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

(Date: May 2007)

Morse stations

MX

Cluster beacons

May was very quiet. I copied "C", "D" and "S" but not daily. The beacons in the Far East were not reported.

Channel markers

P
4635, 5862
R
4325.9, 5465.9

See also Newsletter 118.

M21

PVO, Russian Air Defense was heard on the following frequencies:

Id "0"	:	5221.5, 5873 kHz
Id "9"	:	7994 kHz

Sample messages:

=990212??0?????
=11185244562342
=99?1544?9?????
=11186133934144

See also Newsletter 118.

M22

Besides the usual transmissions on the well known frequencies, 4XZ also used 14000 kHz for its morse transmissions.

M51

Fritz comments on 1 May:

"Today M51 (F MIL Morse Training) was up on 5192.5//5200.

At 0800z they added in parallel 6723.5, 3881 and 6825.

At 0830z the Morse training from FAV22 for Radio Amateurs started on 3881//6825//6723.5//5192.5 and 5200 kHz was switched off. Apparently the audio has been switched to the text lessons, but the transmitters have not been switched off. Still on now. Never heard that before.

It seems that they are nowadays transmitting in parallel on 3 or 4 frequencies.

The station is still using the 1984 messages: "BT NR 36 M 09 04:27:34 1984 BT"

Date	UTC	Frequency
01-05	0230	5192.5
01-05	0657	5192.5//5200
01-05	0820	3881//6825//5192.5//7623.5
01-05	0830	3881//6825//7623 (FAV22)
01-05	0957	3881//5192.5
01-05	0957	6825 (FAV22)
02-05	0910	7949//7880
02-05	1348	9135//9296
02-05	1540	5189.5//5417//9316.5
02-05	1855	3611.5//3827.5
05-05	0100	4051
05-05	0000	9123.5
12-05	0500	0500
17-05	2309	6950
26-05	1232	9122
27-05	1620	8070
30-05	0551	8070

See also Newsletter 118.

M89

Only one callsign noted in May: L9CC on various frequencies.

V CP17 CP17 CP17 de L9CC L9CC	on	5051.3, 7039.8, 7042.6, 7042.9, 7050.3, 7059.1, 7059.4, 7059.8, 7062.3, 7065.2, 7065.6, 7066.0, 7073.4, 7067.2, 7067.6 7068.8, 7073.4 kHz

See also Newsletter 118.