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10/11 meters / data bursts on 11 meters

« on: December 15, 2013, 1509 UTC »

What are these data bursts I keep seeing on 11 meters?  I see them on other bands sometimes, but they seem to be almost constant on 11.  They're almost 10kHz wide, looking sort of like DRM, but they usually only last for about a second.  Once in a while one will go for 2 or 3 seconds.

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

« on: December 11, 2013, 0113 UTC »

Homemade QFH antenna, RTL dongle, SDR#, WXtoIMG.

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

« on: December 07, 2013, 2309 UTC »

Seems like every time I'm receiving NOAA-15 lately, about halfway through the pass the visible sensor will change gain (or something), going from a normal image to either almost all black or almost all white.  The infrared image is unaffected, and NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 don't behave like this.  I assumed that something was broken on the satellite, but the POES status page doesn't say anything about it.  What's going on?

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General Radio Discussion / Re: SSTV freqs?

« on: November 30, 2013, 2224 UTC »

Thanks, I've been neglecting the high bands because the sunspot number has been so low.  The only reason I've been checking 27700 lately is because I keep seeing it mentioned here.

Anything on the low bands that are workable every day, 40m/80m/160m?

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General Radio Discussion / SSTV freqs?

« on: November 30, 2013, 1620 UTC »

Other than 14230 and 27700, are there any other bands that still have analog SSTV on a regular basis?  I've checked the calling frequencies that are listed in the file that you can find all over the place by googling "sstv nets", but I rarely if ever hear anything, other than digital on 7173 and I'm not really interested in digital.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever, 6945 AM, 2310z, 11-23-13

« on: November 23, 2013, 2354 UTC »

Gone now for me.

I'm not sure what a 12-tone modem sounds like, but I have something on 6947-ish USB that sounds sort of like rtty but not quite.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever, 6945 AM, 2310z, 11-23-13

« on: November 23, 2013, 2342 UTC »

The band must be weird tonight, all I can get in Pennsylvania is the carrier!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6940 USB 0405z 11/03/2013

« on: November 03, 2013, 0432 UTC »

0431: How Soon Is Now

S8 in Pennsylvania.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Echo One 6919.55 AM 2130 UTC 2 Nov 2013

« on: November 02, 2013, 2217 UTC »

Off, followed by thanks from someone who sounded like Dick Weed.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Echo One 6919.55 AM 2130 UTC 2 Nov 2013

« on: November 02, 2013, 2206 UTC »

Only about S5 in Pennsylvania, kind of hard to understand over my high noise floor.  Currently, "Sweet Transvestite".

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: My New Underpants, 6925.18 AM, 1355Z 11/02/13

« on: November 02, 2013, 1414 UTC »

Off at 1413Z.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / My New Underpants, 6925.18 AM, 1355Z 11/02/13

« on: November 02, 2013, 1357 UTC »

S5 signal in central PA, frequency measured with HDSDR ECSS mode

Playing what sounds like 60s pop tunes, maybe British, none of which I recognize.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6945 USB 0046 November 1 2013

« on: November 01, 2013, 0453 UTC »

Just listening to it now on my SDR recording.  Amazing signal -- 20 over S9 and 4kHz wide!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Red Mercury Labs, 6946.666 kHz, USB, October 28, 2013, 0335 UTC

« on: October 28, 2013, 0409 UTC »

No, whatever is going on with me is probably local, because I see it all the time, a distinctive-shaped hump of noise on the waterfall.  It goes away sometimes, but it's always the same shape in the same place.  Noise IS up across the band for me tonight, and earlier in the evening 6925USB was jammed by LSB fishermen, but the particular noise I've got is something different.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Red Mercury Labs, 6946.666 kHz, USB, October 28, 2013, 0335 UTC

« on: October 28, 2013, 0400 UTC »

Thanks for the shout out, always nice to have broadcasters that interact with their audience!

Clarity coming up a little now, Iron Maiden's Ancient Mariner, cool!

You're actually about S7 for me, but so is the noise, I wish I knew where it was coming from.