Logged a satcom pirate station from Brazil speaking some English. He was calling another station asking if anyone could hear them.
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I have logged more Spanish speaking stations over the past few days on UHF SATCOM. Just like the traffic on 258.650 from a couple weeks ago, I really don’t get the vibe that these are typical pirates. Today the stations were testing in both Spanish and English. Here are recordings of the recently logged traffic.
265.550: Stations w/ test counts, “hola hola hola holas” and asking “me copia?” – it sounds as if they were giving each other signal reports.
267.050: Person whispering into the radio. This was logged in the middle of the night. I cannot make out what they were saying except maybe “tienes tienes cuatro” (you have 4?) between the encoded traffic.
261.775: Test counts and radio checks in both Spanish and English.
I’ve been hearing quite a bit of Spanish language traffic on 258.650. These comms sound more formal in nature and appear to be using callsigns, therefore I don’t think these are typical run-of-the-mill satcom pirates. Activity has been noted on multiple days and on several other frequencies. 258.650 is where most of the comms have been noted, but I’ve logged some radio checks on other frequencies including 253.850, 261.775 and 262.225 (with occasional test counts both Spanish and American accented English).
258.650 CONUS: Havoc 11 calling Rock Ops for a radio check on satcom.
Tags: CONUS
258.650 CONUS: Baton 55 calling Baton Ops for a satcom voice check.
Tags: CONUS
258.650 CONUS: Spooky 48 calling Archer Ops for satcom radio check.
Tags: CONUS
258.650 CONUS: Raven 82 calling Arch Ops (sound like) for comm check.
Tags: CONUS
258.650 CONUS: War Horse 89 reporting “wheels up” to Raptor Base.
Tags: CONUS
Shadow 31 calling Joker Ops on 258.650 for satcom check in the plain.
Tags: CONUS
Maze 78 calling Trailboss multiple times for a radio check on 258.650.
Tags: CONUS