Remember those chanters on 7000L ?

[devicelab]

They seem to have moved to 6965 LSB. I don't know if these are the same group as back in the early 2010s. Oddly, now the 7000 LSB is a couple of guys chatting. One guy is S9 in Japan but I can hear them both even from my home QTH, although somewhat weak. I cannot tell the language -- it sounds like Spanish a little -- perhaps Portuguese. I could hear the 6965 guys when the chanting was happening but it has since slowed to a heavy conversation between multiple parties.

HF is a weird animal outside of the USA.

 

[sunwave]

They seem to have moved to 6965 LSB. I don't know if these are the same group as back in the early 2010s. Oddly, now the 7000 LSB is a couple of guys chatting. One guy is S9 in Japan but I can hear them both even from my home QTH, although somewhat weak. I cannot tell the language -- it sounds like Spanish a little -- perhaps Portuguese. I could hear the 6965 guys when the chanting was happening but it has since slowed to a heavy conversation between multiple parties.

HF is a weird animal outside of the USA.

Have you figured out the most common times they are on? I wanna try reception of this at my location.

 

[devicelab]

Overnight hours. I should have posted a link to the original thread...

weirdness on 7000 kHz

Caught this one earlier today right on 7000 LSB on the bottom edge of 40 meters. Not really sure how to explain this one other than listening to the clip. Audio: HDSDR_20111010_133805Z_7000kHz_AF.mp3 Interesting stuff to be heard at this hour! :D

forums.radioreference.com

 

[Hooligan]

These are recent catches I made:

https://x.com/HooliganstaX/status/1780594265254674820

This one is more along the lines of bored people occupying their time by BS'ing on the radio -- the stereotype of
young military guys at some remote outposts, fishing boats, or whatever. I'll never forget hearing a Chinese male serenading the other fishing vessels in his fleet with his chinglish version of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page."

https://x.com/HooliganstaX/status/1766572637638029710

The above is basically the same thing, but I suspect has more of a religious connotation -- my guess is SE Asian (muslim nation) military or coast guard remote outposts or fishing fleets chanting koran verses, maybe actually as pat of a semi-formal remote muslim service involving an imam somewhere. Only thing though is if someone is chanting something from the koran, wouldn't it be blasphemy to key-up over him?

 

[devicelab]

Hooligan just FYI someone figured out the chanting some time ago. I think this is multiple parties too being lumped together.

I can't recall what country it was but it was some religious group.

 

[commscanaus]

Is Indonesia.
Many islands make up this part of the world, just to the north of Australia.
It is apparently some sort of game that they play, but I cannot remember the exact details.
As there are many island groups, they seemingly compete in a sort of round robin fashion with a control station being at the helm of it all.
Not sure if it is religious in nature.

There can be quite a number of these groups active both in and outside the 40m Ham band,
As Hooligan has found, they seem to like the 6900-7000kHz band usually in LSB and also like frequent the CW end of 40m.

They are normally active after the greyline has passed in the Southern hemisphere around 0900 UTC.
Most of the time these stations can be deafening here in Australia with well over S9 +20dB not uncommon.

Unfortunately the amount of pirate activity emanating from SE Asia found in the 8800kHz aero segment and indeed over much of this part of the spectrum has really increased of late. Even chattering away on 8992kHz or aero LDOC channels without a care in the world.

Commscanaus

 

[oldradioguy2010]

0500 pacific/ 1200 z. 5/2/24
I tune in on 7000mc.
I can hear voices but just can't pull
Out what's said. I tuned to about 7003 Mc
I will keep monitoring from Oxnard Ca.

DW
So. Cal

 

[oldradioguy2010]

I am hearing a little beep (like maybe a Roger beep?)
Very intermittently.

DW
So.cal

 

[oldradioguy2010]

5/3/2024. 1210z

Strong CW signal high speed operator, like 20wpm fast.
No voice signals yet.

DW
So. Cal

 

[devicelab]

0500 pacific/ 1200 z. 5/2/24
I tune in on 7000mc.

You didn't read my post.

 

[oldradioguy2010]

036z/1736 pdt 7003mc.
Got home from work heard a 3 tone buzzing sound.
This different than this morning.

DW
So. Cal

 

[oldradioguy2010]

1220z 0520 pdt.
6965mc.
Picking up some voices hard to understand what's said. It sounds like ham radio type of transmission.


DW
So. Cal

 

[Boombox]

I used the hear them a lot in the 2010's, and -- before that -- in the early 2000's. Then nothing after the last cycle dipped. Recently, I've heard them only 3-4 times, weakly, since the solar cycle picked up. The chanting is a game -- one guy tells the other when to start chanting, he records it, plays it back. I think it's their way of hearing how their radio gets out, something like that. A contest of sorts. Nothing religious about it. It's a sort of game. Listen closely, you can hear the pause, and then the playback.

I think most of them are in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). If you hear them just talking, when you hear the word 'ganti' it means 'over'. It's Bahasa Indonesian, Indonesian Malay.

In 2012 or 2014 I heard them for several hours one morning (Pacific Time) when the conditions were really good. Some guy in Kalimantan was chatting with a young woman in the Philippines. When I was hearing them every morning, it was all between 6950-7040 kHz or so, they didn't seem to go too far up the 40 Meter Ham band.

There are also legit, Indonesian hams that hang out in the 40 Meter band between 7040-7100 or so, and they're on at the same time -- or at least were back in the 2010's. Haven't heard too many of those recently, but I'm sure they're still running ham nets at those times.

Mostly heard (back then and recently) between 6999-6030 or so.

But this solar cycle, not so much. Poorer conditions than the previous upturn 11 years ago.

Location: NW US, WA.

 

[Boombox]

These are recent catches I made:

https://x.com/HooliganstaX/status/1780594265254674820

This one is more along the lines of bored people occupying their time by BS'ing on the radio -- the stereotype of
young military guys at some remote outposts, fishing boats, or whatever. I'll never forget hearing a Chinese male serenading the other fishing vessels in his fleet with his chinglish version of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page."

https://x.com/HooliganstaX/status/1766572637638029710

The above is basically the same thing, but I suspect has more of a religious connotation -- my guess is SE Asian (muslim nation) military or coast guard remote outposts or fishing fleets chanting koran verses, maybe actually as pat of a semi-formal remote muslim service involving an imam somewhere. Only thing though is if someone is chanting something from the koran, wouldn't it be blasphemy to key-up over him?

I just listened to the two sound files, the second one is an example of what I was describing. Each pirate ham has a certain word they're chanting, maybe their name or something similar, and it probably got played back afterwards.

It isn't the Koran, being that the Koran is universally 'chanted', or sung, generally in Arabic.

Nice catches. Further up north those stations don't come in quite as strongly, at least not yet. Maybe later in the Solar Cycle....