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

(Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 23:01:18 +0200)

Morse stations

MX

Cluster beacons:

D
4557.7, 5153.7, 7038.7, 8494.7, 10871.7 kHz
P
5153.8, 7038.8, 20047.8 kHz
S
4557.9, 5153.9, 7038.9, 8494.9, 10871.9, 13527.9 kHz
C
4558, 5154, 7039, 8495, 10872, 13528, 16332 kHz
F
7039.2 kHz
K
7039.3 kHz
M
7039.4 kHz

Unid beacon "Ch" was heard during a couple of days on 7038.9, 8494.9, 10871.9, 13528.9 kHz. "Ch" is the Cyrillic letter that looks like the letter "h" upside down. In morse: ---. I assume that this is either a malfunctioning "C" or "P".

Other anomalies were reported by Fritz:

"C" on 7039, 10872 and 13528 is ---. instead of -.-.
"A" on 10873 temporarily on at 13-9, loud and clear for some hours.

Channel markers

V
3658 kHz
L
3203.2, 4469.6 kHz
"L" has been sending .-... instead of .-.. for a number of days. On 21-9, 1931 UTC, the station stopped its transmission while sending .-... It did not return that evening. The next day the id was back to normal. At the time of writing (28-9) the wrong id .-... is sent again.

See also Newsletter 100.

M08 / V02

The Cuban station and its voice companion V02 is active as ever. See also our logs section. Mark has posted quite a few logs. See also V02.

M21

Russian Air Defense is still using 4542, 5201 and 7913.5 kHz. ID on all frequencies is "0". Sample messages: =99t127??t??? 99t128??t????

M21 variant: Heard on 26-9 at 0620 UTC on 6922 kHz: XNFV (rptd) then FGs similar to M21.

See also Newsletter 100.

M22

A note from Fritz reveals that on 26-9 at 1800 UTC, 5000 kHz was an additional frequency to parallel frequencies 2680, 4331 and 6379 kHz.

See also Newsletter 100.

M41

Regularly heard on 4959 kHz around 1600 UTC with roundslip WLSB and messages.

See also Newsletter 100.

M51

No sign of M51. It looks like it's really gone this time. FAV22 however remained. The Morse lessons are on at 0830 and 1130 UTC.

See also Newsletter 100.

M62

Fritz copied M62 on 19-9 at 0600 UTC on it's usual frequency 3486 kHz with "XOP3 XOP3 XOP3 +"

See also Newsletter 100.

M89

"V CP17 CP17 CP17 DE L9CC L9CC" was heard on the following frequencies:
3547, 3549.3, 3551, 7049, 7050, 7053, 7062, 7062.6, 7063.5, 7064, 7065.5, 7067, 7069, 7069.6, 7073.2, 7076, 7078.5 kHz.
"V T3AP T3AP T3AP DE QF3K QF3K" on 5727 kHz

See also Newsletter 100.