Re: [Spooks] US Number station?

2005-03-29 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Wil Wheaton wrote: There's a great article that clearly defines EAMs here: http://www.wunclub.com/files/eam.html Yesterday, in Los Angeles, I heard several transmissions loud and

Re: [Spooks] Now there are two Sam freqs, 1770 and 3890

2005-03-25 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Utility World (Hugh Stegman) wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list An Arizona listener on WUN found Sam on 1770 kHz DSB at 0910 UTC

Re: [Spooks] Sam's back, sort of, on 3890 kHz DSB

2005-03-23 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Tom Sevart wrote: I've got the unid station on 3890 DSB at 0558. It's got the buzz followed by the voice with a hard-to-decipher phrase instead of the two buzzes for a change. Tom

[Spooks] 7002 V beacon

2005-03-15 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Does anyone know what happened to the V V V beacon from Kazakhstan on 7002 kHz? I think it's been at least a couple years since I've heard it. I used to enjoy hearing it as a propagation indicator that I could

Re: [Spooks] Unid signal 4717

2005-03-15 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Here in NH as well It's between S7 and S9 here in IL at 0500Z.

Re: [Spooks] Re: Shortwave racing car? - 6250 KHz

2005-03-14 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I hear both XSL and the race car on 6250 here in Illinois right now (1340Z, 14 March) albeit very weak. The race car signal on 13237 is 20 dB over S9 now. Zack On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Tom Norris wrote: I'm

Re: [Spooks] Re:unid blank carrier

2005-03-10 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list My Kenwood TS-850 s-meter is showing it ranging from S7 to 20 dB over S9 here in east central Illinois. Some propagation fluctuations but mostly around 10 dB over 9. Very strong signal. E3 is very weak this

Re: [Spooks] Sam Signal Strength

2005-02-13 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Mark Taylor wrote: Here's my observations about Sam in the past 24 hours: Frequency3700 4300 6500 10500 Time 2/12/05 0230 S4S2

[Spooks] Son of (Yosemite) Sam

2005-02-12 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list For some reason I can't send mail to the list with my regular e-mail address now because spamcop has blacklisted me (or more appropriately my ISP) for some reason. I'm trying this different address I just used to

Re: [Spooks] Sam on 6500 khz

2005-02-11 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I'm hearing it at 1344Z on all four frequencies. It's been going continuously for over a day now. I'm going to ask some friends with 40 meter beams to try to DF it on 6500. Zack W9SZ On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Tom

RE: [Spooks] Sam theories.

2005-02-10 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Susan C. Hickey wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list kind of like the Commander Bunny and the Rodent Revolution folks I

Re: [Spooks] Sam theories.

2005-02-10 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list That is a possibility, but I'm intrigued by the buzz at the start of each transmission. There could be data being sent in some format we don't know about. Zack On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Damon Cassell wrote: I

Re: [Spooks] Sam theories.

2005-02-10 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I listened to 3700 quite a bit last night and in fact had the receiver set to that frequency all night. It was pretty quiet except for some CW early in the evening. I myself find a 7-second voice signal every

Re: [Spooks] Son of Sam..Smarter than we Think?

2005-02-10 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Tom Sevart wrote: If there were actually data being sent in the buzz, then why is the YS voice needed? I guess if we knew that, we wouldn't be discussing it so much. I'm beginning to

Re: [Spooks] Re: [enigma2000] E10

2005-02-09 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Interesting that the E10 transmissions picked up around this event. While we can only speculate on the content, it's obvious the meeting and cease-fire had some effect on the traffic. BTW, great name! Are

Re: [Spooks] Sam on 6500 khz

2005-02-09 Thread Zack Widup
stronger here in Western (Salem) Oregon CN84lv -Fibber Zack Widup wrote: I'm copying him now at 0425Z. He's on the weak side here but copyable. The signal seems to be changing strength as if he's switching antennas or changing the direction of a beam. I've spent the night working people

Re: [Spooks] Sam on 6500 khz

2005-02-09 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list That's very plausible. I hope they don't mind if we listen, too. Zack On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Damon Cassell wrote: The FCC never had any interest in Sam. There is no evidence to support the theory that they

Re: [Spooks] Sam on 6500 khz

2005-02-09 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Last night was the first time I ever heard the transmissions, and I only tuned in to 6500 kHz. The Spy Numbers website lists the other frequencies as 3700 (in the 75m ham band), 4300 and 10500 kHz. I have my

Re: [Spooks] Sam on 6500 khz

2005-02-09 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Well, then Kurt's suggestion that it's probably someone goofing around is more likely. I remember someone transmiting goofy things on top of CHU back in the early 70's - CHU Canada - Eastern Standard Time - A

Re: [Spooks] Various monitoring comments.

2005-02-09 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Yes, I noticed this on every transmission on 6500 last night. It could be that's the way the audio was recorded. Zack On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, KD7JYK wrote: YS on 10,500 USB, S3-S7 and fades considerably at

Re: [Spooks] Sam on 6500 khz

2005-02-09 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I've been listening since 2330Z. At first, I only heard 6500 and 10500 kHz. A couple people speaking Spanish on 10500 seemed to be freaking out about it - they could evidently hear it. Who they were, I don't

Re: [Spooks] Sam on 6500 khz

2005-02-08 Thread Zack Widup
until 0610Z and never heard another transmission. This is pretty bizarre! I can't imagine the purpose of it unless it's just someone fooling around. Zack On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Zack Widup wrote: I'm copying him now at 0425Z. He's on the weak side here but copyable. The signal seems

Re: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

2005-02-03 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list For the last few nights I've been listening for E10 on all the expected frequencies. This is around 0400-0500Z. I haven't heard a thing here in Illinos. Are conditions really that bad that their signals

[Spooks] Re: [enigma2000] E4 Cherry Ripe

2005-01-17 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list If you've been listening in the last day or so only, it could be the conditions. I have heard nothing of E3, E4 or E10 here over the last few days. The Cubans (V2, M8) are close enough that they still come in

Re: [Spooks] canadian chirping?

2005-01-17 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Sounds like CHU, the Canadian time station. Their frequencies are 3330, 7335 and 14670 kHz. The time announcements should alternate between English and French, CHU Canada - Coordinated Universal Time ... Zack

Re: [Spooks] Re: Rodent Revolution

2004-12-22 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Heehee - I just had to ask! Merry Christmas and keep those loggings coming! Zack W9SZ On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Al Fansome wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this

Re: [Spooks] Re: Rodent Revolution

2004-12-22 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I did a Google search and didn't get anywhere near 10,000 results. Only 6 pages of links. About 40% or so had to do with pirate radio/numbers stations. :) Zack On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Zack Widup wrote

Re: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

2004-12-21 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Are you the Al Fansome mentioned in the first Rodent Revolution message? :-) Zack On 21 Dec 2004, Spy Numbers Robot wrote: These loggings were submitted to the Spy Numbers Station Database on 2004-12-21

Re: [Spooks] Rodent Revolution

2004-12-19 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Yep, probably so. I kind of thought that. Zack On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Ary Boender wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I see that Indigo logged V5 on

Re: [Spooks] V2

2004-11-02 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list The quality of V2 varies drastically. Sometimes it just has a hum. Sometimes it's so distorted as to be unintelligible. Sometimes it has the CW of M8 mixed in with it. It's never consistent! Zack On Tue, 2

Re: Strange request: was RE: [Spooks] 6030 bubble

2004-10-29 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hi Lori, I don't know what kind of radio you're using, but a good set of headphones can be invaluable at times. I often have a lot of external noises that I have to get rid of - by putting on headphones, I can

Re: [Spooks] 6030 bubble

2004-10-28 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, what is the 'object' of the 6030 jamming? What station is being jammed? And a guess as to why? (If indeed it IS a jammer, of course.) And by

Re: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

2004-10-26 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On 26 Oct 2004, Spy Numbers Robot wrote: These loggings were submitted to the Spy Numbers Station Database on 2004-10-26 by EL KRISTO, LONG BEACH, CA - US. Freq ENIGMA Day MMDD UTC Mode

Re: [Spooks] E3

2004-10-21 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I think he is referring to the chime sound that happens three times before the main message is transmitted. It's in every E3 transmission I've heard. Zack On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Jochen Schäfer wrote:

Re: [Spooks] stupid question

2004-10-13 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list According to this website: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=48 Belgium is on CEST (Central European Summer Time) and is two hours ahead of UTC, e.g. at the moment it's 1805Z and 2005 or 8:05 PM

Re: [Spooks] Interesting Post About V2

2004-10-08 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Their signals are just as strong in Illinois. I don't have rotatable antennas (beams) so I can't get a direction for their signals. I'm curious where someone could hide a transmitter in the USA running that

Re: [Spooks] Interesting Post About V2

2004-10-08 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hmm ... here are some of the things I've noted about V2/M8. Very irregular and poor transmit quality, the voice transmissions often mixed in with other voice signals which are not consistent (other V2

Re: [Spooks] WAS: Counting Station NOW Feld Hell?

2004-09-23 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hellschreiber is used in the ham bands almost exclusively up 60 to 65 kHz from the bottom of the CW segment (e.g. 14060 kHz). I enjoy it as a digital mode. I don't know what commercial use of Hellschreiber is

[Spooks] V2a I/P

2004-09-14 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hello, I'm listening to V2a on 4479 and 10446 kHz right now (15 Sept UTC 0325). The signal on 10446 has two voices going at once. One is predominant, and the other (weaker) one is identical to the transmission

Re: [Spooks] Equipment

2004-09-06 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I'm a radio amateur so I have been using my Kenwood TS-440 and/or TS-850 ham transceivers which have general-coverage receive capability from about 100 kHz to 30 MHz. You would probably want a general-coverage

Re: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

2004-08-27 Thread Zack Widup
made in the data base. Please check the data base for me to verify that the changes were correctly made. Thanks for letting us know. Bob Swartz Zack Widup wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On 27 Aug 2004, Spy Numbers Robot

Re: [Spooks] dead carrier

2004-08-24 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tom H wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hearing a dead (blank) carrier on 6942am at this moment.. been going on for several hours.

[Spooks] 13528 MXI beacon cluster

2004-08-23 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I'm hearing a new beacon this morning. Besides the P, D and S on this MXI cluster, I'm also hearing a C beacon on 13528.01. This is at 1245Z on Aug. 23. 73, Zack W9SZ

Re: [Spooks] E 10a

2004-08-19 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I have noticed that the voice on E10 transmissions sounds quite muffled and it's difficult to make out some of the words, such as Zulu, when spoken. Zack On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [Spooks] Re: [WUN] what is it? Sample

2004-08-18 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list is that like my Hohner It's in the key of D and I'm a pretty good player...:-)

Re: [Spooks] New Beacon Cluster ?

2004-08-17 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Interesting! I heard them all last night (~0300Z, Aug 17) and then this morning here (~1200Z) the D and P beacons were of equal strength but I couldn't hear the S beacon at all. At Z Aug. 18 the S beacon

Re: [Spooks] New Beacon Cluster ?

2004-08-16 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I hear all three here in central Illinois. The D and P beacons are about the same strength and the S beacon is a little weaker. All three are in and out of the noise here. Zack - Original Message -

Re: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

2004-08-11 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list This brings up a question: The ENIGMA2000 Short Form, Morse Station Profile List has the cut numbers listed as: M8a ICW. Uses Cut Numbers T 0, A 1, N 2, D 3, U 4, W 5, R 6, I 7, G 8, M 9 The

Re: [Spooks] (no subject)

2004-07-15 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I'm a ham who never SWL'd before I got a Grundig AM SW radio for my birthday

Re: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

2004-07-07 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list This was Cuban station V2a. Very loud here in Illinois. The propagation gods must be smiling on me! Either that or it's my TS-850. :-) 73, Zack These loggings were submitted to the Spy Numbers Station

Re: Re: [Spooks] Question about spy numbers

2004-06-24 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, SKaReCRoW wrote: As far as radios, I really need to get something better, hopefully with digital tuning. I have an old Grundig Traveller II PE that I borrowed from a friend, but I can't

Re: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

2004-05-26 Thread Zack Widup
sent. Is there a way to remove this first set from the database? Zack On 26 May 2004, Spy Numbers Robot wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list These loggings were submitted to the Spy Numbers Station Database on 2004-05-26 by Zack Widup

Re: [Spooks] Re: [enigma2000] 10512/11363

2004-05-19 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list This is a very curious station. I heard it again last night starting at about 2230Z when I got home from work. It was about S7 then. By Z it was up to 20 dB over S9 and stayed at about that strength until

[Spooks] Quacking duck?

2004-05-19 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hi, Is there a recording on the web somewhere of the quacking duck station? I'm wondering if it is the same thing as what some of us radio amateurs have been calling the chicken. It has occasionally made

[Spooks] XM Whales

2004-05-19 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I've been sitting here listening to the Whales station on 10512 kHz for a while. At 0505Z there was a sudden change in the loping, wandering tones. It suddenly went into a rapid pattern of uniform tone changes for

[Spooks] Re: [enigma2000] 10512/11363

2004-05-17 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list This station XW Whales is on 10512 right now (0400Z 18 May 2004) and is a good 20 or 30 dB over S9 in central Illinois. VERY loud! I also hear Piccolo on 6940. It sould a lot like the version of Piccolo that

RE: [Spooks] E5 logging?

2004-05-13 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Could someone be playing around with the posting form on the blackcatsystems website? Since it doesn't require any sort of membership, password or ID validation to post a logging there, it seems to me someone

Re: [Spooks] E5 logging?

2004-05-12 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list That spot is a bit mysterious. It appears to be a duplicate of the spot in the spynumbers database (comments and all) of number 55019 on 1999-07-13 by Steve Gunn with the date and spotter changed. Was it an

Re: [Spooks] Introduction

2004-05-12 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On Wed, 12 May 2004, Ben Mesander wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Slot machine info:

[Spooks] V2A

2004-05-06 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list V2A on 11566.0 kHz now (0336Z 7 May 2004). I noticed something interesting the other night when I heard V2A on another frequency. I don't know much Spanish but I do know numbers. Not once in the time I was

[Spooks] V2 strings

2004-05-05 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hi, V2 active right now on 9323.0 kHz (0420Z 5 May) Zack __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help:

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