Hundredth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:22:07 +0100)

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E03 Lincolnshire poacher

Because of Al's vacation, we have only the idents of the first half of the month. I hope that you had a good vacation, Al.

E03a (E04) Cherry ripe

An excellent Cherry Ripe report was supplied by Tomonori. This time the idents per week instead of per two weeks. Further the current skeds and the station's new format.

1. New format:
2. Cherry Ripe tune x 12
3. ID x 4
4. Cherry Ripe tune x 12
5. ID x 4
6. Cherry Ripe tune x 12
7. ID x 4
8. Cherry Ripe tune x 24
9. ID x 4
10. Chime x 6
11. and into 5FG x 2 .....

Note: the last Cherry Ripe tune is repeated 24 times.

Current schedules:

(Thank you very much, Igor, Kopf and pudmania42)

Idents:

Tomonori writes "I cannot find out the regularity yet. On Saturday and Sunday, I could not hear it on the scheduled frequencies."

Idents per 7-10

Idents per 14-10

Idents per 21-10

Idents per 28-10

E10

Not much to report. But we've got the current skeds for you!!! The schedules were compiled by monitors AlphaVax and MysticOne. Excellent job, guys.

Calls:

• ART - Alpha Romeo Tango
• EZI - Echo Zulu India
• FTJ - Foxtrot Tango Juliet

Calls:

• JSR - Juliet Sierra Romeo
• PCD - Papa Charlie Delta
• ULX - Uniform Lima Xray

E11

Mike has sent us the transcript of the E11 transmission of 1100 UTC on 12 Oct, 9610 kHz (184/70).

He writes;

"Here is the message, the first part repeats each block of five numbers but I have shown them only once. I also noticed that the message is actually divided up with a pause between number blocks. I have shown this below, it is also repeated in the confirmation set at the end! Three sets of twenty then one set of 10."

184/70
Attention

64600 37233 17142 13862 35844 02757 59772 05080 05410 39071 42266 54548
35859 00397 33360 49023 07794 22395 43090 42427.

80992 87300 09054 47639 66017 89999 15800 31127 90947 48766 94922 57060

19766 62584 64007 02768 66709 51331 72970 37303.

72057 51916 18255 68170 15875 15783 61353 55298 00932 30311 32040 29801
25853 79731 22228 47713 21668 97266 01890 25402.

98317 72872 77368 60847 50070 55377 85212 99800 25467 36612.

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Mike also heard E11 on

V02a / V02c

From Mark Slaten comes the following news and schedules of V02. The floor is yours, Mark. THANKS!

"As you know, the V2c broadcasts were with us from about August 8, 2004 until September 30, 2005. The schedule was fixed daily as follows:

Basically, the same callups were used and the same message sent by the two different callups. Callups were:

A888 16x2 A252 166x1 A888 16x2 (R3) and the message began, 44621 62561 .... etc.

A346 72x5 (R3) and the message began, 73511 91082 .... etc.

And only once that I heard on January 9, 2005 the callup:
A445 62x5 (R3) and the message began, 611.4 08405 .... etc. was used. Reception was bad for that sked.

Beginning in October 2005, this network changed it's format to that of V2a, with the following daily schedule being implemented:

Note that the only time and frequency change is the 2200 UTC sked is eliminated and the 1600 UTC on 7975 kHz was put in it's place. There are now four different V2a broadcasts on a daily basis occupying these skeds. At 0900, 1600, 1800 and 2000 the primary sked is on, and at 1000, 1700, 1900 and 2100 the secondary or repeat sked is broadcast. Here is an example from today October 29, 2005:

For those who are new to the "Numbers Stations", the Cubans format is such that the last number of each of the three callups will increment by one each day. For instance,

The Cuban M8a and M8c formats also use this incremental way of keeping track of the number of days that a message is sent. The M8's also use the primary/secondary format.

There are other V2a skeds on the air that keep regular schedules, but this is the only group to my knowledge that used a V2c schedule.

I hope some of you have found this of interest.

Happy monitoring!!!"

See also Newsletter 101.

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