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

(Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:50:35 +0000)

Morse stations

M08

K6FIB from the USA found M08, the sister station from V02, we mentioned earlier. It was on October 21th, 1330 UTC, ending 4 minutes later, on 12093 kHz. He continues his report:

"Cut Numbers:

NWTGG AAWUR ETAIGA DTWMW MTTUG DUUSAT UIGUW DTTDN UNRMM UDIRR %DRG
MUTWU TGTDW GIAWU DDWMU RRIWR TADMN RUNRG MIUGA WIUAA

Very clean and good signal. RST 549. Right before it went off it had a strange partial dit (really quick) several times and sent OOO. I'm sure these are all computer generated, but this almost sounded like a mechanical malfunction occurring with a machine generated CW device."

Thank you, k6fib, for your report.

M87

Igor from Russia caught M87 on October 5th, 0132 UTC, on 9854, with the callup "249". He further reports:

"This station is every Tue, Thu, Sat at 0130z on 9835-9854 kHz (frequency is variable).

Text:

249 249 249 91 91
249 249 249 91 91
249 249 249 91 91
= =

041 041 37 37
= =
5td36 3tdnn ddt6d 6duua atn7d d675d 66a3d n6453 u5dta adt5n
454nn 355nu 53tt6 4d7uu 7d36n d3nt5 7a437 ua56a tn576 taa6u
6t4a3 u745n 5466n 447nu 474uu dnta7 dtn35 64aaa uu443 nuaan
a3464 an63t 6a77n a4atd 64du4 66d5d u73n4
= =
333 333
= =
041 041 37 37
= =
5td36 3tdnn ddt6d 6duua atn7d d675d 66a3d n6453 u5dta adt5n
454nn 355nu 53tt6 4d7uu 7d36n d3nt5 7a437 ua56a tn576 taa6u
6t4a3 u745n 5466n 447nu 474uu dnta7 dtn35 64aaa uu443 nuaan
a3464 an63t 6a77n a4atd 64du4 66d5d u73n4
= =
000 000 ttt"

Unid stations

TBiB from the USA wrote us via ENIGMA2000 about an UNID station, which he heard on October 13th, 2021 UTC, on 7556.0 kHz.His comment:

"Time is currently 2021z and there is a CW transmission going on right now. 5-letter sets. I first started hearing it about 2016z. This is the same frequency upon which I heard the same sort of transmission last night around 0830Z. I'm in Texas. Currently, the signal is weak. Last night it was quite strong. Time of day, I imagine, but I felt if I camped out on this frequency I'd hear something again."

Igor from Russia, who is very familiar with Morse stations, also found an UNID station, which came on October 18th, 0016 UTC, on 5611 kHz, callup: "544". He further writes, what he heard:

544 544 544	(Repeated during 5 minutes)
= = =
ta6a3a4 ta6a3a4	(stopped)"

Also Vambo from CO, USA, found an UNID CW station on October 22th, 0300 (?) UTC, on 4191 kHz: "manual unid CW fast with poor fist deep fades", as he describes it.

Thanks to TBiB, Igor and Vambo for their logs.