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

(Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:10:03 +0000)

Voice stations

E03 – Lincolnshire poacher

IDs used in the

First half of November.

UTC	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	UTC
1200	69234	69234	69234	69234	69234	69234	69234	1200
1300	99780	99780	99780	99780	99780	99780	99780	1300
1400	41236	81508	15552	81118	69234	14060	33830	1400
1500	33830	41236	81508	15552	81118	69234	09494	1500
1600	09494	33830	41236	81508	15552	81118	14060	1600
1700	14060	09494	33830	41236	81508	15552	69234	1700
1800	69234	14060	09494	33830	41236	81508	81118	1800
1900	81118	99780	14060	99780	33830	41236	99780	1900
2000	99780	69234	99780	09494	99780	33830	15552	2000
2100	15552	81118	69234	14060	09494	99780	81508	2100
2200	81508	15552	81118	69234	14060	09494	41236	2200

Second half of November:

UTC	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	UTC
1200	97802	97802	97802	97802	97802	97802	97802	1200
1300	25812	25812	25812	25812	25812	25812	25812	1300
1400	98482	30559	83111	12147	97802	77321	70370	1400
1500	70370	98482	30559	83111	12147	97802	45245	1500
1600	45245	70370	98482	30559	83111	12147	77321	1600
1700	77321	45245	70370	98482	30559	83111	97802	1700
1800	97802	77321	45245	70370	98482	30559	12147	1800
1900	12147	25812	77321	25812	70370	98482	25812	1900
2000	25812	97802	25812	45245	25812	70370	83111	2000
2100	83111	12147	97802	77321	45245	25812	30559	2100
2200	30559	83111	12147	97802	77321	45245	98482	2200

See also Newsletter 90.

E04 – Cherry ripe

IDs in the first half of November.

UTC	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	UTC
2200	73057	52305	97212	42898	52305		2200
2300	52305	97212	42898	52305	33427		2300
0000		97212	42898	52305	33427	44038	0000
0100		42898	52305	33427	44038	80611	0100
1000		52305	33427	44038	80611	73057	1000
1100		33427	44038	80611	73057	52305	1100
1200		44038	80611	73057	52305	97212	1200
1300		80611	73057	52305	97212	42898	1300

IDs in the second half of the month.

UTC	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	UTC
2200	08650	89351	16401	89286	89351		2200
2300	89351	16401	89286	89351	84797		2300
0000		16401	89286	89351	84797	37168	0000
0100		89286	89351	84797	37168	80371	0100
1000		89351	84797	37168	80371	08650	1000
1100		84797	37168	80371	08650	89351	1100
1200		37168	80371	08650	89351	16401	1200
1300		80371	08650	89351	16401	89286	1300

See also Newsletter 90.

E07

Anon Hungary logged E07 on 7775 kHz at 2230 UTC on 20 Oct.

Message:

637 1 637 1 637 1 824 52 824 52
57232 79062 24989 43886 08875 51113 36414 70736 78296 11734
25745 97335 68927 97335 66220 18646 76933 11042 98394 74354
79664 79789 63987 39556 96163 23638 88855 89534 28157 57625
23938 92917 48432 81697 58698 49070 35800 11709 36540 01759
00039 01476 49086 31259 77744 77224 00003 68625 82427 82697
87097 87418
000 000

See also Newsletter 90.

E10

Alpha informs us that PCD is using the freqs 3150 and 4270 again at 0600 and 0630 UTC. ART is now on 3415 and 5435 at 0300 UTC.

E10 doesn't send many strings these days. Here are the ones that were observed in October and November plus the "1" suffixes.

???? kHz	6-10	0515 UTC	CIO 88
4650 kHz	20-10	2058 UTC	KPA E88211600K42211630
7810 kHz	20-10	2119 UTC	KPA E88211600K42211630
4270 kHz	1-11	2000 UTC	PCD 1
5820 kHz	2-11	2000 UTC	YHF 1
4270 kHz	9-11	2000 UTC	PCD 1
4270 kHz	13-11	2000 UTC	PCD 1
5820 kHz	14-11	2000 UTC	YHF 1
4270 kHz	14-11	1900 UTC	PCD 1
5435 kHz	16-11	2200 UTC	ART 1

See also Newsletter 90.

V02

Bert Herald writes on 16 Nov:

"By almost total chance (dialing around) I have finally received my first spy station! I cross-referenced with the info on SpyNumbers.com, and it appears to be the Cuban station, Enigma ID M8. However, there are some differences. It was done in voice, not morse. Language was an automated-sounding Spanish voice (all numbers identical sounding). And it used an M8 frequency of 6797 kHz but at a time of 2200z. Any ideas? Is this a voice-version of M8 or something else?"

Congratulations with your first numbers log, Bert and welcome to Numbers R Us :-) I am sure that you know it by now, you have heard M08a's counterpart V02a.

A V02 log from Chris Smolinski triggered Mark Slaten's interest. Chris heard V02 at 2100 UTC at 6855 kHz on Thursday 11/11 and asks

"A new V2a sked?"

Marks responds to this question and says:

"This log caught my eye as you don't hear V02a much at that time of the day. So I decided to check it out the next day at the same time and freq. The sked was heard again, and is actually V02c. V02c has callups different from V02a and the traffic for V02c is not limited to the standard 150 group message that V02a and M8c tend to send. The callups are a 3/2 type call. Example being 888 16 or 252 166. Also, another curiosity is the fact that there is a distinct pause after every 10 groups in the message. The transmitters seem to be better than the transmitters used by V02a also. I have been following this sked ever since then and have found that it appears to be a daily sked. It also has an earlier transmission at 0900 and 1000 UTC. It is then repeated at 2000 and 2100 UTC. Freqs that I have recovered so far are: 6855, 7520, 7527, 7887 and 7975 kHz. The 2000/2100 UTC sked seems to favor 7887/6855 kHz. I have my chart just about half complete with the skeds. I will post very soon.

Anyone else out there that can listen and fill in the blanks, please do, and post them in the database. By the way, V02c usually has his AM carrier up about 10-15 minutes prior to broadcast. I have heard it even earlier. So he should be a pretty easy find when searching the freqs."

See also Newsletter 90.