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Utility / Re: What's up with WLO Marine?

« on: May 25, 2023, 1024 UTC »

WLO was gone for a long time, now it's back with test transmissions at various times on 8788 khz USB. Widely reported on the RadioRef utilities forum and also mentioned on the UDXF forum.  No known solid schedule yet, so it's catch as catch can

Mike

Its return was first logged by me here on HFU which SIGNIT just referenced. https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,110909.msg354181.html

Not long after I made that post, I emailed Hugh Stegman at the Spectrum Monitor a few days later and he started doing some research and asking around on UDXF. He also said I beat the UDXF people by a little over a week. 

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Utility / Re: WLO Mobile, AL USA 8788 USB 1117 UTC 9 Mar 2023 - Audio/IQ File Included

« on: April 26, 2023, 0859 UTC »

Just letting people know that if you want the full story on the return of WLO read Hugh Stegman's Utility Column in the current, May issue of The Spectrum Monitor. Apparently my logging was the first one and he mentions my email to him with the recording on the 11th of March but you all heard it here 2 days before I emailed him 

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Utility / Re: WLO Mobile, AL USA 8788 USB 1117 UTC 9 Mar 2023 - Audio/IQ File Included

« on: April 08, 2023, 2151 UTC »

I copied this last night (UTC 8 April, c. 0400 UTC) and listened for a while, but never copied ID. But it was YL voice with marine weather at this frequency and mode.

Awesome! I'm so happy other people are hearing this. I was a little hesitant to post about it at first and didn't do it until I made that recording as it was a station which was supposed to be dead. I had thought they took down all the antennas and sold the transmitters so my mind was "how am I even hearing this?" when I first detected it on the Malahit.

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Utility / WLO Mobile, AL USA 8788 USB 1117 UTC 9 Mar 2023 - Audio/IQ File Included

« on: March 09, 2023, 1229 UTC »

I seem to have logged a marine weather broadcast from WLO this morning. I thought this station went off the air? I've included the IQ file for anyone who wants to put it into their SDR: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GSHsLkXAqfvXSc0VuDN4kQxeP6mBOwHp/view?usp=share_link

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio Int. 11965 USB 2108 UTC 18 FEB 2023

« on: February 18, 2023, 2132 UTC »

Heard the Four Seasons (i think) by Vivaldi here in Seattle with a faint signal due to local noise.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 4015 USB was 6935 USB 0057 UTC 12 FEB 2023

« on: February 12, 2023, 0116 UTC »

Picking this up faintly in Seattle.

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Utility / USCG CommCom Issues "Keep Out" re: Chinese Balloon 4125 USB 0534 UTC 5 Feb 2023

« on: February 05, 2023, 0602 UTC »

After failed attempts to contact "Aleutian 1" the United States Coast Guard Command (CommCom) from Chesapeake, Virginia transmitted a warning to mariners to keep out of the area of military operations near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where they are recovering pieces of the Chinese balloon which transited the continental US and Canada last week. Audio included below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eU33Nmw6aiMEH2cC91msQP28I-IP2O1p/view?usp=sharing

EDIT: Also there appears to be some encrypted traffic on 5696khz.

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Utility / 11282 USB USAF TEAL71 w/San Francisco Radio 2022 UTC 29 Jan 2023

« on: January 29, 2023, 2113 UTC »

TEAL71 a WC-130J Hercules "Hurricane Hunter" from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in communication with San Francisco was denied clearance to drop weather instruments.

San Francisco: "Flight level 290, Drops are per your mission, we do not clear aircraft to drop, you are over a Bravo airspace and we are not sure mission is clear to do so there."

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Utility / Russian Air Force Strategic Bomber Voice Net 8090 khz USB 1459 UTC

« on: April 28, 2022, 1614 UTC »

This net has been active today. I recall it was active in the opening days of the war as well.

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Utility / Russian Strategic Bomber HF Voice Net 4372 & 5833 KHz USB 0256 UTC 18 March 2022

« on: March 18, 2022, 0524 UTC »

This came up on the feed: https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/18-march-russian-strategic-bomber-high-frequency-voice-net

A lot of new Utility SWLers are being created right now.
https://twitter.com/te3ej/status/1504654023403712512?s=21

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Utility / Re: UNID jam 5825 USB 1420 UTC 02 Mar 2022

« on: March 02, 2022, 1614 UTC »

I agree, thank you Kris. You are in the perfect place to monitor activity during this horrific invasion.

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Utility / Re: Russian Air Force ? 8131 USB 1806 UTC 26 FEB 2022

« on: February 26, 2022, 1831 UTC »

1806 Good copy on an SDR in Austria.

Yes, I have also monitored a lot of activity there via the Plonsk, Poland KiwiSDR. Good catch!

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Utility / Re: Ukraine Conflict HF Frequencies

« on: February 26, 2022, 1827 UTC »

Good job Jasmine , TNX for support!!!
 - my supplement:
3920 USB calling russians outsaid conflict area?
4380 U basis Air Mil Kaliningrad ATC
4397 U
4421 U Ru Mil Air Dir.
4610 U
4649,5 U main active channel
5125 U
5130 U
5837 U

Great job as always Kris!!! When this broke out I knew you'd be making some amazing loggings.
I just wish I knew more Russian. I only know a little bit which I learned from my best friend in high school who came to the US with her parents when she was little.

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Utility / Re: Ukraine Conflict HF Frequencies

« on: February 26, 2022, 1749 UTC »

Does anyone know of any HF frequencies I can listen to that have to do with the Ukraine conflict/Military, are any in English. Don't know where to start to search in the bands
Steve

In my monitoring via the Plonsk, Poland KiwiSDR I found the following active frequencies for Russian military near or in Ukraine:
4380 USB
4621 LSB
4649.5 USB
5349 USB
7580 USB
7811 USB
8131 USB

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Broadcast Announcements / Re: Atlantic 2000 16./18.July

« on: July 17, 2021, 2232 UTC »

Someday I want to travel to Bali. It looks amazing!