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

(Date: May 2007)

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Utility round-up

Unid stations

Our Russian friend Igor copied unid beacon "H" on 8580 kHz. It was followed by a Chinese MFSK-4 100/500Hz burst.

Fritz found the following numbers station on 10-05 at 1435 UTC on 9361 kHz. The transmission ended at 1440 UTC. Mode ICW, auto sent, short zeroes.

The station sent 5FGs followed by == 368 368 50 50 000 (very long and spaced zeroes). This one was VERY fast, faster than M24 that sometimes uses this freq. Can anyone identify this station?

Jim found an unid morse station on 3549.8 kHz on 30 May at 1630 UTC. It seems to be on the air almost daily and has been heard at various times. It is sending mixed letters/figures/punctuation. No id noted so far. More info is greatly appreciated.

Jammers

Many countries are still jamming broadcasts from dissident groups or foreign countries. I have included a list of China's fire dragon frequencies but it is probably not complete.

China

• 9905 kHz
  Radio Free Asia
• 9203, 10400, 13970, 14500 kHz
  Sound of Hope
• 17562 kHz
  Voice of Tibet

Music jammer frequencies (firedragon in kHz)

Cuba

• 9725, 9825 kHz
  Radio Martí
• 5970 kHz
  Radio Republica

Iran

• 3880.7, 3970, 4850, 4860, 4870 kHz
  Voice of Iranian Revolution

Iraq

• 3925, 3930, 3935, 3940 kHz
  Voice of the Kurdistan Democratic Party

Libya

• 17660 kHz
  Sawt al-Amal

Morocco

• 6485 kHz
  Radio Nacional Saharaui

North Korea

North Korea has resumed jamming short wave radio broadcasts from outside the country after a break of several months. Pyongyang began stepping up its jamming of independent and dissident broadcasts from the Echo of Hope, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Free North Korea Radio, Open Radio for North Korea, and Radio Free Chosun on May 11.

• 3985, 6348 kHz
  Echo of Hope

Zimbabwe

• 4880 kHz
  SW Radio Africa

Drift net beacons

Drift net beacons are widely reported on MW and 28 MHz. I have never heard them on 26 MHz so I was pleasantly surprised when I read Alex's logs. Alex comments

"QTH probably Atlantic or Western Mediterranean. Propagation on 11 meters was to France and Spain."

The beacons send a 10-seconds-dash, followed by CW-ID every 1 min 45 sec.

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