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HF Beacons / DRNK, 6902 kHz, 0240 UTC, September 22, 2014

« on: September 22, 2014, 0250 UTC »

DRNK beacon turned on 0240 UTC, 6902 kHz, September 22, 2014.

I saw it come on air at 0240 UTC.  I had one of the SDRs centered on 6950 kHz, watching the waterfall covering the 6900 to 7000 kHz range for pirates.  There was nothing on 6902 kHz, had been nothing for the last 45 minutes I had the SDR turned on, a short bit of high speed CW was sent on 6902 kHz, then into the dashes and IDs as seen from DRNK before.  Unfortunately I was not recording, so I have no idea what the high speed CW was saying.

I have not seen this beacon for several days now, no sign at all.  But it is certainly there tonight, although maybe not as strong as in the past.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 7340 kHz AM September 20 2014 0255 UTC

« on: September 20, 2014, 0258 UTC »

YHWH mixing up the frequency a bit tonight.  Up with intro music at 0255 UTC on 7340 kHz, AM mode, September 20, 2014.

(edit)  Sign off 0404 UTC.  At 0400 a BC station came up on freq, made it hard to get YHWH even when YHWH is 20 over here.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 9610 kHz AM September 18 2014 0252 UTC

« on: September 18, 2014, 0254 UTC »

YHWH up with intro music at 0252 UTC, September 18, 2014, on 9610 kHz AM.  There is a digital signal that is on his more regular 9600 / 9605 kHz, so it looks like he moved up 5 kHz.

(edit)  Through the show he periodically would unkey / drop the carrier.  I think he does this to see if another station is on freq, as I have seen him do it and them move when another staiton comes up.  Tonight he went off air at 0324 UTC, after a BC station came up on freq, I have not seen YHWH come back on another freq yet.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 9605 kHz AM September 16 2014 0300 UTC

« on: September 16, 2014, 0301 UTC »

YHWH up with sign on 0300 UTC, September 16, 2014, on his standard frequency of 9605 kHz, AM mode.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 9605 kHz AM September 10 2014 0258 UTC

« on: September 10, 2014, 0301 UTC »

YHWH up with intro music on 9605 kHz, AM mode, September 10, 2014, 0258 UTC.

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HF Beacons / Possible new beacon, DRNK, 6902.1 kHz, 9 September 2014

« on: September 09, 2014, 1350 UTC »

For the past couple weeks I have been getting what might have been a new beacon on 6902.1 kHz at night.  The signal has been very weak, right in the noise floor, and really not detectable by ear, mostly I can just tell something is there on the waterfall in Argo.  However Saturday night (Sep 6) and again last night (Monday Sep 8 ) it came up nicely out of the noise, and put in quite a good signal for an hour or two each night before fading away again.  The night between them, Sunday, the signal was almost undetectable most of the time, with only an occasional dash rising out of the noise floor.  The dasher appears to be night only, I have never detected any sign of it before sundown or after sunup.  It was well after local dark for me, not just sunset, before it came on.  Of course that could be conditions, but based on the way it turned on Saturday night I don’t think so, one moment it was not there, the next it was there S3 or so, and stayed at that signal level until is slowly faded out a couple hours later.  Possibly the band going longer caused it to go away for me?

The dashes are about 0.75 sec long and happen every 3.95 seconds.  About every 2 minutes there is an CW ID sent “DE DRNK DE DRNK”.  At longer intervals there is a longer CW ID sent, it looks like about every 20 minutes or so but I have only caught a couple of them, so not sure yet.  The longer ID goes something like “DE DRNK DE DRNK DE DRNK DE DRNK DE DRNK MOJAVE DESERT VB 13.0 VB 13.0 VS 00.0 VS 00.0 TMP 81 TMP 81 U 004 K”.

I have video of the signal that I will put up on YouTube later today.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 9605 kHz AM September 9 2014 0256 UTC

« on: September 09, 2014, 0258 UTC »

YHWH up with intro music, 9605 kHz, AM mode, September 9, 2014, 0256 UTC.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 9605 kHz AM September 7 2014 0245 UTC

« on: September 07, 2014, 0247 UTC »

YHWH up with standard intro music, 9605 kHz, AM mode, September 7, 2014, 0245 UTC.

(edit)  Off at 0356 UTC.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 9605 kHz AM September 5 2014 0244 UTC

« on: September 05, 2014, 0246 UTC »

YHWH with intro music on 9605 kHz, AM, September 5, 2014, 0244 UTC.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 9605 kHz AM September 4, 2014, 0240 UTC

« on: September 04, 2014, 0244 UTC »

YHWH up with intro music, 0240 UTC, September 4, 2014, 9605 kHz, AM

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 21850 kHz AM September 2 2014 2114 UTC

« on: September 02, 2014, 2118 UTC »

YHWH up on 21850 kHz AM, September 2, 2014, at 2114 UTC.  Tuned in in progress, but looking at the wideband waterfall it looks like he came on air at 2110 UTC.

(edit)  Off 2222 UTC

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Spy Numbers / V24 observations, August, 2014

« on: September 01, 2014, 1400 UTC »

All,

V24 (South Korean numbers station, female voice, Korean language, groups of 5 numbers, musical lead-in) activity seems greatly reduced, I hope it is not going the way of M94 (V24's Morse code sister station that stopped transmissions in late 2013).  This month I monitored all time slots and all known V24 frequencies, attempting to update my V24 schedule.  I found fewer transmissions this month than when I put together the current schedule.  Since some V24 transmissions are tied to the month (some time slots are even months, other are odd months) the schedule cannot be close to complete until after monitoring 2 complete months of activity, I will put it out at the end of next month.  I only copied 6 transmissions total for the month of August, 2014

I did have more time this month to look for additional V24 frequencies, and did not locate one.  Of course that does not mean there is not one, however I think it less likely now than before.

Another note, I did not log a single transmission on the relatively new frequency of 5290 kHz.

V24 Logs:

6310 kHz, 1430z, August 5, 2014, Token, TUE
6215 kHz, 1330z, August 6, 2014, Token, WED
6310 kHz, 1430z, August 6, 2014, Token, WED
6310 kHz, 1430z, August 15, 2014, Token, FRI
6215 kHz, 1300z, August 26, 2014, Token, TUE
4900 kHz, 1530z, August 31, 2014, Token, SUN

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 9600 kHz AM August 29 2014 0254 UTC

« on: August 29, 2014, 0258 UTC »

YHWH up with intro music, 9600 kHz AM, August 29, 2014, 0254 UTC.

(edit)  Off air 0356 UTC.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 9600 kHz AM AUgust 26 2014 0326 UTC

« on: August 26, 2014, 0329 UTC »

YHWH up with intro music on 9600 kHz, AM mode, August 26, 2014, 0326 UTC.

(edit)  Off 0420 UTC

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 9600 AM August 22 2014 0320 UTC

« on: August 22, 2014, 0326 UTC »

Tuned to in progress YHWH, 9600 kHz AM mode, August 22, 2014, 0320 UTC.

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