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Spy Numbers / V07, 17431 kHz USB, 14 APR 2024, 0200 UTC

« on: April 15, 2024, 0003 UTC »

141 141 141 1
435 112

92758 68826 24458 08621 70929 00432 52502 80477 29717 51120 72370 03130 35429 61894 65723 62385 26263 54883 57558 75484 90762 57402 25094 62854 20818 10740 62868 61412 53707 38706 01496 99840 53578 64948 68265 12218 54430 62486 16915 97990 86236 09137 03712 91063 72849 54287 52672 83687 12245 42102 61616 18656 92251 18012 70650 15204 58277 73540 48442 61071 13116 64912 14970 57487 53608 31126 90348 31856 73553 50066 22872 77888 47680 03457 29932 27423 91084 88695 31837 90437 16315 76141 84125 59457 27936 15994 96947 16705 74834 06015 15275 26609 98636 61053 13184 52382 23166 72770 13576 91727 99657 73216 71481 06438 89130 42883 57725 80154 13222 23478 81838 45692 78337 82764

000 000

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Shortwave Broadcast / HM01 on Radio Habana Cuba, 11760 kHz, 11 APR 2024, 1115 UTC

« on: April 11, 2024, 1218 UTC »

First noted at 1115 UTC, but still on as of 1217z as I type this with English language broadcast underneath (CRI per eibi).

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Peskies / UNID 11430 LSB 09 APR 2024 1328 UTC

« on: April 09, 2024, 1329 UTC »

Listening on KPH kiwi SDR, YL and OM speaking Spanish in what I believe are Mexican accents. Interesting catch both because of LSB mode and the fact that I had just been sitting here after catching V13 numbers station on the same frequency at 1300 UTC (but in USB mode).

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Spy Numbers / HM01 April 2024

« on: April 01, 2024, 0505 UTC »

01 APR 2024, 10860 kHz, 0500 UTC

46267
65361
60676
73411
51078
75448

Normal one day progression. As they've been on a run where HM01's messages update as expected, I will cease commenting on that until such time as they start getting goofy (rebroadcasting last week's messages or skipping ahead as much, etc).

If interested in exactly which files were transmitted digitally, review the last few entries of March's topic:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,126396.30.html

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Shortwave Broadcast / Ifrikya FM, 17600 kHz, 31 MAR 2024, 1540 UTC

« on: March 31, 2024, 1546 UTC »

Fairly solid SIO 222 signal. Station ID at 1545. Music until 1546, when OM began speaking in the style of news reading.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Radio Exterior Espaņa, 17855 AM, 31 MAR 2024, 1400 UTC

« on: March 31, 2024, 1415 UTC »

Actually tuning in at 1413 UTC, first transmission on this frequency for the A24 broadcast cycle. Good SIO 444 signal into Denver with what sounds like a futbol match, or at least the pregame portion of it.

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Utility / VMC Charleville QL, 12365 USB, 31 MAR 2024, 1400 UTC

« on: March 31, 2024, 1408 UTC »

Quite clear and copyable into Denver this Easter morning. SIO 333 with marine weather report.
1409 station ID
1411 QRT following announcement of broadcast schedule and frequencies

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Spy Numbers / V07 "Spanish Lady" 19172 USB 0200 UTC 31 MAR 2024

« on: March 31, 2024, 0520 UTC »

Null message:

112 112 112 000

Repeated 0220z on 17462 USB. Earlier broadcast was SIO 444, later was more like 343.

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Shortwave Broadcast / KBS World, 15575 AM, 28 Mar 2024, 1315 UTC

« on: March 28, 2024, 1346 UTC »

I was getting an excellent signal at the above time, SIO 555 or close enough, for my first decent copy of KBS's sole North American directed broadcast in English this season. I know from checking various online SDR's (especially in the east where the sun's higher, and good ones right on the Pacific coast such as KPH's kiwi SDR) that it's come in to other American QTH's for a while, but it's only been a carrier with occasional traces of audio for about a month now. Recent solar storms causing blackouts in the Arctic latitudes haven't helped either.

https://youtu.be/czeuuMcn3pE

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Utility / USAF HFGCS message at 20 MHz?

« on: March 27, 2024, 2139 UTC »

I'm posting this separately from the main log diary since I've never seen this before. I found an apparent EAM on WWV's frequency of 20 MHz (20000 kHz USB) just today at 2124 UTC.

https://youtu.be/Ql7RNK5T29A

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Shortwave Broadcast / UNID, 15325 kHz, 26 MAR 2024, 1900 UTC

« on: March 26, 2024, 1912 UTC »

Found this while scanning the bands. The only station scheduled for this frequency is RFI, and they're only on 0700-0730z. I took a chance and used Shazam, which identified the music as "Days of Emancipation" by a Chinese composer named Zhu Changyao. The audio quality is much like The Firedrake when I can copy that here, so I suspect this is also being broadcast from somewhere in China. As of 1912 as I type this, it's still only music airing uninterrupted.

https://youtu.be/hZezD-jBYS8

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Shortwave Broadcast / Reach Beyond Australia, 15320 kHz, 25 MAR 2024, 1330 UTC

« on: March 25, 2024, 1334 UTC »

Hindi language broadcast beamed from NW Australia to India in Hindi, but coming into Denver SIO 544 to 555. Music as of 1334z. Station ID in English with email at 1337z (radio@reachbeyond.org.au).

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 15410 AM 1624 UTC 16 MAR 2024

« on: March 16, 2024, 1624 UTC »

1624 Josiah at about SIO 222.
1636 faded to just the carrier due to M class solar flare.
1703 getting some audio again. Too weak to understand but it's still Josiah's voice.

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Amateur Radio / 14.313 MHz USB shenanigans, 13 MAR 2024, 1621 UTC

« on: March 13, 2024, 1623 UTC »

For many years I've heard hams behaving badly all over 80m and at 7.200 MHz LSB, but it's been ages since I heard anything on the notorious 20m bands gathering spot. At the moment (1623z) there's mostly one obnoxious sounding guy who may or may not be actively arguing, but at 1621 there were several including this particular ham who were all talking over each other and cursing.

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Shortwave Broadcast / WRN Vsemirnaya Radioset, 12095 AM, 13 MAR 2024, 1555 UTC

« on: March 13, 2024, 1559 UTC »

Just found this Russian language broadcast scanning the bands. The signal is only about SIO 111 here, but confirmed it's the same signal when I tuned using the KPH kiwi SDR in California where it's SIO 444. ID copied at 1559 UTC as I was typing this.

1600 Tx is from the UAE. At 1600 it changed to NHK World.