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

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

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E17

Last month I mentioned Al's morse unid as E17. Don't ask me why because I haven't the faintest idea. It definitely isn't E17 :-)

English man [E07]

Hans-Friedrich figured out that E07 is following a more or less fixed annual schedule. As you can see, the list that HF sent me is not complete. Here is some homework for those who are interested; check also the enormous list from Mike Chace in N&O #17. You will find more frequencies there. I think that the 3-digit 'id' is in fact a schedule number and not the addressee.

Three note oddity [G04]

We continue the show with Hans-Friedrich's monthly G04 analysis.

Message : 88621 80228 82254 58006 13466 58140 63561 81887 38650 65486 11104 03573 41548 07813 70082 16421 07336 61428 76120 80150 30718 12404 00305 82821 81135 80855
= 26 groups

Sorted : 00305 03573 07336 07813 11104 12404 13466 16421 30718 38650 41548 58006 58140 61428 63561 65486 70082 76120 80150 80228 80855 81135 81887 82254 82821 88621

Remarks : Here is a list of the curious March transmissions:

Exact frequencies on 19.03.00? 4750/4850 or 4750/4650?

Frequencies and message on 26.03.00?

History :

More G04 info comes from another source who made an interesting observation recently. As Tallinn Radio is using the same frequency (4420 kHz), I assumed that this station interfered G04's transmission but our friend states that this was not an outside interference but a mixed signal from the same source. Looking at the conditions, it is also highly unlikely that the signal came from Tallinn. A location in southern Hungary is more plausible. Here is the transcript.

The following comment accompanied the log:

« You could hear that there is no interference between G04 and the radiotelephone station. Consequently I think it was an audio mix somewhere there. I am convinced that both things, i.e. the phone conversation and the 3-notes came via the same transmitter. »

He continues:

« I followed G04's Thu and Sun transmissions, which are generally weak in these days (end of March -ed-). Tuning starts at 2145 UTC (winter sked), some seconds after the carrier is on a short 2-3 group message could be heard, probably a system test. One thing that attracts attention is that everything starts 19-20 seconds late: not exactly 2105 or 2135, and this delay seems to be consistent (checked against a radio controlled clock). The weakness of our observations is that we mostly receive the Thursday and Sunday evening transmissions, however, it has and had in the past daytime transmissions as well. My only mid-day intercept was completely different from the evening message, which raises the question: what are the evening skeds for? My intuition says that the evening message tells the recipients the freqencies and skeds for that month while the daylight messages are the real ones. Interesting though is how often this station was out of sync in March. All those unexpected variations should be viewed together with the daytime messages and frequencies. »

Comments anyone???

Czech lady [S17C]

On 1 April the well known S17C 'piet, piet, piet' messages on 8190 kHz were read by a MAN. Message was 46081. Did she have a sex change or was it an April Fool's joke?

V08

Mike reports that V08 uses a new classical tune in addition to its eastern music piece and Magnetic Fields. The classical tune is used for the Saturday evening transmission at 1800-ish. The transmission was in progress when Mike tuned in and started probably at 1750 UTC. The Monday evening sked switched now to summer time and can be heard at 1800 UTC on 6647 kHz AM.

Israeli intelligence [E10]

E10 is quite busy lately. I wonder if there is a relation with the activity in southern Lebanon and Syria.

It has been reported that the voice of Russia moved from 7360 to 7310 kHz, and it appears that at 1700 UTC a faint FTJ transmission can be heard on 7358 kHz. Please, keep an ear open for this frequency on other times as well.

Slavic UNID

Takashi checks in from Nagasaki with an unid Slavic station log. The unid Slavic numbers station on 7019 kHz AM has a fixed schedule on Thursday at 1103 UTC. The station was first reported back in December '98 but I haven't seen a single log ever since. The messages are read by a Slavic male. The 3-digit callup is sent for 3 minutes followed by 5-figure groups.

If anyone has more info about this station, please let me know.

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