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Author Topic: HAARP 6900AM 0132UTC 5Mar13  (Read 2122 times)

Offline jFarley

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HAARP 6900AM 0132UTC 5Mar13
« on: March 05, 2013, 0148 UTC »
Big S9+7 carrier with some trace/intermittent audio here from time to time.

First noted 0132, last off around 0147z. 0152z

Also been noting similar sometimes concurrent testing on 6930AM around S8 here 0140-0142z
« Last Edit: March 08, 2013, 0308 UTC by jFarley »
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Re: UNID 6900AM 0132UTC 5Mar13
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2013, 1614 UTC »
Noted here as well on the SDR recording. Heard some CW mix in with audio.

The transmissions were very 6 minutes starting on exactly the minute (or within a second or two) and ran for 90 seconds. Starting at 0115z, then 0121z, etc until the last transmission at 0227z.

No idea what this is. I was first going to say pescadores, but it doesn't seem to fit their MO. Nor the average pirate. There is a lot of oddball gov/quasi-gov stuff in the 69xx range, so I am leaning towards that.

Any other ideas?

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Re: UNID 6900AM 0132UTC 5Mar13
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2013, 0244 UTC »
HAARP.

The 6900 kHz carrier is associated with the 100 kHz wide FMCW HAARP transmission on 7700 kHz.  The last few nights I have noted this 800 kHz offset carrier with the HAARP FMCW.  Note that the carrier happens twice as often as the FMCW waveform.

Image here (would embed, but it is a bit over 1 MB in size, will just post a link instead):
http://www.pbase.com/token/image/149104580/original.jpg

After HAARP vacated the 7700 / 6900 kHz pair it moved the FMCW to 6900 kHz and the carrier was on 6100 kHz.

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Re: UNID 6900AM 0132UTC 5Mar13
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2013, 0251 UTC »
Thank you for the explanation, Token.  Much appreciated.
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