Seventeenth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 18:46:22 +0200)

Morse stations

M53/M40

Do you wonder why all this text has been marked as deleted ? Then go to Newsletter 18.

Igor Buhtiyarov copied a lot of new freqs and id's of station M53/M40. The id sometimes consist of 2 or 4 numbers. Igor did not always write down the figures after the dot. He says that the station most probably transmits from North Korea. Very nice catches Igor!

CQ	01.927	15.30	4650
CQ	88.504	16.00	4495
CQ	000.962	09.15	5580
CQ	022.xxx	18.30	7652
CQ	077.xxx	09.32	10260
CQ	080.xxx	13.00	5366
CQ	101.xxx	12.00	5533
CQ	119.xxx	20.12	5599
CQ	121.xxx	13.12	4177
CQ	171.xxx	08.00	10301
CQ	243.xxx	13.06	4461
CQ	260.655	13.30	13850
CQ	302.xxx	17.08	8851
CQ	339.xxx	15.30	7651
CQ	340.xxx	08.11	8150
CQ	428.628	09.30	8100
CQ	429.510	17.30	6900
CQ	466.xxx	15.06	9400
CQ	515.344	09.30	12161
CQ	515.397	07.00	10242
CQ	515.459	09.30	9947
CQ	515.577	18.00	8119
CQ	515.715	21.30	8119
CQ	515.839	13.30	4730
CQ	515.905	22.30	10994
CQ	515.909	12.00	6848
CQ	516.155	13.30	12540
CQ	516.159	22.30	13254
CQ	516.699	14.30	12420
CQ	529.xxx	14.24	5533
CQ	542.446	12.30	18310
CQ	542.466	09.00	8825
CQ	542.469	10.30	19300
CQ	550.315	08.30	5100
CQ	550.440	14.30	4100
CQ	550.880	08.15	5745
CQ	600.450	00.00	12800
CQ	600.640	09.30	7600
CQ	613.316	14.00	5750
CQ	624.xxx	00.38	8200
CQ	627.555	17.30	3600
CQ	627.815	17.30	9200
CQ	639.xxx	12.00	7711
CQ	684.xxx	15.39	6839
CQ	706.xxx	14.40	6734
CQ	706.xxx	14.50	5535
CQ	747.343	08.30	8756
CQ	747.343	13.30	8756
CQ	747.384	20.01	10621
CQ	747.524	16.00	8231
CQ	747.599	17.00	8235
CQ	747.719	17.00	8231
CQ	747.750	20.00	8233
CQ	747.750.016	20.00	8231
CQ	747.932	10.32	8235
CQ	838.019	09.00	10108
CQ	838.612	07.00	9827
CQ	863.359	15.30	7400
CQ	931.977	16.30	13000
CQ	935.xxx	15.00	4600
CQ	953.xxx	16.00	6730
CQ	989.741	14.00	4597
CQ	1188.xxx	16.30	6428
CQ	4772.xxx	16.38	4191
CQ	5141.xxx	16.36	4188
CQ	9412.xxx	16.30	4172

Single letter stations

The clusters of Russian Single Letter Stations have not been copied for over a month. Only the non-cluster stations are still on the air. The latter are navy stations. The function of the cluster stations is still unclear.

Unid station

Geoff Halligey heard the following at 1430 UTC on 18th August, on 15872 kHz. <most probably Russian military stuff, Geoff -Ary->

Kl7M KL7M QTC 210 38 18 1830 210 =
ZUV 943 = 8847 1049 6592 6943 5856 7432 5807 7031 3719 5962 9853 2009 1898 3983 9637 3843 4135 0149 7995 4128 2758 0785 6843 1776 4490 9363 0006 0563 8420 6335 0037 9711 8801 0503 1834 = 139 =
KL7M KL7M QTC (repetition of all above except ZUV 943 omitted)

Characteristic: sends xxx x or xx xx every now & then. Short zeroes.

A2A [M63]

"A2A" is still on 5807 and 6763 at 0500 UTC. The out-stations are replying on 4753 kHz.

M78

The station that Guy found a couple of months ago changed its freq from 8100 to 8140 kHz. Transmission times are still from 0700-1400 UTC on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. It transmits for 15 minutes, the tones are much deeper than XPH. So far the transmissions mainly consist of single 5 figure groups 00000 to 99999. They also send RY test messages without an id in 75bd RTTY.