{"id":55296,"date":"2023-01-10T15:56:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T19:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=55296"},"modified":"2023-01-10T07:01:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T11:01:32","slug":"can-you-help-paul-identify-this-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/can-you-help-paul-identify-this-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you help Paul identify this station?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had a strong s9+20 signal on 9595kHz Mon Jan 9th, 2023 here in Alaska in the 1900UTC hour with nothing but a repeating loop of the same island-y like music.\u00a0 The track was about 3-5 minutes long and there was no station announcements of any kind between the one repeating track. It was gone by 2000UTC. No one is listed on eibi, short-wave.info<\/a>, shortwaveschedule.com<\/a> or HFCC Raw data for this frequency at this time.<\/p>\n

Who is it? It sounded too clear and good to be China, but I suppose that’s possible.<\/p>\n

Readers: if you can help Paul, please comment!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who writes: I had a strong s9+20 signal on 9595kHz Mon Jan 9th, 2023 here in Alaska in the 1900UTC hour with nothing but a repeating loop of the same island-y like music.\u00a0 The track was about 3-5 minutes long and there was no station announcements of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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],"tags":[5448,4156],"class_list":["post-55296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mystery-signals","tag-paul-walker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-enS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49004,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/unid-russian-numbers-station-recorded-april-26-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":55296,"position":0},"title":"UNID Russian Numbers Station recorded April 26, 2021","author":"Thomas","date":"May 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who recently shared this recording of an unidentified numbers station in Russian. 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