255.550 Mhz Pirates are Active

[mikepdx]

Maybe we should have an audio feed. LOL

I can hear them sometimes here in Oregon,
but too much noise to make out anything.

[KR0SIV]

That would make sense mike,

Have you tried making a yagi antenna yet? It's not too hard.
Check out the thread "poor student antenna' I posted some info in there on building one cheap

[poltergeisty]

Originally Posted by KR0SIV

-__- What a relevant post

Maybe you should try reading the article I quoted. They mention Skynet.

[KR0SIV]

Originally Posted by poltergeisty

Maybe you should try reading the article I quoted. They mention Skynet.

Yes they mentioned Skynet, I'm quite aware of that.
But there is a difference between "SkyNet of terminator" and skynet the sat network....

In your defense though I have to admit I "assumed" your were making a movie pun, I suppose regardless of it being that or not I was too quick to post something that was a bit more useless than your post was

[poltergeisty]

You obviously have no sense of humor.

[KR0SIV]

Originally Posted by poltergeisty

You obviously have no sense of humor.

No, I was just in a crappy mood and jumped to the conclusion that you thought it was actually "skynet" from the movie (others actually have).

Like I said though, I was just in a ****ty mood.. my bad, sorry mate.

[Dude111]

Lots of MP3s of different freqs here

http://uhf-satcom.com/sounds

[rwla]

getting what seems like music at approx 255.645mhz -- (not to be trusted, I'm using a rtlsdr and I think the tuning is off). anybody ever hear music going through these sat birds? my location is NE USA.

[gtaman]

Originally Posted by rwla

getting what seems like music at approx 255.645mhz -- (not to be trusted, I'm using a rtlsdr and I think the tuning is off). anybody ever hear music going through these sat birds? my location is NE USA.

Oh yeah you'll hear lots. I heard some russian techno once on a freq.

[brandon]

I don't usually monitor 255.550 for pirates but today I logged a brief comm check from a US military station on that freq. I can't quite ID the station though. Any ideas?

Audio: http://cl.ly/MAvH/255.550-Unid-Radio-Check.mp3

[rbm]

Originally Posted by rwla

getting what seems like music at approx 255.645mhz -- (not to be trusted, I'm using a rtlsdr and I think the tuning is off). anybody ever hear music going through these sat birds? my location is NE USA.

Yes. Very often I come across foreign language broadcasts that sound like commercial radio stations.
I 'suspect' pirates are just 'broadcasting' to their friends.

By the way, using a DVB-T dongle I can see about 2 MHz of the 245-270 MHz band at one time.
I've logged a lot of active 'pirate' frequencies.

A short video clip of SDRSharp tuned to 255.550 MHz is here.
If you watch it in Full Screen HD, you can see a second active pirate down the band at 255.450 MHz.
Milsat Satcom Satellite SDRSharp with Eztv668 SDR dongle e4000 chip - YouTube

Rich

Down around 245 MHz there's a lot of data/digital activity.

Some additional active pirate frequencies:
252.050 MHz
252.150 MHz
253.500 MHz
253.750 MHz
255.450 MHz
255.550 MHz
256.6125 MHz
257.425 MHz
258.650 MHz
260.475 MHz
260.675 MHz
260.725 MHz
261.450 MHz
261.575 MHz
261.750 MHz
261.800 MHz
261.875 MHz
262.075 MHz
262.125 MHz
262.200 MHz
262.225 MHz
263.925 MHz
265.450 MHz
265.550 MHz
266.950 MHz
267.050 MHz
268.4375 MHz
269.950 MHz