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Posted by Bruce WA1HGJ on August 16, 2026 at 00:57:52.
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I’ve heard this telemetry station on 319 kHz many times but never bothered to try to ID it until last night. With some help from AI, I found it’s a Canadian Coast Guard station at Point Escuminac, at the far eastern tip of New Brunswick. It reportedly is a DGPS station for marine navigation, although oddly, Canada supposedly phased out all the old DGPS stations a couple years ago (the US had done the same a few years earlier). So the question is, what’s the data stream it’s transmitting? Regardless, it’s MSK at 200 baud. Apparently it doesn’t have a letter callsign but its DGPS Station ID is 936. At about 450 miles from my QTH near Boston, I can hear it fade in and out with QSB on groundwave propagation. Here’s the actual log information (which I’ll also submit to DX Downstairs in the LOWDOWN):
2026-08-15, 0055 UTC, 319.00 kHz. Just posting here in case anyone else here’s it and wonders what it is. 73, Bruce WA1HGJ
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