[Scan-DC] 1680 am

[Chris Smolinski]

There's lots of pirates and Part 15 stations throughout the X band part of the MW band. What you're hearing in 1680 may be unrelated to what was logged on the HFU last year.

In addition to the local to me Part 15 station on 1620, there's a definite pirate that appears every so often, playing non-stop MoR music, for example. The HFU MW Pirate loggings forum is full of logs of it: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/board,30.0.html

I record 1600-1750 kHz 24/7 on one of my SDRs, connected to my 900 ft horizontal sky loop antenna, so I can check for ay pirates. There was a period last night starting around 0600 when a station other than WTTM was dominant. Here is the waterfall of 1680 kHz, zoomed in with my Carrier Sleuth program, so you can see the carriers of every station on 1680 (yes, there's a lot of them): https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/875075647612022845/1201172092503195770/image.png

WTTM is around 1679.997.4 or so. 

This other station, playing R&B music was around 1680.015.2

Here is another waterfall, this time only showing which carrier was dominant at any time: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/875075647612022845/1201172752523067452/image.png

I listened to a few TOH and H:30 time periods, and never heard an ID. 

Chris Smolinski, W3HFU
Black Cat Systems
Westminster, MD USA
https://www.blackcatsystems.com






> On Jan 28, 2024, at 3:04 AM, Alan Henney <alan at henney.com> wrote:
> 
> I only hear this station after it gets dark.
> 
> Louis found this post on HF Underground...
> 
> Some interesting details on this mysterious station...
> 
> https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,108514.msg348303.html#msg348303
> 
> 
> Re: Unknown 1680 AM 0835 22 Jan 2023
> « Reply #3 on: March 16, 2023, 1653 UTC »
> There is a pirate station that plays hip hop, funk, old school from the 70s
> up to newer r&b on 1680. I picked it up in elk river and it's much clearer
> in North Minneapolis. There are no call letters, no dj, no commercials,
> just music. I downloaded the wprr app on my phone and it is definitely not
> them. I used to pick up wprr last year but this new pirate station prevents
> me from picking up wprr. Wprr would come in faintly, had commercials and a
> dj. This new station is clear, and does not need my passive loop antenna.
> The new pirate station started around the first of January, give or take a
> few weeks.
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