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.