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Other / UNID SSTV on 6952 usb, 1930 utc 24 Dec. 2016

« on: December 24, 2016, 1933 UTC »

Saw a suspicious signal on the SDR waterfall and jumped on it in time to catch the last half of a greyscale test pattern with no ID.


Fired up again @1934, big S9+20 signal, biggest signal in the band by far, but still just a grey bar test pattern with no ID.  (There was a presumed CW ID at the end, but I don't speak CW and I didn't record it.)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Shortwave Ghost 6875 AM 2308 4/9/16

« on: April 09, 2016, 2337 UTC »

S7 here in FN11od, ute almost stepping on the lower sideband, ECSS puts it at 6875.705.  Also, band periodically being hosed by a radar or something.

"Ghost Shortwave, Show #18" ID @2336Z.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 USB 2322 UTC Dec 26, 2015

« on: December 26, 2015, 2349 UTC »

Moonlight Radio ID under heavy static and peskie interference @23:48, now off?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 USB 2322 UTC Dec 26, 2015

« on: December 26, 2015, 2336 UTC »

S5 to S7 with occasional fades into the noise in central PA, "Won't Get Fooled Again" @23:36.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 3440 AM 0003 UTC 5 Jan 2015

« on: January 05, 2015, 0006 UTC »

Triumph, "Hold On"

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Spy Numbers / numbers or weird pirate on 6940 AM, 0040Z 12/31/2014

« on: December 31, 2014, 0041 UTC »

Currently hearing a female voice reading four groups of five numbers, then Amazing Grace on bagpipes, repeat.

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10/11 meters / Re: SSTV 27700 nov.1

« on: November 02, 2014, 1525 UTC »

10m and 11m are the hottest today I've seen them in a long time.  I was monitoring WSPR on 10 earlier and not a minute went by that I didn't log an overseas station, and usually quite a few of them.  Unfortunately, there are multiple 11m SSTV stations transmitting simultaneously so it all looks like crap.  I think I'm going back to 20 for SSTV, even though it's not pirates there should still be some DX.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 3844 LSB unknown 0035 27 Sept 14

« on: September 27, 2014, 0051 UTC »

I have them at 3843 playing "Everybody Wants to Rule the World".

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Equipment / Re: People have stated it, now I have experienced it.

« on: April 17, 2014, 0050 UTC »

As far as I know, there are no longwave broadcast stations on this side of the Atlantic.  I suspect you're overloading the receiver and hearing images of shortwave stations.

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Other / Gasparilla Pirate Festival special event station W4G

« on: January 25, 2014, 1545 UTC »

SSTV active on 14228 USB.  Their web page at http://www.qrz.com/db/W4G says 14230, but I suspect they moved down because Saturdays are the IVCA Net day on 230 -- although I haven't seen much of the net today.  They say they're going to be on 7171 also, but I haven't looked down there yet.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6950 U 0008 01-01-14

« on: January 01, 2014, 0014 UTC »

10 to 20 over S9 for me too, and over 3.5kc wide.

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VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Re: NOAA-15 APT anomaly

« on: December 26, 2013, 1827 UTC »

After much searching (no thanks to Yahoo's USELESS new forum system), I found the answer on the WXSat mailing list.  Apparently, as the satellite crosses from day to night it switches the visual channel to a near-infrared channel. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Boom Box Radio 6925 AM 1554 UTC 26 Dec 2013

« on: December 26, 2013, 1629 UTC »

Barely above the noise for me, couldn't tell you what music is playing.  Prop is terrible today, barely even getting any stations on the 7MHz CW band which is usually wall-to-wall.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 2241 UTC 19 Dec 2013

« on: December 19, 2013, 2346 UTC »

S9 with fades to S7 here, frequency maybe closer to 6924.95.

Oops, song just ended, nothing now...

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10/11 meters / Re: data bursts on 11 meters

« on: December 15, 2013, 1912 UTC »

I just saw a sequence of them on three channels between 27740 and 27770.