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

(Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:52:42 +0200)

Military section

Russian, CIS, Ukranian CW & SSB stations

Freq.	Remarks / callsigns
18	Russian Navy: RDL. Txm: Nizhny Novgorod site.
2932	Russian Mil. "RFF" net. RFFN, RFFO, RFFM QSX 3933 kHz
3182.5	CIS Mil: Enciphered Morse
3261	Ukranian Mil: MMXL, VHQH, AKMR, 5UKO, DSIA, 5S1H, 9F9E, IEY8,
3294	CIS Mil: OSSP
3350	Russian Mil: S8DM
3531	Russian Air Force: REA4 //7559 kHz
3832	Ukrainian Mil: BS3E, IVLV, F9FF
	Sample message: QTC 191 82 1 2200 191 = 555 = 11111 52187 ... 87758 01080 RPT AL QLN AR
3835	Russian Mil: EIMZ.
	Sample message: QTC 624 30 11 0030 624 = 913 = PPPPP FWSLR ESVVW ... PPCHö ääPWU AR
3844	CIS Mil: 4O7H, LO3G, T8AX
3882	Russian Mil: X2G5, 1DON
	Sample message: X2G5 ZET ZFP ZMY ZFV ZUP ZGV K.
3889	Russian Mil: BGJW, CRK6
4031	Russian Navy Kaliningrad relays routine strategic message from RDL "RDL RDL RDL 18344 55240", then reverts to P marker.
4419	Russian Mil: Z5LT, HOEC, CRK6, Q4QM
4476	Russian Navy Kaliningrad relays routine strategic message from RDL "RDL RDL RDL 18344 55240", then reverts to P marker.
4605	Russian Navy Kaliningrad. "P" marker + 5FGs
5221.5	Ukrainian Mil: 6VHA, PABA
6970	Russian Mil: LDBO. No tactical network. Logged since 1999.
6970	Duplex or blind transmissions. Transmits 5LGs. Frequencies known so far: 2686, 3813, 4586, 4794, 6970, 6994, 7740, 11136,13437 kHz.
7559	Russian Air Force: REA4 //3531 kHz
7957	CIS Mil: NS2? sending a 6LG message.
8778	Russian Mil: D3AH reads back msg sent to him by ? on 9913 kHz
9288	Russian Mil: 5NJ9, ZMB8
11136	Russian Mil: LDBO. Broadcast "LDBO QTC 404 23 23 1450 404 = 366 = 3963 5106 ... (4FGs) ... 1734 2320 312 (repeats, ending AR)
14108	CIS Mil: OGW7, OZN7, F3HW, ZPD3, IHXP, GSZM, ITE8, MCKM, XCTZ, MC9B, 9P4H, QR2R, LZF8, 2BIZ, GPNS, JLAD, NXAR, X8A9, EH6U, 4STK, JWPY, P4FO, 3DKN.
14148	Russian Mil: RGT77. Flash message "XXX RGT77 09180 48446 UNION"
14536	Possibly CIS Mil: A7NH repeated many times. Nothing further

Pim mailed me that he was busy monitoring the Russian naval exercise and sent me the following logs. I have added the logs that I received from other dxers to his list.

Shore stations:

RCV
5585 kHz
RIW
9145, 11000, 12720, 14556 kHz
RIT
11155 kHz
RMP
5213, 6873, 9373 kHz.

Ship stations:
4416, 6924, 8345, 12464 kHz

Ship calls:
RCJD, RMZW, RMDZ, RGN90, RFX56, RAL59, RAL46, RJI62, RHY73, RGV82, RCRE,RJP56, RMC99, RJI63, RJY96, RDND, RHC75, RGN90

RIT and RIW are very busy with QYT4 QSX/QWH procedures and complete messages.

Freq.	Remarks / callsigns
4416	Russian warship: RMNN: Unid
5213	Russian Navy: RMP clg RGV82 and RAL59
5585	Russian Navy: RCV with meteo traffic to RIC87.
6412	Russian warship: RAY85. Weather report 2200 00075 20202 322// 40202 88000 30016 ar ray85 k
6873	Russian Navy: RMP weather info to REO (REO de RMP QTC 750 1.0 27 1956 750 = SML = PROGNOZ POGODY DO 18 öASOW 28 AUGUSTA BALTIJSKOE MORE ... (repeats) ... AR)
6924	Russian warship: RMZW QTC to RMU51
9147.5	Russian Navy, Moscow: RIW traffic with RGN90
11000	Russian Navy, Moscow: RIW clg/wkg: warships RDND, RMZW, RAL59 Sample: rmzw de riw qyt4 qwh 12948 16942 qsx 1237t 15546 k
11155	Russian Navy Baltic Fleet: RIT. "ral46 ral46 ral46 de rit rit rit qsa ? k"
12464	Russian warship: RMZW "riw de rmzw qyt4 qsx 1555 jqc m k ok as 2 k"
12720	Russian Navy, Moscow: RIW msg to RJS.
14556	Russian Navy, Moscow: RIW clg RAL59, RHC75, RMZW, RHY73

Other countries

The new Australian defence HF network uses voice contact channels 9340, 10212, 12172 kHz around the clock. (info via Glenn)

Dallas sent us a note that on August 30th through to Sept 3rd, the New Zealand Army will hold an exercise at Charlston on the West Coast of the South Island some 20 odd Kms south of Westport. Dallas says that the stations should be active in the 30 and 40 MHz bands as well as on normal HF and VHF.

Freq.	Remarks / callsigns
2661.0	Polish Mil: Opiekun 46 wkg Karnak 30
4152.5	FGS "Gorch Fock", c/s DRAX, wkg DHJ59
	FGS "Augsburg", c/s DRAN, wkg DHJ59
	FGS "Kormoran", c/s DRCD, wkg DHJ59
	FGS "U30", c/s DRDX, wkg DHJ59
4787.5	FAF Nice: FDI8 "vvv vvv vvv de fdi8 fdi8 fdi8 ar"
6754.0	Trenton Mil: volmet broadcast
6777.2	FGS "Augsburg", c/s/ DRAN, wkg DHJ59
10206.2	FGS "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern", c/s DRAK, wkg DHJ58
11232.0	Trenton Mil: weather for Ottawa & Trenton