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you answered my question pretty well...thanks, Sue -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of mslaten Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:58 PM To: Spooks Digest Subject: [Spooks] Cuban Catches Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hi Sue: I am not sure what you mean by "call me stupid but what's the difference? Sue Could you please be more specific about what you didn't understand? I thought I included enough differences in the various types of Cuban numbers stations to help the crew better ID them. Check out the morse and voice station profiles at the Enigma group's website for more up-to-date profiles. The Spooks Station list is out-of-date. It doesn't even show M8a which replaced M8 about nine years ago (1996). M8c was a variant that began about December 2003 and just about replaced M8a until M8a began to be the format of choice again last month. M8c was more like a corrupt format than a technically correct morse format. M8a would send "BT" at the end of callup, "AR" at the end of a message and "SK" at the end of the sked. M8c would send "K" at the end of callup, "OE" (the E was more like a blip) at the end of a message, and I believe also "OE" at the end of the sked. I believe this format more of a Cuban technical screwup than anything else. After over a year of M8c though, they must have rehired the old signals officer and he straightened them out with the correct morse protocols (M8a). If you just don't understand why you should be as accurate as possible on the ID, then see my comment to KC?KBH about using the Spooks Database or Ary's Enigma Database for searches. You know the old saying "garbage in, garbage out!" Several serious numbers hobbyists, spent many hours devising the Enigma identifiers to help anyone ID the many, many numbers stations out there. Some not there anymore, and new ones appearing periodically. This is just a way to try and make some sense out of the many broadcasts heard daily around the world. I surely hope I have been clear enough so that you and any other monitors out there understand. Don't feel stupid. We all have to learn as a continuous process in life. Plus there are many new people to the numbers stations on line too. It is an exciting and fascinating hobby. If I can be of further help in ID'ing or questions on morse (which I primarily search for) or even some voice questions, I am more than happy to answer them if I can, or someone else on this board or the Enigma board might also have the answer. Happy Monitoring! 73's Mark ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
