{"id":17683,"date":"2016-03-09T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:35:37","slug":"can-you-help-chris-id-this-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/can-you-help-chris-id-this-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you help Chris ID this station?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9503\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9503\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg\" alt=\"SX-99-Dial\" width=\"584\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-300x56.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-100x18.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg 1544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor, Chris Smolinski, would like your help to ID a Spanish language station. Chris notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;I record the 6800-7000 kHz band every night with my SDR, looking for pirates, but sometimes I also stumble on other interesting transmissions. The other night (UTC March 8) I picked up a curious station on 6974.5 kHz AM, starting at 0119 UTC, off at 0137. It was a mix of music and possible IDs by an OM in Spanish. There is what sounds like a four character call sign as part of the ID, and mentions of what could be the Dominican Republic. My guess right now is this was some sort of a relay of a domestic MW or FM station.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I have two recordings here, perhaps someone can pick out the callsign or other parts of the ID? Not the best audio quality, but you know how that goes:&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/mypics\/6974.5-1.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Audio Clip 1<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17683-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/mypics\/6974.5-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/mypics\/6974.5-1.mp3\">http:\/\/radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/mypics\/6974.5-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/mypics\/6974.5-2.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Audio Clip 2<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17683-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/mypics\/6974.5-2.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/mypics\/6974.5-2.mp3\">http:\/\/radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/mypics\/6974.5-2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Please comment!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Chris Smolinski, would like your help to ID a Spanish language station. Chris notes: &#8220;I record the 6800-7000 kHz band every night with my SDR, looking for pirates, but sometimes I also stumble on other interesting transmissions. The other night (UTC March 8) I picked up a curious station on 6974.5 kHz AM, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[2315,34,1617],"class_list":["post-17683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-chris-smolinski","tag-shortwave","tag-unid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4Bd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31031,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/guest-post-listening-to-pirate-radio-stations-from-south-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":17683,"position":0},"title":"Guest Post: Listening To Pirate Radio Stations from South America","author":"Thomas","date":"March 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Chris Smolinski, who shares the following guest post. 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