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

(Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:58:35 +0100)

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Morse stations

MX

Unids: "I" on 9090 and 9188.5 kHz, heard on respectively 6 and 16 January.

I received a couple of mails from Martin Potter and the Japan Ute Monitor re the new frequencies of cluster beacon "M". "M" apparently has changed its frequencies. It has been heard on three new frequencies since 20th January. I don't know if this is a temporal change or a definitive one.

• 3594.4 is now 3594.8
• 5154.4 is now 5155.8
• 7039.4 is now 7038.8

Reports are most welcome!

M16

8BY, the DGE related station can be heard on the following frequencies:
7668, 10248, 12075, 14931, 18415, 20946 kHz.

M21

PVO is active on 5198, 5873 and 3322//4951,5 kHz with very little traffic. The id on all frequencies is "0".

M21 variant

3301 kHz, marker PSNN, vvv and msgs. Irregular.

M22

4XZ, Israeli navy Haifa has a new QRG since 6th January. 8000 kHz is // to 8103 kHz. The rest remains unchanged.

Frequencies: 2680, 2800, 4241, 4331, 5159, 6379, 8103, 10046, 18004 and 12984 kHz. 8000 kHz is also regularly heard.

The samples of the various message types are logged between 13 and 15 January.

Format 1: Round-slip

vvv de 4XZ 4XZ == vvv de 4XZ 4XZ ==
vvv de 4XZ 4XZ == vvv de 4XZ 4XZ ==

Format 2: FM46 weather coding

nw qtc 1 nr 594 ==
nr 594 qm z cn8u 0361 41 nl4m wnc ==
10001 33881 01412 =
29908 30023 32729 83006 33634 =
99932 44098 34600 34505 34206 33011 33814 33425 33331 33533
33036 33734 33630 33829 33801 34032 34237 34539 35031 =
44012 45400 23203 33004 33811 33615 33221 33129 33025 32639
22047 33740 33942 33550 =
44116 44800 33798 32921 32831 22634 41215 25412 42411 22024 =
44004 44700 44808 44409 44117 44722 44925 44434 45047 =
11291 ==
nr 594 qm z cn8u 0361 41 nl4m wnc == ++

Format 3: Encrypted messages 5LG, subdivided with BT after 40 groups.

nw qtc 1 nr 554 ==
nr 554 gp v in8b 4541 31 yo4o gr 15 == yoyoy 5LGx39 ==
aa gr 04 == 5LGx11 ==
nr 554 gp v in8b 4541 31 yo4o gr 15 == yoyoy 5LGx39 ==
aa gr 04 == 5LGx11 ==
nr 554 gp v in8b 4541 31 yo4o gr 15 == ++

Format4: Messages of groups of different length using punctuation (and Hebrew morse?)

nw qtc 1 nr 625 ==
nr 625 vx a gu5x 0380 51 zp5x wnc == onden :hdset beqr. 1.5snet ... ==
nr 625 vx a gu5x 0380 51 zp5x wnc == onden :hdset beqr. 1.5snet ... ==
nr 625 vx a gu5x 0380 51 zp5x wnc == ++

Format 5: Repeats of messages

nw rpt nr 654 ==
nr 654 pe v zt4o 9151 31 dz7x gr 41 == dxdxd 5LGx14 ==
nr 654 pe v zt4o 9151 31 dz7x gr 41 == dxdxd 5LGx14 == (txt rptd)
nr 654 pe v zt4o 9151 31 dz7x gr 41 == ++

Info: Fritz Nusser

M51

French station M51 is still active although it seems that the number of transmission has decreased during the past year.

The station was logged by Fritz and Jim on the following frequencies and times. Messages as usual: NR 56J 17:29:20 2004 = VPUEV KFYAC ...

There are no transmissions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They apparently have long weekends.

M62

1732 kHz not heard

3485 kHz has a very weak signal since 1 January.

M82

This one comes from Igor: 4700 kHz, 1600 UTC, 7 Jan.

vvv jvg jvg jvg de bml bml bml qsa3 qsa? qtc 935 (R4)
qtc nr 935 t6 1t t1t8 t1tt 124 582 =
96421 23412 21118 1361t 21761 329t2 116t5 46968 96362 26765
abv
qtc nr 935 t6 1t t1t8 t1tt 124 582 =
96421 23412 21118 1361t 21761 329t2 116t5 46968 96362 26765
sk sk

M89

3380.5 kHz, V BFR7 de 4XML (R15 then QRM)

M91

Parallel frequencies 3996 and 1732 not copied since January 3rd.

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