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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6950 kHz USB 0120 UTC November 13, 2016

« on: November 13, 2016, 0323 UTC »

Thanks for the show Wolverine.  As normal, an excellent signal into the Mojave Desert, wife enjoyed the show.

SSTV image here:




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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 USB 2337 UTC November 12, 2016

« on: November 13, 2016, 0003 UTC »

6955 would be usably strong here in the Mojave Desert, but the military FSK data signal on the same freq is killing it.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935 USB 2355 UTC 12 Nov 2016

« on: November 12, 2016, 2359 UTC »

Not heard an ID yet, but the signal looks like Chamberpot to me so far.

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HF Beacons / Possible new beacon 4096.86 kHz Nov 12 2016 1345 UTC

« on: November 12, 2016, 1511 UTC »

A possible new addition to the 4095 / 4096 cluster of beacons.  This morning I saw a short duration ditter, about 0.15 sec long dit about every 0.95 second on 4096.86 kHz.  I noticed it about 1345 UTC on Nov 12, 2016.

The ditter was very weak, and had long fades to completely gone.  It is possible it is cycling on and off like a few other beacons do (Shorty on 7998.3 kHz and the two unnamed beacons on 2008.4 and 2016.7 kHz), but really it was too weak for me to be sure.

Here is a shot of it, note that in this shot the other 4095/4096 beacons are not present, there was some odd propagation this morning as these beacons are normally seen here quite well:




40 minutes later Viking and Haystack faded up out of the noise, and the new beacon could still be very faintly heard.  As this was right about sunrise and it was a bit cloudy, the Inyo-Whooper is not seen, it is a daytime only beacon and turned on a while later.




And 30 minutes later Inyo-Whooper was on solid, but no sign of the new beacon...if it is one.


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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Zed 6925 USB 0112 UTC 12 Nov 2016

« on: November 12, 2016, 0251 UTC »

Making it OK here, but the digital data on 6925 USB is killing it whenever it fires up, every few seconds.

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Spy Numbers / Re: V24 new schedule?

« on: November 11, 2016, 1558 UTC »

V24 carrier up 5115 kHz at 1554 UTC, Nov 11, 2016.  6310 kHz did not go as expected at 1530 UTC.  Looks like there has been a general V24 schedule change over the last two months. 

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Spy Numbers / Re: V24 new schedule?

« on: November 11, 2016, 1529 UTC »

2016. 11. 11. 4925 kHz turned on from 14:28 to 14:39

Yes, 4925 kHz was up today, although audio started 30 seconds late, at about 1430:30 UTC.  And it seems V24 may have dropped 5290 kHz from the schedule.

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HF Beacons / Re: 7000.16 Re: Currently Active Beacons

« on: November 11, 2016, 1305 UTC »

Can you describe what you are hearing?  There have been several reported around that frequency range.  Stumpy is typically around 7000.7 kHz, its recent format has been a short dit every 19 seconds or so.

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HF Beacons / Re: SHORTY 7998.3 CW 1115 UTC 29 Sep 2016

« on: November 11, 2016, 1303 UTC »

Shorty and Hiker are tough pulls for me this last week, as the USCG DRM on 8000 kHz kills a 10 kHz wide swath.

However both were in good shape here at 0300z on Nov 11, 2016.  Hiker was booming, and Shorty was decent.

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Utility / Re: USCG DRM, 5200 kHz, DRM mode, 0110 UTC, 06 November, 2016

« on: November 09, 2016, 0028 UTC »

This signal and station are on 8000 kHz tonight (November 9, 2016), as it was last night.  Same kind of data, same format.

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Utility / Re: USCG DRM, 5200 kHz, DRM mode, 0110 UTC, 06 November, 2016

« on: November 07, 2016, 0305 UTC »

This USCG DRM signal on 5200 kHz was up before 0100z today, 7 November, 2016.
 
I have a couple of DRM programs running now.  I see that the signal contains at least 4 data channels, they are labeled:
1 USCG Journaline | Data: Journaline (11.04 kbps)
2 USCG AIS DATA | Data: (11.04 kbps)
3 Binary File Pool | Data: (11.04 kbps)
4 Quality Test | Data: Unknown Service (0.60 kbps)
 
No audio heard so far, I don’t know if I have incorrect settings or if there is indeed no data on the signal.

Selecting the Journaline data line you find multiple lines of information, from safety bulletins, weather reports, etc, to ESPN sports results.

Here is a video of the signal at my location, with decodes and the data currently being shown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttXgXkoSqG0

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6940 kHz USB 2245 UTC 6 November 2016

« on: November 06, 2016, 2252 UTC »

So far unided station, 6940 kHz USB, started at 2245 UTC, November 6, 2016.  Good signal in the Mojave Desert.

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Other / MOVED: UNk DRM, 5200 kHz, DRM mode, 0110 UTC, 06 November, 2016

« on: November 06, 2016, 1648 UTC »

This topic has been moved to Utility.

https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=30941.0

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Utility / Re: UNk DRM, 5200 kHz, DRM mode, 0110 UTC, 06 November, 2016

« on: November 06, 2016, 1543 UTC »

Interesting, a text mode built into DRM.  I have never played with DRM at all.  Anyone know a good decoder?  Preferably one that will do the Journaline mode also?  I tried Dream a few years back, but it seemed to have issues.

And at 1540z still going.

Possibly an indicator of what is going on here:  
http://www.radiomagonline.com/around-the-world/0020/us-coast-guard-interested-in-applications-of-drm-for-shipsatsea/38015
http://www.rfmondial.com/fileadmin/downloads/factsheet_drm_datacasting_RFmondial.pdf
http://www.radioworld.com/article/the-evolution-of-Shortwave-radio/279335
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=9188c33f189d412260de2bf7b3154106&tab=core&_cview=0

(edit)  Antenna bearings and propagation are consistent with Kodiak, AK.  I think this is going to turn out to be a USCG transmission, so I am moving the thread to Utility.

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HF Beacons / Stumpy changed rate maybe 7000.72 kHz 1429 UTC 6 November 2016

« on: November 06, 2016, 1536 UTC »

This morning when Stumpy came online the pause between dits and the dit length is changed.  I do not try to catch it every day, but the last time I did (a few days ago) it was still about 22 seconds from dit to dit, and dit length about 0.17 sec.  But this morning I caught the turn on at about 1429 UTC, and it was 19.37 seconds dit to dit, and dit length is only 0.15 sec.

I thought at first it may be a "just turned on" thing, but an hour later it is still on the same spacing and length.  Also, the freq is slightly higher than it has been.

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