Weird siren monitored recently on 257.150 — Brief voice in Spanish language mentions transmitting on satcom.
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Logged a couple stations using voice inversion on 258.650. Here is the recovered audio. If anyone is able to provide translation please post in the comments. Thanks!
Those odd chanting stations were monitored late this afternoon on 26225 kHz USB. Usually a bunch of stations join in and chant some word over and over for about 10-20 seconds. Quite similar to the odd activity that is often heard on 7000 kHz LSB and 11425 kHz USB. It is suspected that the comms on 7000 and 11425 may originate from Indonesia. However the activity on 26225 kHz activity remains a mystery for now.
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Strange activity on 262.275 (Pacific Ocean Region) with a male in unknown language. He even tops it off with an evil sounding laugh.
6990 USB on May 17th around 0300Z with looped message: “She had your dark suit in greasy wash water all year. Don’t ask me to carry an oily rag like that. They used an aggressive policeman to flag thoughtless motorists.”
Say what? That is exactly what a lot of folks were asking. After several emails to UDXF and other sources we are told the following.
“It’s an experiment for what’s basically an automated COMINT collection & analysis system that does speech & lexicon recognition — converts the analog to digital & then automatically looks at the waveform to compare it to cataloged targets.”
Here is a recording of the transmission taken from a Perseus remote in Florida.
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Mark one for the strange column. Heard a baby crying on 260.625. One of the Brazilian satcom pirates must have forgot to secure their radio gear. Either that, or they start out at such a young age, hi hi.
Caught this earlier today right on the bottom edge of 40 meters. Not sure how to explain this one better, other than listening to the clip. Talk about creepy!
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The Chinese oddity station is back. Token reported a couple days ago that the station was on 6326 in USB mode. It’s the same Chinese oddity station that was monitored last week on 5449. So far it’s been noted at the following times: 0900, 1100, 1300, 1500, 1700 UTC. From the west coast the best shot of hearing this is usually during the 1100 and 1300 transmissions.
See the thread on the RadioReference forums for additional information.
http://forums.radioreference.com/utility-listening/222561-5449-oddity.html
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Recently logged a new Chinese oddity station on 5449 kHz USB with a female voice repeating numbers. I first logged this on Sept 28, 2011 at 1300 UTC. Since then it has been heard during other “odd numbered” hours including 0900, 1100, 1500 and 1700 UTC by various folks. As for what purpose this station serves… it remains a mystery for now. Below is an audio clip of this strange transmission as heard from my location in Southern California.
Tags: numbers stations, oddities