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

(Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:50:35 +0000)

Various modes

X06

Mazielka calls only heard one time in month. It was on October 13th, 0854 - 0859 UTC, on 15836 kHz in AM, by Richard Ness in the UK, who e-mailed me the sound of it. He wasn't sure about the exact start time, but after the 6-tone-signal he nothing further heard.

Thanks a lot to Richard, also for emailing the sound, which I recorded on my 2 cassettes.

XP

The XP[1] skeds came regularly Tuesdays and Fridays 0600, 0620 and 0640 UTC. Freqs for October: 0600 on 9148, 0620 on 10788 and 0640 on 12208 kHz. ID for October: "172". Here is the full, but short XP msg from the 1st week of October, reported by Paul Beaumont via ENIGMA2000:

XP 9148kHz
0600z 05/10/04 ID172 dk/gc 00363/00059

172 172 172 1 172 172 172 1 172 172 172 1 172 172 172 1
172 172 172 1 172 172 172 1 172 172 172 1 172 172 172 1
172 172 172 1

R>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _________00363 00059 26889 41740 90548
80872 23292 48819 49834 91005 60983 16418 06851 68405 74407
14008 83292 91790 18669 08461 19042 00344 16001 59156 48783
86396 89879 08126 07520 82019 75907 77487 02994 42007 05731
66865 27256 26093 86881 23376 35616 30876 93295 93464 69713
30735 03421 10419 30962 51141 76555 02945 23290 76799 18976
75347 05576 11476 70775 13698 71793 <<<<<<<<<<<<

Thanks, Paul. DK and GC for the 2nd week: 00587/00117, and for the 3rd: 00436/00205.