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

(Date: November 2009)

Morse stations

MX

Cluster beacons:

First several late logs from last month:

A
on a strange frequency: 14220.8 kHz, heard on 1 Oct at 1647 UTC.
Z
7036.0 kHz, faulty "D" beacon heard on 8-10, 1403 UTC.
Z
7038.8 kHz, faulty "D" beacon heard on 4-10, 1844 UTC.
F
7039.2 kHz
K
3594.3, 7039.3 kHz
M
7039.4 kHz

Cluster beacons reported in November: D, P, S, C, F on various frequencies.

Channel markers heard in November:

P
419, 474, 3167, 3291, 4043, 4051 kHz
F
14078.3 kHz
V
3 658, 7027 kHz

M21

Id 0: 3322
Id 9: 6823.5, 7834

Samples:

=991841??0?????
=16456170295234
=175448920601136
=99?1437?9?????
=12065170212438
=16452885599738

M22

Navy Haifa is still active in Morse on a couple of frequencies.

2680 kHz	:	"VVV DE 4XZ 4XZ //"
4797 kHz	:	"VVV DE 4XZ 4XZ = = AR AR NW QTC 1 NR 991 ="
7000 kHz	:	"VVV DE 4XZ BT BT QG52XI"

M41

Russian Air Defense on 4959 kHz at 1730, 27-11: "EQM2" repeated for 1 minute.

Seen earlier with "660214216572090180050 EQM2 K".

M51

Less active? Only a few logs this month and only one of a regular FAV22 transmission on 6825 kHz at 1259 on 10-11: "... 'plus digne d'un rien de méphistophérés que de connaître des idées'. AR CQ DE FAV22 VA"

"méphistophérés" should be "Méphistophélès"

M89

V QPZM QPZM QZPM de WOXN WOXN	on	3327, 4523 kHz
V MW3D MW3D MW3D de 2SLC 2SLC	on	3330 kHz
V ZKT5 ZKT5 ZKT5 de UWM2 UWM2	on	3367, 4534 kHz
V DKG6 DKG6 DKG6 DE 3A7D 3A7D	on	7602 kHz