Whatsup Brandon! Thanks for the usual excellent info and for putting it on the RR map-I couldn't dig this up anywhere-but I should've known to look in yours or Token's YT pages for a sure thing.
Interesting links! So I saw in link 1 that I was kind of lucky to catch this one due to their frequent switching between 70 known frequencies. Cool!
VC01 does not necessarily switch between known frequencies. What it typically does is select a new frequency set roughly every month or so, I have seen few repeating freqs (although 5343 has been used in the past, so it is a repeat) and the selection seems to be pretty random. It is typically on 2 frequencies at any one time, but with different data on those two freqs. It is common for one active freq to be in USB, while the other is in LSB. It is also common for the speed of delivery of the numbers on the two freqs to be different, one slightly faster than the other. They started this speed difference a bit over a year ago.
It has been on this 5343 kHz freq since the first week of March. It is on another freq a few hundred kHz up also, but I don’t remember that freq off the top of my head. This evening after I get home from work I will look it up and post it in this thread.
VC01 is pretty much heard every morning on the west coast, but it is frequently killed by Chinese OTHRs, since they operate in much the same frequency range.
Much less common is to hear this stations sister Morse station, called MC03. It has been on 4010 kHz for the last couple months, but the traffic has been light.
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