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(Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:09:51 +0200)
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All our Japanese correspondents have sent us a number of "pip" logs this month. The 2-second pip is heard very often on at least 7 different frequencies. You can often hear 3 or 4 frequencies in parallel.
One pip every 2 seconds: 8340//10470/14425 kHz. At other times also heard on three or four parallel frequencies: 3115//5455//8340 kHz and 5455//6214//6230//8340 kHz. 8340 kHz has a distinctive hum. The station transmits frequently coded messages in hand-keyed CW.
Three pips per 2 seconds: 3066.5//10061.5 kHz.
The unidentified marker "2" is transmitting from the extreme NE corner of China. It's purpose or user is still unknown.
The station transmits every 30 seconds a "2" on 10140.5 kHz. Mode: CW. Transmissions are scarce and weird. Tomonori caught part of a message on 26 March between 0205 and 0208 UTC. This is what he heard: "d d d d d d d d a a a a a a a a a a a q d d d 7 a a a q h" followed by the "2" marker sent every 30 seconds.
| See also Newsletter 72. |
Remember the station on 4993 kHz who was keying "UXSF" daily at 1600 UTC? He took a vacation by the end of February and asked his colleague to take over on 4632 kHz keying "Y8F1" at 1600 UTC daily for 2 minutes as per March 1st. Another mate of him can be heard on 5400 kHz. Still no clue about it's identity.
| 4993 kHz | 26-11-03/29-02-04 | 1600 UTC | daily: UXSF (R3) + |
| 5400 kHz | 04-03-04 | 1600 UTC | 8DL9 (R3) + |
| 4632 kHz | 01-03-04 | 1600 UTC | daily: Y8F1 (R1) + |
| See also Newsletter 72. |
Attu Bosch found an unid CW station on 4139 kHz. The transmissions are hand keyed and the transmitter wasn't very stable. It drifted after a while. Attu heard this on 7 March, 1435 UTC:
67538 /2 bt
94764 16438 /2 bt
421738 6555 /2 bt
8838 19711 /2 bt
38203 29683 /2 bt
46091 43717 /2 bt
4568 054106 /2 bt
18870 37513 /2 bt
25905 74677 /2 bt
72971 14399 /2 bt
63268 51986 /2 bt
287806 74225 /2 bt
02600 8767 /2 bt
23941 844032 /2 bt
912645 80805 /2/ bt
511574 8733 /2/ bt
778320 0540 /2/ bt
135297 1643 /2/ bt
02705 /2/bt
27587 9293 /2/ bt
45980 8163 /2/ bt
51642 45759 /2/ bt
91071 20333 /2/ bt
89101 00878 /2/ bt
28260 18 /2/ bt
28260 18098 /2/ bt
22254 85619 /2 bt
93869 22439
R ? AR
Igor Buhtiyarov heard a similar transmission on the same frequency on 16 March at 1603 UTC. The message was rather long so I have omitted a part of it. The station uses a short zero. Attu did you notice this too?
aa 2 = 71812 69731
aa 2 = 89175 2t424
aa 2 = t6731 t4544
aa 2 = t5tt3 7tt22
aa 2 = 4t941 89843
aa 2 = t4315 38548
aa 2 = 64855 65t68
aa 2 = 61572 5111
aa 2 = 44199 47t8t
aa 2 = 4t472 6t721
aa 2 = 39186 185tt
aa 2 = 68t14 186t6
aa
aa 2 = nr ?
Aa 2 = 11242
aa 2 = 81543 27tt8
aa 2 = 53779 6t868
aa 2 = 36195 33188
aa
Another observation from Attu concerns a station that has been reported before and which is still an unid.
The station uses callsign "VTI8" and can be found on 3700 kHz. No-one has reported anything else than a marker which is being sent from 25 to 35 minutes and 55 to 05 minutes each hour.
Further reports are most welcome.
Our correspondent from Alaska, Attu Bosch, sends us the following log of a yet unid station. 13843 kHz, callsign: YTOS with traffic to ZV2R, QYT4, OW4N. Possibly Russian military.
(0500 UTC, 1 April)
qyt4 qyt4 de ytos ytos ok zdm zoa k
ytos as
ytos r qyt4 qrj 3 qyt4 qrj imi k
ytos r qyt4 qoi k
ow4n ow4n de ytos ytos
qyt4 zpd zor zon
rpt qyt4 zpd zor zon k ytos as
(0525 UTC)
nw ytos qyt 4 qrj 3 k ytos ok qyt 4 qoi k
ytos 610 610 185 bt
3754 5817 7168 1691 9799 8565 9644
4263 0679 9549 3301 5887 6597 8793
bt 879 k
ytos ok qyt 4 qbe k
The station has an excellent signal in S. Alaska from 0000 till 0900 UTC daily. The station uses a short zero.
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