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I think it's unlikely that the Russians have installed a transmitter at Lourdes, since it is a listening post and they wouldn't want a high powered transmitter there. It wouldn't be out of the question if they installed a transmitter elsewhere in order to support the Lourdes mission, though, as a possible backup to send data back to Moscow. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:54 AM, ✇ KC2TTK <kc2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- Tom Sevart N2UHC St. Paul, KS ______________________________________________________________ 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
