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I was able to snag some of it off of the U. Twente WebSDR. I don't know if it's Fldigi or me who isn't having much luck making sense of it. It's shared at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3HdNvyAc7FRN1FCMmMwNFVyVTA/view?usp=sharing - KC2TTK On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Ary Boender <a...@luna.nl> wrote: > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this > list > > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
