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Utility / ALE and MIL-STD 188-110 8025 USB 1915 UTC 01 DEC 2022

« on: December 01, 2022, 2020 UTC »

Received via W3HFU KiwiSDR at S7 to S9.  Appears to be National Guard net with ALE calls as well as MIL-STD 188-110A ARQ sessions.  Could this be an HF mail system?

Interestingly, the 110A traffic didn't seem to stop during the ALE calls, so I'm not absolutely sure that the calling station wasn't transmitting on top of someone.

[No Timestamp][Call] [from MI5JOC      ] [to WI5JOC      ]
[No Timestamp][Call] [from MI5JOC      ] [to IL5JOC      ]
[19:35:58] [Call] [from MI5JOC      ] [to MN5JOC      ]
[19:41:55] [Call] [from MI5JOC      ] [to OH51JOC     ]
[19:47:46] [Call] [from MI5JOC      ] [to WI5JOC      ]
[19:59:31] [Call] [from MI5JOC      ] [to IN51JOC     ]
[20:05:00] [Call] [from MI5JOC      ] [to IN5C        ]
[20:11:20] [Call] [from MI5JOC      ] [to OH51JOC     ]
[20:17:11] [Call] [from MI5JOC      ] [to WI5JOC      ]
[20:22:58] [Call] [from MI5JOC      ] [to IL5JOC      ]

Link to recording:
https://archive.org/download/mil-std-188-141-and-mil-std-188-110-2022-12-01-t-19-59-17-z-8025.00-usb/MIL-STD-188-141_and_MIL-STD-188-110_2022-12-01T19_59_17Z_8025.00_usb.wav

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID Numbers 6952 USB 1500 UTC 01 DEC 2022

« on: December 01, 2022, 1541 UTC »

Started at  1500 UTC with about a minute of flute music followed by what sounded like a computer-generated female voice with an English accent saying "this is, this is... 10211, 10211" followed by more 5-digit groups with each group spoken twice.

I was to slow to catch the music on my recording, so it starts with the beginning of the voice transmission.

Link to recording:
https://archive.org/download/unid-numbers-2022-12-01-t-15-01-20-z-6952.000-usb/UNID_Numbers_2022-12-01T15_01_20Z_6952.000_usb.wav

This is the same frequency and mode used by the recent Hawaiian Numbers shortwave pirate transmissions, but I'm logging it here unless anyone suggests otherwise.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Channel 94 4185 USB 0240 UTC 01 DEC 2022

« on: December 01, 2022, 0249 UTC »

S5 signal received via the N1NTE Kiwi SDR.  90's songs.  Seems like deep cuts and kinda obscure stuff.

0243  ID - "Channel 94, songs from 1994"

0254 Bad Religion - 21st Century Digital Boy
0257 ID - Thanks for listening to Channel 94.  See you next time." into Frank Black - Headache
0300 Signed off

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MW Loggings / WQFG689 1710 AM (Hudson County, NJ) 0226 UTC

« on: November 29, 2022, 0246 UTC »

S5 into the southeastern US tonight on my AirSpy Discovery+ and 80m OFC dipole with no co-channel interference, but a fair amount of hiss.
Had to listen in USB to make out the announcement.  SIO 242

0226 UTC Recorded message with OM repeating "This is radio station WQFG689, owned and operated by Hudson County, NJ.  We are currently experiencing technical difficulties, and continue to work on correcting the issue.  Please check back with 1710 AM soon.  Thank you for your patience."

Link to recording:
https://archive.org/download/wqft-689-2022-11-29-t-02-38-26-z-1710.00-usb/WQFT689_2022-11-29T02_38_26Z_1710.00_usb.wav

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WTF Worldwide 4060 USB 0130 UTC 29 NOV 2022

« on: November 29, 2022, 0137 UTC »

Just got home.  Nice to hear someone still on the air.

0130 UTC sound like movie clips and OM speaking over sitar-y guitar.
0134 WTF Worldwide ID
0137 Off

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22 Meter Band HiFER Beacons / 22m Beacon Logs 28 Nov 2022

« on: November 28, 2022, 1916 UTC »

Received via N1NTE Kiwi #2:
1900 UTC 13566.4 RVA - Only about S2, but clearly audible with a tight CW filter
1914 UTC 13563.5 YSO - Down in the noise, nothing on the S-meter

Received via N1NTE Kiwi #1:
1949 UTC 13565 RF - S1 right at the noise level.  Took several tries before I caught the ID.

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Peskies / Peskies 4211 USB 0745 UTC 28 NOV 2022

« on: November 28, 2022, 0825 UTC »

Heard a pair of OM chatting in Spanish.  S5 signal at my QTH in the southeastern US.

Then I spent longer than I want to admit hopping around different Kiwi SDRs all up and down the east coast listening to them.  The propagation gods must have smiled on these two caballeros, because they could be heard from Sao Paulo, Brazil to Stafford, Prince Edward Island.  For kicks, I checked Westfjords, Iceland, and they were fading in and out.  Not great, but audible.

God speed, Seņores

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Black Swan Radio 6925 USB 0037 UTC 24 NOV 2022

« on: November 24, 2022, 0039 UTC »

0037 Atmospheric music again.  Same op?
0042 Electron Radio ID " signing on to the 43 meter band to North America" (I guess I heard the ID wrong)

0045 Juice WRLD & Trill Jimi - Wishing Well
0048 ID
0049 pop song with yelling vocals - off suddenly
0050 another song - keeps cutting out
0052 off suddenly

Back with 0127 with S9 signal
0140 "Black Swan will broadcast to the west coast of North America at 0400 UTC."

Link to Recording:
https://archive.org/download/black-swan-radio-international-2022-11-24-t-01-31-20-z-6925.000-usb/Black_Swan_Radio_International_2022-11-24T01_31_20Z_6925.000_USB.wav

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 2039 UTC 22 NOV 2022

« on: November 22, 2022, 2040 UTC »

Heard via the W3HFU Kiwi, spoken word program about Bigfoot, S5-S7

Link to recording:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15S4EgTb7cOB_ieHcErM15He9nzAqjaeq/view

2058 Either signed off or faded completely

2117 Back on the air.  "A ghostly apparition appeared." Sounds like another episode of the same show.
S3-S6 on the N1NTE Kiwi with lower noise.
Link to recording:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qSJ0C2IOclESdZLbksBIXjKWbdU-6WpA/view

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Utility / 6981 KHz USB ALE and VARA? 1833Z NOV 22 2022

« on: November 22, 2022, 1903 UTC »

Just heard what sounded like a VARA ARQ exchange on 6981 KHz.  I also heard 2G ALE sounding from "AB2" on the same freq around the same time, but unknown if it was the same station.  If it was ALE, the the dial freq would have been 6980.

I know MIL-STD-188 ALE includes some kind of ARQ itself, but this signal didn't sound like that to me.

EDIT - link to recording:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DRMoGXECh7G0N6qpi7Fap8JFtzrjUtSi/view

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 4015 USB 0350 UTC 11 FEB 2021

« on: February 11, 2021, 0359 UTC »

Bluesy instrumental guitar music
0400Z signed off?

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Utility / UNID 5 Character ALE net 2113 UTC 03 FEB 2020

« on: February 04, 2020, 0245 UTC »

I'm not sure how reliable this website is, but according to
http://www.ominous-valve.com/ale-list.txt, this ALE net is believed to be run by FEMA or other elements of the US government.  The frequencies ("dial" freq USB mode) are said to be:

4610.0
4979.0
5837.0
7870.0
10424.0
11448.0
11587.5
12109.0
13437.0
16011.0
18475.0
20361.0
23390.0

I left MARS ALE scanning this afternoon and evening, and logged these soundings.  To me, it looks like a controlled net where only the NCS sounds.

03FEB2020
[21:13:50][FRQ 05837000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 27 SN 13
[21:44:00][FRQ 05837000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 29 SN 12
[21:42:38][FRQ 12109000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 05
[21:48:20][FRQ 04979000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 29 SN 09
[22:14:17][FRQ 05837000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 28 SN 12
[22:18:33][FRQ 04979000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 12
[22:44:33][FRQ 05837000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 13
[22:48:53][FRQ 04979000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 29 SN 12
[23:00:39][FRQ 04610000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 10
[23:14:41][FRQ 05837000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 16
[23:44:57][FRQ 05837000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 13

04FEB2020
[00:31:20][FRQ 04610000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 17 SN 13
[00:45:32][FRQ 05837000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 15
[01:20:03][FRQ 04979000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 16
[01:31:44][FRQ 04610000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 16
[01:50:13][FRQ 04979000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 14
[01:52:35][FRQ 04979000][SND][               ][TWS][ZG7D8          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 15
[02:46:20][FRQ 05837000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 08
[02:50:32][FRQ 04979000][SND][               ][TWS][6Y8M5          ][AL0] BER 30 SN 10

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North American Shortwave Pirate / PeeWee Radio 6955 USB 0256 UTC 27 JAN 2020

« on: January 27, 2020, 0259 UTC »

0256 Rock music
0258 SSTV
0259 More rock guitar

Despite the dog-centric SSTVs, I'm assuming this was Skippy (meant to write) PeeWee Radio, since he sent the sock image earlier and tends to send SSTVs of images posted on the HFU chat.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Marijuana > Radio Humperdoo 6927 USB 2000 UTC 24 SEP 2019

« on: September 24, 2019, 2019 UTC »

Just tuned in via the Jumonville, PA SDR.  - SIO 454 - Playing Spanish translations of American rock songs.  YL with Spanish-language voice IDs.  It may be worth noting that websites and emails mentioned seem to use "dot com" which I associate with Spanish-speakers who grew up in the US, rather "puntocom" which I associate with Latin-American Spanish.

2105 - OM ID as Radio Humperdoo.  Guess it was a relay.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 5100 AM 1648 UTC 24 SEP 2019

« on: September 24, 2019, 1656 UTC »

Another relay of Mix Radio International who's currently on 5125 KHz USB.
SIO 222 on the Westminster, MD Kiwi.  Can't pick it up locally.

1704 - Sign-Off?
1705 - Carrier is back.  There was audio for a second, then back to dead carrier.
1714 - Still on.  Every once in a while I get a little audio, right at the noise level.