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Numbers station on MW band

R

Rob

I'm hearing a spanish numbers station on 1.685Khz
It must be local because it's still light out and it's a strong signal too.

the radio is a ccradio plus
and im in the fort walton beach, fl area

-rob
 
robfwb said:
I'm hearing a spanish numbers station on 1.685Khz
It must be local because it's still light out and it's a strong signal too.

the radio is a ccradio plus
and im in the fort walton beach, fl area

-rob
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You don't say what time of the day it was; if a few hours before sunset, this could be grayline skip from an area of darkness. And on that high a frequency, you often get shortwave like behaviour, so it could have been at some distance.

I like the pirate theory better, though.
 
about 4:00PM. still bright and sunny out.
(though, i can hear RR barely on 570)

-Rob
 
robfwb said:
I'm hearing a spanish numbers station on 1.685Khz
It must be local because it's still light out and it's a strong signal too.

the radio is a ccradio plus
and im in the fort walton beach, fl area

-rob
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Are you sure that the radio doesn't have mixing products or images of shortwave stations that appear on the "AM" (MW)
band? Do you have an external antenna, which might overload your receiver's tuner and cause shortwave stations to appear at places on the "AM" (MW) band? (The radio does not have to have SW on it in order to receive images of stations on other bands) This seems kind of odd that a numbers station would broadcast on a split channel in the "expanded band" (1610-1700kHz) They would be better off getting their signal a further distance out on a higher frequency than in the expanded AM band.
 
robfwb said:
about 4:00PM. still bright and sunny out.
(though, i can hear RR barely on 570)

-Rob
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I used to get Lybia on 1251 as early as 2 PM on my car radio in San Juan... while it was daytime where I was, Lybia and the skip point were in darkness. So consider that you might have heard something thousands of miles away to the East.
 
stormy01 said:
Are you sure that the radio doesn't have mixing products or images of shortwave stations that appear on the "AM" (MW) band? Do you have an external antenna, which might overload your receiver's tuner and cause shortwave stations to appear at places on the "AM" (MW) band?
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We lived in a camper while we were building our house. It was kinda cool to listen to AM outside and then take the radio inside that aluminum shell to receive the major SW signals on the AM band. ;)
 
robfwb said:
no, just stock antenna.
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I still think stormy01 is right. Your receiver has a spurious response to shortwave transmissions. That's quite common in portable receivers. Especially those that have shortwave bands, but even those which only receive standard AM.
 
w9wi said:
robfwb said:
no, just stock antenna.
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I still think stormy01 is right. Your receiver has a spurious response to shortwave transmissions. That's quite common in portable receivers. Especially those that have shortwave bands, but even those which only receive standard AM.
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Sounds very possible to me as I've actually had that happen.
 
I have a CC Radio Plus as well, I've had it for just over a year, and if I touch the external antenna screw, I can not only increase the amount of interference I hear on AM, I can pull in shortwave stations. As of 7:39 eastern time, I'm listening to some Salsa on WTTM 1680 with a reasonably clear signal. When I touch the external antenna screw, I'm hearing a very clear Spanish language Short Wave station. When I let go, it disappears and WTTM comes back, and no trace of the shortwave station.
 
mimo said:
I have a CC Radio Plus as well, I've had it for just over a year, and if I touch the external antenna screw, I can not only increase the amount of interference I hear on AM, I can pull in shortwave stations. As of 7:39 eastern time, I'm listening to some Salsa on WTTM 1680 with a reasonably clear signal. When I touch the external antenna screw, I'm hearing a very clear Spanish language Short Wave station. When I let go, it disappears and WTTM comes back, and no trace of the shortwave station.
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I had the same thing happen with an old Sony radio I had.
 
robfwb said:
I'm hearing a spanish numbers station on 1.685Khz
It must be local because it's still light out and it's a strong signal too.

the radio is a ccradio plus
and im in the fort walton beach, fl area

-rob
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Cuban Gov Jammer.
 
kd8hho said:
robfwb said:
I'm hearing a spanish numbers station on 1.685Khz
It must be local because it's still light out and it's a strong signal too.

the radio is a ccradio plus
and im in the fort walton beach, fl area

-rob
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Cuban Gov Jammer.
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The numbers stations are generally believed to be transmitting messages to spies. Cuba usually uses their regular programs on jamming stations.

(Cuba is not the only country running numbers stations - at least the U.S. and Israel are known to operate these as well, and if I recall properly there are a few other countries involved. All are believed to be used for the same purpose.)
 
Russia, China, and the Mid east use them as well......... I dont know why, but they creep me out.
 
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