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Offline ZS6AF

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DX heard from South Africa
« on: May 15, 2020, 1555 UTC »
Hi all

 Been doing hf monitoring for many years . Got a Icom 7600 , Icom IC -R8500 and lots of differant antennas .
Want to share some of my local dx in and around ZS i can hear.

I can hear all the normal beacons like The Pip , Slotmachine etc .

5440 khz Portugese stations around 15h00 UTC till 16H00  . They call each other , then send some data for 25 seconds , some wideband mode , 2.5 khz wide on spectrum display , when no is is using channel it seems like there is a weak cw station transmitting very poor morse code.

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Re: DX heard from South Africa
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2020, 1923 UTC »
Hearing a nice easy to copy SLOW CW signal on 5093 khz USB , V V V V over and over . . cant find any info on it . Anybody have an idea please ?

Also hearing a short burst of fast twiet twiet sound every 3 of 4 minutes over it .

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Re: DX heard from South Africa
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2020, 0055 UTC »
Quote from: ZS6AF on May 15, 2020, 1923 UTC
Hearing a nice easy to copy SLOW CW signal on 5093 khz USB , V V V V over and over . . cant find any info on it . Anybody have an idea please ?

Also hearing a short burst of fast twiet twiet sound every 3 of 4 minutes over it .

Johan ZS6AF

Instead of it being a beacon it might be a channel marker / place holder for RTTY or some service like that, especially since it is USB and not CW

Edit: I found a very old mid-90's SPEEDX list that had this:

5093 SOFIA, BULGARIA LZJ2 CONTINUOUS


http://www.udxf.nl/SPEEDX-World-of-Utilities.pdf
« Last Edit: May 16, 2020, 0100 UTC by Teotwaki »
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Re: DX heard from South Africa
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2020, 1537 UTC »
Thanks for reply , will keep eye on it .
Found cw beacon on 5442 khz cw
Some local mozambiue users on 5440 khz is interfering a bit ...

Thanks for lovely forum
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Re: DX heard from South Africa
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2020, 2326 UTC »
Could also be a CW beacon on 5094 khz CW mode .... glad to hear its still sending .... anybody else hearing  V ?
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