Thirty-seventh edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 00:55:12 +0200)

Morse stations

M07

The station is not logged often lately. It was heard at 1820 UTC on 9165 kHz. It followed a transmission at 1500 UTC on 8190 kHz of its sister station M10.

M77

Another one that wasn't logged for a while is M77 (P7X). Mark and John copied the station on 8048 and 11445 kHz with « QRA DE P7X » + 5LGs.

M29 / G04

I received the following interesting log, dated 22 April.

5210 kHz	2117 UTC,	G04: 5FGx2 in progress
5310 kHz	2119 UTC,	clear carrier
	2122 UTC,	G04: testing with 2 5FGs
	2129 UTC,	M29: VVV de VDE call up was clearly heard modulated onto the same carrier !
	2134 UTC,	G04's 3-note callus and M29's VVV de VDE were still mixed
5476 kHz,	2137 UTC,	M29: in progress (ends with " = " and 3 dashes (short zero's?). Has this ending ever been reported???

M21

Takashi checked in with a quick note that M21 can be heard on 7373 and 6300 kHz.

L9CC

Contrary to earlier reports, it is still unclear if L9CC comes from the Moscow area or China. Looking at the reception quality here in Western Europe, Moscow is still my favorite. Chinese stations are never as strong as L9CC here. Costas copied the station on 7064.5 kHz this month, calling "CP17 CP17 CP17 DE L9CC L9CC V"

Unid stations

Igor submitted a couple of sample messages of CW stations that he copied on 19114 kHz and asks if they are part of M77. I haven't seen much M77 messages, Igor, but the ones I saw had a different format. Please, correct me if I am wrong.

vvv qra de i1a qsa qsa qsa zug zug zug qrk zuw zuw zuw kkk
= i1a qra ???
de i1a zui zui zui zui

X6L: qra de x6l kkk
Q3E: x6l de q3e qrk 111 qsb qsb kkk
X6L: qra de x6l qsy qsy qsy 222 kkk
Q3E: lnne qnnr tung k

X6L: q3e amga ? gr27 bt tnffm qtbvs... 5L... tnffn bt ar zuj zuj
rrr zug zug zug ?? kk