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Author Topic: Chanting Pesky - Native Americans 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018  (Read 4931 times)

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Very strong signal, some Asian language? I have heard OF chanters before but this might be my first time hearing one.
« Last Edit: January 07, 2019, 1921 UTC by R4002 »
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Re: Chanting Pesky 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2019, 2152 UTC »
Thanks to Chris S. I got a 10 minute sound recording of the above.  Listen to it and enjoy this new one for Chris and myself :-)

https://vocaroo.com/i/s0CVX3ukSbXi

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Re: Chanting Pesky 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2019, 2205 UTC »
Getting a strong American Indian or Canadian indigenous vibe from this. I don't think it's Asian language.
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Re: Chanting Pesky 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2019, 2212 UTC »
I'd also vote to move this to the HF Mystery Signals because I don't quite think it fits the pesky profile.
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Re: Chanting Pesky 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2019, 2255 UTC »
2251 UTC - Signal is S9 in WNY, audio is good. It's a guess what the language is.
2300 UTC - Signal faded out.
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Re: Chanting Pesky 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2019, 0004 UTC »
Good evening all,


On the UDXF groups.io list there have been some recent postings regarding a "Japanese numbers station" on 3500kHz LSB.



One of the posters had posted a short recording of the activity on 3500kHz. I had a quick listen and compared to the recordings posted here and to my ear they sound the same and quite likely the same "speaker".


Still no idea of what this is however. 


Definitely not Japanese, doesn't sound like Chinese or Korean  but it does sound sort of Asian but also sounds a bit like one or another North American aboriginal dialects.


some of the clues of being just below one of the amateur radio bands (i.e. 3500, 6990) and LSB vs USB point to something that is quite likely unlicensed (i.e. pirate of some sort).


I recall seeing a posting somewhere of someone using kiwiSDR TDOA and got a fix around Boston.


This interesting mystery continues.


cheers, Graham near ottawa Canada
 

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Re: Chanting Pesky 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2019, 0024 UTC »
I dunno, I always thought arigato was Japanese, guess I'm wrong.
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Re: Chanting Pesky 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2019, 1412 UTC »
I dunno, I always thought arigato was Japanese, guess I'm wrong.

Where in that clip did you hear arigato? I'm not disbelieving, I just didn't catch it.
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Re: Chanting Pesky 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2019, 2229 UTC »
I dunno, I always thought arigato was Japanese, guess I'm wrong.

Where in that clip did you hear arigato? I'm not disbelieving, I just didn't catch it.

Not in the clip, I heard it live when he was sending Japanese numbers and words.
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Re: Chanting Pesky 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2019, 0446 UTC »
Got the same signal here in SC, solid S9 at 0444Z, definitely heard Japanese numbers...
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Re: Chanting Pesky (Japanese Language?) 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2019, 2208 UTC »
Just caught a bit of this in Michigan: very strong signal, 6990 LSB, 1/5/2019 and off at 2205 UTC.
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Re: Chanting Pesky 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2019, 2216 UTC »
Getting a strong American Indian or Canadian indigenous vibe from this. I don't think it's Asian language.
On KA1 IIC recording I heard the word Ottawa several times and when I heard it on 1/5/2019 Canada was mentioned several times

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Re: Chanting Pesky (Japanese Language?) 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2019, 2219 UTC »
Here's a recording of today's (5 Jan 2019) 2148 UTC transmission, from the beginning when he was whistling in the microphone: http://radiohobbyist.org/blog/mypics/6990LSB-2148Z-5JAN2019.mp3
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Re: Chanting Pesky (Japanese Language?) 6990 LSB 2100 UTC 2 Jan 2018
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2019, 0035 UTC »
I had my son in law listen to these recordings including one from 3500 kHz LSB.


He is Mohawk and speaks some of this aboriginal language.


He has positively identified these as being "native". He describes the transmissions as "short answers" and "responses". He recognised a few words, definitely words like "STOP" and "REPEAT".


He was not sure of the dialect, maybe Mohawk, maybe not, wasn't sure.


Pesky "Wind Talkers" perhaps?


cheers, Graham near Ottawa Canada