8375 ish

[7designs]

Listening around 8375(hard to tell on analog dial) and a station was transmitting Morse code. Was four long beeps followed by Morse code which translated to ROL. I am assuming ROL is a call sign for something?

Received around 1950 hours UTC.

 

[majoco]

8375 is in the marine radio band and will be using morse. Shore stations have 3 letters/numbers. Anything starting with "R" is in the Russian Federation but I can't find any shore station with the callsign ROL. 8735 is also a Cuban number station.

 

[7designs]

At around 15 after the hour it started transmitting what sounded like data, but carrier was intermittent. This happened for 30 minutes then went back to previous transmission.

 

[ka3jjz]

Most likely this was a SITOR-A 'idle burst' - it's a way for a marine station to announce that it's ready to handle traffic.

Mike

 

[7designs]

It is still transmitting the morse code, I will see if it transmits the other at 15 after again.