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

(Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 12:28:22 +0200)

Other modes

FAPSI intercepts [M42]

Murray copied FAPSI with a schedules (QWK) transmission on 19110 kHz, 1130 UTC, 27 April 2000, and was preceded by an RSZ RSZ RSZ QWK 464646

FM 1/5 TO 31/8
QSO 02.30 QSW 19110/16285
QSO 08.30 QSW 19110/16285
QWK QRR
FM 01.00 TO 02.00 QSW 14890/16285
FM 02.00 TO 10.00 QSW 19110/20070
FM 10.00 TO 12.00 QSW 19110/15285
FM 12.00 TO 14.00 QSW 16285/14890
FM 14.00 TO 01.00 QSW 13390/10170

then repeated, and followed by :

29/4,3/5,4/5,5/5,6/5	QSF 1,
30/4,7/5	QSF 2,
8/5	QSF 3,
1/5, 2/5,9/5	QSF 4

also repeated. Xmission ended with :
PSE GA QSL QWK ES QSF QPP
QRU SK

The RSZ c/sign, with link id 00177, has been copied on 14890 16285 19110. Nil copied other freqs

Freq.	UTC	link	from	to	remarks
11114	1615				Crowd36. Online crypto followed by Mazielka calls. Reverse polarity
16152	1606	60069		EWZ42
16257	0851	90051	URS	RJA
16348	1638				Crowd36. Mazielka calls for 15 mins!
17412	1805	50035		RLJ
17469	1644				Crowd36. Online crypto. No opchat seen but repetitions of characters & groups suggest this real crypto rather than usual garbage! LSB freq/Rev polarity!
17528	0930	40034		RLX
18523	0555	30044		RKM
19110	0730	00177		RSZ	QWK 46 tape (see here after)
22863	1636	00099
20912	0920	00075
22863	1636	00099
22863	1654	00099
22873	0930	00054		UDZ21
22943	0950	00075
23131	1110	80038	RPO	WDS
22863	1640	00099

--- ATTENTION!!! I have seen logs of RSZ transmissions with link id 00099 and 00177. I think that the later is correct. Has anyone seen another id for 00099?

Polytone station [XPH]

Although not frequently reported this year, XPH is still alive and kicking with skeds on Tuesday and Friday. The following skeds were used in May:

0600 UTC	11554 kHz	2000 UTC	15706 kHz
0620 UTC	13454 kHz	2020 UTC	13938 kHz
0640 UTC	14654 kHz	2040 UTC	12209 kHz