Reverse E25

After a hard weekend I'm back! E25 on the air today with another surprise:

• 1241z: Carrier.
• 1242z: 1000 Hz tone.
• 1245z: OM starts calling "780 30 29 788 28 27" then correctly "780 785 30 29..." (Initially he missed 785). Note the countdown!
• 1251z: "780" repeated, then message:

9496 9080 1831 3673 1003 5721 2851 1831

• 1253z: Repeat.
• 1254z: "End of message, end of transmission", then QRT.

It's the first time I see a countdown! Usually the reverse was the case! Here is the recording! Note that some clicks/pops heard are due to a faulty antenna connection. Luckily, it was easy to repair!

Yesterday's transmission:
After listening Sunday's recording, this transmission was the same, but without yesterday's failures! A lot of breaks happened during the calling session (780 785 etc...). Today I was experiencing "technical difficulties"!

Murmansk, Russia Meteo HF-Fax

An unusual HF-Fax station logged today with success. It is supposed to be Murmansk Radio. Rfax info is partially outdated.

8444 kHz, 1330z

This station must be decoded with the receiver in LSB mode. My Sangean was tuned on 8446 kHz LSB. The transmission was wider than 800 Hz, and I didn't noticed the series of tones that triggers the decoder. So another difficult station, not because its distance!

I logged this station yesterday at 1456z and 2007z, so keep an ear(!) at 1440z and 2000z (or something like that!) on 8444 kHz!

E25: Entirely new music theme but no message

For at least 25 minutes E25 was on air today, playing music. Not the usuals. I tuned on 9450 kHz at 1207z and it was already there, until 1229z. I think they tried to transmit a message with no success at 1223z. Here is the sample, ~1221z till the end of the TX. Any ideas about the music?

Yesterday only two "control" messages:

• 9450 kHz 1226z 25/01: "Arouh Le Min" intro, 557 4, RTTY QRM
• 9450 kHz 1246z 25/01: 785 29 30 788 27 28, RTTY QRM

E25

Two messages today but with a lot of transmitter failures and four(?) announcers. Carrier was present at 1221z until 1252z, with many breaks. Two messages were sent, old ones with just a minor difference:

• 1226z: "Arouh Le Min" music intro by Umm Kulthum. A lot of breaks.
• 1230z: OM calling "555".
• 1232z: TX failure.
• 1233z: TX on, other OM into 17g message, as of 23/01!
• 1235z: Repeat.
• 1237z: EOM EOT. Carrier left on.

Listen here the sample! Then another message:

• 1244z: Another OM (more familiar to me!) calling 780.
• 1246z: Message: 21g message from another guy! As of 21/01 but with one exception: 2nd group "8012" instead of "7012"!
• 1249z: "Re beat!"
• 1252z: EOM EOT, QRT.

And here is the second sample! Both transmissions with excellent signal strength.

The other musical theme is "Inte Omri" also by Umm Kulthum. I like them both, actually I like this type of music for its instrumental richness, tempo and vocals. After all, Greek music is influenced by oriental music. A Greek label (EMI) has released some of her art, as you can read here.

E25 2 voices

E25 today with music intro and 17 groups. Listen today's recording; transmitter's power up in the beginning (1223z) is very spooky! Here is the 17g message to "555". Frequency is as always 9450 kHz AM.

g17
1092 6171 3010 6553 7095 2187 1503 4975 9753 6852
6226 2203 2099 1141 5388 4279 3010

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Update 24/01/2007:
Mike independently logged E25 yesterday and noted two voices, i.e. a second guy took the microphone for the message. It seems to be true, as I posted my log in a great hurry, not carefully listening my recording and didn't notice it. They have similar voices hi hi! Here is the number "five" spoken by both of them, in this short stereo sample. One channel is the first OM, when calling "555" and the other is a "five" from the message. Use the balance control of your soundcard to hear the one or the other channel and compare.

UNID HF-Fax station

Unidentified HF-Fax station logged on 4067 kHz today on 1631z, 1701z, 1731z, 1801z:

It seems Russian to me :-)

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).

Then while waiting for another transmission, I tune on 9443 kHz to check for E11. When E11's YL said "Out", I tuned back to 9450 kHz, and voila! 20 secs after E11, the E25 transmitter was turned on. I was really lucky! Listen the whole process!

• 1235z: Carrier on.
• 1236z: 1000 Hz test tone.
• 1244z: OM calling "780".
• 1249z: "Message" x3, repeating yesterday's message.
• 1253z: Repeat.
• 1258z: QRT.

The signal was perfect this time, in contrast with 1208z transmission.