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Author Topic: UNID "D. B. Cooper" station 6950 AM 0125 UTC November 25, 2016  (Read 962 times)

Offline Skipmuck

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Hearing an audio clip OM talking
0127 UTC Music and OM with ID "This is W???" in Seattle, into "Ballad of D.B.Cooper"-Miriam Stone
(Hmmm...might have said WDBC?) Signal is mostly above the noise here with some nice S5 peaks!
0133 UTC OM with news story about D.B.Cooper...mention of flight crew...flight 305...727...(fades into the noise making for tough copy)
0138 UTC Deep fade into the noise  :(
0145 UTC Signal fading in and out of the noise...OM talking...nada on the copy here
0150 UTC OFF?
« Last Edit: November 25, 2016, 0153 UTC by Skipmuck »
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Re: UNID 6950 0125 UTC November 25, 2016
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2016, 0128 UTC »
6950 AM, 0121, 11.25.16,  Hearing some music and talk by OM since 0121.  Fading in and out.  Barely audible at best.
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Re: UNID 6950 0125 UTC November 25, 2016
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2016, 0129 UTC »
S3

0128 music just above noise.
0133 OM talking of skyjacker, flight 309, DB Cooper, poor copy. S1 and noisy.
0144 nothing heard here for a few minutes.
« Last Edit: November 25, 2016, 0147 UTC by flexoman61 »
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Re: UNID 6950 AM 0125 UTC November 25, 2016
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2016, 0136 UTC »
Tough copy locally, but better quality on a remote SDR in Michigan, SIO 222-333 there.
Sounded like a program about the DB Cooper hijacking.
« Last Edit: November 25, 2016, 0140 UTC by ChrisSmolinski »
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