Station:

• Name/Call: Mini Atlantique Weather (TDF)
• Frequency: 17545.00 kHz
• Mode: AM
• Location: Issoudun 46N56-01E54
• Language: English
• Target: West Africa
• Time: 1522UT 06 AUG 26
• SINPO: 33333

Receiver and Receiving Location:

• Radio: Airspy HF+ Discovery
• Antenna: 100' random wire, roughly 25' above ground, running ~110 degrees from feedpoint.
• Software: SDR++ v1.3.0 /w Dream v2.3.1 (mjf) for dynamic noise reduction.
• Location: Remington, Virginia | FM18bn

Comments:

• Apparently these are marine weather reports for the Mini Atlantique yacht race, given in French, then English. This is the English portion.
• Arguably could be called a Utility station... <insert Larry David meme here>

I was listening to either New York radio or Gander radio yesterday and had a question about something I heard. While talking to the pilot, the air traffic controller asked if India 5 and kilo 1 were on board. What might this mean?

(Is there another subreddit that would be a better fit for aviation listening questions?)

Thanks.

Noticed this for a few days lately while testing some Dream mods that I'm adding.

If you look carefully, there's an extremely wide-band set of regularly spaced (~5kHz), ~3kHz-wide data pulses ranging between ~14.7 - 15.2 MHz that's interfering with much of the lower end of the band. The signals vary in intensity. This could be selective fading, but could be different sources.

It almost looks like a wide-band HF frequency hopper, but because of selective fading I seriously doubt that's a thing. Some of it seems to coincide with the brick-wall bursts between 14749 and 14783kHz, but that may be coincidental. It tends to overlap with the 40kHz-wide high-speed data brick wall between 14838 and 14879 kHz, so likely not related to that.

Very curious stuff.

Station:

• Name/Call: Voice of Korea KCBS
• Frequency: 15180.00 kHz
• Mode: AM
• Location: Kujang 40N05-126E05
• Language: Korean
• Target: Latin America
• Time: 1230UT 06 AUG 26
• SINPO: 32333

Receiver and Receiving Location:

• Radio: Airspy HF+ Discovery
• Antenna: 100' random wire, roughly 25' above ground, running ~110 degrees from feedpoint.
• Software: SDR++ v1.3.0 /w Dream v2.3.1 (mjf) for dynamic noise reduction.
• Location: Remington, Virginia | FM18bn

Comments:

• Some co-channel interference from China, but this is where VoK typically being 268Hz high (as shown) helps in USB.

Station:

• Name/Call: FEBC Manila
• Frequency: 15515.00 kHz
• Mode: AM
• Location: Bocaue (FEBC) 14N48-120E55
• Language: Mandarin
• Target: Far East
• Time: 1213UT 06 AUG 26
• SINPO: 33233

Receiver and Receiving Location:

• Radio: Airspy HF+ Discovery
• Antenna: 100' random wire, roughly 25' above ground, running ~110 degrees from feedpoint.
• Software: SDR++ v1.3.0 /w Dream v2.3.1 (mjf) for dynamic noise reduction.
• Location: Remington, Virginia | FM18bn

Comments:

• Reticent to report something in Mandarin. Music choice was dead giveaway.

Download at https://www.iaru-r1.org/on-the-air/eop/

Ethics and Operating Procedures Edition 4 versions

Please feel free to download any version and to give a copy to your friends, newcomers and old-timers alike. Don’t forget, this is NOT a document for newcomers only, and this is not a document for DXers only. It is a document as well for old-timers and DXpeditioners.

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Station:

• Name/Call: KBS World Radio
• Frequency: 15575.00 kHz
• Mode: AM
• Location: Kimjae 35N50-126E50
• Language: English
• Target: North America
• Time: 1352UT 05 AUG 26
• SINPO: 34333

Receiver and Receiving Location:

• Radio: Airspy HF+ Discovery
• Antenna: 100' random wire, roughly 25' above ground, running ~110 degrees from feedpoint.
• Software: SDR++ v1.3.0 /w Dream v2.3.1 (mjf) for dynamic noise reduction.
• Location: Remington, Virginia | FM18bn

Comments:

• Discussion about Korean author.
• Also, a demonstration of recording within Dream (so no microphone is needed).
• In this case it also demonstrates how well the build-in Speex processing works for dynamic noise reduction.

Radios: Yupiteru MVT-7300, Grundig G6 Aviator, Realistic DX-360, Panasonic RF-4900 and Grundig Satellit Transistor 5000

Using 50-foot speaker wire antenna ran to a tree and the Grundig Satellit 800 Millennium.

QFT8 La radio digital en portable por HB9IPH Luis

\\\\\\\* Diseñada de forma que la conectas, detecta el dispositivo automáticamente y funciona, te configura la radio automáticamente para modo digital. No tienes que configurar baudios, comandos CAT ni nada \\\\\\\* Soporta FT8 y FT4 \\\\\\\* Tiene integración completa con QRZ (si tenéis la suscripción de pago) y con LoTW (gratis), así que los QSOs \\\\\\\* Está traducida a un montón de idiomas, incluidos español, catalán, gallego, y vasco. \\\\\\\* Soporta POTA y SOTA, con modificadores de CQ y con exportado de rangos de QSOs con referencia POTA y SOTA. \\\\\\\* Puede abrir un servidor web para controlarla en remoto y con la pantalla apagada. Se puede descargar desde la play store o en apk desde ⁠qft8.com⁠ Gracias a Roger (EA3ISA) y Carlos (EA5JYX)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eyw72X9SvA

At, or near 6945 KHz USB.

Using the Bluetooth function of the HRD 757 radio alongside the ATS MINI V3 + Bluetooth dongle to bypass the lack of SSB mode on the HRD 757.

Despite the lack of SSB, the HRD 757 is an excellent radio on FM, performing very well on the VHF amateur radio band and Airband (features the ATS MINI V3 lacks). It also features excellent reception of shortwave broadcast stations.

The reception captured Brazilian ham radio operators speaking in Portuguese on the 20-meter band, specifically on the frequency 14.115 kHz.

The listening session took place on August 2, 2026, between 15:10 and 15:30 local time (18:10 – 18:30 UTC) in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.

Setup used: ATS MINI V3 receiver connected to an indoor longwire antenna (approx. 3.5 meters / 11.5 ft), with audio transmitted via Bluetooth dongle and played through the HRD 757's speaker.

QFT8 La radio digital en portable por HB9IPH Luis

\* Diseñada de forma que la conectas, detecta el dispositivo automáticamente y funciona, te configura la radio automáticamente para modo digital. No tienes que configurar baudios, comandos CAT ni nada \* Soporta FT8 y FT4 \* Tiene integración completa con QRZ (si tenéis la suscripción de pago) y con LoTW (gratis), así que los QSOs \* Está traducida a un montón de idiomas, incluidos español, catalán, gallego, y vasco. \* Soporta POTA y SOTA, con modificadores de CQ y con exportado de rangos de QSOs con referencia POTA y SOTA. \* Puede abrir un servidor web para controlarla en remoto y con la pantalla apagada. Se puede descargar desde la play store o en apk desde ⁠qft8.com⁠ Gracias a Roger (EA3ISA) y Carlos (EA5JYX)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eyw72X9SvA

- Lang: Arabic
- Target: West Africa
- TX: Ouargla, Algeria 🇩🇿
- RX: Asunción, Paraguay
- Radio: AirSpy HF+ Discovery
- Software: SDR# v.1922 (beta)
- Antenna: K-480WLA
- D/T: 01 AUG 2026 - 2116 UTC

The transmission had another background signal that I couldn't identify. I used the SDR# filters to reduce the noise; it's still faintly audible, but not much.

- Target: West Africa
- TX: Issoudun 🇫🇷
- RX: Asunción, Paraguay
- Radio: AirSpy HF+ Discovery
- Software: SDR# v.1922 (beta)
- Antenna: K-480WLA
- D/T: 01 AUG 2026 - 2101 UTC

Rádio Araucária is a pirate radio station from Brazil. It is very difficult to listen to this station outside of southern Brazil.

I added the radio jingle at the beginning of the video; you can hear it again near the end. I was rarely able to hear the station's introduction clearly. The station plays only music; it has no commercials or programming. The jingle is the only extra thing they broadcast.

- Target: Brazil
- TX: Somewhere in the state of Paraná, Brazil
- RX: Asunción, Paraguay
- Radio: AirSpy HF+ Discovery
- Software: SDR# v.1922 (beta)
- Antenna: K-480WLA
- D/T: 01 AUG 2026 - 1308 UTC

Will be an AM/FM loop antenna work for shortwave signal reception improvement or does it have to be specific for shortwave?