Tuesday, February 27, 2007

CHU Won't Have to Move

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Canadian standard time and frequency station CHU will not have to change the frequency of its 7 MHz signal, which is by far the most frequen...

Yet more V2a Changes

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I can't keep up with them all. I need to do some listening to verify some of what I'm reading. There appears to be a new format, a...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

New Internet "Numbers" Weirdness

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Someone on a text-messaging social site called Twitter.com has created an account called ReadyReady, with a buddy icon that definitely rese...

Cuban V2a Numbers Frequency Changes

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If you haven't been hearing the daily V2a skeds on 7975/8010 at 1600 and 1700 UTC, there is nothing wrong with your radio. They have no...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

Major US Government Exercise This Weekend

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COMMUNICATIONS EXERCISE DEEP FREEZE ’07 - 10 FEBRUARY 2007 PURPOSE – To practice operating in an austere environment, gathering information...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Decode (Not Decrypt) of Cuban PSK31 Numbers Message

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Note the format, which is different from M8a and V2a. It has a date stamp and repeats the message. [111]11 28/12/2006 11111 28/12/2006 11...

FCC No-Code Takes Effect February 23

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The FCC has published its rule change to eliminate amateur Morse code exams in the Federal Register. It will take effect after the usual 30 ...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Addition to Enigma Control List #22

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The PSK31/BPSK transmissions from the Cuban family responsble for V2x and M8x have been assigned their own designator. From ENIGMA2000: Hell...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Current PC-HFDL Data File for System Table 30

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A working pchfdl.dat file has been uploaded to the Utility World web site. It is the one being used here. If you haven't done so alrea...
Monday, January 08, 2007

Cuban PSK31?

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Several recent M8 schedules have been replaced by transmissions in a phase-shift-keying mode known as PSK31. This mode is popular with hams,...
Sunday, December 31, 2006

Review: Creative Live! 24-bit External Sound Card

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This USB sound card, model SB0490, is apparently intended for use with high-end multimedia computers feeding home theaters with surround sou...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

Storm Stories

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The Weather Channel has this Storm Stories show, with melodramatic re-enactments of rescues and other life and death situations. These often...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Happy Holidays from Utility World!

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Monday, December 18, 2006

FLASH: FCC Drops Code from Amateur Exams!

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With everything else that was going on last week, this one slipped under the proverbial radar. On December 15, the US Federal Communications...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Severe Storm In Progress

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The expected major geomagnetic event has arrived. The current planetary K index is 8. (9 is as high as it can go.) WWV was so distorted on...

Magnetic Storming Continues

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Looks like we're just going to have to get used to unstable conditions. Active region 930 continues to produce flares. A well-aimed co...

HFDL System Table 30 is Current

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As we noted a couple of weeks back, ARINC has been changing to winter frequencies for its High Frequency Data Link system. If you are using...
Monday, December 11, 2006

Cool Utility Blog

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UDXF members will know Manolis in Greece. He just started an English utility blog, Surfing the Radio Waves . There's already a lot on i...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

Shuttle Count Proceeds

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Tonight's launch time is 20:47 Eastern Standard Time, or 01:47 UTC. At this time, all weather parameters are Go. Crosswinds stand a go...

DSCDecoder Now Decodes DGPS

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Those looking for an inexpensive program that allows identification of mediumwave Differential GPS beacons may be in luck. The latest versi...