Fortieth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 21:38:10 +0200)

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Morse stations

MX - Russian military channel markers/beacons

Takashi reported a number of MX stations.

Vladivostok was heard on 3593,2 and 10307,2 kHz

« The irregular letters transmissions such as FFUFRSURUFAFUSUFFIIUAF have been heard a lot on 3594, 5154, 8495, 10528 and 13528 kHz since the beginning of July », he says. « I was unable to hear usual F and M on these frequencies. »

K, very slow keying CW with a distinctive hum, has been occasionally heard on 5154, 10528 and 13528 kHz.

See also Newsletter 42.

M10

A monitor from Northern Africa writes that M10 is coming solid on 6945 kHz every night. He was able to intercept it on 10123 with different addressees and messages one night.

See also Newsletter 41.

M18

The first log since May comes from Thomas. He heard M18 on 4503 kHz at 2307 UTC with its typical time stamp marker. Time is UTC+4.

See also Newsletter 128.

M21 - Russian air defence

Russian Air Defense stations appeared on 4091.5, 4096, 4560, 5872.9, 6330 and 8104 kHz with the standard markers "BT991303??8?????" and coded messages. The time was UTC+4.

See also Voice Stations for the voice counterpart of M21.

See also Newsletter 42.

M25 - KKN revisited

Costas read the KKN story last month and sent me the following note:

« KWS78 (or at least its transmitter site) was located at the Athens suburb of Varibobi, near Dekelia (Tatoi) airport LGTT. Site coordinates: 38d 06.9'N 23d 48.3'E.
The site had a number of lattice towers supporting wire log periodic antennas.
After the Americans abandoned the site, it was transferred to the Greek army, although I think it is not manned. The antennas are still standing, but I don't know if there are any transmitters left back.
During my early days in ute dxing I had tried to send reception reports and PFC to 3-4 of these stations (I think KKN50 and KRH50 were among them). All reports were returned in the original (opened) envelopes without any comments. »

Thanks for the note, Costas. I know that KKN44 QSLed, but did anyone ever get a QSL from the other stations? Please let me know, ok?

See also Newsletter 42.

M29

M29's skeds were already reduced to Monday and Tuesday at 0600 and 0800 UTC. But during the 3rd week of August, CR said he heard only the two on Tuesday morning at 0600 UTC on 6760 and 5430. Will M29 follow its sister G04 into oblivion?

See also Newsletter 60.

M40, M82

Although the North Korean AM numbers went QRT last year, the North Korean CW numbers stations M40 and M82 are still occasionally logged.

See also Newsletter 41 for more about M40 and Newsletter 46 for more about M82.

 

Unid; M51?

John checks in with an unid.

« I have been listening/copying the following CW station for over 3 hours. Station is sending 5LGs, 100 groups per message. Sending one message after the other with no ID. Sounds automated, no mistakes, no repeats, no breaks between messages. »

Frequency: 5404 kHz, 15 August, 2237 UTC

That sounds like M51, John. Did you notice a string like this between the messages? « BT NR34 A 26 08:13:22 2001 »

See also Newsletter 42.

Unids

Various military stations

Russian military stations

Another batch of logs from Japan. This time a run down of Russian military stations.

3439.5 NBYZ de 6PXJ channel marker
4569.5 NBYZ de 6PXJ channel marker
4624.0 4JVQ de F9PX channel marker
4872.0 LA5S de NH8T channel marker
5406.0 LA5S de NH8T channel marker
5411.0 LA4S de NH8T channel marker
5855.5 9QOD de NV9Z channel marker

 

Slovak military

The Slovak military station in Zilina was reported by various people at 4396 kHz during the European evenings. The message was "HXVH HXVH HCVH = NVKL NVKL NVKL AR" in slow morse.

Unid 2362

The unid station on 2362 kHz is still active with various callsigns.

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