Hundred eleventh edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Sun Dec 3, 2006 12:55 pm (PST))

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Morse stations

MX

Cluster beacons

Cluster beacons heard in October

• D
  3593.7, 7038.7, 8494.7, 10871.7, 13527.7, 16331.7
• P
  5153.8, 7038.8, 10871.8, 13527.8, 16331.8
• S
  7038.9, 10871.9, 13527.9, 16331.9
• C
  7039, 8495, 10872, 13528, 16332
• A
  not reported
• F
  7039.2
• K
  7039.3, 8495.3, 16332.3
• M
  7039.4

Channel markers heard in September

• L
  not reported
• P
  3291, 3837
• R
  4325.9, 5465.9
• V
  not reported

An unid "K" marker was heard on 4545.3 kHz. Not sure if it's Russian. It uses a .3 frequency which is also being used by the "K" cluster beacon.

M01

A nice catch from Alex who copied the now sporadic former M01 "end of the month" transmission. This message now pops up on unpredicted times and frequency. Alex heard the transmission on 12-10 at 1742 UTC on 4491 kHz.

136 136 136 111999
136 136 136 111999
136 136 136 111999
238 35 =
55899 97669 85558 76TT5 77121 54411 84754 9T298 55624 52672
17687 98458 7T481 9T625 45135 4942T 51415 55324 535T9 T458T
57956 4227T 11544 12286 473T2 65221 55962 65976 78522 T648T
55514 88456 78399 25552 45T59 =
238 35
0 0 0

Another one from Alex. This time a normal transmission. Noted on 20-10 at 1622 UTC on 4646 kHz.

Here's the transcript:

812 (repeated)
594 594 25 25 = =
24336 24336 86215 86215 99483 99483 532T4 532T4 878T4 878T4
22T87 22T87 9T297 9T297 7646T 7646T 7715T 7715T 348T6 3448T6*)
T3985 T3985 4T566 4T566 13619 13619 T1154 T1154 72286 72286
87942 87942 28214 28214 53897 53897
= = 594 594 25 25
000

*) note the error

M21

PVO transmitted on:

Samples:

• =990003??0?????
• =990004??0?????

M22

4XZ uses 3 frequencies for its morse transmissions: 2680, 4331, 6379 kHz.

"VVV DE 4XZ 4XZ"

M31

Heard on 4880 and 10607 kHz:

"VVV VVV VVV DE FDI22 FDI22 FDI22 AR"

M32

See Military section

M41

All heard by Fritz.

M45

Not often reported but Fritz copied a transmission at 3525//4025 kHz on 16-11 at 1802 UTC with "525 278 32"

M51

The French training stations were heard on a number of frequencies:
4629.5, 4630.5, 4895, 4898.5, 4963, 4964, 4899.5, 5073.5, 5181, 5182, 5192.5, 5193.5, 5301, 6824, 6825, 7436, 7879 kHz still transmitting the 1989 messages "NR 01 N 01 02:04:23 1989 = cqzdn vipzg igqwr ... (etc)"

A very nice report came from Martin who wrote down a complete message of station FAV22 on 6824 kHz, 0933 UTC, 17-11.

OKDHS WBXVD QAJAK QLAMP UJGCV DHETS QJHDG XVCJD WKJZI QKJAO
UJFHD WVXJS ZKLQP 28645 SGWBX JQKAO PLAUH /764/ JNFHD UJDKS
IKALO SJDGF CJDLA PMQKX WJFML TYHFK DHNXD SJEKZ UJSLK UJDHX
CKDGE SHGDB XNSJZ QKALM PLOLK NCHFK 65483 SGBXJ WJSUZ PLGHL
XNBDK SKLZM QNWJZ AHJDK WCXVD 53872 WBNXJ 01875 UJDKL WNBJD
ZYHDK QLKMA HNDJC UJKDL SJHTF SJHTF CBXGR GSHZQ MQJFV PMAUH
BCVFG SHZYA 37619 NWJSY DGSHZ QJNWK ZUJAP LQMAY DGCVX IJFHC
XBSKA UJQLW NXVCJ SKEUD OLSPA MQKJG CBFGT JDKXC 20617 DHEYS
WBKHD SJAIO QKLAY DLFGC VSHDF XJSKZ JQKDH XUJEO ZHQJZ AHDJS
WVXKS AUJSK AJNWJ KLQPE SHGDU ZHDFX WBSJZ HDJSI 36287 10638
HSGDT XVDJS KQLAP UJDLS XNFGC ZUJSL PAKLD GBXJS ZJQKA PLWCV
DGXVF CNETS 46382 BXNTG SJAUK ar

= Leçon 25-1/4 Vitesse 960 clair
Les mathématiques fournissaient à nos entretiens de la rue Urbain V les sujets les plus intéressants; je me réjouissais de voir Paul prendre en affection les modes de pensée du géomètre. Sans pour cela répugner Mallarmé, Edgard Poe. Dès son jeune age, Paul fut l'ennemi de toute classification scholastique. Et, à mon sens, on ne peut le suivre dans sa méditation, qu'en supprimant les frontières qui artificiellement séparent le domaine scientifique de celui des lettres et aussi l'abstrait du concret, la synthèse de l'analyse, le fond de la forme. Les spéculations du mathématicien le séduisent dès leur abord. La théorie des fonctions.
ar cq de fav22 va

Many thanks to Jean who sent us a website that contains all the morse lessons that the station transmits. Jean writes

"This seems to be CW lessons sent by the "Direction Centrale des Transmissions Et de l'Informatique" DCTEI. The transmitters are in Vernon (~100 Km West of Paris). These lessons started in 1938 with various transmitters and ended up transmitted by this Vernon DCTEI site."

Interesting website!!! http://documents.ref-union.org/C/C2-06.php

M89

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