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Author Topic: Unid 6940 AM 0055 UTC 10 May 2018  (Read 1188 times)

Offline Ray Lalleu

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Unid 6940 AM 0055 UTC 10 May 2018
« on: May 10, 2018, 0100 UTC »
Unid 6940 0055 music, pop woohohoh, 0058 other track
0105 no DJ again, wep,maybe "Cold as ice" in the lyrics
0109 jingle ?, rock, 0111 gliding het
non stop music, 0121 more pop-rock, flutter here
0126 bit better, more rock
0136 non stop again, QRM : some beacon on 6242.6
0144 "Over and over"
« Last Edit: May 10, 2018, 0147 UTC by Ray Lalleu »
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Re: Unid 6940 AM 0055 UTC 10 May 2018
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2018, 0103 UTC »
0102 UTC - Signal is S9+20db in WNY, audio is good, well above the static crashes. Disco tune playing.
0106 UTC - Cold as Ice / Foreigner
« Last Edit: May 10, 2018, 0106 UTC by Traveling Wave »
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Re: Unid 6940 AM 0055 UTC 10 May 2018
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2018, 0106 UTC »
UNID 6940 S7 in NY

0106: Foreigner "Cold As Ice"
0120: Loggins & Messina "Angry Eyes"
0121: Little River Band "The Night Owls"
« Last Edit: May 10, 2018, 0121 UTC by PirateSWL »
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Re: Unid 6940 AM 0055 UTC 10 May 2018
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2018, 0120 UTC »
UnId, 6940 AM, 0118, 5.10.18.  Music

S9 with lightning static
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Re: Unid 6940 AM 0055 UTC 10 May 2018
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2018, 0122 UTC »
S6 to S7 but heavy static crashes tonight.
0119 - "Angry Eyes"
0121 - "The Night Owl" Little River Band
0126 - "That Smell" Lynyrd Skyrnyrd
« Last Edit: May 10, 2018, 0128 UTC by refmo »
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Re: Unid 6940 AM 0055 UTC 10 May 2018
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2018, 0125 UTC »
0115 Lonesome Loser Little River Band
0117 Angry Eyes Loggins and Messina
0121 The Night Owls Little River Band
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Re: Unid 6940 AM 0055 UTC 10 May 2018
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2018, 0132 UTC »
0132 music at the noise floor, QRM from the Link 11 that's been adjacent to this frequency for months.
0136 signal swelled up, about SIO 222 ATM. Thanks for the show!
« Last Edit: May 10, 2018, 0137 UTC by MDK2 »
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Re: Unid 6940 AM 0055 UTC 10 May 2018
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2018, 1309 UTC »
SDR recording catch. 0045 sign on, music started about a minute later, SIO 444 mostly, there was a UTE above in frequency, using sync AM-LSB got rid of any QRM.
Sudden fade out at 0152.
« Last Edit: May 10, 2018, 1424 UTC by ChrisSmolinski »
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