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Other / Re: Unknown broadcast on 8000 kHz, periodically transmitting

« on: January 07, 2014, 1716 UTC »

Not a radar.  And not sure it has anything much to do with frequency allocations either.  I have seen this same signal, or one very much like it, on 7001.5, 12000, 14000, and now 8000 kHz.

It might be worth noting this signal was in full AM.

My guess is an audio test tone into a transmitter to check the passband of the system.  The tone was using a triangle sweep, sweeping 0 to 5 kHz and then reversing direction and sweeping 5 to 0 kHz, and a 6 second cycle time.

Image of the spectrogram here:


T!

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Spy Numbers / Re: Something interesting about 7377 kHz

« on: January 06, 2014, 0202 UTC »

Thanks for the info. I looked through the Enigma classifications, but I must have overlooked it. Thanks.

Look at the general format of M14 (very slight difference).  Crank the speed up and you have M24.  That should match what has been described.

T!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Undercover Radio 21460 AM 1633 UTC 5 Jan 2013

« on: January 05, 2014, 1651 UTC »

Undercover Radio.  S7 here in the Mojave Desert, on the beam.  Was discussing the freedom to bear arms and the lack of freedom to run a radio station, then on to a general description of the increasing regulation and restrictions placed on the people by the government.

T!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unknown on 6.927 usb

« on: January 01, 2014, 1734 UTC »

Abner, although saying 6.927 is not wrong (assuming you mean MHz) it is more conventional when reporting stuff below 30 MHz to use kHz, not MHz, so it would be 6927.  As a rule of thumb things above 30 MHz, in the scanner realm, are mostly reported in MHz, and below that in kHz.

T!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID SSTV 6925U 0207 UTC 01-01-14

« on: January 01, 2014, 0306 UTC »

The image sent at 0204 UTC on 6925 USB was Kiki Radio, and the same image that was sent ~20 minutes later.

T!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: NSDAP Radio Voice of Third Reich 6925 USB 2321 31-Dec-13

« on: December 31, 2013, 2341 UTC »

About S4 here in the Mojave Desert of California, heard a shout out to several people, including EvilElvis and ChrisSmol at about 2340 UTC.

T!

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Spy Numbers / Re: HM01 craziness 11530khz

« on: December 30, 2013, 2223 UTC »

This was actually two messages being sent on top of each other, and out of sync with each other.  The first message started and 6 code gorups later the second started.  This sounded OK at first, just an odd echo, but once the data started one layer or the other was always in data.  If you listened real close you could hear the preamble for each data group start, mixed in with the already running group.

T!

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Utility / Re: HF-GCS 6739KHz USB 0755UTC 12/30/2013

« on: December 30, 2013, 1501 UTC »

RobRich, I moved your post to the Utility section because transmissions on the HF-GCS network are not numbers stations or numbers station related.  Yeah, a lot of people kind of make that leap that because they are letters and numbers and encoded that they are numbers, but they really are not.  As known and understood (purpose, if not content) military transmissions they are one of the definitions of Utility (milcomm), they just happen to be encoded in such a way to sound kind of numbers’ish.

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Spy Numbers / MOVED: HF-GCS 6739KHz USB 0755UTC 12/30/2013

« on: December 30, 2013, 1455 UTC »

This topic has been moved to Utility.

http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=14680.0

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: 5.112 a.m.

« on: December 29, 2013, 0605 UTC »

I moved this out of the Pirate logging section, because it is not a pirate, but it is rather shortwave broadcaster WBCQ, Montecillo, ME.  Also, the real frequency is 5109.75 kHz, but in AM mode on a traditional receiver it can be hard to find the correct frequency.

T!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 khz AM 5:30 utc 12-29-13

« on: December 29, 2013, 0601 UTC »

This was Pirate Radio Boston.  Was on air from before 0445 UTC and off air at 0543 UTC.

T!

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Other / Re: 43m band noise

« on: December 27, 2013, 1930 UTC »

Those are our dear socialist friends, Chinese Over The Horizon Radars (OTHRs).  I have seen up to 16 Chinese systems active at one time, of about three types, from below 4 MHz to above 12 MHz.

T!

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Borderhunter Radio 21450 AM 1728 UTC 22 Dec 2013

« on: December 22, 2013, 1742 UTC »

S5 to S6 here in the Mojave Desert.  Off at 1741 UTC.

T!

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Cupid Radio 21460 AM 1529 UTC 22 Dec 2013

« on: December 22, 2013, 1559 UTC »

Was S8 into the Mojave Desert here, but took a fade to about S4 just before the SSTV image.



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10/11 meters / Re: data bursts on 11 meters

« on: December 22, 2013, 0212 UTC »

What makes you think it is data vs a radar?  I am not saying it is not data, wihtout more description or a recording I simply do not know, but the duration you describe and the width you describe is one that is pretty common for a couple radars that fill the 27500 to 28000 area.  Maybe tomorrow (if I remember) I will grab a vid of the radars, so you can compare that to what you are seeing / hearing.

T!