Tuesday 6 February 2007
Monday 5 February 2007
E10 in parallel with Slavic OM
I just caught E10 calling SYN2 on 3840 kHz USB, at 2051z, in parallel with a Slavic male counting live! Listen!
Posted by Manolis at 21:09 1 comments
Labels: E10, Number Stations
E25
We had two transmissions today, one in Arabic and one in English. Both are the same as yesterday's transmissions. There was a notable difference though. Yesterday in the Arabic message, single digits were first, while today they came second.
- Arabic transmission: 9450 kHz AM 04/02 1220z (listen!)
9260 / 29 6 0
4621 / 64 12
1410 / 41 1 0
6729 / 76 92
8917 / 98 71
9416 / 49 61
2339 / 32 93
9260 / 29 6 0
7479 / 47 97
- Arabic transmission: 9450 kHz AM 05/02 1211z Different announcer, clearer voice for me to translate! (listen!)
29 6 0 / 9260
64 12 / 4621
41 1 0 / 1410
76 92 / 6729
98 71 / 8917
46 91 / 6419
32 93 / 2339
29 6 0 / 9260
47 97 / 7479
- English transmission: 9450 kHz AM 05/02 1241z, same as of 31/01 (listen!)
I hope my translation to be correct. Time for rest now...
Update 08/02/2007:
After Mr DXer's comment, I corrected the translation! Thanks Mr DXer! Yes I confuse sitta (6) with tissa (9) because sometimes I can't hear the stressed "t" in tissa. Some of the E25 announcers are more difficulr for me to understand!
Posted by Manolis at 13:34 1 comments
Labels: E25, Number Stations
Friday 2 February 2007
UNID HF-Fax station: Must be Tashkent!
I did a search to some old HF-Fax images, received back in 2001-2002 where the Sun was more kind to us offering more sunspots! I found some similar images, of better quality, which resemble the ones I've posted earlier. The service's logo is visible, and I think it reads "UZHYMET". So it must be Uzbekistan. I'll show you my older images later, and ask you if I'm right. Here is a link to the Weather Service web page. Still I haven't found more info about fax transmissions...
First, I believe a transmission was on air commencing earlier than ~1359z, but it was under heavy QRN. A series of images followed, with slightly different timing than the previous days.
There was also a transmission at 1801z, but I was listening to G11 of course!
Here are the old pictures. Definitely then the conditions were better, despite being received in a more noisy location and with Sangean's 7 meter random wire antenna!
I have uploaded them full-sized so you can read the labels more easily! Unfortunately no frequency details available. I was novice then and underestimated the value of a good logbook! But it is obvious that the conditions were much better back in 2001.
Thursday 1 February 2007
G11 is back!
Great news! G11 is back on 5779 kHz USB at 1800z with great signal! Listen!
Posted by Manolis at 18:36 3 comments
Labels: G11, Number Stations
Wednesday 31 January 2007
E25 with a lot of pops and breaks
I tuned on 9450 kHz at 1201z and a nice carrier was present. But with a lot of pops and later with transmission breaks.
- 1201z: Carrier was present.
- 1212z: Music intro: "Arouh Le Min".
- 1217z: Music stops, hum, bump, man starts calling "8... 830 13".
- 1223z: Mic taps, QRT.
And then the breaks party begun:
- 1241z: Carrier up again.
- 1246z: After a series of test tones and transmission failures, a man starts calling "780 785..." failure again...
- 1249z: Background noises! A voice! Door screeching, then man calling "780 785 29 30 788 27 28" many times.
- 1253z: OM calling "780" many times.
- 1254z: Message of 6 groups: 1310 0160 1111 1754 2130 1111
- 1255z: Repeat.
- 1256z: EOM EOT, QRT.
Important observation!
Richard from e2k group noted:
The last 2 digits of the second group indicates group count. For example, 2nd group today was 0160, the last 2 digits are 60. If you reverse the order (06) you have the group count!Try it in every message I posted and see that it works! Thanks Richard! This tip seems to work even in my old logs!
Posted by Manolis at 20:09 0 comments
Labels: E25, Number Stations
Big news from E10 YHF
Massive traffic from E10 these days. YHF is sending 3 or 4(!) messages in a slot, which is rare. More info can be found in the Enigma2000 group, the one of the greatest Number Stations resources.
This morning, YHF resend the massive 4 messages. I was tuned on 7918 kHz not to miss the unique oportunity to listen E10 Lady saying "Four messages!" Here is the recording. Some noise reduction and dynamics processing was applied, just for your listening pleasure!
Warning:
It is a little more than 6 Mb and lasts 55mins. Listening to numbers for such prolonged time may have undesired mind-controlling side-effects! (Just kidding!)
Enjoy!
Posted by Manolis at 12:47 0 comments
Labels: E10, Number Stations