Seventeenth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

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

Voice stations

French woman [V23]

Brian Martlew discovered a new station that uses the same format as the Russian Man family. She was only on the air for a week. I wonder what the purpose was. Was this a live training for a new agent in a French speaking country or a special mission? Has anyone in a French speaking country heard of anything that could be related to this station? Brian's RealAudio file can be downloaded from the N&O home page.

The station used the following schedules:

0900 UTC	Mo	We	Fr	15840 kHz
0900 UTC	Tu	Th	Sa	10635 kHz
1900 UTC	Mo	We	Fr	11060 kHz
1900 UTC	Tu	Th	Sa	10635 kHz

Mode	AM
Operator	YL
Language	French
Id's	362

Format:

362 362 362 (4 minutes)
499 499 91 91
91 5-figure groups, each repeated
499 499 91 91 00000

Pip [XX]

Rimantas copied another voice transmission from 'the pip'
July 25, 22:16 UTC, Enigma "XX", 3757 kHz, YL voice message in Russian:
"For: 796, 610, 604, 461, 661, 206. How can you read me? Reception."

Repeated 4 times. It seems that 22:10-22:20 UTC is a standard daily message time.

Rimantas, I think that in this context 'over' is a better translation for 'priyom' than 'reception'. Just like the NATO military uses 'over' at the end of transmissions, 'priyom' is used the same way.

Czech station

The new Czech station is still alive and kicking while I am writing this. Odd freqs and transmission times. I wonder if it could be some sort of cadets training station. Info wanted!

Frequencies: 1122 kHz and 2136 kHz

Reader/language: YL / Czech

Schedules:

Saturday and Sunday only
2136 kHz	0700-0705 UTC
1122 kHz	various times at h+10 and h+40

Format: 9 tones callup (could this be a selcal system???) followed by message no's 20-29, 50-59 etc.

Three note oddity [G04]

Monthly analysis by Hans-Friedrich Dumrese

01.08.99	2005Z	5.730 kHz
	2035Z	5.630 kHz

Message :

89632 75123 85001 96547 75148 96325 74125 84523 78545 96548 11545 96548 30254 78500 84521 45214 75458 96321 32545 55782 12158 95458 75458 41045 45212 96455
= 26 groups

Analysis:

Frequent groups	75458	2x
	96548	2x

First two figures	11545		Last three figures:	85001
	12158			41045
	30254			75123
	32545			74125
	41045			75148
	45212			12158
	214			45212
	55782			45214
	74125			30254
	75123			96321
	148			96325
	458	2x		96455
	78500			75458	2x
	545			95
	84521			78500
	523			84521
	85001			84523
	89632			11545
	95458			32
	96321			78	5
	325			96547
	455			96548	2x
	547			89632
	548	2x		55782

History :

Summer	2005	2035
Winter	2105	2135

01/96	3227	3127
02/96	3409	3309
03/96	3419	3319
04/96	4581	4481
05/96	4165	4065
06/96	4340	4240
07/96	3935	3835
08/96	4165	4065
09/96	3930	3830
10/96	3280	3180
11/96	3270	3170
12/96	3285	3185
01/97	3230	3130
02/97	3245	3145
03/97	3275	3175
04/97	3936	3836
05/97	4245	4145
06/97	4376	4276
07/97	3930	3830
08/97	3935	3835
09/97	3915	3815
10/97	3315	3215
11/97	3265	3165
12/97	3255	3155
01/98	3255	3155
02/98	3265	3165
03/98	4435	4335
04/98	4745	4645
05/98	5410	5310
06/98	5730	5630
07/98	5840	5740
08/98	5755	5655
09/98	5310	5210
10/98	4685	4585
11/98	3940	3840
12/98	3380	3280
01/99	3415	3315
02/99	3905	3805
03/99	4520	4420
04/99	5310	5210
05/99	5570	5470
06/99	5720	5620
07/99	5680	5580
08/99	5730	5630