz
« on: December 29, 2011, 1856 UTC »
Hearing the dasher on 10.1335 MHz  -  noon, mountain time zone..  Been there on and off over many weeks now.

Haven't seen a report from anyone in a long time - hope to generate activity!

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HF Beacons / NVIS condx in CO
« on: June 03, 2010, 0302 UTC »
Been hearing several of the 8 mhz Rocky Mountain beacons today (Pike, FH ditter, and TS) in the Denver area .  NVIS conditions have been in and out through much of the day, since mid-morning and periodically throughout the day, and even at 9pm mtn time as I write this.

A real treat for us close-in guys - we will go days hearing everything BUT these closest beacons...

Very interesting conditions today.

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HF Beacons / Log this morning from CO
« on: March 12, 2010, 1352 UTC »
I had a chance to listen at sunrise today - Logged this morning (1330Z):

3450 OK
4077.3 MO
4079 TMP 35
4096.6 Kelsie
4102.3 Wind beacon (not much wind apparently)

All were weak but can positively ID. 

Nothing heard above on 5 or 8 mhz yet...

Using IC-713, Multiband dipole @ 40'

Had very nice NVIS condx yesterday mid-day - Was hearing TS and PIKE on 8 mhz very nicely (S-7 strength) when I normally never hear these guys locally.  Condx lasted for about 4 hours.

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HF Beacons / TS back on the air
« on: March 07, 2010, 1838 UTC »
As of 9:44 Mountain time (Sunday) the TS beacon is back on the air  -  8189.6 MHz.

Reports are appreciated - thanks!

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