7127khz Chatter

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Uploaded by: thefakevip

Upload date: 12/23/2024

Description:

Recently got a 9:1 balun, MF / HF up-converter, and wired it up to a big spool of speaker wire, and to my RTL SDR. Now I can actually receive stuff of interest! Here's some random chatter on 7217khz (within the 40 meter ham band).

I don't intend to make a habit of posting every single thing I hear, only the very interesting / odd stuff, but figured I'd post my first successful reception.

This setup is, to put it mildly, completely hacky and jury-rigged. Thaught I'd ordered a case with the up-converter, but apparently not, so it's currently in an adapted cardboard pillbox that I had to manually cut holes in for the ports, and the antenna is just strung through my shelves, over the curtain-rail, and into the cupboard. Also having some issues finding a clean power source for the up-converter, and dealing with interfearance from my laptop's internals as well (I need to get GQRX and the other radio software installed on a better shielded desktop computer), but it works well enough for now.

It's cool. You should tune to 7200 kHz, there's always something interesting on that frequency.

Very interesting, thanks for posting!