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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 / Re: FCC sets the stage for the next generation of wireless services

« on: July 18, 2016, 0313 UTC »

Yeah, Gaylord Opryland seems to not like to have any competition
with their wirele$$ $ervice

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Pee Wee 6952 USB 0242 UTC 7/18/16

« on: July 18, 2016, 0309 UTC »

Excellent sig in here w/Blues mx
0302 - CW ID "SKIPPY RADIO" then gone s/off?
Thanks for mx Skippy

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 8060 AM 136 UTC 16 Jul 2016

« on: July 17, 2016, 0355 UTC »

0348 - Finally a pretty good sig from this station. Easy 59 sig here
          (through RN crashes). Sounds best in SAM mode. Anyone
          who plays Pink Floyd can't be all bad!   I can still
          hear the sweeper in the background - I hear the same(?)
          sweeper up around 11+ mHz. Also some ALE under @ 0353

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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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General Radio Discussion / Re: FCC sets the stage for the next generation of wireless services

« on: July 17, 2016, 0259 UTC »

14jul16:
Just read in the USA Today section that the FCC is going to open spectrum
for the future 5G wireless systems at: 28, 37, and 39 GIGAHERTZ!!! With an
additional spectrum at 64 - 71 gHz for unlicensed users! Now that's
ULTRA, ULTRA high freqs! The h/w and s/w will be interesting but I hope
we don't end up with micro cell towers every 100 meters or so.

One of my favorite sayings is: "Only dumb people need smartphones!"

I'm an old poop (and proud of it) and my cell RADIO is a basic one for talking and very
rare text messages. I still mainly depend on my landline phone for calls
to / from other folks.

The "Internet of Things" is one of the most useless ideas I've ever heard.
I mean, I can open my refrigerator and quickly determine if I need anything!

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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 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: RFW 6940 USB 0103 UTC May 29, 2016

« on: May 29, 2016, 0236 UTC »

Very nice signal into the middle of the Volunteer State!
0235 - unk techno-dance(?) mx
Hey, DH errrr I mean DW, of course, NO HIP-HOP or other noise, please!

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QSLs Received / Re: XFM postal QSL

« on: May 29, 2016, 0221 UTC »

Hey RH,
I got my QSL (#928) for Halloween show on 26may16 along with
an X-FM sticker and CD of Halloween 2015 program.

You sure put in a strapping sig here when you are on!
Thanks, Paul