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Hi John, You are right about the Russians being back in Cuba. Several Russian RTTY transmissions have been heard from the south. I do however hear HM01 almost daily on 9330 kHz. So it is still active. The Russian numbers transmission on 9332 is interesting. I haven't heard it myself nor do I have it listed. Any chance that you recorded it??? There are several Russian military RTTY stations between 9327 and 9332. They pop up every now and then and they are there for years. It is of course possible that they are now also sending these from Cuba. I don’t know. It is certainly interesting to keep an eye on the freq, especially for the voice transmissions. Cheers, Ary -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Spooks [mailto:spooks-boun...@mailman.qth.net] Namens ? KC2TTK Verzonden: dinsdag 3 maart 2015 8:54 Aan: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations Onderwerp: [Spooks] HM01: Life after 9330 KHz? Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list 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 ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
