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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 4040 kHz USB 0400-0445 UTC 01/18/2017

« on: January 18, 2017, 0406 UTC »

Bits and pieces of audio coming through.  Noticed it on the waterfall a couple minutes ago.  Also bits and pieces of music heard.

0408 UTC - Russian QSO going on.  OM and YL talking, with audio tones in the background.

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Peskies / 6920 kHz USB Spanish Language 2300 UTC 01/15/2017

« on: January 15, 2017, 2314 UTC »

More Spanish language traffic on 6920 kHz USB (sometimes causing minor QRM to the usual pescadores on 6925 kHz LSB).  

Seem like freebanders.  Two stations chatting away.  No actual callsigns heard, ops seem to be referring to each other by name.

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Peskies / Re: 6900 KHz USB Spanish speakers

« on: January 15, 2017, 2313 UTC »

These guys are heard pretty often.  I've actually logged them switching between 6900 kHz USB band 6900 kHz LSB (often with another group of people having a QSO on the opposite sideband).

I know enough Spanish to get a general idea of what these guys are talking about.  I'm pretty sure they're not pescadores (fishermen, fishing fleets, "peskies", etc), but are in fact "freebanders" or "outbanders" operating below the 40 meter ham radio band. 

The 6800-7000 range is full of all sorts of Spanish and Portuguese language traffic, using both USB and LSB.  Seems like the fishing fleets mostly use LSB.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 USB 1720 UTC 15 Jan 2017

« on: January 15, 2017, 1721 UTC »

Sign-on with high energy dance/techno music.  Lots of vocals and echos.  

1721 UTC - mention of "Euro Temptations 7"
1723 UTC - Obliterated by wideband noise (possibly OTH Radar) for a few seconds, then back
1724 UTC - More YL vocals (likely pitch-shifted)
1725 UTC - Cascada - Piece of Heaven (Remix) Looks like my memory was wrong (its not the Cascada version after all)
1730 UTC - "You're in the mix, with DJ Inphinity"
1806 UTC - "mmmm, you're in the mix with DJ Inphinity" YL voice
1817 UTC - The Color of my Dreams
1833 UTC - Song break, followed by YL talking "go ahead and keep on dancing....cuz I got the pills...pills...pills"
1839 UTC - CW
1840 UTC - Off?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID, 6930 USB, 2225 UTC, 14 January 2017

« on: January 14, 2017, 2238 UTC »

tone burst and SSTV at 2237 UTC

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID [Live Skippy Radio Relay] 6930 LSB 2225 UTC 14 Jan 2017

« on: January 14, 2017, 2229 UTC »

Another relay/rebroadcasting station, this time they appear to be relaying Skippy Radio on 6930 USB.  

S4 signal level.  Playing the same music that is being played on 6930 kHz USB.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 2210 UTC 14 Jan 2017

« on: January 14, 2017, 2214 UTC »

S5 level signal, appears to be relaying the UNID station on 6950 FM (yes, that's FM).

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 FM 2200 UTC 14 Jan 2017

« on: January 14, 2017, 2210 UTC »

Quality FM audio when the signal is at its highest.  Signal peaking at S7.  Sounds really good.  

Nice to see FM being used on these frequencies.  Signal is about 10 kHz 15 kHz wide at the highest deviation levels.  

2210 UTC - Steely Dan - FM (of course!)  
2215 UTC - OM said "Frequency Modulation" several times, then some clips from various Led Zeppelin songs

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935 USB 2200 UTC 14 Jan 2017

« on: January 14, 2017, 2204 UTC »

Good signal.  Being relayed by the UNID relayer on 6930 kHz USB.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 FM 2200 UTC 14 Jan 2017

« on: January 14, 2017, 2203 UTC »

Thought this was AM for a second, but nope, its FM!

"You have selected Microsoft David Mobile as the default voice"

Then signal disappeared (2202 UTC)...and then came back at 2204 UTC (or possibly earlier) with "I can't tell you why" by the Eagles....now an OM saying "FM! FM! F M ! you know, FM!", into "I Can't Tell You Why" by The Eagles at 2206 UTC.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6935 USB 2200 UTC 14 Jan 2017

« on: January 14, 2017, 2200 UTC »

Just signed on with music.  S5 signal. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 USB 2106 UTC 1/14/17

« on: January 14, 2017, 2115 UTC »

Carriers appeared several times on 6930.0 kHz as this station is playing the movie audio.

Busy band this afternoon!  Lots of random carriers and things popping up and disappearing.

2114 UTC - movie audio seems to have disappeared...now hearing music...appears to be a live (or nearly live) relay of Radio GaGa on 6925 kHz DSB

2130 UTC - since Radio GaGa is off the air, submarine/war film audio is back on.

2149 UTC - Still going strong (well, sort of).  Solid S4-S5 signal with good readability.  Submarine movie dialog and dramatic music   

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM 2052 UTC 14 Jan 2017

« on: January 14, 2017, 2056 UTC »

Carrier appeared, now music with OMs and YLs talking in background.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6924.8 AM 1810 UTC 14 Jan 2017

« on: January 14, 2017, 1822 UTC »

Dueling carriers on 6925 this afternoon.  Second carrier settled in the 6924.7 - 6924.8 range, SDR says 6924.788 kHz, so I'm rounding that up to 6924.7 kHz.  Competing with the on-going UNID on 6925.0 kHz.

1816 UTC - OM talking about dance moves
1818 UTC - on-going dance music with lots of up-shifted vocals and house music beats!
1834 UTC - Sounds like there's more audio in the background.  I heard an OM talking as well as other sound fx

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM 1800 UTC 14 Jan 2017

« on: January 14, 2017, 1820 UTC »

Carrier has been on 6925.0 kHz for a little bit now, wither another carrier a bit below it.  Possibly Liquid Radio?  

EDIT 1822 UTC:

Carrier moving around (VFO swooshing!) for a bit, then disappeared around 1823 UTC.  So maybe not Liquid Radio after all?