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

(Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:38:21 +0000)

Various modes

S30
The pip on 3756 kHz
XSW
Squeaky Wheel on 3828.9 kHz

S28

Interesting info from Jan Michalski reached me via Rimantas Pleikys. It is a picture of the Communications Hub of the General Staff, Military Unit No 44684 which houses the UVB-76 transmitter.

The multi-wire dipole "VGDSh" for 4625 kHz is hanging between two 25m masts near the transmitter building in the middle part of the facility. Transmitting power in A3E mode is 10 kW. Most of the rhombics are beamed to the SW-NW sector for 1-hop coverage of W. Europe and 3-hop service to N. America. The intelligence messages are transmitted using the "Purga" communications transmitters (A3E 50 kW; SSB 80 kW). The site is located N/E of Povarovo and S/W of Lozhki, 40 km N/W of Moscow. The buzzer (audio marker signal) and the voice messages of UVB-76 ("formalized signals") are fed by phone line from the Military Commissariat of the Moscow Oblast at Kosmodamyanskaya street near the Kremlin.

M42

8046.5	Unid Russian embassy. 0931 UTC, 5-2. Mode: OFDM+MFSK, switching between 25-tone OFDM and 32-tone/40Bd MFSK, QSX 9136.5 kHz USB
9136.5	Dep. of State Comms, Moscow. 0931 UTC, 5-2. Mode: OFDM+MFSK, switching between 25-tone OFDM & 32-tone/40Bd MFSK, QSX 8046.5 USB
11076.0	Dep. of State Comms, Moscow. 0922 UTC, 7-2. Mode: MFSK-32/ CROWD36. Msg on link 00132.
16121.0	Dep. of State Comms, Moscow. 1231 UTC. Mode: MFSK-32/CROWD36. Msg on link 10053.

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