Re: [digitalradio] K3UK as malware !
All kinds of these services are around and available for a fee. My guess the only goal here as you noticed is to sell something... - Original Message - From: Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DIGITALRADIO digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 7:08 AM Subject: [digitalradio] K3UK as malware ! A bit off topic but I found this interesting. Seems a DX Cluster related piece of code with my call sign in it has trigger something... I found this on a web site that tracks possible malware (and sells fixes).
[digitalradio] K3UK as malware !
A bit off topic but I found this interesting. Seems a DX Cluster related piece of code with my call sign in it has trigger something... I found this on a web site that tracks possible malware (and sells fixes). K3UK.SCR K3UK.SCR is a file recently detected by the Prevx database. This file is yet to be determined globally as Good or Bad, therefore it is currently classified as Unknown. However if it is malware then it may well be caught by the behaviour protection in Prevx If this file breaks one of the 4 Prevx Axes of Evil, it will be immediately determined as a Bad. The only way to safeguard against this possible threat is by installing Prevx which has the ability to protect you from all bad files from the instant they are determined. Download Prevx K3UK.SCR AUTOMATED SOFTWARE PROFILE, ANALYSIS, REMOVAL AND SIGNATURE INFORMATION: DEFINITION OF: K3UK.SCR * Safety Rating: Uncertain * First seen: Apr 20 2007 (GMT) * Last seen: Apr 20 2007 (GMT) * File Size: 41 bytes * Concerns about your PC security? We help thousands of new users every day to rid their PC of high risk spyware, adware, trojan, virus and rootkit infections * You can use Prevx1 to ensure your PC really is safe. Click here to download Prevx1 for your free system health check SOFTWARE ASSESSMENT: PREVX 4 AXES OF EVIL METHODOLOGY 1. COVERT ANALYSIS OF: K3UK.SCR * File Names Used: 1 * Paths Used: 1 * Common File Name: K3UK.SCR * Common Path: ?:\dxtelnet32\script\ * Vendor Information: No Vendor details specified * File Name Structure: Normal * File and Path Structure: Normal 2. RELATIONSHIP ANALYSIS OF: K3UK.SCR * No relationship details available for this object 3. ACTIVITY ANALYSIS OF: K3UK.SCR * No activity has yet been observed for this object 4. PROPAGATION ANALYSIS OF: K3UK.SCR * Object Propagation Rate: Very Low (minimal spread) * Copyright Prevx Limited 2005, 2006 Other versions of K3UK.SCR
[digitalradio] digitalradio php page
Andrew, did you lengthen the refresh time on that page? I haven't actually timed it, but i seem to be able to type in enuf text (on my cellphone) now, before it refreshes. I was doing that last night. One person was saying that 20 meters was dead (9pm Thursday evening California time) but i worked BP40 (from my CN90) 2000 miles Anchorage AK and an 8-station, this with bpsk31. The numbers were something like: SFI 69 A 22 K 2 ... which certainly isn't ideal. However did not hear much on 14076 jt65a. I called CQ and got a response from AF6AS (500 miles from me) but he was -22dB and the contact died. Orrin wn1z northeast Calif.
[digitalradio] Update: Deceased ham/U.S. veteran
Just a brief update to the issue from a couple of weeks ago. Former member of this group, Curt KA2SLC, was buried today. The service include a military honor guard with Tapps played and a VFW gun-shot salute for this Vietnam veteran. You may recall that I asked this group for advice about which agencies to call in order to get this indigent veteran a decent burial. The initial requests made of various government agencies were denied. The burial cost was borne by small local ham donations and a substantial donation of $2000 by a member of this group who was committed to seeing that a veteran received a decent burial.The veteran's groups contributed the flag and honor guard . It is sad to see how little the Govt veterans agencies are allowed to contribute in such cases but it is tremendous to see how amateur radio ensured a dignified end to this person's life. Andy K3UK
[digitalradio] Other stuff you can do with ALE.
FYI...a posting of ALE stations from an SWL in Germany. 04721 580100: USAF Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker (717-148) Aircraft (#58-0100, 100th ARW) 2136 ALE/USB to CRO w/LQA. 11Jun07 (ALF) Photo: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1202804/L/ 05207 : unid Saudi Arabian MOI/MIL 2352 ALE/USB to RHP. 10Jun07 (ALF) 05823 11043: Moroccan CP 0010 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 05823 1112: Moroccan CP 0003 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 05823 11121: Moroccan CP 0005 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 05823 1305: Moroccan CP 2357 ALE/USB SND. 10Jun07 (ALF) 05823 13061: Moroccan CP ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 05823 13161: Moroccan CP 2356 ALE/USB SND. 10Jun07 (ALF) 05823 2401: Moroccan CP ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 05823 2527: Moroccan CP 0001 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 05823 3001: Moroccan CP 0010 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 05823 8001: Moroccan CP 2359 ALE/USB SND. 10Jun07 (ALF) 05823 9001: Moroccan CP 2359 ALE/USB SND. 10Jun07 (ALF) 05865 TWVS2: Guardia Civil Salamanca, E 2345 ALE/USB to TXX2, later on 6955 kHz. 10Jun07 (ALF) 06690 9IX: Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie 1941 ALE/USB to 2EN w/LQA. 07Jun07 (ALF) 06721 255139: USAF Boeing C-17A Globemaster III Aircraft (#05-5139; 452nd AMW, March AFB) 1015 ALE/USB SND. 13Jun07 (ALF) Photo: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1099333/L/ 06721 UKE306: RAF AWACS Boeing E-3D Sentry AEW1 (707-300) Aircraft (#ZH-106; RAF 8/23 Sqn, Waddington) 1140 ALE/USB to CRO. 15Jun07 (ALF) Photo: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1182192/L/ 06796 TWVA2: Guardia Civil Leon, E 2245 ALE/USB to TWVS2 (Salamaca). 13Jun07 (ALF) 06796 TWVS2: Guardia Civil Salamanca, E 2303 ALE/USB to TWVE2. 13Jun07 (ALF) 06878 AAA: Israeli Air Force Tel Aviv 0318 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 06878 YN2: unid 0250 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 06878 YN1: unid 0252 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) *** YN1/YN2 ( M46, AA1 logged here before) Israeli AF ?? 06894 PNP: Venezuelan Navy 2350 ALE/USB to BRIFFRI5 (Brigada Fluvial Franz Risquez Iribarren 5). 08Jun07 (ALF) *** PNP: PN = Puesta Navale Fluvial ?? P= Rio Portuguesa ??? 06921 : unid 1939 ALE/USB to WXC. 11Jun07 (ALF) 06921 : unid 0200a ALE/USB to YDZ. 12Jun07 (ALF) 06921 2011: unid 2240 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 06921 2012: unid 2232 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 06921 2013: unid 2229 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 06921 2014: unid 2010 ALE/USB to 2012. 11Jun07 (ALF) 06921 9850: unid 2130 ALE/USB SND. 12Jun07 (ALF) 06921 5046: unid 0200a ALE/USB SND. 12Jun07 (ALF) 06921 AAA: Israeli AF NCS 2059 ALE/USB SND. 11Jun07 (ALF) 06936 2101: Corpo Carabinieri 2108 ALE/USB to 2011 fr LQA. 08Jun07 (ALF) 06955 TWVS2: Guardia Civil Salamanca, E 0025 ALE/USB to TXX2. 11Jun07 (ALF) 07531.5 WAROPS: US Army Winged Warriors Operations, 1-228 Avn Bn Soto Cano AB, HND; US Military Joint Task Force-Bravo (JTF-B) / „SKYWATCH-Net 0013 0113 ALE/USB SND. 14Jun07 (ALF) 07532 210401: Hellenic Police (EL.AS.) 0057 ALE/USB SND. 14Jun07 (ALF) 07532 210504: Hellenic Police (EL.AS.) 0113 ALE/USB SND. 14Jun07 (ALF) 07532 2004: Corpo Carabinieri, I 0022+ ALE/USB to 2033, 2508 w/AMD DIAL4 LQA. 14Jun07 (ALF) 07590 2010: Corpo Carabinieri, I 1857 ALE/USB to 2065 w/AMD DIAL4 LQA who replied. 13Jun07 (ALF) 07805 OMFUF: French Navy OMAR (Organisation maritime des transmissions haute fréquence) HF System, Fort de France, MRT 2358 ALE/USB to 2OMFUM (Papeete, Tahiti) w/LQA. 12Jun07 (ALF) 07954 9113: Nigerian Police 0310 ALE/USB to 9111 w/LQA. 12Jun07 (ALF) 08000 TC2135: US Army C/2-135 Aviation 2300 ALE/USB SND. 12Jun07 (ALF) 08010 01001: unid 0225 ALE/LSB SND. 09Jun07 (ALF) See 8064 kHz LSB 08020 2528: unid 2301 ALE/USB to 2527 for LQA who replied. 07Jun07 (ALF) 08020 2525: unid 2130a ALE/USB [THIS WAS]. 13Jun07 (ALF) 08020 CHARLY46: Italian AF 46 Bde HQ Pisa-San Giusto AB 2130a ALE/USB to 53 (tent. Commando 53 Stormo Guglielmo Chiarini, Milano). 13Jun07 (ALF) 08020 59: Italian Air Force 2319 ALE/USB to CHARLY46 short clg after sx voice J3E/USB comms OM/II. 08Jun07 (ALF) 08048.5 T2Z147: US Army 2-147 (Air Assault) Avn 0240 ALE/USB to R26321. 13Jun07 (ALF) *** QTH?? 08048.5 R23909: US Army Avn Sikorsky UH-60A Blackhawk Heli (#83-23909) 0235 ALE/USB to T2Z147. 13Jun07 (ALF) 08048.5 R26321: US Army Avn Sikorsky UH-60L Blackhawk Heli (#91-26321) 0239 ALE/USB to T2Z147. 13Jun07 (ALF) 08048.5 R23499: US Army Avn Sikorsky UH-60A Blackhawk Heli (#80-23499) 0240 ALE/USB to T2Z147. 13Jun07 (ALF) 08060 RS0013: Makedonian Military 1606 ALE/USB to CS003, who replied. 09Jun07 (ALF) 08063 : unid 2200 ALE/USB SND. 08Jun07 (ALF) 08063 9046: unid 2230 ALE/USB SND. 08Jun07 (ALF) 08063 9641: unid 2210 ALE/USB SND. 08Jun07 (ALF) 08064 01002: unid 0001 ALE/LSB SND. 09Jun07 (ALF) See 8010 kHz LSB 09025 290170: USAF Boeing C-17A Globemaster III Aircraft (#99-0170; 62nd/446th AW, McChord) 2200+ ALE/USB to ADW, CRO. 10Jun07 (ALF) Photo: http://www.flugzeugbilder.de/show.php?id=305803 09025 F29: USCG HU-25 Falcon (#2129) 2312 ALE/USB to OFF, JNR fr LQA w/AMD D9,9918666854486, JNR replied. 10Jun07
[digitalradio] Radio Mystery Stories - ALE Automatic Link Establishment - Midnight ALE Mystery
Midnight ALE Mystery Stations Strange ALE Automatic Link Establishment http://hflink.com experiences happened one mysterious night in 2005. In 2001, early in the history of organized ham radio ALE, we had set up the original ALE ham channels on 30 meters at frequencies of 10136.0 and 10146.0 kHz. Everything was fine for 4 years with these channels until 2005. ALE radios had come down in cost by then and ALE started to become more popular among government and commercial HF communications. In early 2005 ham operators started to see some strange callsigns on 10136 and 10146 in our ALE logs. We didn't really know if these mystery callsigns were errors in decoding or not, so we didn't pay much attention to them... until... On 26 July 2005, it was after midnight in California, and I was testing HF long distance ALE linking with Graham VK6RO in Perth Australia, on the other side of the world from me. At about 0900 to 1100 UTC a really good propagation path between us opened up on 10MHz. As part of our testing, we had been sending ANYCALLs on 10136 kHz. (For those who aren't familiar with ALE jargon, an ANYCALL is a transmission that requests any ALE station that is scanning that channel to auto-respond and link.) To our surprise, several strange ALE callsigns linked with us in response to our ANYCALLs! The stations were strong signal levels for both of us... S9... so that added to the mystery. Here is an excerpt of our log that night: 10136kHz log: [10:42:53][FRQ 10136000][LINKED ][207 ] [10:44:28][FRQ 10136000][LINKED ][9VT ] [11:26:48][FRQ 10136000][AQC SND][ ][TIS][VUPPQ][AL0] BER 21 SN 05 NOISE 00 Also decoded address [TF1 ] Two of these stations turned out to be the Singapore Navy. Later that night, I was alerted by my ALE incoming call alarm, and surprised to find my station linked and responding with the 9VT station (Singapore Navy Base) who was sending ANYCALLs on 10136 kHz! Not wanting to start an international incident, we sent them a Sorry about that! AMD message, and frantically locked out 10136 from our scan list. That left us only 10146 kHz for testing, but the night wasn't over yet. Shortly another mysterious callsign linked with VK6RO's ANYCALL on 10146! Had they followed us? Were we being stalked in some sort of global electronic war game? Well, this time we found it wasn't the Singapore Navy, but, yet another mysterious group of ALE stations using a 600 numerical series as their callsigns on 10146. Were these 600 stations trying to hide or RF-camouflage themselves on our well-published ALE ham net channels? We probably will never know the answer because we haven't seen them since. But that late night in July was one we will well remember. Later, while looking for an alternative 10MHz channel frequency, we found more mystery ALE nets, including one that was using animal names such as Jaguar and Tiger as callsigns. In August 2005, we ended up moving our ALE ham channels to 10136.5 and 10145.5, and we still use these channels today. We haven't seen the same mystery stations since... but you never really know what strange stations you might link up with on a good propagation night in the future. So that'sthe rest of story behind why we don't use ANYCALLS much anymore, and whey some of the International Amateur Radio Automatic Link Establishment Channels http://hflink.com/#channels are on 0.5kHz incremental frequencies... It seems that many private/ commercial/ government ALE nets tend to use 1kHz increments for their channels. In the 10MHz and other shared ham bands, we learned from our experiences like these... ALE Automatic Link Establishment http://hflink.com 73 Bonnie KQ6XA
[digitalradio] New to the group, I need help.
My name is Richard Niemeyer, KC9JMW from Carbondale, Illinois, I need help getting started with digital modes, I have the interest and equipment I believe; but do not understand how to get it work. Need help setting up equipment and getting it working. Any help would be deeply appreciated. Kind Regards 73; Richard Niemeyer, KC9JMW 506 East Sycamore Street Carbondale, IL 62901 Telephone: (618)-924-3099 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web URL: http://www.sicertinc.org/ Weather Station: http://www.sicertinc.org/KC9JMW-WX/ http://www.mysticservices.org/ http://www.saraskywarn.org/ http://www.saraskywarn.org/ARES/ Field Day Event Web Site: http://www.saraskywarn.org/ARES/FD2007.html
[digitalradio] Re: Digitalradio Skypecast 0100 UTC June 15
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There will be a digitalradio Skypecast tonight at 0100 UTC ( 9PM Eastern in the USA/Canada) . Please consider joining us for an audio chat while working the digital modes. In Skype, search for digitalradio under the skypecast area. Andy K3UK Andy We tried connecting to digitalradio last night on skype and found the group but could not get connected Randy k8khw
Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digitalradio Skypecast 0100 UTC June 15
Same here. Skype had problems. I will test more and schedule another sometime next week. Andy. On 6/15/07, Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There will be a digitalradio Skypecast tonight at 0100 UTC ( 9PM Eastern in the USA/Canada) . Please consider joining us for an audio chat while working the digital modes. In Skype, search for digitalradio under the skypecast area. Andy K3UK Andy We tried connecting to digitalradio last night on skype and found the group but could not get connected Randy k8khw
Re: [digitalradio] New to the group, I need help.
Richard, welcome to the group. OK, lets get you started. You need A transceiver that supports SSB operations A computer (unless you have a rig that decodes digital modes without a computer). A soundcard that works with the computer . Audio cables that carry the signals to and from the rig and soundcard A USB or serial cable that allows your computer to control you radio (not absolutely essential but most people do this). Software to decode the digital signals. Getting Ready to receive. You connect the audio out from your radio to the LINE IN of your soundcard (make sure your LINE IN volume on your soundcard mixer is selected as active but keep the volume slider down to a minimum so that you don't blow you sound card with too much audio). Usually, the audio from your rig is taken from either a specific pin on the microphone jack, or from a pin on the accessory port on the back of newer radios. You can just take the audio from the speaker jack on the back of the radio although some folks recommend caution doing this. I've done it many times as a temporary measure, without problems. This method is useful if you want to quickly start receiving digital signals while learning more about what you need to get a digital station on the air. Most people wire up a connector, specfic to their rig, that not only takes the audio from the pin or the mic and/or accessory port, but also connects other pins that control push to talk functions, computer control of the radio (changing frequency ) and audio in from the PC that is to be transmitted over the air. Many wire this themselves according to widely available schematics specific to their rig. Software : Download Digipan , Winwarbler,or DM780, they are usually the easiest programs to get going and they are free. There are others like Multipsk or MMVARI but I would save those for another time. If you run Linux, look for software called FLDIGI. Receiving: Load the software, tune your radio to 14070, 7070 or 7034 USB. Look in the software for the button usually labeled mode and choose PSK31. This is the most commonly heard digital mode on the aforementioned frequencies. You will hear a warbling type of tone. If you have the audio from your rig to the soundcard correct, and the line-in selected in your soundcard mixer, you will see visual evidence of a signal. You will most likely see several signals that are represented by a steady vertical line scrolling down the waterfall. Take your mouse cursor and point it to one of the vertical lines and left-click on it. Your software should then start to display the text of the QSO on your screen. Locating the AFC button in your software is usually a good idea. With AFC turned on, the software will lock on to the signal even if your mouse clicks were a few Hz off the actual signal. Transmitting: The bare essentials are the audio cable from the LINE OUT of you PC to a specific pin on your rig's mic connector or accessory port. This is not recommended , I have done it with but with very low power. The connecting of your PC and rig via the audio cable (and potentially the serial/usb cable) introduces the world of hum, ground loops, and just plain stray RF. They get in to the transmitted signal and make it sound nasty and raspy. Usually no one can decode such a signal. Most hams solve this issue by building the rig control circuits that I mentioned previously AND incorporating hardware that shields the components and isolates the rig/PC so that hum/ground loops, RF feedback, and the like are eliminated . You can buy such circuitry commercially, they work well and range from $30.00 to $900 !!! Thy usually include cables made specifically for you radio. Common names are Microham, Rigblaster, SignaLink. The software (like Digipan, Winwarbler, DM780) have configuration or Set-up areas where you tell the software what type of radio you have, what baud rate the radio requires to communicate with the software, and what COMM PORT your computer is using to control the radio . When you get around to transmitting, MAKE SURE you start with the lowest output power you can set your rig to and make sure that the soundcard mixer that controls the transmit audio levels is also at a minimum. Overdoing things can damage the radio! When you are ready, I can give more specifics but the quick description is to set the radio output to JUST where the ALC meter begins to activate and then back off slightly. Usually the software you use has details about this in the help sections. When you transmit, via pressing a TX button in the software, you type ... and your words get transmitted! Eventually you get tired of typing your name and QTH a zillion time. The software have macros or buffers (an old term from last century) where you can store certain text and have it transmitted at the click of a mouse. So, feel free to ask more questions. Tell us more about what equipment you have for this. If you have all you
Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digitalradio Skypecast 0100 UTC June 15
I must be doing one (or more) things wrong with trying to get the 141A mode to work with Multipsk. I saw K8KHW frequently on the FRM: box and tried calling but no luck. I came back at one time and only got one line of text, even though hearing a lot of ALE sounds, and it mentioned that my call was detected by they could not connect to me. Even reading over Patrick's explanation of the mode(s) I get a bit confused as to where do you enter the call of the station you want to connect with. Do you have to put it in the options | Callsigns boxes? Do you use the normal Call box above the RS ID area for certain applications for 141A or do you not put anything in there? I had a contact with a local ham a few months ago using the ARQ FAE mode and although it was not robust enough to work well with an 8 pm local time contact on 75 meters (about 20-25 miles), it did work for a short time until the band lengthened. But I can not remember how I set up the contact. It seems to me that these modes should work more like connected packet radio works. A few simple commands, and then also could work as a BBS too. That always seemed to make sense to me in the old days. 73, Rick, KV9U Randy wrote: We tried connecting to digitalradio last night on skype and found the group but could not get connected Randy k8khw
