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Utility / is the Link-11 signal at ~6945 kHz splattering?

« on: January 21, 2025, 0329 UTC »

I thought it was just my receiver, but I looked at one of our host's SDRs and it seems to be doing the same thing there.

Also, what are the synchronized blips just above that?  Is it what people are calling a "ditter network"?

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HF Mystery Signals / what are all these blips between the 20m and 19m bands?

« on: October 22, 2024, 1818 UTC »

I'm sure this is a known thing, but I've never paid any attention to it so I'm curious.

https://imgur.com/a/oSBKt0w

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HF Mystery Signals / giant ~50kHz wide signal centered on 13.936

« on: October 22, 2024, 1809 UTC »

https://imgur.com/a/cW163rA

There doesn't seem to be any modulation, just a huge number of discrete carriers.  Before it popped up here, it was up somewhere around 14.800.

EDIT: It just moved up to 14.511.  Whatever it is, it seems to be avoiding the ham bands and the broadcast bands.

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HF Mystery Signals / Re: 7182-7196 kHz -- digital or radar?

« on: February 25, 2024, 0027 UTC »

And now it's gone... it was there for quite a while before I posted.  (The beeps on 7200L are still there.)

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HF Mystery Signals / 7182-7196 kHz -- digital or radar?

« on: February 25, 2024, 0017 UTC »

Not sure what this is -- it sounds different, and looks more fine-grained, than radars I've heard before, but I'm no expert.

Also, on 7200 LSB, there's a continuous beep-beep in the background.  I know this frequency is heavily QRMed, but this sounds very similar to ALE to me.

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Latin American Pirate / UNID 6934.8 AM 0058 UTC 15 JAN 2024

« on: January 15, 2024, 0100 UTC »

Very weak, currently playing "The Old Man Down The Road" by John Fogerty

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WEEN Radio (Zekey) 6957 USB 2317 UTC 31 OCT 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2330 UTC »

23:29 "Boys Don't Cry" by The Cure, power level has dropped several times but recovered

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Other / Re: UNID 6830 USB 2324 UTC 17 OCT 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2312 UTC »

Tonight the frequency is presenting a perfectly normal, albeit apparently encrypted, RTTY signal. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: X-FM via MRI 6850 USB 2300 UTC 31 OCT 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2307 UTC »

In parallel, but much weaker, on 6880 AM.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Voice of Tralfamadore Halloween Special 6938 USB 2258 UTC 31 OCT 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2300 UTC »

sign on, Monster Mash, then talking, then Zombies

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Iluminati / Mix Radio International6850 was 6855 USB 2300 UTC 29 Oct 2023

« on: October 29, 2023, 2311 UTC »

6861 kHz, waterfall art, "MRI" and bat logo

2315 UTC, art off, audio bandwidth now 11kHz, wonderful sound!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6850 was 6855 USB 2300 UTC 29 Oct 2023

« on: October 29, 2023, 2306 UTC »

Huge signal, S9+, started at 8kHz wide now jumped to 10kHz.

2307 UTC, "Radio Illuminati, I'm your host, the Azimuth Coordinator"

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Other / Re: UNID 6830 USB 2324 UTC 17 OCT 2023

« on: October 27, 2023, 2351 UTC »

This is back right now on 6831, it sounds like bad SSTV or WEFAX.  It's S9 in central Pennsylvania, so I'm doubting it's from Russia.

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WEFAX and SSTV / Valparaiso 17144.35 WEFAX 2312 UTC 09 SEP 2023

« on: September 09, 2023, 0051 UTC »

This shares a frequency (nominally) with New Orleans, but the fact they're a bit off, and the charts bear no resemblance to each other, gives it away instantly.  Usually when it's propagating up here to Pennsylvania, New Orleans isn't.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio 48 6962 was 6961 USB via MRI 2242 UTC 18 Mar 2023

« on: March 19, 2023, 0011 UTC »

0010Z ID over Big Audio Dynamite's "E Equals M C Squared"

Huge signal but you're drifting all over the place.