[Spooks] HM01 Jan 9-12

2013-01-12 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)

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9-Jan:

11530.0  HM01  2305  AM  In progress with low modulation, preamble 56545 
52116 74224 55864 26015 74421, usual procedure with repeat around bottom 
of hour.  WED  (9-Jan-2012) (HS)


10-Jan:

16180.0  HM01  2059  AM  In progress at 2059, preamble 88714 17382 72854 
81155 21733 72141, RDFT tone at 2102; s5-9, rapid fading, poor quality. 
(10-Jan-2012) THU  (HS)


17480.0  HM01  2214  AM  Found in progress at 2214, much better signal, 
preamble 88714 17382 72854 81155 21733 72141. Finished at 2259, but just 
started all over again and kept going until 2300 when it cut suddenly. 
THU  (10-Jan-2012) (HS)


17540.0  HM01  2302  AM  Started at 2302, but exactly where 17480 would 
have been, meaning it was in progress with preamble 88714 17382 72854 
81155 21733 72141 when the carrier and audio came up. Good signal with 
fading.  THU  (10-Jan-2012) (HS)


11-Jan:

10715.0  HM01  2158  AM  Started  at 2158, very low mod, unintelligible, 
on a strong carrier, audio got a little better showing preamble 88715 
17383 72855 81156 21734 72142 (note each group +1 from yesterday). 
Sometime around 2230, a parallel started up on 11530. 10715 dropped 
carrier 2253 while 11530 continued on with just carrier.  FRI 
(11-Jan-2012) (HS)


11530.0  HM01  2259  AM  Good clear signal with some fading, preamble 
88715 17383 72855 81156 21734 72142. Cut abruptly at 2338.  FRI 
(11-Jan-2012) (HS)


12-Jan:

16180.0  HM01  2058  AM  Loud (+10 peak) carrier, severe fading and low 
modulation, preamble 88716 17384 72856 81157 21735 72143 (note again 
each group +1 from yesterday's). Gone at 2156.  SAT  (12-Jan-2012) (HS)


17480.0  HM01  2200  AM  Same loud carrier, better audio and started at 
2200 sharp with preamble 88716 17384 72856 81157 21735 72143. Finished 
and dropped carrier at 2256.  SAT  (12-Jan-2012) (HS)


17540.0  HM01  2258  AM  Same loud carrier, good audio, preamble 88716 
17384 72856 81157 21735 72143  SAT  (12-Jan-2012) (HS)



-hugh
Southern California, USA
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[Spooks] HM01 Saturday

2013-01-05 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)

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HM01  16180 5-Jan-2012 2130 in progress, no // found. SAT (HS)
HM01  17480 2200 Usual three groups ending in 1, then voice and RDFT. No 
// found. SAT (HS)


-hugh


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[Spooks] HM01 Saturday Again

2013-01-05 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)

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HM01  17540  05-Jan-2013  2302  Carrier started on time, voice was late. 
Solid S9 signal. So far, no // found. SAT (HS)

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[Spooks] HM01 16180 kHz again

2012-12-29 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)

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HM01 16180.0 kHz  2147  29 Dec 2012
Found Cuban AM numbers (V02 style) in progress at 2145, continuous 5F 
groups with 9s, switched to HM01 format at 2147, continued until 2155, 
then stopped and dropped carrier. Nowhere near as loud as HM01 was at 
the same time/frequency on Christmas day (25 Dec 2012). (HS)

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Re: [Spooks] Cuban #'s in late East Coast US afternoon

2012-12-29 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)

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It would appear that HM01, the Hybrid Mode of V02 and SK01, has some 
sort of schedule it this time period on 16180 kHz AM.  So far, it's been 
heard in progress ~2140 on Tuesday (Dec 25) and Saturday (Dec 29).


-hugh

On 12/29/2012 12:22 PM, David Goren wrote:


Are there still daily Cuban #'s around 2000-2200?

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Re: [Spooks] SK01

2012-07-01 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Has anyone else heard SK01 with RDFT in double-sideband AM?  I caught 
one the other night.  Unfortunately, I was doing something else and 
didn't log the time or frequency.  I did, however make a picture of the 
spectrogram if anyone wants it.  It clearly shows a full carrier and the 
same RDFT 8-tone waveform in both sidebands.

-hugh
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[Spooks] EV01: It's dumb question time

2012-04-02 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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I'm trying to get up to speed on EV01.  I've read everything Ary has, 
and Token's posts about it.  I can't find anything on what the EV stands 
for, or who named it.  Yes, I did JFGI. :-)

??

Thanks.

-hugh
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Re: [Spooks] [UDXF] EV01: It's dumb question time

2012-04-02 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Thanks, Ary!

-hugh

On 4/2/2012 2:22 PM, Ary Boender wrote:
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 EV01 stands for English Voice 01 and it is named by NO because there is no
 Enigma designator for this station
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Re: [Spooks] EV01

2012-03-30 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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I'm interested in doing something about EV01.  I've read everything 
about it on Spooks and ENIGMA.  What does EV stand for?

Thank you.

-hugh

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 10700 khz, 14-03, 1526 UTC AM: EV01 in progress. 1st male voice. Then female
 voice. Very weak

 Ary
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Re: [Spooks] XSL Question

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Agreed that the idler which goes nosiree bob, nosiree bob, nosiree bob 
bob bob is for sync and channel probes.  This waveform is only used in 
Japan and has stations of varying range on ~13 known frequencies.

The data segments (payloads) are obviously encrypted and usually they 
have the same chop-chop-chop as the idler (though not always).

The casinos seem to be replacing the machine which sounds like this with 
newer video based money eaters.  Future generations will not be able to 
hear something that sounds unsettlingly like Japanese secure 
communication every time they drop a quarter, or two, or three.

-hugh
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Re: [Spooks] [UDXF] Re: Chinese Robot

2011-08-23 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Heard it last night on 7865 USB starting around 0300 UTC.  It was still 
going strong at 0530.  This is via the Hong Kong GlobalTuner.

-hugh

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 The 7865 is a new frequency I believe, I have heard it on 7864 before but not 
 7865.
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Re: [Spooks] For All The Buzzer Fans

2010-11-01 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Hi Mary!  I've seen a few stations like this myself, but they never had 
blast doors. :-)

The pictures look to me like one of those nuke-hardened facilities deep 
underground or inside granite mountains, that both sides spent a lot of 
money on.  The racks with the meters are definitely transmitters, and 
pretty big ones.  It could be a missile silo, since they'd need comm 
capability.  It might also be a command-control or 
continuity-of-government center, which would explain the office space, 
studio-type room, and phone interconnects.  If it's like the facilities 
we built, there'd be blast-hardened antennas for fallback use by the 
transmitters on-site, and a lot of wiring and RF plumbing.

I can't see this as a possible UVB-76 location, though.  Too decrepit 
for a facility that is obviously still on-air at least part time.  That 
transmitter is probably in a building like the one they show us from 
Google Earth, with the antenna farm in the woods.

-hugh
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Re: [Spooks] [enigma2000] The Buzzer

2010-09-26 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Hi, Ary.  It seemed to get quiet around 2145.  Thanks for the 
information that it stayed that way.

-hugh

On 9/26/2010 12:17 AM, Ary Boender wrote:

 Hugh, I listened here at 2250 UTC 25-9 but it was quiet on the freq at that
 time.

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Re: [Spooks] [enigma2000] The Buzzer

2010-09-25 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Now there's music.  It's some sort of broadcast, definitely 
on-frequency, sounds the same in AM or USB.  Too weak to get much.

-hugh


On 9/25/2010 12:49 PM, Richard Ness wrote:
 Dear group,
 4625khz strong carrier up, but NO buzzer!
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Re: [Spooks] [enigma2000] The Buzzer

2010-09-25 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Recording still in progress.  I doubt any attempt at translating this 
mess would be very rewarding.

The English station is KBS World Radio from Seoul, Korea.  KBS is a 
legitmate broadcaster that does have an English program at 2100, but 
it's supposed to come from Sackville on 9650. ???

The CW net on 4626 is also in there, lots of Cyrillic Morse letter 
groups, some number groups.

Now there's something that sounds like either an open circuit or STANAG 
4625.

It just gets more weird.  Pirate activity?

-hugh


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 Did you record conversation ? It would be nice to hear that. If it's 
 interesting
 I can translate to group this conversation.
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[Spooks] CW Roll Call on 4625 by FINQ

2010-09-13 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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There is no Buzzer, but the frequency remains in active military use. 
  This seems to be some kind of CW net callup every day at 1900 UTC.

The control station today was FINQ. The op is using the same kind of 
keyer (all dahs equal, just like the dits).  However he's obviously 
newer at this than last week's guy, and he got completely flustered to 
the point where he had to stop for a while.

This went on for about 20 minutes, due to the op's time out.

Same procedures as last week, including the error dit-string (LOTS of 
those!).

VSJX DE FINQ K

R K

KMMN DE FINQ K

R K

Other stations not heard.

Also calling/working 80B5, E4LU, W4YM, 4G9G, VDZO, L6MM, O42N, and 2X2M.

Heard over the Internet repeater/ blog thing, of course.

-hugh




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Re: [Spooks] [enigma2000] S28 Buzzer

2010-09-08 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Weak buzzing started right at 1611, or 9:11 Pacific.  Nine Eleven.  I'm 
sure that was a coincidence.  Weird, though.

I did hear the Russian female message.  It was distorted and hard to 
make out.

Strong buzzing started around 1625.  I didn't note the precise time. 
The message came before the stronger buzz.

I checked on the Vienna GlobalTuner, and the signal DOES have a greatly 
suppressed lower sideband and a carrier.

I'll keep listening on the Internet.  (I don't want to hog a GlobalTuner 
in European prime time.)

Surprise a minute, I must say.

-hugh


On 9/8/2010 9:28 AM, Mike L wrote:
 Hi All,

 Buzzer back on air at 16.26z, there was an unreadable YL just before, signal 
 varying.

 Mike L
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Re: [Spooks] 4625 khz

2010-09-06 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Again at 1900 today (September 6)
4625 kHz cw at 1000 hz
Received over Internet:

F6J6 F6J6 QSA? K

X7XU X7XU X7XU DE

F6J6 F6J6 QSA? K

WN8C WN8C WN8C DE F6J6 F6J6 QSA? K

YF9M DE F6J6 R K

MJY9 MJY9 MJY9 M [error dits] MJY9 MJY9 MJY9 DE F6J6 F6J6 QSA? K

Z4C5 DE F6J6 K

Z4C5 DE F6J6 K

Z4C5 Z4C5 ZC [error dits]

Z[garbled by Internet]C5 DE F6J6

---

Sounds like the same people.

-hugh
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Re: [Spooks] [enigma2000] S28 report

2010-09-05 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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No STANAG here (via the Internet stream).  Just an erratic sine wave 
that has some kind of keying every 60 seconds.  It jumps from 560 to 
around 570 Hz and then goes back down in steps, like a coarsely 
generated sawtooth wave.

There's also off-frequency CW at 3 kHz which sounds like one of those 
PVO datagram things with the character strings and the ? for missing data.

-hugh
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Re: [Spooks] UVB-76 activity mentioned on Adult Swim!

2010-09-03 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Too funny.  Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Bart caught an 
Albanian spy.

-hugh


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   UVB=76, a shortwave radio station nicknamed The Buzzer, has started 
 broadcasting again in Russian. This may mean 1. Spy activity or 2. Nukes are 
 getting ready to fly.

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Re: [Spooks] UVB-76 Buzzer experiencing outage due to maintenance or replacement

2010-09-02 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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I keep telling you people, any time you want something to change, get me 
to write a column about it.

At least this time I hadn't e-mailed it yet.

Chief, stop the presses, get me rewrite!

-hugh


On 9/2/2010 2:08 PM, Alex Mclean wrote:

 This is the most exciting real event that has happened since I've been
 into shortwave and numbers stations, so I'm pretty hyped up about the
 whole thing.
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[Spooks] Vietnamese Numbers

2010-03-17 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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10255.0  USB  17 March 10  Unid station started at 1604 with 
announcement and 5F group message in Vietnamese.  Much weaker than the 
last time.  S3 with fading.

-hugh
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[Spooks] Vietnamese Numbers Station - Amazing Signal

2010-03-14 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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10255.0 USB Vietnamese OM with numbers in 5F groups Sunday 14 March 
2010, started 1557.  Appears to have signed at 1611.

Weird not having to dig one of these stations out of the noise for a 
change.  He's hitting S8 on peaks.

-hugh


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[Spooks] M8A Mon 30 Oct 06

2006-10-29 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)

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9063.0  CW (True OOK)  M8A  x GNTAD TNIDD in progress, late tune in at 
0508 Monday UTC. Good signal into CA and good keying.


-hugh


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[Spooks] Re: [udxf] 10200 kHz Unid Chinese Music

2006-09-18 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)

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Yup, that's it.  Thanks for the good link.

I remember the Chinese jamming, but wasn't aware it was now chasing Sound of
Hope all over the bands.  VOA has some good recordings of these guys posted
somewhere.  I remember the music being extremely overmodulated and with a
huge 50-Hz audio hum, and this time it was if anything a bit undermodulated.
Some of the drumming was actually pretty good.

The thing finally peaked around S6, and dropped carrier at 2100.  Freq is
dead at 1800 today.

-hugh


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[Spooks] 10200 kHz Unid Chinese Music

2006-09-17 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)

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10200.0 kHz has double sideband AM traditional Chinese music (normal tinkly 
stuff, and with lots of good drumming), been on since around 1815 UTC when I 
discovered it.  Weak signal with rapid fading, better in ECSSB, gets up to 
maybe S4 on peaks here in Southern California.


At 1900 top of the hour, there were 5 minutes of dead air where an ID would 
have been, had there been one.


Still going at 1920.

This is only noteworthy because broadcasting is not authorized in this band, 
and also it's an old Chinese numbers frequency.  Somehow I suspect this is 
not entertainment, even though it's entertaining me.


-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] M8a 8097 1806

2006-08-12 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)

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Yes, this seems to be a new transmitter.  It does M8a and V2a, sometimes in 
the same broadcast  :-) .


-hugh



Anyone noticed that M8a schedule that has been

appearing for the last few days? Interesting enough
there is always a very strong AM carrier over it which
seems to amplify the CW signal a lot.



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Re: [Spooks] Whale signal ii up on 8707.3

2006-05-23 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Whales always seem to appear on or near US military frequencies.  It's
some kind of open-circuit noise.  When someone talks, the sound stops.  When
the freq is quiet, the sound builds gradually, like the gain opening back
up.

Possibilities (in order of likelihood):

Oscillation in a ringy circuit with a lot of gain
Seeking LINCOMPREX pilot tone
RF feedback

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] Need help identifying something weird

2006-05-13 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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 http://www.phonetrips.com and scroll down.  Lot of recordings of early
 phone phreaking stuff there too.  Enjoy!

Right, I have listened to that stuff for hours.

For pictures of old stepping switches, crossbar frames, etc check out
http://www.sandman.com/telhist.html .  GTE had a lot of this equipment out
in the boonies until well into the 70s.  Scary.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] Need help identifying something weird

2006-05-12 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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  Maybe just someone fooling around and having a blast about it.

It's such a great idea for a conceptual art project that I wish I'd thought
of it.  That 212 number wouldn't happen to go to Soho would it?  :-)

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] Need help identifying something weird

2006-05-12 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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L.A. had a bunch of these voice machines when they were still relatively
rare and otherwise used mostly by movie theaters.  Another famous one had
been around so long that it was called VERMONT from the former letter
prefix, and indeed that's what you dialed to get it.  You got a cheerful
voice saying, Hello, you have dialed VERMONT at 10760 Rose, followed by a
joke.  10760 Rose was and is a large apartment building in West L.A..

There was another one called Ben.  Just Ben.  I have long since forgotten
the number.  He was always very happy.  Almost disgustingly so.

By then the only letter exchange was the Catholic Archdiocese downtown,
TRinity, and the only thing on it was Dial-A-Prayer, TR 4361.  Didn't even
have a number in the prefix.  That's old.

The only thing I remember on ZZ was some soft music and a parody of that
old commercial, This moment of softness is brought to you by ZZZ, ZZZ!

The one that was really popular with phone phreaks, though, was a General
Telephone internal number that did nothing but run a loop, Five cents,
bing.  Ten cents, bing bing.  Twenty-five cents, bong.  (Insert appropriate
ancient pay phone bell noises.)  A test line they'd never bothered to turn
off?  General still had a few stepping offices and it was phone phreak
heaven.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

2006-05-04 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Yes, your tutorial is accurate.  This is a confirmed M8a weekly sked, and
it's been written up by the hams any number of times.  The FCC knows about
it and the FBI knows about it, and presumably other people who don't make
their activities public also know about it.

Not much they can do, really.  The band is shared with utilities that were
in there before it was used by amateurs.  There's also Venezuelan military,
an unid RTTY encrypted station, and of course the German Weather Department
on 10100.8 with good old DDK9.

-hugh


A ham operator just posted a message to an amateur radio DXing group
yesterday complaining about some station on 10126 sending 5-letter groups
and QRMing the band.  He wanted to know if the FCC could do anything about
it.  I gave him a tutorial on spy numbers. :-)


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Re: [Spooks] VHF Number Stations.

2006-04-28 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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 The ten-meter amateur band is in between, 28.000 - 29.700 MHz.  I don't
 know who gets the extra 300 kHz at the top.

ITU allocates the bottom 100 kHz to land-mobile, and the rest to fixed and
aviation/space, except for a +/- 10 kHz guard band around 29900, which seems
to be some kind of radio astronomy receiving frequency.

There doesn't really seem to be much activity in this range any more.  There
used to be some private mobile telephone systems in places like Mexico, and
a business or two in South America.  Mostly now it seems to be a number of
low-speed FSK signals that sound like some kind of data streams, which no
one has ever been able to identify.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] Letter beacon in Florida?

2006-04-22 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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 I've seen mention of them on the web before. They're a watertight beacon
 that transmits on an antenna wire that floats along with the top of a
 drift net. These are used by fishermen to track down their nets when
 ocean currents move them.

They seem mostly to be made in Asia, and in a watertight bouy weighted by
the battery pack at the bottom.  Some use the MF band but most of the ones I
know anything about tend to turn up in or around 10 meters.  Those do just
fine with a bottom loaded whip which points straight up from the bouy and
gets a nice ground plane from the salt water.  The cheap old-fashioned ones
just beacon their ID, but that makes it too easy for other boats to pirate
the equipment and catch, so the fancy expensive new ones squawk their
encrypted GPS coordinates when the boat transmits the right key.

 They've been referred to as phantom or mutant fishnet beacons. I saw a
 photograph of one on the web somewhere, but I have yet to find it again.

Sometimes nets and long-lines get lost, and the beacons (not to mention the
marine life in the net or on the hooks) drift all over the high seas,
chirping away for months until the batteries finally go.  These are referred
to as ghost nets.

 We have a peculiar art installation on Miami Beach. It's apparently a
 religious sculpture or *something*. It consists of a long wire (several
 miles!) supported by poles, at the edge of the sand dunes.

Interesting.  Similar wires are found in cities where they are used by
orthodox Jews to define the areas they can visit on the Sabbath.  They are
considered virtual fences and the area thus enclosed becomes a compound for
religious purposes.  The wires run for miles atop lamp posts.  I always
wondered about their antenna possibilities, but unfortunately I think they
use monofilament.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] Letter beacon in Florida?

2006-04-21 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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I'd be inclined to agree with Kurt.  I don't think a simple whip like you
see on VHF would be very efficient on 4 MHz with these low-powered
transmitters.  These beacons actually get out pretty well, and I'd suspect
the antenna is somewhat larger than that.

Oh, and I am almost certain that MX, as assigned by Enigma 2K, only refers
to single-letter CW cluster and solitary beacons and markers coming from
Russia and Eastern Europe.

-hugh

 : I have been listening to the southwest USA beacon cluster MX around 4096
 : kHz.  The Spynumbers website indicates they are being sent from small
 : transmitters with whip antennas placed in various obscure locations in
the
 : desert.

 Not a single one uses a whip antenna!

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Re: [Spooks] Letter beacon in Florida?

2006-04-20 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Propagation favors a location in Arizona or the California desert.  These
are real low power and very likely placed by hobbyists in extremely isolated
areas.  One of the transmitter designs has a frequency that drifts downward
at a constant rate while the carrier is keyed.  It's pretty distinctive.
Then there was Yosemite Sam, coming from a test range operated by a
civilian defense contractor in New Mexico, which seemed to be a somewhat
more complex device with purpose still completely unknown.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] Secret Hidden Signals in China Radio 18160kHz AM Broadcast?

2006-04-02 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Looks like music to me.  The low frequency modulation is in the bass
register, and the little lines are different chords and harmonics.   These
short tinkly notes are characteristic of a lot of Chinese music.

Given the day of the year, it might be prudent to see if the original poster
was altogether serious.

-hugh

 See the audio waterfall spectrogram at:
 http://hflink.com/qrm/chinaradio18160.jpg

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Re: [Spooks] Enigma for sale (for real)

2006-03-31 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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If $30,000 US is getting a little too rich for your blood, there's also a
somewhat more banged up one with modern replacement lamps (but rotor numbers
intact) in Italy, so far only $12k:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ENIGMA-CODE-GERMAN-WK2-MILITARY-CIPHER-MACHINE-WWII_W0QQitemZ6267703991QQcategoryZ15503QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

You might have to do some splicing to get this ridiculously long URL back
together.  The last word is ViewItem.

-hugh



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[Spooks] Re: [WUN] Re: [enigma2000] E10 string Good night

2006-03-17 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Over on the Enigma2000 list they've recently been spending a lot of time on
E10, and that might have attracted some attention.  I've always hoped that
at least some of the spooks get a laugh reading all our speculation about
them.  What I'm wondering now is whether this is the first time a real
numbers station as opposed to a pirate decided to do a good joke like this.

-hugh

Could that be a hint from the operators of the site ?
Maybe they know the group or the letters and want to do some funny things
:-)
  We are all humans only...

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Re: [Spooks] V2, M8, RHC on Google Earth

2006-03-01 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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As I said, I can't put a place mark on the suspected R. Havana site because
Google tried to put a Browser Hijack Object into Explorer (even though I use
Firefox) and I don't allow those on my computer.

Coordinates are 22 degrees 57 minutes 2 seconds north, 82 degrees, 32
minutes, 41 seconds west and it looks good from a virtual zoom elevation of
around 3600 feet.

These coordinates are also relatively close to those given on the FAS site
for the Lourdes base, which are east of Bauta between it and the airport.


-hugh

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Re: [Spooks] V2, M8, RHC on Google Earth

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I've added two placemarks to the Utility World web site:

These sure look like radio telescope dishes on the old Lourdes base:
http://www.ominous-valve.com/lourdes.kmz

Suspected Radio Havana Cuba site:
http://www.ominous-valve.com/poss_rhc.kmz

Save these in whatever directory you have the Google Earth placemarks in,
then load them into the program.  This is the first time I've done this, so
I hope they work.


-hugh

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Re: [Spooks] V2, M8, RHC on Google Earth

2006-02-28 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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I've found another abandoned ball field.  Lourdes, after all, was a big
base.

-hugh

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[Spooks] V2, M8, RHC on Google Earth

2006-02-27 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Google Earth recently added a high-resolution aerial picture of the Havana
area, and it's become quite the pastime to poke around looking for stuff.
One good area is south and west of Havana near a little town named Bauta,
which has a lot of military bases (and, according to one poster, a no-tell
motel).  Various people have posted place marks to Google's BBS identifying
what they think they see.

Well, if you go to 22 degrees 57 minutes 2 seconds north and 82 degrees 32
minutes 41 seconds west, and zoom in to about the 3685 foot level, you will
find a pretty obvious transmitter building in the middle of a very large
antenna farm.  Nobody's marked it, and I didn't either because Google Earth
tries to hijack your browser if you start an account, and I wouldn't let it.

Unfortunately, aerial photography flattens things out and towers never show
up well, but at least here they are casting shadows.  Also you see the
generator off to the left, a storage area, and a lot of little dirt roads
out to clearings that might or might not still have antennas in them.  To
the west there's a microwave tower (identifiable by its shadow on the
ground) and an access road with a guard gate.

This is quite the facility.  I wonder if I've found Radio Havana Cuba.

Another guy has marked something he suspects is V2/M8.  I don't know if he's
right or not.  There are definitely rather odd patterns on the field that
might or might not be holding up wire beams or antenna arrays.  They're kind
of teardrop shaped, and note the high towers in the middle.  I thought I
also saw a microwave tower, but I think it's actually an AC transmission
line.

Finally someone else has marked what he thinks is the remains of the closed
Lourdes sigint base, but I agree with another poster that he's too far to
the north.  You go south and a bit west, and there is something that sure
looks like a group of low buildings being eaten by the hurricanes and
tropical weather, and a baseball field that's been turned back to
agricultural use.  The infield still shows up.  It's definitely an abandoned
military/government facility of some sort.

(You do not have a military base in Cuba without a ball field.  You just
don't.)

-hugh

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Re: [Spooks] Iris system

2006-01-05 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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I think the soldier was referring to military communications.  I can't
imagine how any intelligence agency that recruits its lowest level of grunt
informants from the target population would just hand them their most
sensitive secure communication gear.  It not only almost guarantees the
stuff falling into the wrong hands, but also I doubt that very many people
in positions sensitive enough to have any desired information would really
want to explain why they have some other country's military radio next to
the laptop in their bedroom.

-hugh

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Re: [Spooks] C

2005-12-11 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Probably navigation since they transmit most often during naval exercises or
major operations of some sort.  C is Moscow.  These beacons are all over the
Russian Federation and Ukraine, and that's a big area to be all over.

The clusters tend to be spaced 0.1 kHz.  C is supposed to be on 10872 CW.
It's right between S and A.  It doesn't do much good on 10972 all by its
lonesome.

The latest list I have on the 10 MHz cluster is:

10871.7  D  Odessa
10871.8  P  Kaliningrad
10871.9  S  Arkhangelsk
10872.0  C  Moscow
10872.1  A  Baku
10872.2  F  Vladivostok
10872.3  K  Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
10872.4  M  Magadan

A seems to have moved recently.

-hugh

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Re: [Spooks] Something really funny

2005-11-28 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Oh, that's funny.  I guess if you've heard one sinister secret conspiracy
you've heard them all.  I investigated HAARP pretty thoroughly and although
I found plenty of information worth being scared about, none of it related
to the Gakona basic research project as much as to the intentions of some of
the original people who paid to build the experiment.  Unless you're a
habitual Art Bell caller, what you see with HAARP is pretty much what you
get.  Even so, the general underlying scene with ionospheric heating
includes some rather creepy people.

With that said, I'm also thinking that if the guys up there have half a
sense of humor, they should see about repeating an M8a broadcast in CW a few
times, and then sit back over the long Alaskan winter and crack each other
up by sending around what gets written about them on the Internet.

I know they can key it in CW because one of their SWL tests ended with
something like, 73 FROM THE HAMS AT HAARP.

This would be one hell of a conceptual art project.  Maybe I should pitch
it.

-hugh

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[Spooks] I get blocked every few weeks - BIG HASSLE

2005-11-10 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Third try on this one - first two bounced as spam:

You can imagine how often something as generic as utility world gets
spoofed, and then blacklisted by these spam bots.  I go for days at a time
without being able to post to lists on qth.net.  The problem is that
administration has chosen a very extreme implementation of
spamcop/sorbs/etc.   Here's spamcop's own warning about why you might not
want to do it this way:

The SCBL aims to stop most spam while not blocking wanted email. This is a
difficult task. It is not possible for any blocking tool to avoid blocking
wanted mail entirely. Given the power of the SCBL, SpamCop encourages use of
the SCBL in concert with an actively maintained whitelist of wanted email
senders. SpamCop encourages SCBL users to tag and divert email, rather than
block it outright. Most SCBL users consider the amount of unwanted email
successfully filtered to make the risks and additional efforts worthwhile.

The SCBL is aggressive and often errs on the side of blocking mail. When
implementing the SCBL, provide users with the information about how the SCBL
and your mail system filter their email. Ideally, they should have a choice
of filtering options. Many mailservers operate with blacklists in a tag
only mode, which is preferable in many situations.


-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] morse code melody

2005-11-02 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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7005 makes a lot of chords around here when the DX lurkers all hear a new
one and pounce at once, but usually they are more microtonal than
well-tempered.  Maybe you caught them on an especially even-tempered day.

Some composer a long time ago did something with Morse telegraphy tuned to
well-tempered pitches, but I can't remember any details.  Kraftwerk did some
stuff like this on Radioactivity, but not in multiple lines.

Mostly I've done things with the rhythms.  KFS is a callsign now licensed to
Globe Wireless, and I don't know if it's ever heard on the bands any more,
but you can dance to it.  Dahdidah dididahdit dididit, dahdidah dididahdit
dididit .  Get up from your key and boogie.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] IF Jamming SSW of NOLA?

2005-09-13 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Have there been reports of IF (intermediate frequency)
jamming south-southwest of New Orleans?

Someone involved with the HF ham radio relief effort reported a strong
transmitter on 455 kHz blocking their receiver. I can't get any further
information, despite asking around.  I certainly cannot determine whether or
not there is any factual basis to any of this.

Most FM radios with 10.7 IFs are dual conversion with a second IF at 455.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] Strange sound with German numbers on 6869 kHz

2005-08-12 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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That signal sounds like someone has been playing with Kraftwerk samples.

I strongly suspect a pirate.  There's one guy in France who does a lot of
this.

Proponents of house music and some mixed-media artists are very into
numbers as a semiotic for intrigue, or just as sheer sound to use in mixes.
There have been quite a few other pirate broadcasts, some of which are best
described as conceptual art.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] Data bursts - beacon perhaps?

2005-08-10 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Globe Wireless markers on 4459.0 from the Dixon site in north central
California.  I have it S9 right now in day time, so the radius is right.

Someone else reported a weird noise on 6431.4 which is also a Globe marker,
but it briefly had their odd failure mode where every burst drifts upward in
frequency with the characteristic little 170-Hz boink in the middle, then
goes back on-channel between bursts.  This is WNU in Louisiana and they'd
fixed it last night.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] BBC Radio 4 - Tracking the L.P.

2005-04-22 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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I would hope that they'd at least have the LP's tune recorded off the air,
though I'd love to hear that and Cherry Ripe on the piano.

When I did the interview they'd already talked to Simon Mason.  Seems as if
they did a pretty good job of covering the whole hobby and finding the
people who knew their stuff.  They got my name from the NPR program done a
couple of years back.  Mostly I talked about  the Cuban stuff and the
Poacher, since that's what we hear way out here in California.

Oh tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] BBC Radio 4 - Tracking the L.P.

2005-04-21 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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I did an interview for that.  It'll be fun to see how much they use.

-hugh

 here is the definitly time of transmission, as one of the guys from BBC
 told me: April 23rd, 1030 UTC, on BBC Radio 4. 


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[Spooks] Now there are two Sam freqs, 1770 and 3890

2005-03-25 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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An Arizona listener on WUN found Sam on 1770 kHz DSB at 0910 UTC (middle of
the night local time).  It was 30 seconds before the 3890 transmission.  The
signal is now back to tone burst and garbled voice.

More frequencies are likely.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] I know who the Yosemite Sam is!!!

2004-12-23 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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The clip being broadcast on the air is available online.  It sure sounds
like Mel Blanc, who did a lot of these voices.

It's definitely Yosemite Sam, from a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

-hugh


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Re: [Spooks] SWUSA SLCW Beacon W heard in Tennessee

2004-01-18 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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 Nothing on 6700 but a carrier and nothing on 8000.55 during the day.

6700 is reputed to be in Southern California.  I hear only the carrier you
mention.  Once I heard dits.  I didn't write it down and of course now the
utility gods have seen to it that it has never ditted again.  I suppose it
could have been a copycat, since this is right after the posting about these
beacons made the rounds on the Internet.

The other beacons are confirmed to be active.

-hugh

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Re: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

2003-12-21 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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L in Albania?  Is this the only one outside the former USSR?

-hugh

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Re: [Spooks] Another M8a error!

2003-12-13 Thread Utility World (Hugh Stegman)
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Interesting, because I have always assumed M8 was simply V2 with different
software and transmitter configurations (SSB vs straight AM) working off
the same files.  Sometimes M8 and V2 have actually switched on the fly, in
the middle of messages - oops, wrong format!

-hugh


 The 1200/1300z M8a on 6933/7890m of December 13, 2003; made a rare
 mistake in transmission.  When sending AR AR AR and BT between messages
and
 at end of transmission,  OE was sent for AR and K was sent for BT.

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