Fourteenth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 14:53:11 GMT)

Various modes

New tone station

Also from Guy comes the following news:
"I thought you might be interested in a new Tone station that has appeared. It was on about 3 weeks ago one evening moving all over the band. It has now started testing on 8100 at 0700 0800 0900 1200 & 1300, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. It transmits for 15 minutes, the tones are much deeper than XPH.
It is the same family as the Slovak Man S10E/M10E. I know this for certain as they have been testing for several weeks on the same frequency. The first test was in morse sending single 5 figure groups 00000 to 99999. The M10E morse is very distinctive, that it why I know which family it belongs to. They also did some testing on the same frequency on RTTY at 75 Baud. They just sent RYRYRYRY for 15 minutes."

Unid station

Henry copied an unid odd station in Australia. The frequency is +/-21257 kHz. He comes up at night (Australian night) around 0900-1400 UTC with short stops.

Bearing is 355 which is across Hong Kong/Korea/Russia. Begins each cycle with three musical notes the merges into some sort of packet. When he sends ? traffic the musical notes are closer together. Has anyone heard and/or identified this one ??

FAPSI intercepts

13452	2240	`JMS`	00127
13556	2009	`HZW`	00117
13935	1240		00098
14402	1200		00104
14731	1515	`BPA`	00116
14843	2230	`JMS`	00127
14941	1810	`WNY`	00139
16218	2000	`HZW`	00117
16223	0940	`UXW`	40034
16256.9	1708	`RJA`	90051
16285	0840	`RSZ`	00177	*)
17416	1735	`KRN`	00178
17460	0930		10075
17473	0940		10163
17475	0840	`RPO`	80038
18332	0820		10042
19088	1800	`WNY`	00117
19354	0830	`RPO`	80038
19414.8	1019	`CAZ`	50002
20170	1020	`CAZ`	50002
20925.2	0749		60089

*) this is an interesting one, logged by Murray:
16285 FAPSI 0840 RTTY 75/500 w/46s RSZ QTC to 5LGs link 00177 18 May 99. The link id for RSZ has always been 00099. Did FAPSI made a mistake or has RSZ a new link id?