Hundred twenty-eighth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: April 2008)

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Military stations

Russian, CIS, Ukrainian military SSB & CW stations (including M32)

18.1 Russian High Command Moscow. Transmitter sites:
  - 338th communications node Kara Balta / Chaldovar, Kyrgyzstan
- 43rd communications hub Vileyka Belarus ????
- probably Nizhniy Novgorod radio centre, Russia
"xxx xxx rks rks rdl rdl 61614 86999 neimuqij 21570145 k"
"xxx xxx rdl rdl 13518 21683 podseka 8481 2396 k"
"rdl rdl rdl 11111 t6585 836t7 t2t75 t2t75 9399t 32687 16468 iei7641
tt885 91735 97719 39142 49993 4312t 36649 t6616 t82t2 16792 3362rm
46794 491t2 23tt8 6t647 14791 81697 58721 25926 24583 39837 71316
t8t36 97284 71418 15735 24t35 k
"
"rdl rdl rdl 22222 97845 59468 69911 69911 42687 67842 4t482 t8672
66815 t2744 t4777 21132 48873 14t92 46688 tt599 82222 29t94 94387
38642 96975 68462 4984t 34t9t 65953 83368 t241t 37181 313tt 5t94t
88893 67991 153t9 66172 9tt88 t41t6 62892 87164 82238 t9421 24t41 k
"
"rdl rdl rdl 11111 16827 191t9 62442 62442 42528 26786 4t3t6 t6656
81584 89tt2 95t8t 77574 83773 828t4 t1427 1t4t2 65711 t11t2 78335
45913 41852 6755t 41891 1t967 72612 67883 47617 23t28 k
"
21.1 Russian High Command Moscow, probably Chaldovar Radio Centre Kyrgyzstan .
  "uuu uuu uuu rdl rdl rdl 19023 89031 19023 89031 19023 89031 k"
474.0 Russian Navy, Kaliningrad: RMP
2330.8 Russian Navy, Kaliningrad: RMP
3181.0 Russian Navy, Kaliningrad: RMP
3291.0 Russian Navy, Kaliningrad: RMP
3593.7 Russian Navy, Kaliningrad: RMP
3837.0 Russian Navy, Kaliningrad: RMP with "RDL" messages
  "RDL RDL RDL 84470 88857 84470 88857 84470 88857 K"
"RDL RDL RDL 35162 50210 35162 50210 35162 50210 K"
4456.0 Russian Mil: 3AG6, FAGK, LAX5
5224.0 Russian Navy: RCV msg to RIP90
5325.0 Russian Mil: RND79 wkg RFT6
5400.5 Russian Navy: RKN "xxx xxx rkn qtc"
5881.0 Russian Navy, Kaliningrad: RMP
6422.0 Russian Navy, Kaliningrad: RMP wkg RLA88 for QSA?
6482.0 Russian Mil: RGT77
6812.0 Russian Mil: "DZCR DZCR DZCR QTC 347"
6999.0 Russian Mil. Voice msgs
7002.0 Russian Mil: RGT77
7041.0 Russian Mil: BC6B
7046.0 Russian Mil.
  "XXX PABA 61653 OKTAWA 9653"
"XXX PABA 77790 FALXCHYWYJ 1812 K"
7048.0 Russian Mil: RZTK
7056.0 Russian Mil: ZBPN, VZPR
7574.0 Russian Navy: RCV
7640.0 Russian Navy, Kaliningrad: RMP
7664.0 Russian Navy: RIW wkg RKZ "RKZ RKZ RKZ DE RIW RIW QTC 797 26 2"
7964.0 CIS Mil: "W8PR DE SYFQ QTC 241 16 28 23T6 241 = 7T7 = PPPPP"
7969.0 CIS Military. "...L de ..3U QTA 829 K. R K"
7980.0 Russian Mil: RJF94 clg RJC38, RCB, RJC48, RCH84
8182.0 Russian Mil: RJE56 msg to RIT
8585.0 Russian Air Force: "REA4 = 26150 23672 40660 61506 10194 82131 23746 53760 61703 10177 82180 = REA4 K" //9193 kHz
8816.0 Russian Naval Air:
  80619 wkg RJF94 (Central Sector Control, Moscow - PRIBOJ)
80619 wkg RCB (Western Sector Control - KRAKET)
47018 wkg RJF94
47018 wkg RCB
48018 QQL XLLP (prob Pushkin), QAH 5700 QAL XLOS (prob Ostrov/Verete)
9074.8 Russian Navy: RCV26
9100.0 Russian Navl Air: QAL (intend landing at) XUMU (possibly Chkalovskiy)
  QBD (Endurance) 0300. At 1411 signals QQM (landed) XUMU 1407
9193.0 Russian Air Force: REA4 //8585 kHz
11155.0 Russian Navy: wkg RKZ
11408.0 Russian Air Force: REA4
13469.0 Russian Mil: RJE56
14050.0 Russian Mil: "XXX RGT77 KFDP 93728" //14284 kHz
14092.0 Russian Mil: RGT77, WEGI "XXX WEGI 35137 HLOROCD 3486 2230 k"
14284.0 Russian Mil: "XXX RGT77 KFDP 93728" //14050 kHz
16912.0 Russian Navy: RDL

Fritz sent us some comments about the Russian flash messages:

"The most repeated codeword in CIS Ny strategic flash messages is "podarok". All xxx messages containing "podarok" use a different format, e.g. xxx xxx RDL RDL 42698 podarok 01 1055 050 270 1551 k.

I compared 13 messages of those and found that

Only these messages so far exhibit a certain, visible regularity. I therefore assume their purpose is different from all other xxx messages (apart from LR43)."

Trond comments:

"Hello Fritz and UDXF group

Good to hear from you again. I guess you too has observed the increase in xxx then T600 msgs on 21k1 as well as the general increase in Russian / (CIS) VLF test bcasts.

But back to the topic:

Another one that is following the same pattern and is rx'ed on a "regular" basis is USTRELINA:

xxx xxx rdl rdl 04147 ustrelina 7448 5217 01 1020 065 120 1438 k

Here is another statistical observation based on a number of years of VLF monitoring:

Distribution of messages based on initial number in message:

(initial number of 5fg/% of total messages received)

2 x 5fg xxx msgs
0/9.7 0/8.1
1/8.8 1/11.6
2/11.1 2/6.9
3/8.8 3/3.4
4/8.0 4/6.9
5/15.5 5/16.2
6/7.5 6/13.9
7/12.8 7/13.9
8/13.7 8/8.1
9/8.0 9/10.4

As you see has numbers in the 5000 series their fair share compared with other 5fg numbers."

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