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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 kHz USB 1925 14nov16 UTC

« on: November 14, 2016, 1942 UTC »

1925 - Sig is way down in the noise but occasionally rises up
          enough to make out what sounds like maybe an
          old radio show recording.
1941 - Sounds like big band era mx

Thanks, whoever you are

PS - I have noted of late that the peskies have
      discovered the USB mode.   Used to be
      easier to filter them out from just looking at
      the waterfall...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 kHz AM 0200 08oct16 UTC

« on: October 08, 2016, 0213 UTC »

0211 - sounds like a comedy skit but sig is
         too weak for me to recover much.
         Anyone else???
0218 - mx about "la-la-la-la-la" sig is peaking
          occasionally. Sounds kinda like Big Band
          but maybe in Italian???
0222 - seems to be gone

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6885kHz FM (?) 1330 29sep16 UTC

« on: September 29, 2016, 1338 UTC »

Unkn mx, best(?) sound was in NFM mode, gone at 1333
Screen print image is too large to post here.
Anyone catch on SDR recording?

See at: http://imgur.com/a/ZdtLB

Chris,
Thanks. It took a bit of doing but take a look at:
http://imgur.com/a/ZdtLB
imgur is a new one on me but very useful. I will
have to remember that. Right now, the only
way I have to save a screen print is to paste it
into a Word document. I'm still using SpectraVue
mainly because I'm used to it but even its capture
files are too large to post.
Paul

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General Radio Discussion / Frazz and CW

« on: September 19, 2016, 0205 UTC »

Check out the comic strip "Frazz" for today,
18sep16. If that does not appear in your paper,
here's a link - you may have to set the date:
http://www.gocomics.com/frazz
Enjoy

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 kHz USB 1808 & 1823 13sep16 UTC

« on: September 14, 2016, 0110 UTC »

When I got home this afternoon, I found these 2
very noisy SSTV images:
1808 - I think I can just make out an image in MC110-N ()
1823 - Definitely an image here in Scottie1

Anyone maybe get a usable image of these on an SDR recording?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Black Cat Radio 6925 kHz USB 2305 11sep16 UTC

« on: September 11, 2016, 2318 UTC »

I was parked on 6925 and just found this image from ~10 minutes
ago. Sorry BC, I wasn't around at the time so didn't hear your
transmission.

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General Radio Discussion / Radio music

« on: August 26, 2016, 0455 UTC »

I was recently reading the post by Ct Yankee. "So, why did you start listening to the radio",
and it brought back memories what I consider my favorite radio related music:
BTW: Ct, the answer, for me, is the magic of radio and I think the first song
really expresses that magic feeling... Enjoy!

Radio music

“I Watched It All On My Radio”
Album by the same title – Lionel Cartwright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUyKAJGyfKY

“Me or Him”
Radio KAOS – Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd fame)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Puk494qeAU

Radioactivity by Kraftwerk – entire album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZIKscefT4Y

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Fake(?) UVB33 numbers 6925 CW ~0138 17aug16 UTC

« on: August 17, 2016, 0200 UTC »

I was on the phone and had the rcvr parked on 6925 with the
audio turned down when I realized I was hearing CW. I fired up
fldigi in the CW mode - sorry, if I copy CW by ear, I need 200%
concentration! - and copied this, looks like same message sent 2 X:
XSJXJ KVMEF TFIEP GFGMT QBNSU EHGKH WUBIN XCJ<VE>X SAJWX CNRCJ CFQWW EHEOE JRDIQ LHFJV SNKFW
TBWQV LOGWE FOHAJ BBXBM XANKT XXPVW SMDRV WXQRM UQBNM SLIPR BTSJE MIXNM XCPLS HQOAP IRWKM
AGJWH LKPIX XDXIG VFIVF EXDAB QVVOH PCBLD BWHOD KAFPR SJUFO NBOLD PKAAD YYMYY 132 132 132 UVB33
UVB33 UVB33 K VVV VVV VVV UVB33 UVB33 UVB33 RM32 132 *32 ZZZZZ XSJXJ KVMEF TFIEP GFGMT QBNSU
EHGKH WUBIN XCJPX SAJMX CNRCJ CFQWW EHEOE JRDIQ LHFJV SNKFW TBWQV LOGWE FOHAJ BXBM XANKT
XXPVW SMDRV WXQRM UQBNM SLIPR BTSJE MIXNM XCPLS HQOAP IRWKM AGJWH LVPIX XDXIG VFIVF EXDAB QVVO
PCBLD BWHOD KAFPR SJUFO NBOLD PKAAD YYYYY 132 132 132 UVB33 UVB33 UVB33 K
 

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Other / UNID carrier 6946.5 kHz 2250 24jul16 UTC

« on: July 25, 2016, 0115 UTC »

This is a really strong carrier that I first noticed ~2250
I expected someone to s/on at TOH but so far, nothing.
The carrier is consistently stronger that WRMI(?) on
6855 kHz. The carrier is ~S9 +10 on the R-70.
I posted on here due to the frequency.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 kHz USB & CW 1725 UTC 21 JULY 2016

« on: July 21, 2016, 1747 UTC »

1725 - BARELY could hear some mx, maybe OM "testing"
          a few minutes earlier?
1728 - CW but it was way too weak for me to copy. Maybe
          someone in a better QTH also heard or an SDR recording???
          Not prime time for good propagation at this freq.
          "Hello, hello, is there anybody out there?"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 CW 0330 UTC 19JUL2016

« on: July 19, 2016, 0408 UTC »

~0330 Started with "V"s then into 5 letter groups. I got into here
          ~2 minutes into it and punched Audacity and recorded the
          final ~6:30.

~0338 Assumed s/off w/"YYYYY 23233 23233 23233 UVB33 UVB33 UVB33 K"

CW sounded good @ ~18 wpm but the sig was weak w/some QSB and QRN
Guess someone was trying to be a Numbers station...

{Edit 1835  19jul16}
Chris,
Yeah, I had the same thought about the UVB33 after I later read
the posting, in General Discussions, about UVB-76. I didn't copy much
last night as I was doing laundry at the time it was on so I only
was able to be in the shack just before s/off. I did get most of it
on Audacity and plan to play that back and see if there's anything
else of interest...
Paul

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General Radio Discussion / Huntsville, AL Hamfest

« on: July 17, 2016, 0304 UTC »

Any other HFU folks planning to attend the HSV Hamfest, 20 - 21aug16?

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HF Mystery Signals / wideband "noise" ~6200 - 7200 kHz ~2155 11jul16

« on: June 11, 2016, 2252 UTC »

I usually leave the SDR on 6925 kHz if I'm not using it for anything else That was the case this afternoon as I was monitoring the
50, 144, and 432 mHz ham bands when I looked over at the monitor and saw this pattern. Since VHF was dead at the time, I
searched around a bit and I could see the signal(?) ~6200 - 7200 kHz. I could hear a buzz whenever it was in the detector passband
(AM or FM). The signal, or whatever, appears to be gone at this time - 2240. Rcvr is RFSpace SDR-IQ. Sorry, the video file is way too
large to post...
Thanks, Paul