Seventy-fifth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 21:56:19 +0000)

Voice stations

As usual the E03 and E04 IDs were compiled by respectively Al and Tomonori.

E03 Lincolnshire poacher

IDs heard in the first half of the month:

UTC	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	UTC
1200	87235	87235	87235	87235	87235	87235	87235	1200
1300	44777	44777	44777	44777	44777	44777	44777	1300
1400	60336	98270	88880	73096	87235	72926	06323	1400
1500	06323	60336	98270	88880	73096	87235	25347	1500
1600	25347	06323	60336	98270	88880	73096	72926	1600
1700	72926	25347	06323	60336	98270	88880	87235	1700
1800	87235	72926	25347	06323	60336	98270	73096	1800
1900	73096	44777	72926	44777	06323	60336	44777	1900
2000	44777	87235	44777	25347	44777	06323	88880	2000
2100	88880	73096	87235	72926	25347	44777	98270	2100
2200	98270	88880	73096	87235	72926	25347	60336	2200

Second half of the month:

UTC	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	UTC
1200	93050	93050	93050	93050	93050	93050	93050	1200
1300	86170	86170	86170	86170	86170	86170	86170	1300
1400	73559	64419	69049	64887	93050	93755	08672	1400
1500	08672	73559	64419	69049	64887	93050	16423	1500
1600	16423	08672	73559	64419	69049	64887	93755	1600
1700	93755	16423	08672	73559	64419	69049	93050	1700
1800	93050	93755	16423	08672	73559	64419	64887	1800
1900	64887	86170	93755	86170	08672	73559	86170	1900
2000	86170	93050	86170	16423	86170	08672	69049	2000
2100	69049	64887	93050	93755	16423	86170	64419	2100
2200	64419	69049	64887	93050	93755	16423	73559	2200

See also Newsletter 76.

E04

IDs heard in the first half of the month:

UTC	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	UTC
2200	18660	24369	99230	88742	24369		2200
2300	24369	99230	88742	24369	17166		2300
0000		99230	88742	24369	17166	68984	0000
0100		88742	24369	17166	68984	16440	0100
1000		24369	17166	68984	16440	18660	1000
1100		17166	68984	16440	18660	24369	1100
1200		68984	16440	18660	24369	99230	1200
1300		16440	18660	24369	99230	88742	1300

Second half of the month:

UTC	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	UTC
2200	57130	13962	89816	80676	13962		2200
2300	13962	89816	80676	13962	16713		2300
0000		89816	80676	13962	16713	64072	0000
0100		80676	13962	16713	64072	54836	0100
1000		13962	16713	64072	54836	57130	1000
1100		16713	64072	54836	57130	13962	1100
1200		64072	54836	57130	13962	89816	1200
1300		54836	57130	13962	89816	80676	1300

Schedules:

UTC	frequencies
2200	18864	24644	kHz
2300	18864	21866	kHz
0000	18864	21866	kHz
0100	19884	21866	kHz
1000	20474	23461	kHz
1100	18864	23461	kHz
1200	18864	23461	kHz
1300	18864	21866	kHz

See also Newsletter 76.

E25

Via the E2K mailing list I received a report from Manolis. He copied an E25 transmission on 7 July at 1240 UTC on 9450 kHz. He describes the transmission as follows:

Intro music followed by an Arab man calling "222". Then at 1253 UTC "Message" x3 and the message itself "5091 1201 0410 4672 4220 4979 7576 1908 1858 0863 0410". At 1254 UTC "Repeat" x3 and the message again followed by "End of message, end of transmission"

Manolis points out that group 3 (0410) is repeated at the end. He noticed that before in a message from 17 February at 1245 UTC when the 3rd group (0210) was repeated at the end: "9549 6501 0210 3553 1254 7559 0481 6642 3755 0210"

It seems to be a fixed protocol most of the times, Manolis. I have noticed it before. Here are two other examples from last year: "7496 3161 3310 0603 6582 8530 3304 1920 9177 7288 7467 4674 7787 4361 9306 3310" and "9394 3531 6210 1467 6518 5690 2666 5481 4555 7854 3353 8560 6210".

That this is not always the rule proves M25 by sending a different one at 1245 UTC on 27 & 28 July. (copied by Manolis)

1146 UTC	Arab OM calls "730" many times.
1149 UTC	"Message" x3
	5495 9501 2310 4455 0101
	6656 8860 6207 4287 6057
	(The 3rd and the last group now not the same)
1150 UTC	"Repeat" x3
	5495 9501 2310 4455 0101
	6656 8860 6207 4287 6057
1150 UTC	"End of message, end of transmission" in a hurry! There was a background noise while the mic was open.
1243 UTC	Carrier.
1245 UTC	Music.

V24

South Korean YL heard on 6215 kHz AM at 1400 UTC.

See also Newsletter 76.

V25

Chinese female YL on 9239 kHz AM (figures ID) at 1500 UTC. Also on 8870 kHz AM at 1300 UTC.

See also Newsletter 76.

V26

The Chinese/English numbers station was observed on 6448//8621 kHz LSB at 1200 UTC.