Saturday, March 29, 2014

Solar Peak VHF DX Log, Part 1 (30-31 MHz)

All intercepts made in Southern California by the author, using a WiNRADiO G33DDC SDR and a PAR EF-SWL end fed 45' wire.  All frequencies kHz, all times UTC.

OM = male, YL = woman, SS = Spanish, EE=English, Unid = station didn't identify.
Tones are CTCSS (Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System), aka "PL," in Hz.

Frequency ... Callsign ... Mode ... Description ... Time ... Tone

30000.0 ... Unid ... ? ... The Hissy Station. Transmits a very clean and purposeful signal about 20 kHz wide, with little evenly spaced bright wavy lines inside a wide hiss. Appears all over low VHF. Channel spacing seems to be 25 kHz. Usually short ARQ type exchanges, but occasionally long bursts sounding more like the mil-spec stuff on HF. ... 2256 ... n/a

30175.0 ... Unid ... ? ... Hissy Station ... 1858 ... n/a

30450.0 ... Victor Bravo ... FM ... US Army, Ft. Hood Range Control, TX. Victor Bravo making radio checks with many ranges: Clear Creek Rifle Bravo, Hand Grenade/ Claymore, Trapnell Machine Gun, Clear Creek Machine Gun Alpha, PK [Pilot Knob] Grenade Launcher, PK Rifle Zero. "This concludes the 1400 hours radio transmissions, all ranges [unintelligible] Victor Bravo Range Control out."  ... 2000 ... 151.4

30450.0 ... Unid ... FM ... Brief fade in, unintelligible, different PL than before. Likely US military. ... 2111 ... 210.7

30580.0 ... Unid ... FM ... OM with US southern accent ... 1725 ... 91.5

30600.0 ... Unid ... FM ... OM, "10-4" ... 1904 ... 107.2

30620.0 ... WPSD819 ... FM ... Millennium Taxi Service, Chattanooga (Hamilton County), TN. Several YLs wkg mobiles. Mobiles often heard. Distinctive phone rings in background. Best skip signal at this QTH, always first in and last out. Bet they didn't know they have a skywave antenna.  ... 2145 ... 210.7

30620.0 ... Unid ... FM ... 2 OMs, not the taxi co, sounds more like a cement or construction company. "Base" wkg "217." Discussing cement. Nice clean signal.  ... 2006 ... 94.8

30640.0 ... Unid ... FM ... OM, "Jerry, where you at?" S. acc. ... 1824 ... 114.8

30640.0 ... Unid ... FM ... EE/OM/YL ... 1927 ... 146.2 

30660.0 ... Unid ... FM ... SS/OM with dispatches for "Once" ("11" in SS), mentioned something that sounded like "Rockaway." ... 2156 ... 77.0

30680.0 ... Unid ... FM ... SS/OM, dispatches ... 2159 ... 100.0

30700.0 ... Unid ... FM ... YL "Base to Norman," several calls. Another guy is named George. ... 1916 ... 118.8

30713.0 ... Unid ... CWFM ... Ctr fq of farty noise, similar to sounders heard on HF ... 0023 ... n/a

30720.0 ... WQPU857 ... FM ... Van Pool Transportation, LLC, xmtr in Sudbury, MA.  Possible rptr or multiple base stns. Definitely a wide area network. Firm has several of these in MA. ID from traffic & FCC data. ... 2045 ... 151.4

30720.0 ... Unid ... FM ... Distorted OM & YL, wkg weaker stn, strong southern US accent. ... 1851 ... 192.8

30740.0 ... Unid ... FM ... SS/OM dispatches, phone ringing in bg ... 2142 ... 107.2.

30740.0 ... Unid ... FM ... Different SS/OM, also phone ringing in bg, with PL. QRMing each other, hard to copy either. ... 2142 ... 179.9

30760.0 ... Unid ... FM ... OM & YL, good sig, coordinating some kind of loading work. Both loud. ... 1905 ... 74.4 ... 64.7

30800.0 ... Unid ... FM ... YL dispatcher, mostly SS except occasional lapses into EE and ??: "Anybody else?" "Montgomery and Sullivan," "77449." Fast talking. ... 1859 ... 88.5

30800.0 ... Unid ... FM ... Weak OM, locksmith company, discussing a safe. Probably IN. ... 1801 ... 91.5

30800.0 ... Unid ... FM ... OM, nothing else known ... 1910 ... 123.0

30800.0 ... Unid ... FM ... OM, then YL with heavy southern US acccent ... 1859 ... 151.4

30920.0 ... Unid ... ? ... Ctr. Fq of steady multi-tone buzz with ionospheric fading, possibly PSK, maybe The Buzzy Station (see 32.55). ... 2045 ... n/a

30920.0 ... Unid ... FM ... OM, one good loud xmsn and gone. Then Hissy Station on 30925. ... 1903 ... 162.2

30920.0 ... Unid ... ? ... Hissy Station ... 1904 ... n/a

(to be cont'd)