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

(Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:39:51 +0000)

Military stations

Russia

A couple of months ago we published an article about Russian military stations. An observant reader noticed an error with regards to general call "WLHN" and explains:

"WLHN is the CQ from Moscow to all staff of the army, navy and air force. Before a station (for instance RMP) sends a code word XXX with general call WLHN it has already been sent out by Moscow via the other co-networks to the various staffs.

After a code word transmission you should listen to the known frequencies of the various staffs because they relay a code word within 5 to 30 minutes, depending on the place in the hierarchial structure. The message goes top-down from the General Staff in Moscow to the lowest level: CQ WLHN.

About the priority codes:

SML	=	samoljot	>	aircraft
RKT	=	Raketa	>	rocket (higher in the hierarchy)

Thanks, OM. Much appreciated.

CIS military logs

Only a few logs logs this time:

3826	Ukranian Military; c/s MIKT, SUZO, JHVF, 3YFJ, BS4B, 7T1D, BA6I, YWYY, V1JA, QT5Z, SOLN, THE8, VITR, FCSD, BLOT
4489	CIS Military; c/s IY4H, PYT6, 2ZCZ, 6AM8
5381	CIS Military; c/s 4YWZ
11000	RIW wkg RMG89, RHM81, RHV42, RNG48, RGZ58
19304	RIT wkg RMZW, RAL46. vvv rmzw rmzw rmzw de rit rit qsa k vvv ral46 ral46 ral46 de rit rit qsa qtc k followed by a 4FG message = ar

Unid

Not 100% certain, but most likely Russian mil:

4136 kHz: Channel marker "UXUO"

Besides changing the callsign from POCI in August to UXUO, they also changed the schedules.

Schedules:	old	new
	h+15 to h+25	h+55 to h+05
	h+45 to h+55
	h+25 to h+35

Alternative frequency: 3700 kHz.

(info: Attu Bosch)

Unid 2

Logged by Igor:

10284 kHz, 1500 UTC, 23 Sept., hand keyed.

vvv kaw kaw kaw de pol pol pol msg (rptd)
nr 047 nr 047 ck 82 ck 82 = =
5n5u5 47dt4 a5ta3 u6n3n 7744u 553d5 4nddu utda6 4untd ua5tn
t3n7n dt6t6 u75uu 3d6u3 n33d7 3td3n 6tttd 6t767 tud76 d5da6
ann5d dtdaa 7n47n tatn3 65tnu t6dat t6aut nntdn dt63d d6t5a
555td t4ad3 na637 7535a 5uan7 utdu6 347nt 44dd3 d5anu u3t45
3335d tn35u 7n4a5 43u7u 6duna 4au7a ntna6 473u3 63aud t3467

7ndu6 nu553 n3n53 3d6u3 74ud3 46uut t377d 345nt 4n754 a37d4
d7a63 tautu t77du 6dad6 7uta5 dn75n ud3u6 u6ud3 ad35a 574at
aau7u adda6 u5ntu tdu6u 6435t ta734 3tut7 3a6d5 a343u 644tn
34nnn 4tnat
ar ar znn va ee