Twenty-fifth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 12:27:22 +0200)

RTTY stations

US intelligence

Still active with 108.86bd RTTY on 11527.7 kHz, at 1606 UTC, and on 6881.7 at 1930 UTC.

FAPSI intercepts [M42]

JD sent me a couple of notes regarding the disappearance of the famous broadcasts to KUL etc. He writes « No sooner had my comment that the broadcast to "KRN" seemed to be the only broadcast remaining appeared in WUN, than that one, too, disappeared. Many individual contact stations are still active but I suppose it is just a matter of time before they go too - one that was active until February this year seems to have been replaced by a Crowd36 transmission on the same freq (16345 kHz at 0750, to "KMI") - I say "seems to" because until someone puts a Crowd36 decoder on the market at a reasonable price, I can't copy it. »

It is indeed a pity that all these oldtimers disappear. I think that JD is right and that these broadcasts are still there but sent in another mode like CROWD36.

Frequency	UTC	link	from	to	remarks
8173.0	2200	00149
10442.0	1525	00098		VTX
10178.0	1714	00069
10517.5	1530				Crowd36 + mazielka (selcal)
10767.0	1604	70004		NOB
10767.0	1505	00030	BFR	RGA
11114.4	1615				Crowd36
14565.0	1425	80061		VNB
14822.0	1540	60069		EWZ42	freq replaces 16152 kHz
16152.0	1616	60069		EWZ42
16257.0	0835	90051	URS	RJA
16348.0	1633				Crowd36. Similar to 11114.4
17414.0	1644				YL speaking RR brief words followed by Mazielka calls. This freq (RTTY 17416.0)was previously logged as Link 00178 c/s KRN

17422.4	1604	50035		RLJ
17528.0	0950	40034	RLX	UXW	(or the other way around)
18210.0	1604	00149	RVV	DZR
18523.5	0540	30044
18523.5	1607	30044
18540.0	0720	00074			first report of this link id!
18835.0	0905
19518.0	1558				Crowd36
22863.0	1825	00099		RSZ