Hundred forty-fourth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: September 2009)

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Voice stations

E03a

Cherry Ripe is still alive and kicking. After it's move from Guam to the navy transmitter site Humpty Doo near Darwin, Australia , the signal is pretty poor in Europe. It is probably transmitting towards Eastern Asia.

A couple of logs submitted by Mike and Eddy:

E06

UDXF-y255 mailed the following transcript of an E06 broadcast.

• 14833 kHz, 0600 UTC, 18-9: 354 796 125 44845.....23838 796 125 00000
  Comments: frequency may be inaccurate. +-2kHz.

Message details:

354 796 125
44845 48844 37650 35457 53146 14544 54115 18139 89626 13599
27501 44841 75356 82129 13070 74936 74976 63270 77460 38731
13549 53575 90421 05526 85712 15989 03802 75220 14084 11353
28102 79456 27107 71476 20791 33834 87775 11748 21566 53526
55563 37548 19110 72528 02331 54719 17030 34205 04281 44113
81425 76030 43385 06265 85793 41626 63816 04365 11700 95566
02927 11412 25283 06272 70216 51395 02265 58300 14333 00637
53928 48442 33831 92982 ???29 ????? 19343 88823 ????? 338??
80523 80569 ????? 179?? 13400 ????3 67289 91??? 38345 28828
18031 55625 18132 76685 86687 15988 57034 57473 41071 50864
07000 77277 91399 06287 06373 30886 64991 29036 06676 96738
35921 54562 97045 00644 53208 25803 29391 74321 66977 31506
57326 58275 55403 64739 23838
796 125
00000

E11

E11 is pretty active as you can see in the logs section. GD provided this

and other logs.

• 13908 kHz, 1850 UTC, 05-9-2009, E11a

644/20
38075 00364 87682 67416 13321 81499 18678 00506 49074 44493
63441 24342 99662 51402 85513 96809 38923 91306 61309 26540

G06

Another one from UDXF-y255. He heard G06 on 14 and 16-9.

S06

Richard reports an unusual S06 broadcast.

371 444 20
98487 32745 26789 21987 23423 45678 34267 65478 45879 49826
67543 34552 66833 09234 67890 56432 87900 41123 83267 90046
444 20
00000

V21

Westli reported an unid station on 6416 kHz; possibly the Cuban Babbler. If so than it was on an odd frequency as it's usually on 6529 kHz.

V24

Both Korean stations V24 and M94 are quite active. T! compiled the transmission times and created a website with this information.

He writes:

"My web skills are a tad on the wanting side, so the pages basically only contain the information needed without anything fancy. The V24 page does link to audio files of each section of the V24 transmission as well as a couple full-length transmissions. The M94 page has no audio at this time, but should eventually.

Each page has a schedule of only that emitters time. On the V24 page you see only V24, on the M94 page you see only M94. But, the combined schedule shows both on the same page. The combined schedule is interesting because you can see there are no scheduling conflicts, V24 never transmits at the same time as M94. This schedule is a snap shot for the two-month period ending 1 June, 2009. If you go back far enough in the database you will see that times and slots have changed, so that a one year long schedule might show "conflicts" in times. The observed reality is that this pair of emitters operates one at a time with no overlaps or simultaneous transmissions."

URLs:

• V24 page
  http://home.mchsi.com/~token_radio/numbers_station_v24.htm
• M94 page
  http://home.mchsi.com/~token_radio/numbers_station_m94.htm
• Combined schedules
  http://home.mchsi.com/~token_radio/v24_m94_schedule.htm

Thanks T!

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