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10/11 meters / 11 meter DX Logs 6 Febuary 2016 1400 UTC +

« on: February 06, 2016, 1447 UTC »

11 meters is waking up this morning.  27385 LSB is nice and busy.  Most "outbander" or "freebander" traffic appeared to be from Latin America.  No sign of our taxi dispatcher friends on 27805 AM or 27815 AM.  26635, 26905 and 27515 were readable though.  Same YL dispatchers.

Here's some quick logs:

26520 AM - Some sort of strong carrier here.  Haven't seen this before
26555 LSB - Latin American SSB "Lowband" Calling Frequency - not as active as 26585 AM or 27455 USB but I hear traffic at noise level
26575 AM - Spanish language, Mexican accents
26585 AM - Latin American AM Calling Frequency - very active
26595 AM - Spanish language OMs talking (at noise level)
26615 AM - Spanish speaking OMs in QSO, S5 signal
26635 AM - YL Spanish speaker (solid S9 signal) talking to weaker OMs, "Los Angeles" and various numbers mentioned.  Likely a taxicab dispatcher
26715 AM - Spanish language
26735 AM - Station IDing as "4-3" working another station, very strong S9++ bleeding over several channels up and down
26750 OTH Radar Bursts
26775 AM - English language, Southern US accents, weak
26815 AM - Weak AM signals heard, unknown language.   Possibly US stations considering frequency.
26845 AM - "La Antenna"
26905 AM - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher
26915 AM - English language, Southern US accents, at noise level
26945 AM - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher with roger beep.  Reading numbers, weak
26955 AM - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher, hearing the taxis shes talking down at noise level (with various roger beeps)
27425 AM - Spanish speaking OM with roger beep, Puerto Rico mentioned.  Fading, S4 at peaks, down to noise level
27445 AM - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher
27455 USB - Latin American SSB "Highband" Calling Frequency - very active
27475 USB - Spanish language
27490 USB - Spanish language
27495 USB - Spanish language
27515 AM  - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher, with SSB QRM underneath her
27535 USB - Spanish language, peaking to S9+30.  "Alpha November Uniform Echo Lima" said in broken English
27540 USB - Spanish language.  Sounds like two stations having QSO.  One is at noise floor, the other a solid S5
27555 USB - International 11m Calling Freq - Stations calling CQ in Spanish language, heard Mexico, Aruba and Venezuela mentioned, various alphanumeric callsigns heard, requesting stations QSY for contact
27625 USB - Spanish language, weak
27635 USB - OTH Radar, preceded by three loud beeps.
27640 USB - Spanish language, at noise level
27675 USB - "Hola! Hola! Hola!", other Spanish language QSOs down at noise level
27695 LSB - Spanish language
27775 USB - Unknown language at noise level, possibly Portuguese
27785 AM  - Spanish language - YL taxi dispatcher with roger beep.  Reading numbers with some fading

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 1830 UTC 02/05/2016

« on: February 05, 2016, 1832 UTC »

Sounds like more CB/ham traffic being relayed

"He looks like Steve Urkal...in 50 years".  Recorded CB traffic

1915 - Clip from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" (The D.E.N.N.I.S. System)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6924.6 USB 1954 UTC 2/4/16

« on: February 04, 2016, 2307 UTC »

That thought crossed my mind as well.  Although OTR hasn't been transmitting the digital mode that the 24K0JID emission entails, and OTR hasn't IDed

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6924.6 USB 1954 UTC 2/4/16

« on: February 04, 2016, 2240 UTC »

That callsign is authorized for several HF frequency bands, 6770-6970 kHz being one of them.  25 kW ERP!  I wonder what 24K0J1D emission is.  24K indicates a decently wide signal (24 kHz bandwidth)

Edit:  I should have clicked the second link 

Rockwell Collins, Inc.
Form 442
Rockwell Collins, Inc. (“Rockwell Collins”) seeks to
 add four sites to its existing experimental
license, WF2XMP.  The four added sites, in
Tampa, Florida, Denton, Texas, Kansas City,
Missouri, and Arlington, Virginia, will be used fo
r over-the-air testing in
 support of the US Navy
Office of Navy Research (ONR) contract N00014-12-
C-0363.  The scope of this contract is to
research higher data throughput capability over
the High Frequency (HF) spectrum for mitigating
Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) data transport
risks in satellite denied environments.
The transmit sites at these four
locations will be used in the over-the-air demonstration of 4G
ALE software to analyze HF signal propagati
on and then choose the best frequency of
propagation and the supporting modem data
rate and bandwidth for high speed data
communication.
The 4G ALE software is designed to maximize
the data throughput that can be achieved using
HF communication equipment.  The data collected
 by the 4G ALE software will be used to
independently verify that the best frequency of
 propagation and data rate
s are being selected by
the software.
The over-the-air demonstration is the real time ve
rification of performance that has been tested
using HF channel simulators in the laboratory.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925.1 AM 1730 UTC 02/04/2016

« on: February 04, 2016, 1807 UTC »

Station had come and gone off the air several times in the past 30 minutes or so.  Now hearing it back on 6925.1 with a S9 level signal and snippets of voice and "warbling" sounds (not sure how else to describe).  There's music in the background but there's also some sort of noise on the signal.  

1807 UTC - OM voice heard under the noise.  Talking about the football season being almost over.  Something about rock n' roll, then back into music at 1809.  

1810 UTC - "Can you turn that off? Jesus Christ!"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6914 USB 1845 UTC 02/04/2016

« on: February 04, 2016, 1803 UTC »

Hearing what sounds like a WWV relay on 6914 USB.  Very weak but I can hear the time pips.  UTE/data burst QRM around 6916 or so at times.  Right at noise level but there is something there.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 1500 UTC 4 Feb 2016

« on: February 04, 2016, 1502 UTC »

AM carrier right at 6925.0 kHz.  Hearing music from The Godfather, a bit noisy but readable

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6940 USB 0119 UTC 4 Feb 2016

« on: February 04, 2016, 0138 UTC »

Heard a computer-generated YL voice say "at gmail dot com" - couldn't make out the first part of the email address or ID at 0138 UTC

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935 AM 1700 UTC 2 Feb 2016

« on: February 02, 2016, 1713 UTC »

Getting bits and pieces of audio on 6935 kHz. Sounds like it might be a YL talking but difficult to tell for sure. All I can really be sure of is the carrier at this point. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935 AM 1412 UTC 1 Feb 2016

« on: February 01, 2016, 1950 UTC »

Got a carrier here on 6935.1 kHz AM.  Some audio discernible.  Seems closer to 6935.09 on the K2SDR WebSDR.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 1945 UTC 02/01/2016

« on: February 01, 2016, 1948 UTC »

OMs and YL talking, sounds like Bogart (old movie/radio audio?)

S7 signal level with nice audio on the WebSDR


1951 - Dramatic music

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Amphetamine Radio 6940 AM 2247 UTC 1/31/16

« on: January 31, 2016, 2249 UTC »

This is another relay of Amphetamine Radio (was originally being relayed on 6925 AM)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Azteca 6900 and 6925 AM 2102 UTC 1/31/16

« on: January 31, 2016, 2118 UTC »

Now on 6950 AM and 6925 AM.  Sounds like somebody is relaying Radio Azteca via a SDR.

Saw them pop up on 6912.5 kHz AM and 6937.5 kHz AM as well

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Azteca 6900 AM 2102 UTC 1/31/16

« on: January 31, 2016, 2105 UTC »

Discussion of sacrificing a virgin above the top of an inverted-V antenna.   Nice strong signal with powerful carrier and nice audio.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 2040 UTC 31 Jan 2016

« on: January 31, 2016, 2051 UTC »

YL talking with OM at tune-in 2051 UTC 6925 kHz AM

Sounds like two-way traffic.  Two stations talking about government mobile jamming equipment that "drops a carrier from DC to daylight".  "Cell phones don't work, Wi-Fi doesn't work...you have to basically tell them which frequency you're going to use so they don't jam it"

Sounds like hams talking about various radio topics.