Seventy-second edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 22:40:41 +0200)

Unid stations

UXSF / Y8FI

Ex 4993 kHz, keying "UXSF" daily at 1600 UTC. Changed to 4632 kHz in February now keying "Y8F1" at 1600 UTC daily for 2 minutes. Still no idea who it is.

67HG

This one was submitted by Igor:

9403 kHz, 0611 UTC, 14 April. Unid Chinese station.

vvv 67gh 67gh 67gh (R)
id id nr 2t1 1413 = 67gv/kmn8
id id nr 2t1 1413 = 67gv/kmn8
iii iii

14772 kHz

14772 kHz, heard on 22/4 in the USA at 2130-2200 UTC. 14 Wpm, 5FGs (not ANDUWRIGMT cut #s). Ends with "123". The transmission was already in progress so the preamble -if any- was not heard.

Beep beep

Takashi reports that the "3 pips per 2 seconds" stations are still on 3115//5455//8360 kHz. He heard them again at 2104 UTC on 28-4.

See also Newsletter 73 for more about "3 pips per 2s".

"2"

The mysterious "2" station from NE China transmits weird messages every now and then. Last month I included a part of such an odd message. Tomonori was so kind to record a complete message that was transmitted on 10140.5 kHz on 28-4 at 0409 hrs.
"305UN550 = 305UN550 = 305UN550 DDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDD DDDD DDD Q"
and then back to the marker "2" "2"