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UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« on: August 15, 2014, 0049 UTC »
Sounds like wailing and nonsense. About an S9+20 here!
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2014, 0055 UTC »
S9+10, sounds the same in USB and LSB
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2014, 0057 UTC »
It is about a S9 here and sounds the same on either USB or LSB with the weird noises. ???
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2014, 0057 UTC »
no idea what the hell it is. Maybe the start of a new show? Sounds like something RFW would do. Dickweed?.....
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2014, 0058 UTC »
Same here at 0056 UTC with strange Sci-Fi noises on USB, but all I get on LSB is crackling noise.
Took me awhile to figure it out, but the USB component is on 6945 and the LSB component is on about 6948? Wierd.....
« Last Edit: August 15, 2014, 0111 UTC by Skipmuck »
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2014, 0059 UTC »
Quite strong here as well. UTE? I think I heard this same sound on 6945 the other evening.

 
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2014, 0100 UTC »
What is a UTE again?
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2014, 0104 UTC »
Comparing both frequencies at the same time on two radios could be stereo, very odd. Also seem to have the same signal strength.
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2014, 0110 UTC »
Steady S9 here in AL.  Never heard this before.
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2014, 0137 UTC »
The signal is better on 6.945.2 USB. Got it 55555 and no noise tonight. It's Halloween spooky music. Seemingly endless too. I'm trying out a new Ameco PT-3 preamp, but I don't need it for this.
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2014, 0201 UTC »
01:57 - Just tuned in... Space / science fiction type music S9 signal.. Interesting, but doesn't make a lot of sense though...
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2014, 0225 UTC »
I've heard this before. It's spooky background music looping, mostly an organ with lots of vibrato, or reverb fading in and out. Kinda part of the pirate radio bands I guess.
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2014, 0228 UTC »
I hear it pretty good. It sounds like undulating old computer sound effects.
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2014, 0229 UTC »
I didn't see the part about the organ. Could it be a leslie sound effect? I had an organ with that effect.
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Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2014, 1419 UTC »
This signal went off-air at 0245 UTC.  It might have been the oddity station known as XM / Whales / Backwards Music.  However normally this station does not have such well defined audio edges.  The signal was 2.8 kHz wide, with a sharp bottom edge at 300 Hz (assuming 6945 kHz as tuned frequency), this is pretty typical of communications SSB transmitters.  So it could have been someone wanting to sound like XM.

Tentatively, and because 6945 kHz USB is a known US Navy / USCG frequency and XM is suspected of sometimes being US Navy in origin, I would say probably XM or related phenomena.

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