UNID 5357 USB 0330 UTC 29 Apr 2019

[NO2CW]

I am hearing a unidentified station on 5357 USB any suggestions? Heard in South Florida.

[PirateSWL]

UNID 5357 USB S3-S7 in NY (sounds like it could be a Pirate)

0340: Audio clips about a protest and mention of Facebook & Cairo
0344: OM talking about Facebook and Silicon Valley
0349: Talking about Facebook IPO
0420: PBS Frontline Facebook Pt.2

Video clip of broadcast: https://youtu.be/VvGOaGu1S-Q

[NO2CW]

I hesitated whether this is a pirate, The frequency is for amateur radio use allocation, but not worldwide. Pirates use of amateur radio frequencies is rampant on 80 and 40m ham radio. 

[oar9fi]

5357 is usually the freq on 60m used for FT8 FWIW I hear talking here in SW FL in the noise though sounded like ads

[TheVoxHumanus]

7:12 UTC in Nebraska, S3.

It is a program about abortion. It is audio from a film of some kind.

[Skipmuck]

I hesitated whether this is a pirate, The frequency is for amateur radio use allocation, but not worldwide. Pirates use of amateur radio frequencies is rampant on 80 and 40m ham radio.

Interesting that you say that pirates use of 80 and 40m ham frequencies is "rampant". Except for the European pirates ops who utilitze 80 meters, I have yet to hear a single verifiable North American pirate broadcast on either ham band since Fall of 2013 when I got back into shortwave listening. Not a single one, and if you trouble yourself to search diligently among the thousands and thousands of postings here on the HFU, you will be hard pressed to find one. In every case of someone playing pirate on the 40 and 80 meter ham bands that I have encountered, it was decidedly a case of "Hams Behaving Badly". It is my belief that true pirate ops know better than to do something as stupid as raising the ire of the amateur operators. This also goes for MARS frequencies. Nuff said!

[NO2CW]

Agreed, when it comes to the ham bands we should separate hams behaving badly and pirates. Hams would engage in a conversation not appropriate for ham radio while a pirate would "broadcast". Scrolling through the ham bands I frequently hear music which clearly of the pirate variety, sometimes recorded programs of strong political content which is again the pirate variety and plenty of CB type back and forth coarse language without ID which is the rogue ham variety. In South Florida I can also hear plenty of political programs transmitted on the ham bands from central america and a lot of unlicensed back and forth chatter again originating from central america mostly based on politics.

[ChrisSmolinski]

I didn't hear this myself, but from the description and frequency, it does indeed seem to be more of a case of Hams Behaving Badly.  Right now we're filing these in Other, unless someone thinks they should go elsewhere?

[Andrew Yoder]

I would consider every bit of programming that I've heard on the ham bands over about the past 10 years to be the case of an angry ham jamming someone else. Using radio audio/programming is used because it's effective and it's anonymous. I might be mistaken, but I have heard programming that I thought might be a legitimate attempt to broadcast back in the early to mid-'80s, but that's about it.

The political programming from Central America sounds interesting. Do they ever ID? Any regular schedules?

[Ray Lalleu]

I hesitated whether this is a pirate, The frequency is for amateur radio use allocation, but not worldwide. Pirates use of amateur radio frequencies is rampant on 80 and 40m ham radio.

Interesting that you say that pirates use of 80 and 40m ham frequencies is "rampant". Except for the European pirates ops who utilize 80 meters,
...

Almost(?) never mentioned in QST or other ARRL publications that 3850 to 4000 is not a ham band outside of the Americas.
And I'm bored by the dozens of articles about how to cover the whole 3500-4000 band with a single antenna !
 

[Skipmuck]

My favorite 80 meter band QSL 

[MDK2]

I didn't hear this myself, but from the description and frequency, it does indeed seem to be more of a case of Hams Behaving Badly.  Right now we're filing these in Other, unless someone thinks they should go elsewhere?

I suppose a separate category for Hams Behaving Badly can be created. Why not? There seems to be one for everything else.

[Josh]

Perhaps a HAM went nonlinear over FT8? We had a guy come on 7173 and rant at us because he thought we were jamming 40m with some noise, that noise being easypal sstv.

[ChrisSmolinski]

Perhaps a HAM went nonlinear over FT8? We had a guy come on 7173 and rant at us because he thought we were jamming 40m with some noise, that noise being easypal sstv.

I'd certainly consider easypal to be noise