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

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

Unid stations

BCN

Chinese station BCN is one of these mystery stations that are on the air for years and are still not 100% positively identified. Most probably military.

It operated on the 11th and 27th of each month. Frequencies: 6265//6885 kHz. Mode: MCW.

VVV VVV VVV CQ CQ CQ DE BCN BCN BCN ZNN ZNN ZNN (R5)
rapid dots (2 seconds)
ZNN QRX SK
ZNN QRX SK

"T"

Single letter beacon "T" on 10470 kHz has been reported by Eddy Waters from "down under". He heard the signal for weeks.

HOV8

Another unid came from Igor who copied the following on 6668 kHz at 1100 UTC on 27 October. The string was repeated for 10 minutes.

"vvv b6ru b6ru b6ru de hov8 hov8 hov8 nil sk gb -.--. "