I'm hearing "Varmint!" on 5 MHz in southeast Texas, Saturday night
(U.S. time).

There's no sign of Sam on 2.5 or 10 MHz.

This is just too bizarre.

---------------------------
Registered Monitor BR549
The Shack on the Bayou - www.ghg.net/cliffwatts/

Drake R8, Sony ICF-SW100, Heathkit GR-64 (retired)
Realistic Pro-2006, Bearcat BC-245XLT

I'm hearing "Varmint!" on 5 MHz in southeast Texas, Saturday night
(U.S. time).

There's no sign of Sam on 2.5 or 10 MHz.

This is just too bizarre.

---------------------------
Registered Monitor BR549
The Shack on the Bayou - www.ghg.net/cliffwatts/

Drake R8, Sony ICF-SW100, Heathkit GR-64 (retired)
Realistic Pro-2006, Bearcat BC-245XLT

dxAce wrote:



dxAce wrote:

This via the WUN Listserver and was posted this morning:

For those who are interested:

The "Sam" Pirate that was so popular last month is now on 5 Mhz.

Can be heard in Southern AZ faintly on top of WWV.

JC
So. AZ
==========================================

I wonder if he'll be starting up on other frequencies as well?

Heard here on 10 and 15 MHz at 1520. However, the only thing Sam says after the
sort of digital buzz that was present on the original Sam transmissions is
'Varmint'.

I tried 5 and 10 Mhz at 0100 and didn't note Sam or any other unusual
signal, just WWV as usual. Sam was so strong at my location the first
time around that I was able to hear him on my Degen during the day. No
such luck this time around. It IS certain that if this is a pirate (not
a government operation of some kind) interfering with WWV will get one
busted in a hurry.


dxAce
Michigan
USA

peter berrett wrote:

To ask an obvious question

What do readers think this is? A prank? Spy station? WWV gone feral?

The Sam activity observed in December would seem to point to a spy or
some other government operation of some kind. The Sam transmissions were
neatly spaced over four different frequencies audible at different
levels of signal strength at my location, indicating four different
transmitters in four different locations acting together. It is unlikely
that a prankster would go to such trouble. The big question is what it
means, if indeed it's a spy station. It was theorized that it was a "go
signal" for some sort of spy operation. But since it's back at reduced
power (my check of 5 and 10 Mhz at 0100 showed nothing unusual) that
would not seem to be the case.


cheers Peter

"dxAce" wrote in message
...
This via the WUN Listserver and was posted this morning:

For those who are interested:

The "Sam" Pirate that was so popular last month is now on 5 Mhz.

Can be heard in Southern AZ faintly on top of WWV.


JC
So. AZ
==========================================

I wonder if he'll be starting up on other frequencies as well?

dxAce
Michigan
USA






----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups
---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---

I, too am hearing Sam on 5 MHZ with a strong signal in North Texas.
This is almost certainly a covert "go" signal from our government.
Could be an exercize (most likely).
It's on WWV at 5 mHz because that provides a "BFO" for cheap SW
receivers. I will note the times I hear him.
Please note those you hear.

Loud 3:22:50 Z
Loud 3:23:35 Z
Weak 3:24:05 Z

Like that.
Let's see if we can do a little snooping of our own.

running dogg wrote:

The Sam transmissions were
neatly spaced over four different frequencies audible at different
levels of signal strength at my location, indicating four different
transmitters in four different locations acting together.

I don't think you can draw that conclusion, since at any given time,
different frequencies are going to have different propogation (and
noise) characteristics.

However, I agree with your conclusion that it wasn't some prank simply
because of the precise timing of the signals and the apparant data
burst at the start.


--
Eric F. Richards

"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940

Sam in North Texas, 5 mHz

This pattern:

moderate 3:25:25
Loud 3:26:10
weak 3:27:25
weak 3:28:10
Loud 3:28:50
Loud 3:29:25
moderate 3:30:10

was followed by this pattern:
3:32:08 weak
3:32:48 weak
3:33:28 weak
3:34:08 weak
3:35:28 weak
3:36:08 loud
3:36:48 weak

Sam seems to have stopped at this time,
at least in North Texas.
The pattern likely carries some intelligence in itself.

More like "Uncle Sam," if you ask me.

D.S.

David Stinson wrote:

Sam in North Texas, 5 mHz

This pattern:

moderate 3:25:25
Loud 3:26:10
weak 3:27:25
weak 3:28:10
Loud 3:28:50
Loud 3:29:25
moderate 3:30:10

was followed by this pattern:
3:32:08 weak
3:32:48 weak
3:33:28 weak
3:34:08 weak
3:35:28 weak
3:36:08 loud
3:36:48 weak

Sam seems to have stopped at this time,
at least in North Texas.
The pattern likely carries some intelligence in itself.

More like "Uncle Sam," if you ask me.

I agree. That sort of rapid oscillation of the signal strength doesn't
happen by accident. I take back my earlier observation that it wasn't a
go signal-apparently the idea that it IS a go signal from the CIA or
some other spy agency is credible, judging from the posts here. Any
speculation as to what it indicates? There was no major news making
event that happened after the Sam transmissions in December (unless you
want to theorize that the tsunami was caused by HAARP), but for the
government to go to this sort of trouble indicates that it's SOMETHING
big.

running dogg wrote:
Any
speculation as to what it indicates? There was no major news making
event that happened after the Sam transmissions in December (unless you
want to theorize that the tsunami was caused by HAARP), but for the
government to go to this sort of trouble indicates that it's SOMETHING
big.

While it's likely this is part of a large exercise,
it is possible for it to be a "real deal."
A lot of operations that affect the safety of
our nation go down without you or I hearing a
single thing about it, now or later.
I could tell you about some from the 1980s,
but then I'd have to kill ya ;-).

I live forty miles East of Vicksburg,Mississippi.Sometimes I hear and if
I happen to be outside I see some big Helicopters flying due West and
sometimes flying Soutwest,I almost never see them flying East.What woke
me up at about 7:00 AM yesterday (Saturday) morning was one of the
loudest (and I do mean loud!) Helicopters flying directly over my roof
so low I thought it was going to scrape the roof off of my house and it
was flying due West too.I don't know if that has anything to do with
anything big or Yosemite Sam or not.
cuhulin