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Author Topic: 4739.98 UNID Harmonic 0207 UTC 9/18/2014  (Read 1608 times)

Offline Kilokat7

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4739.98 UNID Harmonic 0207 UTC 9/18/2014
« on: September 18, 2014, 0217 UTC »
Guessing this is a MW harmonic, but from where?  Weak copy but language is definitely not English, seems to be mostly talk, possibly Spanish with some brief music occasionally thrown in.  I've been hearing it nightly since I first saw mention of it in #SWL last weekend.  Anyone else have a better copy on this to help ID it?
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Re: 4739.98 UNID Harmonic 0207 UTC 9/18/2014
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2014, 0335 UTC »
There used to be an Indonesian station on 4740, but I don't know if they're still on the air?

Also, Peruvian and Bolivian stations occasionally use 4740. The Bolivians, especially, have a tendency to be  quasi-pirates. They set up and start broadcasting and worry about that license stuff later. A lot of them even run the same vintage ham transmitters that the Stateside pirates use.

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Re: 4739.98 UNID Harmonic 0207 UTC 9/18/2014
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2014, 1150 UTC »
I listened there about 0:30 utc last night. A lot of static here, but there was definitely something under there. Sounded like a man and woman doing a talk show or news, but I couldn't tell what the language was.