Radio nerditry: just did a quick check of the “pirate band” just below 7 MHz, and, unusually for a Friday, no pirates audible here. But even more unusually, there are at least 6 high speed CW stations transmitting continuously on various frequencies from 6940-7000 KH (all just above the speed at which I can comfortably copy). No idea what this is about.
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Now no longer recognizable as CW (much faster), and seems to be in 3 pairs of frequencies, with each pair spaced 7 KHz apart, occasionally moving in tandem.
And now there’s finally a pirate on 6960 LSB, amid the weird signals.
Speculation by a few friends is that the weird signals are Russian military (or at least the mode is).
@mattblaze I know nothing about this mode specifically but thanks for the nerditry re ancient arts of communication. Very low bandwidth compared to your usual two tone content.
@mattblaze Sometimes that high speed code sounding stuff is weird teletype with whacked out marks and spaces. Military.
@ner no, this is definitely CW. I can pick out characters, but it’s just above my speed for continuous copying. Maybe 25-30 WPM.
@mattblaze Interesting. Wonder what a decoder would say.
@mattblaze pirate CW? well that's fascinating…
@mattgriffin yeah, it’s not clear what this is. They also all seem to change frequency in tandem every once in a while.
@mattblaze my imagination is running wild with this information…
