Hundred thirty-seventh edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: February 2009)

Voice stations | Various modes
Military stations | Utlility round-up
Intelligence profile : Nepal | Logs
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Various modes

The usual bunch:

S28 - Buzzer:
4625 kHz
S30 - Pip:
3756, 5450 kHz
S32 - Squeaky Wheel:
3828.9 kHz

M42 & X06

Quite a lot of Embassy / Intelligence logs this month. Thanks for sharing them with us.

5173.0	0605	26-1	DOSC. "20108" 5LGs/FGs msg to unid, QSX 5741 kHz; FSK-CW OP-chat. Mode: Baudot 100Bd/500Hz
5741.0	0605	26-1	DOSC. "20108" 5LGs/FGs msg to unid, QSX 5173 kHz; FSK-CW OP-chat. Mode: Baudot 100Bd/500Hz
19200.5	0741	28-1	DOSC. "RNCTLHPOGMV DCWOX". Mode: CROWD
5751.5	0952	28-1	DOSC. "11177 20065 56789 -17-3-". Mode: CROWD
5741.0	0600	29-1	DOSC. "20108". FSK-CW OP-Chat "BK QRQ 100 QBN K" & received msg on QSX. At 0610 UTC in RTTY: 5FGs msg after "RYRYRYRY // 11100 20108 00000 29053 05009 // 48299 09554..." & 5LGs msg after "11100 20108 00000 29054 050 //GOQBB TNSXD ..." into FSK-CW OP-Chat "... TKS GB SK"; QSX ? Mode: Baudot 100Bd/500Hz
14430.5	0842	29-1	DOSC. "RNCTLHPOGMV DCWOX". Mode: CROWD
8108.5	1739	04-2	DOSC. Msg after "11177 73004 43968 44473". Mode: CROWD
13974.0	1100	08-2	Russian Intel. Auto broadcasting crypto tfc for exactly 7 minutes, then QSY to 12196 kHz. Mode: FSK 200Bd/1000Hz
12196.0	1110	08-2	Russian Intel. Auto broadcasting crypto tfc for exactly 7 minutes, then QSY to 10634 kHz. Mode: FSK 200Bd/1000Hz
10634.0	1120	08-2	Russian Intel. Auto broadcasting crypto tfc for exactly 7 minutes, then QRT. Mode: FSK 200Bd/1000Hz
8169.0	1340	08-2	DOSC Moscow. Single 5FG msg to "PAO" after 11100 00035 preamble, then moving to 10246 kHz. Mode: Baudot 50.10Bd/500Hz
10246.0	1350	08-2	DOSC Moscow. Single 5FG msg to "PAO" after 11100 00035 preamble. Coming from 8169 kHz. Mode: Baudot 50.10Bd/500Hz
8044.5	0839	10-2	Russian intel. "VGPLCRI12(@7 VGPLCRI12(@7" Mode: USB/Crowd
5199.5	1906	10-2	DOSC Moscow. Crypto traffic. Mode: USB/Crowd 36/40/1500
6828.0	2004	10-2	Russian intel. Multifigure groups like "429807277385291128 =82571". Mode: Baudot 1,5 stb/200/500R
14831.0	1208	14-2	DOSC Moscow. 6-tone alerting device. No reply, then moving to 16025 kHz
14871.0	1211	14-2	Mazielka. Sequence: 156234
16025.0	1218	14-2	DOSC Moscow. 6-tone alerting device. Coming from 14831 kHz
16276.0	1222	14-2	DOSC Moscow. 6-tone alerting device
16045.0	1230	14-2	DOSC Moscow. Offline crypto msg to "RFO" after " 11177 80038" Mode: USB/MFSK-32
18296.0	1249	14-2	DOSC Moscow. Repeating same sequence over and over, then QRT. This alerting system is often misidentified asasynchronous Baudot sending "BLZ26". Mode: FSK 50Bd/500Hz with 5-bit async ITA-2 coding
14358.0	1253	14-2	DOSC Moscow. Repeating same sequence over and over, then QRT. This alerting system is often misidentified asasynchronous Baudot sending "BLZ26" Mode: FSK 50Bd/500Hz with 5-bit async ITA-2 coding
10727.0	1258	14-2	DOSC Moscow. Repeating same sequence over and over, then QRT. This alerting system is often misidentified asasynchronous Baudot sending "BLZ26" Mode: FSK 50Bd/500Hz with 5-bit async ITA-2 coding
6876.0	0920	15-2	Russian intel. 5FG msgs. Mode: 13 tone MFSK
6780.0	2140	17-2	Mazielka
6911.0	2146	17-2	Mazielka
10207.5	1643	19-2	DOSC. Tfc. Mode: CROWD-36
8083.0	0636	21-2	Mazielka. Sequence: 154632
8131.0	1121	21-2	Mazielka. Sequence: 164532
12224.0	1255	21-2	Mazielka. Sequence: 463125
14871.0	1356	24-2	Mazielka. Sequence: 156234
12224.0	1420	24-2	Mazielka. Sequence: 463125. Disappeared after 7 minutes then after 1 minute returned for 10 secs.
9923.0	1432	24-2	Mazielka. Sequence: 463125
16116.0	0904	25-2	Mazielka. Sequence: 134265
11153.0	0921	25-2	Mazielka. Sequence: 465132
14970.0	1130	27-2	Mazielka. Sequence: 216354

SK01

A lot of RDFT logs this month. I have selected a couple of Barry's and Jon's logs for this section. You can find the logs in the Logs Section.

27-2-2009: file 35755456.txt 1024 bytes was transmitted in RDFT.

12120 kHz	0500 UTC
16178 kHz	1600 UTC
17435 kHz	1700 UTC	replacing the normally expected V02a
8097 kHz	1800 UTC	replacing the normally expected M08a
8097 kHz	1900 UTC	replacing the normally expected M08a
7887 kHz	2000 UTC	replacing the normally expected V02a
6855 kHz	2100 UTC	replacing the normally expected V02a

The message sent at 1700 UTC on 17435 kHz while having the same file number and 1024 bytes, the actual body of the message was different than all of the others.