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Offline outhouse radio

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WHAT IS IT ?? !!
« on: October 09, 2010, 0223 UTC »
October 8 2010 @ 05:30 utc  6.837 usb
http://www.mediafire.com/?bpzgkd0my3nll4n
me and Weak both heard this    What is it ???

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Re: WHAT IS IT ?? !!
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2010, 0309 UTC »
I don't know, but it sounds somewhat reminiscent of a "sweeper" type of mystery signal that I've heard recordings of before. 
If you speed it up to several hundred times normal, you can see a definite set of multiple downward-sweeping tones that overlap each other, repeating over and over.

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Re: WHAT IS IT ?? !!
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2010, 2301 UTC »
October 8 2010 @ 05:30 utc  6.837 usb
http://www.mediafire.com/?bpzgkd0my3nll4n
me and Weak both heard this    What is it ???

Looks like sixteen different 'tones' or frequency 'slots' at any one time (in the recorded BW anyway) viewing an audio spectrogram that's updated in real-time as the audio is being played, and the tones slowly all 'drift' down (linearly seem to shift) in frequency (as Seamus observed using high-speed playback) ...


The fading may be due, at least in part, to fading/selective fading. The actual signal may be 16 tones.

I'd say propagation experiment, or a new analysis tool for evaluating a 'path' ... can't say that much data is being moved this way, but it is possible it's a comms taking place, although I have never seen a 'standard' that used drifting tones like these ...


Here's what Spectran shows:




« Last Edit: October 09, 2010, 2304 UTC by SW-J »
o Icom IC-756ProII, ProIII, Alinco DX-70, Kenwood TS-680s
o WinRadio G303e, Degen/Kaito 1103/DE1103, Stoddart NM-25
o 1/2 wave 80m Dipole used with several tuners
o Tuned loops from 2' thru 16' diam. capable of 160m thru 10m

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Re: WHAT IS IT ?? !!
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2010, 0310 UTC »
October 8 2010 @ 05:30 utc  6.837 usb
http://www.mediafire.com/?bpzgkd0my3nll4n
me and Weak both heard this    What is it ???

Looks like sixteen different 'tones' or frequency 'slots' at any one time (in the recorded BW anyway) viewing an audio spectrogram that's updated in real-time as the audio is being played, and the tones slowly all 'drift' down (linearly seem to shift) in frequency (as Seamus observed using high-speed playback) ...


The fading may be due, at least in part, to fading/selective fading. The actual signal may be 16 tones.

I'd say propagation experiment, or a new analysis tool for evaluating a 'path' ... can't say that much data is being moved this way, but it is possible it's a comms taking place, although I have never seen a 'standard' that used drifting tones like these ...


Here's what Spectran shows:





well it isn't anything new it has been around for years
first time i have recorded it   
 I GUESS IT REMAINS A MYSTERY    ;) ??? ;)

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Re: WHAT IS IT ?? !!
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2010, 1553 UTC »
It's XM Whales/Backwards Music station, I'm pretty sure.
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« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2010, 1838 UTC »
It's XM Whales/Backwards Music station, I'm pretty sure.
  LMAO  ;) http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/Whales

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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2010, 0002 UTC »
Okay, feedback. Just saying what it sounds like.
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Re: WHAT IS IT ?? !!
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2010, 0016 UTC »
It's XM Whales/Backwards Music station, I'm pretty sure.
  LMAO  ;) http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/Whales

i had forgot about the WIKI page on that till CHRIS put it in the log for  6925 Whales 1819z today LOL :P ;)
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Offline SW-J

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Re: WHAT IS IT ?? !!
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2010, 0018 UTC »
Okay, feedback. Just saying what it sounds like.

It does sound like feedback; as anyone who has worked with an SSB link and had their audio 'brought back' through another means (like land-line or another radio link as for testing a radio 'circuit') and allowed some of that 'audio' to enter the SSB link for anther go-around can testify ...
o Icom IC-756ProII, ProIII, Alinco DX-70, Kenwood TS-680s
o WinRadio G303e, Degen/Kaito 1103/DE1103, Stoddart NM-25
o 1/2 wave 80m Dipole used with several tuners
o Tuned loops from 2' thru 16' diam. capable of 160m thru 10m

 

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