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This has got to be the biggest blob of pure speculation I've ever put
down in writing, so feel free to dismiss it in its entirety.
For a while now I've wanted to hear HM01 on 9330 KHz at 06:00 UTC on a
Tuesday or Thursday. As you can guess, I didn't. But seeing as how I
wasn't able to find HM01 in any of the familiar places, I kept my ears
open to the 9.3MHz range. And it may have paid off.
Somewhere around 06:07 I heard a string of numbers in Russian ("...tri
admin vosim nul"?) on 9332 KHz - just close enough to now-silent 9330
KHz. About three minutes later (06:10) I heard a continuous tone on
9331 KHz suggesting a carrier. A few moments after that there began a
10-minute-long transmission that, to my untrained ear, sounded like
RTTY.
Now, at this point my brain starts going haywire: I'm expecting
Spanish, I've heard Russian, there's RTTY, and in the back of my mind
there's some recollection of Russia talking about reopening a
transmitter in Cuba. After the better part of an hour searching
through the mailing list, N&Os, E2Ks, and Priyom, I finally hit on it:
"Lourdes Base: Cuba, Russia Agree to Reopen Spy Post, Source Says"
<http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/lourdes-base-cuba-reopen/2014/07/16/id/583136>
All throughout the search for "Lourdes" I kept an ear open in the 9.3
MHz range. And, sure enough, I heard something that... well, I can't
quite describe it: it was an organized series of pulses lasting about
a second and running for two minutes. The pulses had a constance and
static-like quality to them, which suggest data transmission - not a
burst of power which fades in potency. I don't know what a diplomatic
communiqué would sound like, but I suspect that's what I might have
heard.
Anyway, after digesting all these facts and observations (and washing
it down with a cup of coffee) I began to think that maybe HM01's
Tu/Th/Sa 9330 KHz transmission might not be as dead as we think it is.
Perhaps (and it's a big "perhaps") what I heard was a
Russian-reactivated Lourdes Base test on seemingly-dead 9330?
Like I said, pure speculation; feel free to dismiss it. But, still... :-/
- KC2TTK
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