Monday 22 January 2007
E25 another guy again!
There were 2 transmissions today, from a different voice. Listen!
- 1208z: Carrier, good to very good signal strength.
- 1211z: Music, transmission breaks.
- 1217z: A different OM calling "830 12".
- 1221z: QRT (what does "QRT" mean? Q-codes).
- 1235z: Carrier on.
- 1236z: 1000 Hz test tone.
- 1244z: OM calling "780".
- 1249z: "Message" x3, repeating yesterday's message.
- 1253z: Repeat.
- 1258z: QRT.
Posted by Manolis at 13:11 2 comments
Labels: E11, E25, Number Stations
Sunday 21 January 2007
E25 getting serious
An OM trying really hard to defeat his mechanical counterparts, with a long (g21) message: 9450 kHz 1240z AM mode. Here is the message:
g21
9609 7012 4151 4029 8839 1795 3888 6815 2405 6746
0401 4243 3705 0571 9987 0787 6001 4103 1635 2916
4151
And here is the recording!
Posted by Manolis at 13:38 0 comments
Labels: E25, Number Stations
Friday 19 January 2007
Moscow, Russia HF-Fax
Moscow HF-Fax service seems to be active, but on different frequencies rfax initially mentions. In the end of the entry about Moscow Fax, the latest (May 2006) edition of rfax mentions:
(Update 3/2002) - Frequencies reported as 4318, 5108, 6890(night), 10611 and 13886 (night)
(Update 3/2002) - All broadcasts reported as 120/576 or 120/288 mode. 60 or 90 rpm is no longer used.
From my observations, the station is active on 10611 kHz and 13886 kHz (there is always an idling (?) digi station interfering) in the mornings, and 4318 kHz and/or 10611 kHz in the evenings. Here are some sample images from yesterday, logged on 10611 kHz:
Posted by Manolis at 16:24 0 comments
Wednesday 17 January 2007
E25 long message
E25 is back, sending a long (19 groups!) message on 9450 kHz AM at 1244z:
g19
3909 5091 5941 5814 0798 7670 5335 7429 9312 9030
2737 7587 2909 0407 4494 6094 5598 9856 5941
The third and last groups are the same. It seems to be typical for most E25 messages. Usually their messages are about 10 groups, but today 19! Maybe a lot of news to tell after a long time away. Listen my recording. It is the whole transmission. I have to add that around 1230z was a weaker carrier on the same frequency, 3/7 of my Sangean signal scal.e You can hear the power-up in the beginning, reaching 7/7, which is usual for my QTH.
I don't remember where I found this graph, relating the signal meter indication of my 909 with S-Units. My radio has a meter of 7 bars indicating full signal strength. If anyone has more info about the source of this graph, please leave a comment.
So 3/7 is S3-S5 and 7/7 is... S9+10+...
Posted by Manolis at 13:09 0 comments
Labels: E25, Number Stations, Sangean
Tuesday 16 January 2007
S06 Numbers Station
S06 Russian young lady was on 7740 kHz at 0809z, exactly as the painstaking fans of Slavic numbers stations predicted in the latest Enigma 2000 Newsletter, with the ID "352" repeated for some 4 minutes. I had a very clear signal, except from a RTTY pest about 4kHz higher, but after some DSP filtering it sounds great. Listen my recording: Can you hear the echo? It was a short 7-group message, ending "0 0 0 0 0". If you are bored with the ID, fast forward to the 4th minute of the recording!
Posted by Manolis at 16:08 0 comments
Labels: Number Stations, S06
Cape Navel today and... yesterday
The ionosphere is disturbed again, but reception on 18238 kHz today at around (!) 1530z was the best I ever had! The transmission started early at 1523z, and was a "blurred" Surface Analysis chart.
But yesterday... a series of false starts:
- 1538z: Transmission of a "blurred" Surface Analysis starts.
- 1549z: Stops! Starts again!
- 1552z: Starts again! Ends!
- 1553z: New trial: Header only!
- 1555z: New attempt, this one finishes normally at 1616z!
Posted by Manolis at 15:46 0 comments
Labels: Cape Naval, HF-Fax, Meteo, ZSJ