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

« on: July 17, 2021, 2022 UTC »

Any station transmitting on 18 July should do a UFO/Alien theme to mess with these people here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Throawaylien/

The whole "aliens are coming July 18, 2021" thing has become such a meme that you'd probably crash Reddit with a "mysterious alien" broadcast referring to the date.  Be sure to throw in some bluegrass music.

Definitely could be an epic, historic joke.

For reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/Throawaylien/comments/nn4usq/resources_and_links/

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Drunken DJ Radio 6950 USB 5 July 2021

« on: July 05, 2021, 0419 UTC »

I have a request. Can you please play "They Say Vision" by Res?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Drunken DJ Radio 6950 USB 5 July 2021

« on: July 05, 2021, 0311 UTC »

I've got this coming in very strong in Seattle on my Airspy HF+ Discovery SDR

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Utility / Unknown Time Signal 6779 USB 0443 UTC 22 March 2021

« on: March 23, 2021, 0445 UTC »

Not sure what this is. I did a search for it but couldn't find any time signals on this frequency. Any ideas?

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Utility / Sri Lankan 607 and Korean Air 644 working Jakarta 6556 usb 1701 utc 28 Jan 2021

« on: January 28, 2021, 1712 UTC »

I woke up today to some nice propagation from Southeast Asia and picked up airline flights Sri Lankan 607 and Korean Air 644 communicating Jakarta Radio.

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Spy Numbers / Re: Unknown Numbers Station 4978 khz USB 17:28 UTC 21 Jan 2021

« on: January 22, 2021, 1524 UTC »

Thank you!

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Utility / Military One VOLMET 11253 usb 1649 utc 21 Jan 2021

« on: January 21, 2021, 1752 UTC »

This one is a rare catch for me out here in Seattle. I don't think I've ever heard it on 5450 but at least one time I logged it on 11253 twice. Someone here said then that he thought it was going over the pole.

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Spy Numbers / VC 01 - "Chinese Robot" 4978 khz USB 17:28 UTC 21 Jan 2021

« on: January 21, 2021, 1732 UTC »

I first picked this up on my SDR and antenna very faintly and then tried to find a web SDR which would bring it in with a stronger signal and found that SDRs in Japan and South Korea could copy it well. Audio attached: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19eOTuAQ4MKZQma2yJUza3VtTa_CcHNdM/view?usp=sharing

I checked priyom.org and didn't see anything listed. Anyone know what this is?

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Utility / Re: The Siren or Alarm sound at 4770KHz

« on: January 08, 2021, 1250 UTC »

Quite well audible those nights, at least from my QTH (canary islands).
It was already known from the SDR of Twente (The Netherlads)
I grabbed a couple of videos just in case your are interested.

https://youtu.be/o1le0EfnDjI

https://youtu.be/TDJBvGg7pto

Gear: SDRPlay-RSP1 + SDRUno + Home-made 1m diameter active Loop

This is "The Alarm"

Thought to be used by the Russian Army Western Military District:  https://priyom.org/military-stations/russia

More info here: https://priyom.org/military-stations/russia/the-alarm

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HF Mystery Signals / Re: Unid Ultra-Wideband (200khz) signal from 6750-6950 khz? 17:30 UTC - 2 Feb

« on: November 22, 2020, 1622 UTC »

sorry it took so long for me to reply, i hadn't realized the message was moved here but here is a waterfall, it looks like the mystery was solved, HF Trading (https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,44885.0.html) and Chinese Over-the-Horizon Radars as mentioned above.

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Utility / NDI - US Navy NRTF, Okinawa Japan 54 khz - 1554 UTC 22 Nov 2020

« on: November 22, 2020, 1558 UTC »

So I was doing some experimenting with my loop antenna seeing how sensitive it was at the very very low frequency end of my SDR and first tuned in WWVB on 60 khz and noticed this signal not far away, it sounded a lot like the Jim Creek US Navy submarine transmitter in nearby Arlington, WA which is very strong here on 24.8 khz but this signal was weaker. So I did a quick google and found it is indeed a US Navy submarine transmitter site but located on the Awase Peninsula in Okinawa City, Japan. I never heard it before when i've done these tests and it only showed up when i rotated my loop by about 170 degrees.

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Utility / Re: Emergency traffic on 8843 KHZ ARINC

« on: November 09, 2020, 1956 UTC »

I did hear the USCG asset again but could not discern an accurate lat/long, only partial figures. I don't know what air base the asset dispatched out of and can't find anything yet when I Google search. I may try contacting USCG PAO for the 11th District and see if they have any information.

Could you please do that? I caught the tail end of this.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Canadian Radio After Dark 6960 USB 0000 UTC 01 NOV 2020

« on: November 01, 2020, 0025 UTC »

S9 signal here in Seattle. Loud and clear.

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Utility / Re: SHARES Net 14386 USB 1818 UTC 28 Oct 2020

« on: October 28, 2020, 2136 UTC »

Hi Jasmine,

Itīs not the SHARES-Net. Those are stations participating in Exercise Noble Skywave, a yearly contest-like military communications exercise organised by the Canadian Military. It takes place from Oct 28 1000 UTC to Oct 29 1800 UTC. More information and a map of participating stations on https://nobleskywave.ca/

73,
Patrick

Thank you for this, i've edited the title accordingly.

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Utility / WGY908 & WGY912 (FEMA Special Facility, Mt. Weather) 14776 USB 1709 28 Oct 2020

« on: October 28, 2020, 1858 UTC »

FEMA station WGY 908 (FEMA Region 8, Denver) called WGY 912 (FEMA Special Facility, Mt. Weather) for a radio check. WGY 908 also called another WGY station but a static crash prevented me from hearing the number for another radio check.

This was followed by some ALE traffic:
[2020-10-28 17:18:36]
[2020-10-28 17:18:36] [NORMAL MODE][TWS][FM8FEM5][EOM]
[2020-10-28 17:48:14]
[2020-10-28 17:48:14] [NORMAL MODE][TWS][FM3FEM][TWS][FM3FEM][TWS][FM3FEM][TWS][FM3FEM][TWS][FM3FEM][EOM]
[2020-10-28 17:53:06]
[2020-10-28 17:53:06] [NORMAL MODE][TWS][FC8FEM][TWS][FC8FEM][TWS][FC8FEM][TWS][FC8FEM][TWS][FC8FEM][TWS][FC8FEM][TWS][FC8FEM][TWS][FC8FEM][TWS][FC8FEM][EOM]
[2020-10-28 18:18:39]
[2020-10-28 18:18:39] [NORMAL MODE][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][EOM]
[2020-10-28 18:32:28]
[2020-10-28 18:32:28] [NORMAL MODE][TWS][FR3FEM][TWS][FR3FEM][TWS][FR3FEM][TWS][FR3FEM][TWS][FR3FEM][TWS][FR3FEM][EOM]
[2020-10-28 18:35:40]
[2020-10-28 18:35:40] [NORMAL MODE][TWS][FR5FEM][TWS][FR5FEM][EOM]
[2020-10-28 18:36:34]
[2020-10-28 18:36:34] [NORMAL MODE][TWS][FM6][EOM]
[2020-10-28 18:36:41]
[2020-10-28 18:36:41] [NORMAL MODE][TWS][FM6FEM5][EOM]
[2020-10-28 21:06:07]
[2020-10-28 21:06:07] [NORMAL MODE][TWS][FR1FEM][EOM]
[2020-10-28 21:19:07]
[2020-10-28 21:19:07] [NORMAL MODE][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][TWS][FM8FEM5][EOM]