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Peskies / 10195 kHz USB Spanish Language 2255 UTC 2 Nov 2018

« on: November 02, 2018, 2257 UTC »

10195 kHz 10.195 MHz USB mode.  Voice communications heard out of Latin America - going by band conditions probably South America.  Use of the radio procedure pro-word "cambio" (sounds like gambio) which means "over" or "back to you".  Compared to the activity on 10222 kHz USB and 10252.2 kHz USB these guys seem a lot more professional. 

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Peskies / 10252.2 kHz USB UNID Language Traffic 2250 UTC 2 Nov 2018

« on: November 02, 2018, 2253 UTC »

10252.2 kHz USB, I think its Portuguese or maybe Spanish with a weird accent.  Two or three stations talking with good signals.  Lots of laughing and general banter, so my guess would be fishing boats, fishery radio or free banders or outbanders.  Yet another 10 MHz logging these guys are all over the bands.

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Peskies / 6900 kHz LSB Spanish Watering Hole 2158 UTC 2 Nov 2018

« on: November 02, 2018, 2159 UTC »

6900 kHz 6.900 MHz 6900 LSB active with Spanish speaking freebanders - chances are these guys actually are radio operators - I've listened to them extensively.  They refer to 6900 LSB as the "home channel" or the "home frequency". 

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Peskies / UNID Spanish Language 6985 USB 2149 UTC 2 Nov 2018

« on: November 02, 2018, 2150 UTC »

6985 kHz 6.985 MHz USB mode - more out of band Spanish speaking traffic just below the bottom edge of the 40 meter ham band.  The entire 6-7 MHz region is alive with signals from Latin America this evening...these also sound like amateur radio operators just using out of band frequencies - making them freebanders. 

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Peskies / UNID Spanish Language 6860 USB 2145 UTC 2 Nov 2018

« on: November 02, 2018, 2147 UTC »

6860 kHz 6.860 MHz USB mode (LSB also has some traffic too but its much weaker)

Spanish language traffic, likely outbanders/freebanders or fishing fleets using the 43 meter band to communicate outside of the marine bands.  Chances are these guys are land-based radio hobbyists operating outside of the amateur bands for whatever reason. 

That, or they're drug runners

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Peskies / 6760 kHz LSB and 6760 kHz USB 2135 UTC 2 Nov 2018

« on: November 02, 2018, 2138 UTC »

6760 kHz very busy, both LSB and USB active at once.  6760 LSB has the stronger signals - noted use of "cambio" ("over") proword on 6760 kHz LSB.  One of the stations has clipped audio or is slightly off-frequency...heard mention of Venezuela at 2137 UTC on 6760 LSB.  Seems to be 2-3 operators having a ham radio like ragchew QSO.

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Peskies / 6695.5 kHz USB and 6703 kHz USB Spanish Language 2130 UTC 2 Nov 2018

« on: November 02, 2018, 2132 UTC »

6695.5 USB and 6703 USB both active with Spanish language operators chatting away...I do not believe these are telephone links I think they're just freebanders or people operating radios without licenses (maybe they are licensed) in a remote village somewhere.  Who knows.  I have heard 6695 and nearby frequencies several times in the past.  Signals are too weak to really make anything useful out...

6695.5 kHz - Spanish language SSB two-way voice comms USB mode
6703 kHz - Spanish language SSB two-way voice comms USB mode

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Peskies / 6893 kHz USB Spanish Language - Presumed Radiotelephone Link 2056 UTC 2 Nov 18

« on: November 02, 2018, 2058 UTC »

I have logged activity on this frequency several times before.  Hearing one side of a conversation, a YL speaking to another [unheard] station.  There is a very strong data ute signal a few kHz up and its making listening difficult.  Sounds like an informal telephone-like conversation...characteristic of the radiotelephone systems that are often heard coming out of Latin America and are found all over the 6765-7000 kHz fixed/mobile 43 meter band, but usually stay below 6900 kHz.

Listening via the ΣSDR located on the CT/MA border.  6893 kHz 6.893 MHz 6893 USB mode.  Spanish language. 

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Peskies / Portuguese 6919 LSB 6925 LSB 6926 USB 2050 UTC 2 Nov 2018

« on: November 02, 2018, 2054 UTC »

Lots of Portuguese speaking pescadores chatting away this afternoon...including the following frequencies:

6919 kHz LSB
6925 kHz LSB - the usual "watering hole"
6926 kHz USB - unusual frequency and mode for Portuguese speaking stations, usually they stick to LSB mode...

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Utility / 6811.5 kHz USB NOBLE SKYWAVE Training Exercise Net 1612 + UTC 30 Oct 2018

« on: October 30, 2018, 1620 UTC »

Noble Skywave or Mobile Skywave communications exercise or training net?  6811.5 kHz USB 6.811.5 MHz USB 6.8115 MHz USB October 30th, 2018

Listening via Chris' KiwiSDR, tuning around the 43 meter band...came across a military or military-sounding net

station Charlie Alpha One Niner CA19 calling any station, asking for radio check...CA59 responds...CA19 then replies that CA59 is unreadable.  CA19 then calls US19 for a radio check [1615 UTC].  Then another NO11 this is US47, over.  Two stations talking over each other for a moment....CA19 is still calling US19 for a radio check.  NO11 coming in much stronger.  US30 being called by CA25.  Lots of AANN callsign formats.

"To any stations, this is CA39, radio check over" [1616 UTC]
"Charlie Alpha 39, this Uniform Sierra 14, over" [1616-1617 UTC], several other callsigns [all using phonetic alphabet callsigns]  CA23, CA39, and others...

"any station that can copy, this is US30, over" at one point at 1618 UTC there were three stations transmitting at once. 

Possibly a MARS net or military training net?

"Any station Noble Skywave (or Mobile Skywave?) this is xxxx, over"

More stations giving reports, calling for radio checks, etc.  still going at 1622 (this time it was Charlie Alpha Three Niner / CA39 doing the radio check)

"Any station, any station, NOBLE SKYWAVE, this is US31 Uniform Sierra Three One, over" [US31 has the best signal by far]...then CA39 walked all over US31 with another radio check...ALE data bursts also heard on frequency

Some Googling shows that 6811.5 USB has been used in the past for NOBLE SKYWAVE exercises/training nets.  Other frequencies include 5205 kHz USB, 9900 kHz USB, 11103.5 kHz USB, 11539.5 kHz USB, 13584 kHz USB and 14461.5 kHz USB.  ALE is apparently also used. 

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Peskies / 12018 kHz USB Spanish Language 1603 UTC 30 Oct 2018

« on: October 30, 2018, 1607 UTC »

Possible fishing fleets fishery radios South American fishermen on the HF radio - 12018 kHz 12.018 MHz USB mode. 

Hearing weak Spanish language two-way chatter inside the 25 meter shortwave broadcast band - in between a powerful FSK signal on 12014 kHz, a powerful SWBC carrier on 12025 kHz and a powerhouse broadcast station on 12030 kHz. 

QSO still on-going at 1606 UTC, informal chatter, heard one of the ops yawn over the air at 1607 UTC, followed by some more remarks in Spanish and some hysterical laughter...

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Peskies / 5510 kHz USB Spanish - Fishing Fleets Outbanders Pescadores 2345 UTC 29 Oct 2018

« on: October 30, 2018, 1310 UTC »

5510 kHz 5.510 MHz USB (previously logged on 12 April 2017) same mode, frequency and language...also sounded like fishing fleet communications outside the HF marine bands. 

Similar to the traffic heard on 5540 kHz LSB, lots of salty sailor language, informal chatter, likely South American fishing trawlers. 

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Utility / Royal Air Force VOLMET 5450 kHz USB 2350 UTC 29 Oct 2018

« on: October 29, 2018, 2350 UTC »

[heard via Chris' Westminster, MD SDR]

SIO 333 to 444 great signal this evening on 5450 kHz USB 5.450 MHz USB mode, synth computer YL voice reading aeronautical weather information - VOLMET - St. Eval (Military One).  Shannon Radio is also coming in nicely with lots of activity on the 3-5 MHz region. 

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Peskies / 5540 kHz LSB Spanish Language QSO Probable Fishing Boats 2337 UTC 29 Oct 2018

« on: October 29, 2018, 2341 UTC »

Hearing some salty talk (in Spanish) on 5540 kHz LSB / 5.540 MHz LSB - heavy use of the "cambio" proword ("over" in Spanish language radio procedure).  Two OMs having a casual QSO S3-S4 signals, both stations are about equal signal strength.  More curse words in Spanish at 2340 UTC.  Sounds like fishing boat communications.  "It's all good", general informal chatter "call or don't call..." heard at 2240 UTC as well.  "Son of a bitch, there's no money!" "okay back to you, over" [laughing]

Probable fishing fleets or other marine traffic HF-SSB 5 MHz bands. 

2342 UTC - talking about different dates


Listening on Chris' KiwiSDR in Westminster, MD. 

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Peskies / 6990 LSB Music, Jamming Peskie Party 2253 UTC 29 Oct 2018

« on: October 29, 2018, 2254 UTC »

6990 kHz 6.990 MHz 6.99 MHz Spanish language QSO music jamming and everyone talk on top of each other party!  Multiple signals going at once at 2253 UTC tune-in time.  Maybe better to call them sound effects akin to CB noise toys.  But on 43 meters.