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9-Jan:
11530.0 HM01 2305 AM In progress with low modulation, preamble 56545
52116 74224 55864 26015 74421, usual procedure with repeat around bottom
of hour. WED (9-Jan-2012) (HS)
10-Jan:
16180.0
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HM01 16180 5-Jan-2012 2130 in progress, no // found. SAT (HS)
HM01 17480 2200 Usual three groups ending in 1, then voice and RDFT. No
// found. SAT (HS)
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HM01 17540 05-Jan-2013 2302 Carrier started on time, voice was late.
Solid S9 signal. So far, no // found. SAT (HS)
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HM01 16180.0 kHz 2147 29 Dec 2012
Found Cuban AM numbers (V02 style) in progress at 2145, continuous 5F
groups with 9s, switched to HM01 format at 2147, continued until 2155,
then stopped and dropped carrier.
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It would appear that HM01, the Hybrid Mode of V02 and SK01, has some
sort of schedule it this time period on 16180 kHz AM. So far, it's been
heard in progress ~2140 on Tuesday (Dec 25) and Saturday (Dec 29).
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Has anyone else heard SK01 with RDFT in double-sideband AM? I caught
one the other night. Unfortunately, I was doing something else and
didn't log the time or frequency. I did, however make a picture of the
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I'm trying to get up to speed on EV01. I've read everything Ary has,
and Token's posts about it. I can't find anything on what the EV stands
for, or who named it. Yes, I did JFGI. :-)
??
Thanks.
-hugh
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Thanks, Ary!
-hugh
On 4/2/2012 2:22 PM, Ary Boender wrote:
Hi Hugh,
EV01 stands for English Voice 01 and it is named by NO because there is no
Enigma designator for this station
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I'm interested in doing something about EV01. I've read everything
about it on Spooks and ENIGMA. What does EV stand for?
Thank you.
-hugh
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Agreed that the idler which goes nosiree bob, nosiree bob, nosiree bob
bob bob is for sync and channel probes. This waveform is only used in
Japan and has stations of varying range on ~13 known frequencies.
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Heard it last night on 7865 USB starting around 0300 UTC. It was still
going strong at 0530. This is via the Hong Kong GlobalTuner.
-hugh
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The 7865 is a new
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Hi Mary! I've seen a few stations like this myself, but they never had
blast doors. :-)
The pictures look to me like one of those nuke-hardened facilities deep
underground or inside granite mountains, that
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Hi, Ary. It seemed to get quiet around 2145. Thanks for the
information that it stayed that way.
-hugh
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Hugh, I listened here at 2250 UTC 25-9 but it was quiet on
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Now there's music. It's some sort of broadcast, definitely
on-frequency, sounds the same in AM or USB. Too weak to get much.
-hugh
On 9/25/2010 12:49 PM, Richard Ness wrote:
Dear group,
4625khz strong
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Recording still in progress. I doubt any attempt at translating this
mess would be very rewarding.
The English station is KBS World Radio from Seoul, Korea. KBS is a
legitmate broadcaster that does have an
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There is no Buzzer, but the frequency remains in active military use.
This seems to be some kind of CW net callup every day at 1900 UTC.
The control station today was FINQ. The op is using the same kind of
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Weak buzzing started right at 1611, or 9:11 Pacific. Nine Eleven. I'm
sure that was a coincidence. Weird, though.
I did hear the Russian female message. It was distorted and hard to
make out.
Strong
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Again at 1900 today (September 6)
4625 kHz cw at 1000 hz
Received over Internet:
F6J6 F6J6 QSA? K
X7XU X7XU X7XU DE
F6J6 F6J6 QSA? K
WN8C WN8C WN8C DE F6J6 F6J6 QSA? K
YF9M DE F6J6 R K
MJY9 MJY9 MJY9 M
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No STANAG here (via the Internet stream). Just an erratic sine wave
that has some kind of keying every 60 seconds. It jumps from 560 to
around 570 Hz and then goes back down in steps, like a coarsely
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Too funny. Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Bart caught an
Albanian spy.
-hugh
On 9/3/2010 2:10 PM, pouncer...@aol.com wrote:
UVB=76, a shortwave radio station nicknamed The Buzzer, has started
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I keep telling you people, any time you want something to change, get me
to write a column about it.
At least this time I hadn't e-mailed it yet.
Chief, stop the presses, get me rewrite!
-hugh
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10255.0 USB 17 March 10 Unid station started at 1604 with
announcement and 5F group message in Vietnamese. Much weaker than the
last time. S3 with fading.
-hugh
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10255.0 USB Vietnamese OM with numbers in 5F groups Sunday 14 March
2010, started 1557. Appears to have signed at 1611.
Weird not having to dig one of these stations out of the noise for a
change. He's
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9063.0 CW (True OOK) M8A x GNTAD TNIDD in progress, late tune in at
0508 Monday UTC. Good signal into CA and good keying.
-hugh
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Yup, that's it. Thanks for the good link.
I remember the Chinese jamming, but wasn't aware it was now chasing Sound of
Hope all over the bands. VOA has some good recordings of these guys posted
somewhere. I
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10200.0 kHz has double sideband AM traditional Chinese music (normal tinkly
stuff, and with lots of good drumming), been on since around 1815 UTC when I
discovered it. Weak signal with rapid fading, better in
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Yes, this seems to be a new transmitter. It does M8a and V2a, sometimes in
the same broadcast :-) .
-hugh
Anyone noticed that M8a schedule that has been
appearing for the last few days? Interesting
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Whales always seem to appear on or near US military frequencies. It's
some kind of open-circuit noise. When someone talks, the sound stops. When
the freq is quiet, the sound builds gradually, like the gain
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http://www.phonetrips.com and scroll down. Lot of recordings of early
phone phreaking stuff there too. Enjoy!
Right, I have listened to that stuff for hours.
For pictures of old stepping switches, crossbar
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Maybe just someone fooling around and having a blast about it.
It's such a great idea for a conceptual art project that I wish I'd thought
of it. That 212 number wouldn't happen to go to Soho would it? :-)
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L.A. had a bunch of these voice machines when they were still relatively
rare and otherwise used mostly by movie theaters. Another famous one had
been around so long that it was called VERMONT from the former
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Yes, your tutorial is accurate. This is a confirmed M8a weekly sked, and
it's been written up by the hams any number of times. The FCC knows about
it and the FBI knows about it, and presumably other people who
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The ten-meter amateur band is in between, 28.000 - 29.700 MHz. I don't
know who gets the extra 300 kHz at the top.
ITU allocates the bottom 100 kHz to land-mobile, and the rest to fixed and
aviation/space,
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I've seen mention of them on the web before. They're a watertight beacon
that transmits on an antenna wire that floats along with the top of a
drift net. These are used by fishermen to track down their nets
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I'd be inclined to agree with Kurt. I don't think a simple whip like you
see on VHF would be very efficient on 4 MHz with these low-powered
transmitters. These beacons actually get out pretty well, and I'd
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Propagation favors a location in Arizona or the California desert. These
are real low power and very likely placed by hobbyists in extremely isolated
areas. One of the transmitter designs has a frequency that
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Looks like music to me. The low frequency modulation is in the bass
register, and the little lines are different chords and harmonics. These
short tinkly notes are characteristic of a lot of Chinese music.
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If $30,000 US is getting a little too rich for your blood, there's also a
somewhat more banged up one with modern replacement lamps (but rotor numbers
intact) in Italy, so far only $12k:
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Over on the Enigma2000 list they've recently been spending a lot of time on
E10, and that might have attracted some attention. I've always hoped that
at least some of the spooks get a laugh reading all our
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As I said, I can't put a place mark on the suspected R. Havana site because
Google tried to put a Browser Hijack Object into Explorer (even though I use
Firefox) and I don't allow those on my computer.
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I've added two placemarks to the Utility World web site:
These sure look like radio telescope dishes on the old Lourdes base:
http://www.ominous-valve.com/lourdes.kmz
Suspected Radio Havana Cuba site:
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I've found another abandoned ball field. Lourdes, after all, was a big
base.
-hugh
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Google Earth recently added a high-resolution aerial picture of the Havana
area, and it's become quite the pastime to poke around looking for stuff.
One good area is south and west of Havana near a little town
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I think the soldier was referring to military communications. I can't
imagine how any intelligence agency that recruits its lowest level of grunt
informants from the target population would just hand them their
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Probably navigation since they transmit most often during naval exercises or
major operations of some sort. C is Moscow. These beacons are all over the
Russian Federation and Ukraine, and that's a big area to be
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Oh, that's funny. I guess if you've heard one sinister secret conspiracy
you've heard them all. I investigated HAARP pretty thoroughly and although
I found plenty of information worth being scared about, none of
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Third try on this one - first two bounced as spam:
You can imagine how often something as generic as utility world gets
spoofed, and then blacklisted by these spam bots. I go for days at a time
without being
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7005 makes a lot of chords around here when the DX lurkers all hear a new
one and pounce at once, but usually they are more microtonal than
well-tempered. Maybe you caught them on an especially even-tempered day.
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Have there been reports of IF (intermediate frequency)
jamming south-southwest of New Orleans?
Someone involved with the HF ham radio relief effort reported a strong
transmitter on 455 kHz blocking their
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That signal sounds like someone has been playing with Kraftwerk samples.
I strongly suspect a pirate. There's one guy in France who does a lot of
this.
Proponents of house music and some mixed-media artists are
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Globe Wireless markers on 4459.0 from the Dixon site in north central
California. I have it S9 right now in day time, so the radius is right.
Someone else reported a weird noise on 6431.4 which is also a Globe
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I would hope that they'd at least have the LP's tune recorded off the air,
though I'd love to hear that and Cherry Ripe on the piano.
When I did the interview they'd already talked to Simon Mason. Seems as if
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I did an interview for that. It'll be fun to see how much they use.
-hugh
here is the definitly time of transmission, as one of the guys from BBC
told me: April 23rd, 1030 UTC, on BBC Radio 4.
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An Arizona listener on WUN found Sam on 1770 kHz DSB at 0910 UTC (middle of
the night local time). It was 30 seconds before the 3890 transmission. The
signal is now back to tone burst and garbled voice.
More
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The clip being broadcast on the air is available online. It sure sounds
like Mel Blanc, who did a lot of these voices.
It's definitely Yosemite Sam, from a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
-hugh
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Nothing on 6700 but a carrier and nothing on 8000.55 during the day.
6700 is reputed to be in Southern California. I hear only the carrier you
mention. Once I heard dits. I didn't write it down and of course
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L in Albania? Is this the only one outside the former USSR?
-hugh
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Interesting, because I have always assumed M8 was simply V2 with different
software and transmitter configurations (SSB vs straight AM) working off
the same files. Sometimes M8 and V2 have actually switched on the
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