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826

The RF Workbench / Re: Pirate Radio antennas

« on: December 02, 2019, 1930 UTC »

A fairly stealthy hoa placating method is to string a loop of wire of appropriate colour tacked under the eaves completely around the domicile if one wanted a loop, otherwise make it a dipole, feed it with coax with some ferrets at the feedpoint to reduce rfi, and privateer away! If anyone asks what you're doing with that wire, tell them it's part of the security system.

827

VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Re: UHF mil air

« on: December 02, 2019, 1919 UTC »

TACAMO flight burning mux on 383.950MHz 1917Z 02DEC19

S4481FSK w KG84C encryption on orderwire pair, // over EAM on triple one at this time

828

Equipment / Re: Clansman PRC-320?

« on: December 02, 2019, 1915 UTC »

Sorry no help here but always wanted one due to them being 22nd SAS kit, but scarce this side of the pond. Apparently they have reliability issues in some cases so an owner might want to look into the most common failures..

829

VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Re: UHF mil air

« on: December 02, 2019, 1908 UTC »

Unid aar on 327.600 1806Z 02DEC19

when I call elevator, I'll go up to 265, you descend to 255

what kinda problems are you having with the boom?

it's a rudder issue

830

General Radio Discussion / Re: Do you want an eQSL from your posts on the pirate bulletin board?

« on: December 01, 2019, 2254 UTC »

Sad to see the N(e)rd535 go, happy to see the updated sig.

831

Huh? / Re: Red-shouldered hawk inspecting my loop

« on: December 01, 2019, 2150 UTC »

They're creatures of habit, if he finds enough of what he's looking for he will return often. Also he might enhance signals somehow. It could happen.

832

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 LSB 2130 UTC 01 DEC 2019

« on: December 01, 2019, 2148 UTC »

Led Zeppelin remix and now into trance(?)funk @ 2147
sigs up and down but perfectly readable

diva dance @ 2149
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Dh5QoXv2c

833

General Radio Discussion / Re: Do you want an eQSL from your posts on the pirate bulletin board?

« on: December 01, 2019, 2147 UTC »

I'll expand on this by noting that users can set their signature text in your forum profile (under the profile menu) to include your email address, location, receivers used, etc. All sorts of useful information can be placed here 

kinda like how there's a T2FD Jr in your sig but not a T2FD Sr

834

General Radio Discussion / Re: Experts address concerns over radio frequency exposure

« on: December 01, 2019, 2145 UTC »

The system here is also on 900-something MHz. No truck is involved, meters send data on a periodic basis, there are various receiver locations, and I believe meters can relay signals from each other to reach this site.

One advantage of this is the utility can detect power outages as well as determine their scope even without calls from consumers that their lights are out.

You know what's going to happen here.
Fakwits, either nefarious lone hackers hacking away while wearing nefarious hoodys and employing sdr rx/tx, or some state actor (Russia, China, NK, Iran, etc) will hack these things, you guys know the utility can shut down your electric service remotely now right? If these things can be bricked via rf, we are going to have a lot of fun.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 2053 UTC 1 Dec 2019

« on: December 01, 2019, 2133 UTC »

Queen track @ 2132 into sstv up to S7 or so, LSB by the way

836

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Dr. Detroit 5165 AM 1936 UTC 1 Dec 2019

« on: December 01, 2019, 2132 UTC »

Thanks for the alt rock tracks!

837

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Classic Pirate Radio Relay Service 4085 USB 2056 UTC 1 Dec 2019

« on: December 01, 2019, 2130 UTC »

Jba om chat @ 2129

838

Utility / Russian Strategic Forces/NDCC CSTO HF Structures

« on: December 01, 2019, 0200 UTC »

Russian National Defence Control Center (NDCC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Management_Center

Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization

interesting csto tidbit;
"In May 2007 the CSTO secretary-general Nikolai Bordyuzha suggested Iran could join the CSTO saying, "The CSTO is an open organization. If Iran applies in accordance with our charter, we will consider the application." If Iran joined it would be the first state outside the former Soviet Union to become a member of the organization."
Russia already has a mutual defense treaty with Iran, and my guess is Iran already has nukes of their own.






NDCC and CSTO make their desires known on HF via T600 and CW links to their respective subordinate commands, and you can copy their traffic if you wish.

All stas F1B T600 50/200 in // unless noted.

0018.1 w/75Hz shift
3548
4445
5438
6328
6342
7657
8505 w/250 Hz shift
8696



00021.1 NDCC F1A fsk morse/75 // 8130
03363.0 NDCC F1B T600 50/200 // 21.1 kHz.
03861.0 NDCC F1B T600 50/200 // 18.1 kHz.
05438.0 NDCC F1B T600 50/200 // 18.1 kHz.
07416.0 NDCC F1B T600 50/200 // 18.1 kHz.
08129.0 CSTO F1B RUS-ARQ 1000 Hz shift
08130.0 NDCC F1B T600 50/200 // 21.1 kHz.
08508.0 CSTO F1B 50/250
08696.0 NDCC F1B T600 50/200
09058.0 CSTO F1B 50/200
10164.0 NDCC F1B T600 50/200 // 21.1 kHz.
13422.0 CSTO F1B 75/250
16112.0 NDCC A1A RAA (callsign)

   Simulcast T600
  1.  10712, 11088, 15778, 16808, 20536, 22413
  2.  5890,  9224, 11524, 14581, 16207, 19688,
      19936
  3.  14192, 16234
  4.  RDL** cw/T600 //with 18.1   
       3363,  3861,  4043,  4446, 4582,  4602,  5268,   
       5438, 6342,  6962,  7657,  7816,  8488,  8508,
       9346, 10452, 10535, 11468, 12098, 12631,
      12741, 13032, 14411, 14664, 15768, 15871,
      16912, 17460, 18764, 19210, 20096, 22864
  5.  RDL cw/T600 // with 21.1
       8130, 10164
  6.  3196,  5846
  7.  5178,  8436


Russian Strategic Forces (General Staff) Callsigns:
1QRF   
2V8I   
F2ET   
G5CX     
MDVB
N1DX
WEGI*
WLHN
XB2M   


Station RGT77 transmits alert messages in CW, in particular with callsign WEGI, and is simultaneously transmitted on other networks such as:

Network 1
14108 kHz/13868 kHz in Summer
NECOS (Net Control Station) use 2 callsigns, likely a network for Russian Army and Russian Navy working outstations with comms checks and QTCs : MMMMM  in Duplex
- uses a new set of callsigns on 1, 11 and 21 of every month)
- outstations on  13096 kHz and same transmission for Net on 13868 kHz, a duplex net

Network 2
13396 kHz in Summer
NECOS use 2 callsigns, likely a network for Russian Army and Russian Navy working outstations with QSO and QTCs in Duplex
- new set of callsigns on 1, 11 and 21 of every month)
- outstations on  12227 kHz

Network 3
12593 kHz in Summer
NECOS use 2 callsigns, likely a network for Russian Army and Russian Navy working outstations with comms checks and QTCs in Duplex
- new set of callsigns on 1, 11 and 21 of every month)
- outstations on  11596 kHz

Alert messages heard
12593,0 WEGI  M32 0743z CW XXX WEGI 42948 67672 MONTER 7138 1577 K
simultaneous transmission on 3 networks :
14108/13868
13396
12593 SUMMER

12593,0 WEGI M32 0738z CW XXX WEGI 28482 KERGELEN 9054 4392 K
simultaneous transmission on 3 networks : 14108/13868
13396
12593 SUMMER

12593,0 WEGI M32 1316z CW XXX WEGI 71045 WERES 2130 0088
simultaneous transmission on 3 networks : 14108/13868
13396
12593 SUMMER

13396,0 WEGI M32 0738z CW XXX WEGI 28482 KERGELEN 9054 4392 K
simultaneous transmission on 3 networks : 14108/13868
13396
12593 SUMMER

13868,0 WEGI M32 0738z CW XXX WEGI 28482 KERGELEN 9054 4392 K
simultaneous transmission on 3 networks : 14108/13868
13396
12593 SUMMER

13868,0 WEGI M32 1316z CW XXX WEGI 71045 WERES 2130 0088
simultaneous transmission on 3 networks : 14108/13868
13396
12593 SUMMER

14108,0 WEGI M32 0738z CW XXX WEGI 28482 KERGELEN 9054 4392 K
simultaneous transmission on 3 networks : 14108/13868
13396
12593 SUMMER


7817,0 RGT77  M32 0757z CW XXX WEGI 36869 UROKONIWH 5060 7831 K
simultaneous transmission on other 3 networks :
14108/13868
13396
12593

7817,0 RGT77  M32 0803z CW XXX WEGI 28687 SWANOSIP 9995 5153 K
simultaneous transmission on other 3 networks 14108/13868
13396
12593

7817,0 RGT77  Russian Army 0734z CW XXX WEGI 63326 PAUKOKREP 2219 5366 K
simultaneous transmission on other frequencies from RGT77 : 7827 and other networks :
14108/13886
13396
12593

16223,0 RGT77  M32 1532z CW XXX WEGI 34059 ITOGOPAPA 0448 3695 K
simultaneous transmission on other frequencies from RGT77 : 15807 – 7827 – 7817 and other networks 
10987/10962
13396
12593
7674

16223,0 RGT77  M32 1537z CW XXX WEGI 87633 53931 BOSOBAL 6182 9609 K
simultaneous transmission on other frequencies from RGT77 : 15807 – 7827 – 7817 and other networks
10987/10962
13396
12593
7674

16223,0 RGT77  M32 0801z CW XXX WEGI 81948 SLEVENIE 0767 4299 K
simultaneous transmission on 4 other networks on the frequencies
14108/13868
13396
12593
5437

14552,0 RGT77  M32 0911z CW XXX WEGI 34484 94789 29069 MORENNYJ 6791 5134 K //16223 
simultaneous transmission on 4 other network frequencies
14108/13868
13396
12593
5437
and other frequencies from RGT77 : 7617 – 7627 - 8109

*WEGI may be a general callsign for all strategic forces/commands, or a proword indicating this needs your immediate attention, however XXX and MNL in CW are also indicative of FLASH Priority traffic

**RDL is presumed to be the callsign for all Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces and uses a specific T600 synchronization sequence preamble on all RDL "frequencies", all other links employ a differing preamble of the two known preambles so far

T600 Decoder for those who don't have a few thousand $ to throw on spookware;
http://www.signalshed.com/rivet/index.html
(you can get the preambles and so on but don't expect to see anything but encrypted groups otherwise)

Mention has been made of NDCC/CSTO/RDL communications via the Parus satellite system, specifically a store and forward and mesh topology, making this system an inviting target to monitor;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parus_(satellite)

Two things come to my mind that might be counted on with the Russians at the onset of conflict;
1st would likely be radio silence across the spectrum
2nd would likely be callsign/frequency changes across the spectrum, that is, going by the Russian radio operational art of WW2; and Russian Forces HF operations today are very, almost uncannily, similar to how they operated on HF in WW2.


All info courtesy udxf logs and personal observation

839

Equipment / Re: Connecting computer soundcard to older model Icoms

« on: November 30, 2019, 2316 UTC »

The signalink's a great piece of gear, but all one really needs is a audio cable and some audio transformers and the requisite connectors for each end. Just plumb the audio ins and outs, passing each via a xformer to isolate the circuit and then employ vox to do the tx/rx switching. You can go in via the mic or the 8 or 13 pin din common to almost every icom, even the mic has audio out.

840

General Radio Discussion / Re: Experts address concerns over radio frequency exposure

« on: November 30, 2019, 0033 UTC »

Guess I missed the show when Alex Jones 'splained how smart meters work.   

~

Something about resonating trace elements in our systems to induce spontaneous drug effects such as lsd etc, as well as localise effectiveness of "rf to brain" direct communications, ie make people think they're hearing the voice of god, and also to directly impinge and entrain the target brain with the brain waves of demented people, the comatose, people on drugs, etc.

Instead of gaslighting it'll be streetlighting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting