scan the radiowaves

rtil · July 18, 2014 05:47 AM

find something cool on this radio scanner
use the scrollwheel to zoom in to the wavelengths and get a more precise frequency
click underneath it to go directly to that frequency
experiment with the different bandwidths to find where broadcasts are coming from, and share the ones you think are interesting

here's some i've found. some probably don't broadcast all day. except for the buzzer (UVB-76)

16103.33   AM         Chinese broadcasting station
11150.90   USB-nrw      Israeli Morse Station 4XZ (broadcasts "VVV De 4XZ 4XZ" almost all day)
4625      USB-nrw      the buzzer
11153.06   USB-nrw      USAF
12703.38   LSB-nrw      morse code? (could not get a good read, only jibberish came out)

SrsSam77 · July 18, 2014 06:26 AM

5448 is the pip
5473- squeeky wheel
There's also a couple USAF bands if you look in the 3000-4000s
edit:
Aliens at 26950

rtil · July 18, 2014 07:33 AM

26950 is within the range of government use , it's probably some kind of weather service or something equally mundane

rtil · July 18, 2014 07:44 AM

5416.5 on USB might be Russian, also transmitted code but i have no idea how to decipher it. looking up the frequency brings up this document on encoded Russian Air Defense transmissions

rtil · July 18, 2014 08:16 AM

i caught 4XZ sending out what i would assume is "one time pad" code

SrsSam77 · July 18, 2014 08:55 PM

Quote from: rtil on July 18, 2014 08:16 AM
i caught 4XZ sending out what i would assume is "one time pad" code

How many hertz wide was that transmission? It looks like a bunch of stations transmitted at once.

rtil · July 18, 2014 10:22 PM

it's fairly isolated when i've listened to it. 11150.90, 1.79 kHz @ -6dB; 2.25 kHz @ -60dB

rtil · July 18, 2014 10:46 PM

ton of amateur ham radio users active in the 14000 range exchanging callsigns

BluPhoenix · July 18, 2014 11:57 PM

1054 AM - british sports radio
9941 AM - italian (i think) talk/music
13610 AM - chinese news radio
5055 AM - "shannon volmet" ??? lots of information of current conditions

zwimmy · July 19, 2014 01:09 AM

stop it guys i'm scared

SrsSam77 · July 19, 2014 01:34 AM

Quote from: zwimmy on July 19, 2014 01:09 AM
stop it guys i'm scared

Join us, let the cystic acne, callsigns, and late night 10m hamradio sex take you in

valiums · July 19, 2014 03:29 AM

Ha, this is fun. I guess I better brush up on my Morse, I keep finding beepy frequencies.

rtil · July 19, 2014 06:27 AM

Quote from: valiums on July 19, 2014 03:29 AM
Ha, this is fun. I guess I better brush up on my Morse, I keep finding beepy frequencies.

use this program and use your stereo mix output on it

ZennyPLUS · July 19, 2014 12:20 PM

Well this is new, who's hobby is this.

ExBerian · July 19, 2014 08:59 PM

I have a Sony world radio and have been meaning to do stuff like this for a while now. Thank you for sharing this.

Stu4U · July 23, 2014 05:15 AM

i haven't been searching for certain stations, but some strange looking waves have captured my interest

the first two are the same wave but idk if its from anything in particular

the next two that sound like cool deathrays turn out to be jammers

the last three i'm pretty sure are the same wave too cause you never see it broadcast in two or more places at once. it broadcasts for roughly half a minute and will appear somewhere else. the way it sounds reminds me of a pulsar though i'm pretty sure it being one is not the case

Pulsar SOUND

rtil · July 23, 2014 08:01 AM

the middle two are definitely jammers, and they are very powerful. the most powerful jammer in the world i think is still Firedrake, the Chinese jammer that blocks BBC and the Sound of Hope, a Taiwanese amateur radio station that broadcasts anti-China material. but they use a 1 hour loop of very loud traditional Chinese music. it has been running for a very long time.

Firedrake - Chinese Shortwave Jammer - Full Digital Recording