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

(Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 22:09:59 +0100)

Military stations

Thanks to everyone who sent reports and info.

We have a large selection of Russian and Ukrainian station logs thanks to Jim and John who were very active in October and November. Because of their common background it is often difficult to distinguish Ukrainian from Russian networks. Uncertainties are listed under "Russia/CIS".

Note that a number of the Czech, Slovak and Chinese military networks now have a ENIGMA designator and have therefore moved to the Morse Section.

Poland

We start this section with a couple of Maciej's observations.

Mode: USB/LSB

2397.0	Szczaw 72, Zalew 70, Pisz 67	unid military net. Messages consist of 5FGs
2786.1	Lokacja 42, Kropka01, Zero21 (021)

Ukraine

Mode: CW

Freq.	Callsigns
3261	I1XW, 6YJR, KO2W, VPO3, MCG8, 3EMB(3EM6?), ZU7F, D4IO, TXNM, 5BQ4, N86Z, QGMA, K6WL, PRBM, MEPR, 3BNR, QGXK, ZKDZ, 4ZQN, VF4Z, O6DW, ZKDZ.
3348	4PZL, CMI8, 9VM3, KWVZ, 4PZL
3775	NO4C, 5ZLN, 6FDC, 7E1K, PRNX, DSPR, HZKW, AGB7, NZXL, MXJC, LKLA, D3LK, AGVN, 1E1X, KWHB, YSZH
3863	1KJE, IAWE, LEZD, ZWJK, 6IYP, IM6N, M7TX, AIZL
3893	6HP1, VVLC

Russia / CIS

Mode: CW

Frequency	Callsigns
18.1	RDL: Russian Military VLF Site Nizhny Novgorod //12832, 10712, 10535 kHz
	RDL: Russian Military VLF Site Tashkent UZB
2322	TBIY
2478	DSAY, 2NKS, VLAD, A3ZI, P6WC
2692	AFBA, CKOC, GFMS, KKHK
3207	KKHK, CJAO, MS9X
3217	5QMN, ZVHG, 3R2G, C5VD, 1NK4, GB3G. QSX 3393 kHz
3211	DS1L, FL2Y, 8XAQ, MBKN
3229	H8A1, P3PL, C2AG, P3GL
3261	N1WA, G39L, JDPO, E62W, Y1YM, LWY1, 5RB1, V8CS, E62W, ESUP.
	Flash message: XXX XXX ESUP ESUP 83809 18453 EhELON 3491
3354	7HLT, K4NL, HQGK, ZEGQ, 3J7C, V3KA, 1NK4
3393	CCVQ. QSX 3217 kHz
3741	N9O6
3826	3DSD, YSN2, 4ONS, XCFQ, GDMZ, AST4, AL8A, AY6D, GDAD, ESUP, 3CL6, TPY5, JDAN, 6XX4, H5UD, SNOS, E3LL, Y2GD, FZ4S, NYFK, K9VR, JLGY, QQ9M, LCEG, YPM1, FCSF, 6ANS, STCD, GCOG, ZROU, IVVE, QYT6, T2CO, 5UOD, NZAS, 7YD8, AUL9, LXGR, MGMS, TRNS, J2B6, BA6L, 8NHW, NSNC, JPJX, V9BX.
	Flash message: XXX ESUP 48534 49153 KALAo 196
3839.5	OEM2, 9QT2
3848	ZLCH, SCDQ, JYZL, 9W7I, 9MC6, 5YF8
3866	LDBO, XIYE, ZMB2
3954	QSX 4456 kHz
3969	OBEI, XYAU. QSX 4471 kHz
4456	HSDC, 5BF9, S1OM, 3ELG, Y8J3, BV2O, KY3E, VP41, 5BFG, BV2O, QDLZ, PB6R, MGMY, OBEI, ACKJ, HXLP, L8KZ, Y1BH, NIPF, TH8R, 8JL8, TMPN, XC7D, 8M7Y, TMPN. QSX freq 3954 kHz.
4471	XYAU, ZGMT, 6ZPR, HYWO, KFV2, A8GI. QSX freq 3969 kHz.
4521	REA4: AF HQ Moscow //6978 kHz
4826	D3AX, 5BLM, T8BH, NMGO, FNHG, LUK2, Z7LH, IZ9Z, SFL8, AWIU, OTMP, GY4D, 2COB, J69V, FSQR, IZCZ, GEFM, D4A4, Q1ID, NPOA, 9TKC, NDNU, HDKR, QFV7, LCS4, PX6W, 5YOQ, T78Y, VAEF, QHWK, JCLJ, PA9Q, MVC1, ESUP, GQJQ, 3JH1, 4PG7, 6SPR, KLIH, 1WS5, EHAQ, BH7S, GZBW, V9SP, VQY2, GD2E, 7DA5, QFZJ, 5JJM, GUKO, VMLM, PHDE, MYN5, AHNG, 5AQD, 9XMN, AHNG.
	Flash message: XXX XXX ESUP ESUP 96856 57474 ESKORT 573 96856 57474 ESKORT 573
4863	PABA
	Flash message: XXX XXX PABA PABA 57599 NEWYDYMYJ 6799
4489	TQ1, ZJTO
4917	NATP, G4IB
5376	2QWH, 4BSS
5418	BT6K
6220	8LAR, G1JP, 1ENW
6768	S7VS, MWKM, 9LKR
6779	TCY2, MAJA
6831	QSX 7512
7512	2IAK, NZJT, IEKM, 4VKC, ULZD, T7OJ, WNJG, 2NJG, MFNN.
	QSX freq 6831 kHz.
8816	RJF94, Russian Naval Aviation Moscow 1112 CW Wkg aircraft 26836 who reports = QTH ULLB 345 120 QTR 1110 QBD 4200 K.
	RJC38: Russian Naval Aviation Southern Sector 1119 CW Calls RJF94 for QSA. Then repeats back 26836's report of 1112.
11136	PVKP, ETNP
12152	STM4, O8AU, ZHZR, KFGQ
19256	RDL

In a recent issue of N&O we mentioned this log:

7038 kHz

RGT77 with 5LGs (Cyrillic characters) after:
"RGT77 RGT77 541 = .... K "

(RTG77 has been around for many years and was observed with "XXX XXX" flash messages in the past. So far I have never seen a positive id. Does anyone know who this is?)

Well, the answer is here: it is more-or-less the HF Morse equivalent of RDL on 18.1 kHz, but only for strategic 'flash' messages, and only in Morse. There have been some 10 or more frequencies seen over the years, but as the transmissions are usually rather short, and probably subject to seasonal change, they are difficult to track down. The office location is Moscow (as for RDL) and the transmitters can be anywhere.