Saturday, March 31, 2007

Russian HF Communications

While surfing around found this excellent list of Russian comms and info at
http://www.radioscanner.ru/freqs/file/list08.html

Вы для большого списка, 73 de Ларры

Language:
=========
Rezim-A In Clear Voice
Rezim-B Green Using Yakta
Vpiriom Over to you

Q-Codes:
========
QBE Closing
QCM Broken
QCM QYT6 MS5 Link is Broken Please Fix it.
QRD Where are you going to/I am going to
QRP Decrease Power
QRR SOS MAYDAY (?)
QRX xxxxx Link xxxxx ???
QSA? Whats your Strength of Signal 2?
QSA2 Strength Of Signal is 2
QWH
QYT6 QBE Closes MS5 Link
QYT6 MS5 Link

FAPSI Stations:
===============
4007 Link Crowd-36
5831 Link Baudot
6496 Link Crowd-36
6905 Link Crowd-36 (Related to XPH 6890 ?)
6949.5 Link Crowd-36
8049.5 Link Crowd-36
8081 Link Baudot
8077 Link 00191 Crowd-36
8139.5 Link Crowd-36
8143 Link Baudot
8167 Link 00063 Baudot
9057.5 Link Crowd-36
9100.5 Link Crowd-36
9137 Link 00063 Baudot
9163 Link 00007 Crowd-36
10519.5 Link Crowd-36
10549 Link Crowd-36
10766.9 Link 70004 Baudot
10767 Link 70004 Baudot
10888.5 Link Crowd-36
10908 Link 80038 Baudot
11032 Link Crowd-36
11054 Link Crowd-36
11072 Link Baudot
11086.5 Link Crowd-36
11087 Link Crowd-36 + PSK
11110.5 Link Crowd-36
11139.5 Link Crowd-36
11460 Link 60047 Baudot
12083 Link 80061 Baudot C/S WQL
12125 Link Baudot
12130 Link Crowd-36
12136 Link 00098 Baudot
12152.5 Link Crowd-36
12171.5 Link Crowd-36
12175 Link 00052 Baudot
12176 Link Baudot
12193 Link 60047 Baudot C/S URO Tripolis ?
12204.5 Link Crowd-36
12211 Link 40034 Baudot C/S UXW London ?
12218.5 Link Crowd-36
12225 Link Crowd-36
12239 Link 70004 Baudot
12947.6 Link Crowd-36
12947.7 Link Crowd-36
13455.5 Link Crowd-36
14395.5 Link Crowd-36
13412 Link Baudot
13435 Link Crowd-36
13470 Link 80061 Baudot
13548 Link Crowd-36
14424.5 Link Crowd-36
14472 Link Baudot
14536 Link Crowd-36
14807 Link 01438 Baudot
14815.5 Link Crowd-36
14817 Link Crowd-36
14817.5 Link Crowd-36
14863.5 Link Crowd-36
14881 Link Crowd-36
14882 Link Crowd-36 Variant
14888.5 Link Crowd-36
14944.5 Link Crowd-36
14946.5 Link Crowd-36
15821.7 Link Crowd-36
16056.7 Link Crowd-36
16060.4 Link Crowd-36
16064.5 Link Crowd-36
16066 Link 10020 Crowd-36
16143.5 Link Crowd-36
16149.4 Link Crowd-36
16153 Link Baudot
16165 Link Crowd-36
16193.5 Link Crowd-36
16218 Link Baudot
16223 Link 40034 Baudot
16227 Link 40034 Baudot
16236 Link 00052 Baudot
16237 Link Baudot
16257.1 Link 00051 Baudot
17421 Link 50035 Baudot
17430 Link 30044 Baudot
17450.4 Link Crowd-36
17452 Link Crowd-36
17463.4 Link Crowd-36
17473 Link 10163 Baudot
17489 Link Crowd-36
18050 Link Crowd-36
18050.4 Link Crowd-36
18216.4 Link Crowd-36
18257.5 Link Crowd-36
18332 Link Baudot
18523 Link 30044 Baudot
18624.5 Link Crowd-36
18656.5 Link Crowd-36
18658 Link 10020 Crowd-36
18771.5 Link Crowd-36
20064.5 Link Crowd-36
20605 Link 10163 Baudot C/S UDZ27
20632 Link Crowd-36
20815.5 Link Crowd-36
22887 Link 10163 Baudot C/S UDZ27

XPH Stations:
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6890.0 8130.0 10155.0 11483.0 11542.0 12105.0 12176.0 12207.0 13364.0 14831.0 14846.0

BEE-Stations (Russian Navy) T-600:
==================================
18.1 4984.0 6801.5 7416.0 7683.0 8002.0 8004.5 8124.0 8130.0 8136.0 9182.0 10452.0 10475.0 10512.0 10535.0 10643.5 10659.0 10712.0 10838.0 11468.0 12590.0 12631.0 13422.0 14008.0 14411.0 14448.0 14581.0 16049.0 16112.0 16174.0 16200.0 16207.0 16316.0 17460.0 17480.0 19210.0 19936.0 20096.0 20268.0

81-81 Stations:
===============
2728.0 3234.0 3350.0 3399.0 3818.0 3837.0 4013.1 4043.0 4045.0 4520.0 4571.0 4640.0 4825.0 4878.0 5082.0 5118.0 5141.0 Russian Army Lipeck (ANEE) 5190.0 5234.0 5276.0 5279.9 5317.0 5454.0 5520.9 5850.0 5860.0 6324.0 6766.0 6791.0 6811.0 6814.0 6850.5 6855.0 6864.0 6870.0 6878.0 6924.5 6943.7 6952.0 6956.5 6977.0 6995.0 7002.9 7334.0 7425.0 7474.0 7480.0 7481.0 7526.0 7570.0 7577.0 7605.0 7700.0 7770.0 7782.0 7784.0 7790.0 7801.0 7837.0 7900.0 7915.9 7934.0 7944.0 7944.5 7947.0 8002.0 8003.0 8015.0 8020.0 8070.1 8108.0 8115.0 8128.0 8131.0 8140.0 8175.9 8177.0 8180.0 8314.0 8410.0 8501.0 8512.0 With Opchat 8847.0 8993.0 9010.0 9012.0 9042.0 9047.0 9051.7 9060.0 9075.0 9079.9 9088.0 9100.0 9130.0 9135.7 9182.3 9188.0 9192.0 9199.0 9212.0 9216.7 9248.0 9271.9 9288.0 9291.9 9315.0 9328.0 9346.0 9360.0 9396.0 9910.0 9988.0 10144.0 10164.0 10194.0 10201.0 10243.0 10248.0 10310.0 10315.0 10316.4 10366.0 10388.0 10400.0 10414.9 10435.8 10455.8 10492.0 10512.0 10530.0 10584.0 10600.0 10754.0 10775.0 10808.0 10816.0 10856.0 10863.7 10894.0 10927.0 10944.0 11081.9 11430.0 11460.0 11483.5 12178.0 12183.6 12184.0 12250.0 12290.0 12764.0 13456.0 13490.0 13944.0 13985.0 14564.0 14613.2 14787.0 14830.0 15824.0 15961.0 16023.0 16180.0 16240.0 17475.0 17487.0 18214.0 18245.5 18273.0 18526.0 18531.0 18664.0 18760.0 18780.0 19056.0 20138.0 20240.0

RUS-75 Stations:
================
3104.8 4595.1 4881.0 5171.0 5258.0 5763.0 6406.0 6484.0 6994.0 7833.0 7919.9 7958.0 8002.0 8646.0 9088.0 9134.0 9819.0 9826.0 9991.0 10154.0 10160.0 10193.0 10302.0 10374.0 10436.0 10512.0 10530.0 10707.0 10710.9 10932.0 11210.0 14050.0 25380.0

CIS-144 Stations:
=================
8063.5 8076.5 8077.5 8078.5 9131.5 9132.5 9133.5 9330.5 9331.5 9332.5

Russian Airforce 200/500 Stations:
==================================
2599.0 2908.0 3140.0 3142.7 3809.1 3826.0 4028.0 4055.0 4162.0 4397.0 4516.0 4630.0 4871.0 5160.0 5251.0 5279.9 5339.9 5457.5 5842.0 6738.0 6781.4 6782.5 6830.0 6885.1 7688.3 7836.0 7986.0 7990.0 8054.0 8133.0 8184.5 8352.0 8695.0 8885.0 8885.2 10169.0
10350.0 10351.0 13480.0 13808.0 16352.0

MS5 Stations:
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3815.0 5118.0 5140.0 5380.0 5418.0 6881.0 7676.0 7728.5 7784.0 7849.0 7925.0 8008.0 8120.0 8178.0 9153.0 10512.0 10658.0 10726.0 10736.0 10836.0 10873.0 10894.0 10925.5 10932.0 10975.0 11004.0 11146.0 11447.0 12124.0 12211.0 12668.0 12948.0 13138.0 13400.0 13404.0 13540.0 14375.0 14494.0 14532.0 14541.0 14577.0 14651.0 14787.0 14862.0 14868.0 15874.0 15961.0 16167.0 16254.0 16281.0 16854.0 17111.0 17415.0 17460.0 18062.0 18232.0 18372.0 19572.0 20083.0 20232.0 20311.0 20321.0 20382.0

Russian Military CW Stations:
=============================
3633.0 J830,CEJX
4799.0 W97M
5144.0 L36G
5479.5 CY6V,CJGL
5479.6 OMOZ
6290.0 RJP98
6872.0 REO de RMP Navy HQ Kaliningrad
7559.5 REA4 Airforce HQ Moscow
7615.0 RMMA Warship,RIT Navy North Fleet HQ Severomorsk
7940.0 REA4 Airforce HQ Moscow
8778.0 JIDC
9145.0 RJP98
9151.0 REA4 Airforce HQ Moscow
9287.0 SYWR de CU3Y
9288.0 QHZE
9913.0 NG7H,JIDC
10438.0 RIW Navy HQ Moscow
10986.0 LMOC WP32
11072.0 REA4 Airforce HQ Moscow
11155.0 RMHW Warship,RIT Navy North Fleet HQ Severomorsk
11436.0 KXPL,3YM4
12173.0 REA4 Airforce HQ Moscow
12524.0 RJP98
12744.0 G9AT
12838.0 RIS96,RIW
13872.0 TPYH
14526.0 1NCD
14556.0 RMMA Warship,RIT Navy North Fleet HQ Severomorsk
17468.0 RIW,RKZ
17488.0 RIW,RKZ,RIS96,RMRV
18562.0 CMU67,RCV Navy HQ Sevastopol

Callsigns CW Stations:
======================
RCV Navy HQ Sevastopol
REA4 Airforce HQ Moscow
RIT Navy HQ Severomorsk North Fleet
RIW Navy HQ Moscow
RMP Navy HQ Kaliningrad
RMxx Warship

Russian Air Defence Plotter CW Stations M-21:
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4015.0 4091.5 4096.0 4560.0 4868.0 5872.9 5873.0 6330.0 8104.0 9222.0

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Russian MX CW Beacon Clusters:
==============================
3334.9 L-Marker St.Petersburg
3593.9 S-Marker Arkhangelsk
3594.0 C-Marker Moscow
3658.0 V-Marker Khiva-Abad Turkmenistan
4042.0 P-Marker Kaliningrad
4325.8 R-Marker Izhevsk/Ustinov
5153.8 P-Marker Kaliningrad
5153.9 S-Marker Arkhangelsk
5154.0 C-Marker Moscow
7038.8 P-Marker Kaliningrad
7038.9 S-Marker Arkhangelsk
7039.0 C-Marker Moscow
8494.8 P-Marker Kaliningrad
8495.0 C-Marker Moscow
10307.2 10528.0
10871.8 P-Marker Kaliningrad
10871.9 S-Marker Arkhangelsk
10872.0 C-Marker Moscow
13527.8 P-Marker Kaliningrad
13527.9 S-Marker Arkhangelsk
13528.0 C-Marker Moscow
13528.2 F-Marker Vladivostok
16331.8 P-Marker Kaliningrad
16331.9 S-Marker Arkhangelsk
16332.0 C-Marker Moscow
20047.9 S-Marker Arkhangelsk
20048.0 C-Marker Moscow

Localisator:
============
C Moscow
F Vladivostok
L St.Petersburg
P Kaliningrad
R Ustinov
S Arkhangelsk
V Tashkent

Other Localisators:
===================
D Unknown or Obsolete
K Unknown or Obsolete
O Unknown or Obsolete
T Unknown or Obsolete
Y Unknown or Obsolete

Other Message Stations:
========================
3464.4 XX Station (The Beep) Located near Rostov-Volgograd
3757 XX Station (The Beep) Located near Rostov-Volgograd
5448 XX Station (The Beep) Located near Rostov-Volgograd

Information about Navy Markers and Other Message Stations from Rimantas Pleikys

Below are presented three known standard voice message formats of the
Russian military HF channel marker stations (Enigma XX - The Pip, XB - The
Buzzer, "R") - all live, non-computerized, mostly male voices, repeated
twice, in Russian language, real examples:

XX (The Pip), 3757//5448 kHz, Rostov-Volgograd area (?), at different times:
In Russian: English translation;
"Dlia 854 032 471 331 629 008 " For 854 032 471 331 629 008
Kak slyshno? Priyom." How can you read me? Reception."

"R", Izhevsk, Navy, 3194//3321//4325 kHz, usually on the hour, regular
schedules:
"Rotor-35, ya - Plavets-41. "Rotor-35, I am Plavets-41.
Reskript: 22 80 39 90 Rescript: 22 80 39 90
Moskovskoye vremia 0 chasov, 2 minuty. Moscow time 0 hours, 2 minutes.
Priyom." Reception."

XB (The Buzzer), 4625 kHz, Moscow area, extremely rare:
"Ya - UVB-76. "I am UVB-76.
18008 18008
Bromal: Boris, Roman, Olga (...) Bromal: Boris, Roman, Olga (...)
742 799 14" 742 799 14"

The purpose of the control messages is to check a readiness of operators at the receiving (network) stations. The received message content, or a special answering message, must be repeated back on the return link - HF, terrestrial MWL, telephone line and/or satellite link. In the cases of XX (The Pip) and "R", the final message word "Priyom" ("Reception") means that the station is waiting for the quick answer.

Rimantas
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Russian CIV Aero and RDARA Stations:
====================================
2635.0 RDARA
2682.0 CIV Aero
2770.0 CIV Aero Night
2868.0 RDARA
2884.0 RDARA
2902.0 RDARA
2920.0
2926.0 RDARA
2986.0 RDARA
3016.0 RDARA
3046.0 RDARA C
3102.0 RDARA FE
3245.0 CIV Aero Night
3255.0 CIV Aero Night
3401.0 RDARA FE
3407.0 RDARA FE
3413.0 RDARA FE
3422.0 RDARA NW
3425.0 RDADA CE
3440.0 RDARA C
3443.0 RDARA FE
3461.0 RDARA FE
3520.0 CIV Aero Night
3595.0 CIV Aero Night
3658.0 CIV Aero Night
3695.0 CIV Aero Night
3765.0 CIV Aero Night
3815.0 CIV Aero Night
3906.0 RDARA FE
4045.0 CIV Aero Night
4095.0 Dushanbe ACC
4405.0 CIV Aero Night
4465.0 RDARA FE: Ekimchan ACC, Vladivostok ACC, Khabarovsk ACC, Chulman ACC,
Blagoveschensk (Ignatyevo) ACC
4663.0 Aktyubinsk ACC, Almaty ACC, Kyzylorda ACC, Tashkent ACC, Uralsk ACC, Aralsk ACC, Ashkabad ACC, Atyrau (Guryev) ACC, Aktay ACC, Zhezkazgan ACC
4672.0 RDARA NW: Murmansk ACC, Arkhangelsk ACC, St.Petersburg ACC, Petrozavodsk ACC
Vologda ACC, Velikiye Luki ACC
4686.0 Bishkek ACC, Osh ACC
4696.0 RDARA FE: Kostanay (Narimanovka) ACC, Karaganda ACC, Magadan ACC
4696.0 CIV Aero
4705.0 CIV Aero
4712.0 RDARA C
4720.0 RDARA Nsib
4728.0 RDARA SC
4755.0 CIV Aero Night
4765.0 CIV Aero
5025.0 CIV Aero Night
5085.0 CIV Aero Night
5487.0 RDARA SW
5493.0 RDARA FE
5505.0 CIV Aero
5550.0 RDARA FE
5557.0 RDARA FE
5568.0 RDARA FE
6405.0 CIV Aero Daytime
6820.0 CIV Aero Daytime
6895.0 CIV Aero Daytime
6945.0 CIV Aero Daytime
7545.0 CIV Aero Daytime
7870.0 CIV Aero Daytime
8095.0 CIV Aero Daytime
8976.0 RDARA
9024.0 RDARA NW
10048.0 RDARA
10089.0 RDARA C
11285.0 RDARA FE
11327.0 RDARA FE
11333.0 RDARA C

-RDARA is used for Inbound Russian Traffic
-CIV Aero is also used for Inbound Russian Traffic but Callsigns are Coded.

CIV Aero Callsigns:
===================
Arbad Moscow
Avrora Unknown
Radan St.Petersburg
Skora Unknown
Truas Unknown
Yarok Kiev

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Russian LDOC and MWARA Stations:
================================
2851 MWARA NCA2
2896 LDOC Moscow
3004 MWARA NCA3
3019 MWARA NCA1
3479 MWARA EUR
4678 MWARA NCA2
5529 LDOC Moscow
5646 MWARA NCA1
5664 MWARA NCA3
6592 MWARA NCA2
6745 LDOC Moscow
6865 MWARA NCA3
8942 MWARA EA2
8951 MWARA MID3
10018 MWARA MID2
10039 MWARA NCA3
10084 MWARA EUR
10096 MWARA NCA2
11193 LDOC Moscow
11312 LDOC Moscow
11348 LDOC Moscow
11390 LDOC Moscow
11396 MWARA EA2
13205 LDOC Moscow
13220 LDOC Moscow
13288 MWARA EUR
13303 MWARA NCA3
13309 MWARA EA2
13315 MWARA NCA1
13320 LDOC Moscow
13345 LDOC Moscow
15024 LDOC Moscow
17907 MWARA EA2
17958 MWARA EA1
21958 LDOC Moscow

Other CIS RDARA Stations:
=========================
2893 Ukraine RDARA
2902 Belorussia RDARA
11165 Ukraine RDARA

Russian AF:
===========
3931.5 4885.0 9024.0
11306.5 C/S Priboy
11307.0 Gradusow
11308.0 Ramenskoye/Moscow
11354.0 C/S Priboy,Navater,Vormet,Krakjet

Coast Radio Stations:
=====================
4357 Ryga Radio
8293 Radio
8294 Ryga Radio
8297 Klaipeda Radio
8770 Radio
8773 Kaliningrad Radio
13086 Ryga Radio
13197 Odessa Radio

Volmet Stations:
================
2869.0 2941.0 3116.0 3407.0
4645.0 Tallinn
4663.0 Khabarovsk 05h,35h
Tashkent 10h,40h
Novosibirsk 20h,50h
Moscow 25h,55h
5691.0
6617.0
6693.0
6730.0
8819.0
8939.0
10090.0
11279.0
11297.0
11318.0
13267.0
13279.0

Meteo Stations:
===============
3690.0 Tashkent Meteo FAX
4318.0 Moscow Meteo FAX
4560.0 Irkutsk Meteo Baudot RKR74
5108.0 Moscow Meteo FAX
9348.0 Tashkent Meteo FAX RCH72
14983.0 Tashkent Meteo FAX RBV76

Russian Air Defence Network Voice:
==================================
4800.5 LSB 5190.0 LSB 5190.0 USB 5293.0 LSB 5680.0 USB 5696.0 LSB 5899.0 USB
6195.0 LSB 6268.0 LSB 6593.0 LSB 6864.0 LSB 6864.0 USB 7211.0 USB

Russian Railway Stations Voice:
===============================
2131.0 Kiev Glavnie

And from the UDXF newsgroup:
2130.0 Russian Railway 1st channel USB
2150.0 Russian Railway 2nd channel USB
2444.0 Moscow Metro Underground 1st channel USB
2464.0 Moscow Metro Underground 2nd channel USB

Было appreciated подтверждение русских freqs рельса выше.

Unknown Voice Stations:
=======================
5674.0 Unid
5696.0 Unid
5700.0 Unid
5740.0 Unid
5801.5 Unid
5802.5 Unid PP
6522.0 Unid PP
6533.0 Unid PP
6590.0 Unid
6593.0 Unid
6626.0 Unid
6672.0 Unid
6720.0 Unid
6728.0 Unid
6730.0 Unid
6760.0 Unid Datagram
6803.0 Unid PP
6823.0 Unid PP
6829.0 Unid
6843.5 Unid
6845.5 Unid
6869.0 Unid Testcount
6980.0 Unid
6980.0 Unid Testcount (E06)
7710.0 Unid Russian Mil Navy ?
7786.0 Unid Datagram
7804.0 Unid YL Airforce Radar Data ?
8010.0 Unid OM Puls Tone H/L L L, Mil ? AF?
8135.0 Unid
8293.0 Unid
8578.0 Unid
8770.0 Unid PP
8831.0 Unid PP
8890.0 Unid
8898.0 Unid Mil ?
8900.0 Unid
8918.0 Unid
8920.0 Unid
8985.0 Unid
8989.0 Unid LDOC ?
8992.0 Unid LDOC ?
11226.0 Unid PP
11172.0 Unid
11360.0 Unid LDOC
11362.0 Unid
13280.0 Unid LDOC ?
14402.0 Unid
14440.0 Codan Modem HF Phone Gateway
14500.0 Codan Modem HF Phone Gateway
14664.0 Codan Modem HF Phone Gateway
18995.0 Unid

Yakta Stations:
===============
2980.0 3851.0 4354.0 4355.0 4520.0 4885.0 4936.0 5418.0
5490.0 Yaktadata No Vocoder
6697.0 6700.0
6769.5 Borej96,Zavod24
6908.0 6939.0
11375 Yaktadata No Vocoder

Unknown Data Stations:
======================
10318.0 Air Defense Data ? Baudot-45

What is REVS/50 ?
=================
7559.0 REVS/50 REA4 Russian Airforce HQ Moscow
8646.0 REVS/73.2 RUS-75

Ukrainan Communication Systems:
===============================

CIS-14 Stations:
================
7610.0 7635.0 7650.0 7674.7 7734.0 7740.0 7925.0 8660.0 9065.0 9140.0 9160.0 9230.0
9270.2 10140.0 10380.0 10595.0 10705.2 10856.2 11500.0 11520.0 12170.0 13880.5
14535.0 14549.5 14575.0

Twinplex 2x100 System:
======================
8010.0 RAW2,RHP27 16020.0 16175.0

Baudot Systems:
===============
8060.0 10701.0 10707.0 10189.0 11023.0 14835.0 KFOR

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Callsign Lists:
===============
ADJEK-06 Unknown
ARBAD Moscow CIV Aero
ARBAD-63 Unknown
AVRORA Unknown CIV Aero
BOREJ-96
C Moscow Navy Marker
CENTRE Unknown
COSMO Unknown
D Unknown/Obsolete
DAIHATJ-59 Unknown
F Vladivostok Navy Marker
GOY-2 Unknown
K Unknown/Obsolete
KRAKJET Unknown Airforce Operator
KRASJETJ-79 Unknown
L St.Petersburg Navy Marker
NAVATER Unknown Airforce Operator
O Unknown/Obsolete
P Kaliningrad Navy Marker
PAROS-XX Unknown
PIWON-24 Unknown
PLAVETS-41 Unknown Navy Operator
POBED-01 Unknown
PRAWA-82 Unknown Right ?
PRIBOY Unknown Airforce Operator
R Izhevsk/Ustinov Navy Marker
RADAN St.Petersburg CIV Aero
RAW-2
RBV-76 Tashkent Meteo
RCH-72 Tashkent Meteo
RCV Navy HQ Sevastopol
REA-4 Airforce HQ Moscow
REO Unknown
RHP-27
RIT Navy North Fleet HQ Severomorsk
RIW Navy HQ Moscow
RKR-74 Irkutsk Meteo
RMHW Warship Unknown
RMMA Warship Unknown
RMP Navy HQ Kaliningrad
ROMAN-XX Unknown
ROTOR-35 Unknown Navy Operator
S Arkhangelsk Navy Marker
SKORA Unknown CIV Aero
T Unknown/Obsolete
TRUAS Unknown CIV Aero
UDZ-27
URO Diplostation Tripolis?
UXW Diplostation London?
UVB-76
V Khiva-Abad Navy Marker
VORMET Unknown Airforce Operator
WQL Diplostation Unknown
Y Unknown/Obsolete
YAROK Kiev CIV Aero
ZAPAT-_9 Unknown
ZAVOD-24

Thursday, March 29, 2007

New (01F) HFDL Freqs Posted to Net

Glenn, KD5DGA has posted the HFDL Table 01F below to the HFDL/UDXF newsgroups.

HFDL system table (Version 01F)
Ground Station ID 1 SAN FRANCISCO - CALIFORNIA UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 121 45 34 W Latitude 38 22 48 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 10
Frequency 21934000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 17919000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12
Frequency 13276000 Hz Master Frame Slot 8
Frequency 11327000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 10081000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 8927000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12
Frequency 6559000 Hz Master Frame Slot 8
Frequency 5508000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 4672000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 2947000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12

Ground Station ID 2 MOLOKAI - HAWAII UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 157 10 46 W Latitude 21 10 47 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 20
Frequency 21937000 Hz Master Frame Slot 0
Frequency 21928000 Hz Master Frame Slot 0
Frequency 17934000 Hz Master Frame Slot 7
Frequency 17919000 Hz Master Frame Slot 7
Frequency 13276000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 11348000 Hz Master Frame Slot 11
Frequency 11312000 Hz Master Frame Slot 11
Frequency 10081000 Hz Master Frame Slot 11
Frequency 8936000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 8912000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 6559000 Hz Master Frame Slot 0
Frequency 5538000 Hz Master Frame Slot 7
Frequency 5529000 Hz Master Frame Slot 7
Frequency 5508000 Hz Master Frame Slot 7
Frequency 5463000 Hz Master Frame Slot 7
Frequency 3434000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 3019000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 3001000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 2947000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 2878000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3

Ground Station ID 3 REYKJAVICK - ICELAND UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 21 50 59 W Latitude 64 4 47 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 8
Frequency 17985000 Hz Master Frame Slot 11
Frequency 15025000 Hz Master Frame Slot 7
Frequency 11184000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 8977000 Hz Master Frame Slot 0
Frequency 6712000 Hz Master Frame Slot 11
Frequency 5720000 Hz Master Frame Slot 7
Frequency 3900000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 3116000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3

Ground Station ID 4 RIVERHEAD - NEW YORK UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 72 38 22 W Latitude 40 52 47 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 20
Frequency 21934000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 21931000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 17952000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9
Frequency 17934000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9
Frequency 17919000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9
Frequency 13276000 Hz Master Frame Slot 5
Frequency 11387000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 11354000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 11315000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 10027000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 8912000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9
Frequency 8885000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9
Frequency 8831000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9
Frequency 6661000 Hz Master Frame Slot 5
Frequency 6652000 Hz Master Frame Slot 5
Frequency 6646000 Hz Master Frame Slot 5
Frequency 5652000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 5523000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 3428000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9
Frequency 3410000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9

Ground Station ID 5 AUCKLAND - NEW ZEALAND UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 174 48 35 E Latitude 37 1 10 S
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 10
Frequency 21949000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 17916000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12
Frequency 13351000 Hz Master Frame Slot 8
Frequency 11327000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 10084000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 8921000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12
Frequency 6535000 Hz Master Frame Slot 8
Frequency 5583000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 3404000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12
Frequency 3016000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12

Ground Station ID 6 HAT YAI - THAILAND UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 100 23 24 E Latitude 6 56 23 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 9
Frequency 21949000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 17928000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6
Frequency 13270000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 10066000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 8825000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6
Frequency 6535000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 5655000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 4687000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 3470000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6

Ground Station ID 7 SHANNON - IRELAND UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 8 55 46 W Latitude 52 43 48 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 8
Frequency 11384000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 10081000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 8942000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6
Frequency 8843000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6
Frequency 6532000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 5547000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 3455000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6
Frequency 2988000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6

Ground Station ID 8 JOHANNESBURG - SOUTH AFRICA UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 28 12 35 E Latitude 26 7 46 S
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 5
Frequency 21949000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 13321000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6
Frequency 8834000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 4681000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 3016000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2

Ground Station ID 9 BARROW - ALASKA UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 156 46 46 W Latitude 71 18 0 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 19
Frequency 21937000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 21928000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 17934000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6
Frequency 17919000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6
Frequency 11354000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 10093000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 10027000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 8936000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 8927000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 6646000 Hz Master Frame Slot 6
Frequency 5544000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 5538000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 5529000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 4687000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 4654000 Hz Master Frame Slot 2
Frequency 3497000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 3007000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 2992000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10
Frequency 2944000 Hz Master Frame Slot 10

Ground Station ID 14 KRASNOYARSK - RUSSIA UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 92 18 0 E Latitude 56 6 0 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 10
Frequency 21990000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 17912000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12
Frequency 13321000 Hz Master Frame Slot 8
Frequency 10087000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 8886000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12
Frequency 6596000 Hz Master Frame Slot 8
Frequency 5622000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 4679000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 2905000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12
Frequency 2878000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12

Ground Station ID 13 SANTA CRUZ - BOLIVIA UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 63 7 46 W Latitude 17 40 11 S
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 12
Frequency 21997000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 21988000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 21973000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 21946000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 17916000 Hz Master Frame Slot 11
Frequency 13315000 Hz Master Frame Slot 7
Frequency 11318000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 8957000 Hz Master Frame Slot 11
Frequency 6628000 Hz Master Frame Slot 7
Frequency 4660000 Hz Master Frame Slot 3
Frequency 3467000 Hz Master Frame Slot 11
Frequency 2983000 Hz Master Frame Slot 11

Ground Station ID 16 AGANA - GUAM UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 144 48 0 E Latitude 13 28 11 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 7
Frequency 17919000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9
Frequency 13312000 Hz Master Frame Slot 5
Frequency 11306000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 11288000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 8927000 Hz Master Frame Slot 5
Frequency 6652000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 5451000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9

Ground Station ID 15 AL MUHARRAQ - BAHRAIN UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 50 39 0 E Latitude 26 16 12 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 8
Frequency 21982000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 17967000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9
Frequency 13354000 Hz Master Frame Slot 5
Frequency 11312000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 10075000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1
Frequency 8885000 Hz Master Frame Slot 9
Frequency 5544000 Hz Master Frame Slot 5
Frequency 2986000 Hz Master Frame Slot 1

Ground Station ID 17 CANARIAS - SPAIN UTC UNLOCKED
Longitude 15 23 23 W Latitude 27 56 59 N
Squitter Version 0
Number of frequencies 8
Frequency 21955000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 17928000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12
Frequency 13303000 Hz Master Frame Slot 8
Frequency 11348000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 8948000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12
Frequency 6529000 Hz Master Frame Slot 8
Frequency 5589000 Hz Master Frame Slot 4
Frequency 2905000 Hz Master Frame Slot 12

[Preamble TS(12) 300 bps 1.8 sec Interleaver FREQ ERR 24.68 Hz Mag 17 Votes 0 ]
GND 05:04:44 UTC RIVERHEAD - NEW YORK DB = 31 SV = 0 GS UP LIGHT OFFSET 5
RIVERHEAD - NEW YORK UTC LOCKED Active freqs (Hz) 6661 KHz 5652 KHz
SHANNON - IRELAND UTC LOCKED Active freqs (Hz) 6532 KHz 2988 KHz
JOHANNESBURG - SOUTH AFRICA UTC LOCKED Active freqs (Hz) 13321 KHz 4681
KHz

KD5DGA
Glenn
http://home.earthlink.net/~kd5dga/

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Some Selected HF FAX Freqs

Here is a small list of HF FAX freqs recently monitored here in the Monitoring Post.

Halifax, Canada - CFH 122.5 4271.0 6496.4 10536.0 13510.0 (Transmits both FAX and RTTY on these freqs)
Hamburg/Pinneberg, Germany - DDH3-3855.0 DDK3-7880.0 DDK6-13882.5
Moscow, Russia - 3830.0 5008.0 6987.0 7695.0 10980.0 11617.0 12961.0
Nurmansk, Russia - 5336.0 6445.5 7908.8 10130.0
Northwood, UK - GYA 2618.5 4610.0 8040.0 11086.5
Northwood, UK - GYA 3289.5 6834.0 14436.0 18261.0 (Persian Gulf)
Boston MA, USA - NMF 4235.0 6340.5 9110.0 12750.0

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Intl Spacecraft Reveals Detailed Processes on the Sun

Taken by Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope on Jan. 12, 2007, this image of the sun reveals the filamentary nature of the plasma connecting regions of different magnetic polarity. Hinode captures these very dynamic pictures of the chromosphere. The chromosphere is a thin "layer" of solar atmosphere "sandwiched" between the visible surface, photosphere, and corona. (Hinode JAXA/NASA)

NASA released on Wednesday never-before-seen images that show the sun's magnetic field is much more turbulent and dynamic than previously known. The international spacecraft Hinode, formerly known as Solar B, took the images.

Hinode, Japanese for "sunrise," was launched Sept. 23, 2006, to study the sun's magnetic field and how its explosive energy propagates through the different layers of the solar atmosphere. The spacecraft's uninterrupted high-resolution observations of the sun will have an impact on solar physics comparable to the Hubble Space Telescope's impact on astronomy.

"For the first time, we are now able to make out tiny granules of hot gas that rise and fall in the sun's magnetized atmosphere," said Dick Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophyics Division, Science Mission Directorate, Washington. "These images will open a new era of study on some of the sun's processes that effect Earth, astronauts, orbiting satellites and the solar system."

Hinode's three primary instruments, the Solar Optical Telescope, the X-ray Telescope and the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer, are observing the different layers of the sun. Studies focus on the solar atmosphere from the visible surface of the sun, known as the photosphere, to the corona, the outer atmosphere of the sun that extends outward into the solar system.

"By coordinating the measurements of all three instruments, Hinode is showing how changes in the structure of the magnetic field and the release of magnetic energy in the low atmosphere spread outward through the corona and into interplanetary space to create space weather," said John Davis, project scientist from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.

Space weather involves the production of energetic particles and emissions of electromagnetic radiation. These bursts of energy can black out long-distance communications over entire continents and disrupt the global navigational system.

"Hinode images are revealing irrefutable evidence for the presence of turbulence-driven processes that are bringing magnetic fields, on all scales, to the sun's surface, resulting in an extremely dynamic chromosphere or gaseous envelope around the sun," said Alan Title, a corporate senior fellow at Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, Calif., and consulting professor of physics at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Hinode is a collaborative mission led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and includes the European Space Agency and Britain's Particle Physics Astronomy Research Council. The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, developed the Solar Optical Telescope, which provided the fine-scale structure views of the sun's lower atmosphere, and developed the X-ray Telescope in collaboration with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory of Cambridge, Mass. The X-ray Telescope captured the rapid, time-sequenced images of explosive events in the sun's outer atmosphere.

"By following the evolution of the solar structures that outline the magnetic field before, during and after these explosive events, we hope to find clear evidence to establish that magnetic reconnection is the underlying cause for this explosive activity," said Leon Golub of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

The Marshall Space Flight Center manages the development of the scientific instrumentation provided for the mission by NASA, industry and other federal agencies.

For more information about Hinode, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hinode/

And from NewScientist.com news service and Hazel Muir:

The restless bubbling and frothing of the Sun's chaotic surface is astonishing astronomers who have been treated to detailed new images from a Japanese space telescope called Hinode.

The observatory will have as dramatic an impact on our understanding of the Sun as the Hubble Space Telescope has had on our view of the universe beyond, scientists told a NASA press conference in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday.

"Everything we thought we knew about X-ray images of the Sun is now out of date," says Leon Golub from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. "We've seen many new and unexpected things. For that reason alone, the mission is already a success."

Hinode (Japanese for "sunrise") was launched in September 2006 to study the solar magnetic field and how magnetic energy is released as the field rises into the Sun's outer atmosphere. The mission was formerly known as Solar-B.

That entire story can be seen at http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11432&feedId=online-news_rss20


Taken by Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope on Nov. 20, 2006, this image reveals the structure of the solar magnetic field rising vertically from a sunspot, an area of strong magnetic field, outward into the solar atmosphere. At the edges of the sunspot the field lines bend over to reconnect with field of opposite polarity. (Hinode JAXA/NASA)

Taken by Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope on Nov. 11, 2006, this image reveals the fine scale structure in the chromosphere that extends outward above the top of the convection cells, or granulation, of the photosphere. The structure results from the interaction of hot ionized gas with the magnetic field. Image credit: Hinode JAXA/NASA

Interesting Intercept in ITU IM #313

Here on the Btown Monitoring Post I have written several times about the HF XSS ALE net. And in my previous post to this blog I mentioned that the new International Monitor #313 is now available from the ITU website. I just started reviewing this doc this morning and found an intercept on page 2 that immediately caught my eye.

G BALDOCK 3161.00 19 02 0733 0733 XSS 2K80E J7D 248 B MIL-188-141 ALE

Based on day/night propagation patterns(a 0733 local time intercept in England), the intercept above adds more credability that the mysterious XSS ALE net is a UK based network. Based on monitoring it is widely believed that ALE address "XSS" is the netcos for this HF net and if so then this is most likely a British HF net (some estimates say British Ministry of Defense).

More as it becomes available.

New ITU International Monitoring File Posted

The latest quarterly ITU International Monitoring file (#313) has been posted to the ITU website. International Monitoring #313 covers the period 1-1-07 to 3-31-07 (updated on 3-13-2007) and has 152 pages of HF intercepts conducted by monitoring post worldwide. Station information in this file includes broadcast, clandestine, pirate, numbers stations, military and utility station intercepts from around the world. ITU IM #313 is "free," in pdf format, and can be download at http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/monitoring/files/pdffiles/313.pdf

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Calm Before the Storm (the Solar Storm)

March 10, 2006: It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.

Like the quiet before a storm.

This week researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm

Friday, March 16, 2007

IARU Region 1 Intruder Newsletter Released

A new IARU Region 1 Intruder Watch newsletter, dated March 12, 2007, is now available in PDF format at http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/latest.pdf.

Thomas M. Rösner <dl8aam@gmx.de> on the UDXF newsgroup made this interesting observation about the mysterious LEN ALE net based on the contents of this newsletter:

"The latest IARU-Intruderwatch newsletter called the BR2/LEN/PMR/etc.-Net (that we call "Georgian Military") as US Military/Mid East. Who's right?But refering to the voice traffic monitored after the ALE callings (2 times) my guess goes more to a national / local armed forces system, noUS as only local languages heard. Also a new ident (BT2) with BR2.The "new" KBT/KG4 on 5430 kHz might belongs to the same "service", seealso 5780 kHz (and 5425 before) with BR2, 2BR, 8GS, 1GS. 5GS was reportedon the "original" LEN/BR2-Net as regular player before."

Thursday, March 15, 2007

The Radio Monitor Blogspots Report - 3/15/2007

What follows below is a list of radio hobby related blogs that cover the "monitoring" only portion of our hobby. If you have a radio monitoring blog and it is not listed in our list below, send along your blog address to larryvanhorn @ monitoringtimes.com. We will certainly look over what you have and consider adding it to our list. This list will be updated as events warrant and ye ole author has the time.

Edition #1 - 20 blogs listed

  • Adventures in Radio Scannerland http://radioscannerland.blogspot.com/
  • American Bandscan (Monitoring Times Columnist Doug Smith) http://americanbandscan.blogspot.com/
  • Italian SWL Station IO-5639/FR http://swli05639fr.blogspot.com/
  • Jacksonville Florida Radio Logs http://dxcommunication.blogspot.com/
  • KF4LMT's Monitoring Post (Scanning and Amater Radioin Savannah, Georgia) http://kf4lmt.blogspot.com/
  • MIL-COM Eastern NC http://milcomeastnc.blogspot.com/
  • MT Fed Files (Monitoring Times Columnist Chris Parris) http://mt-fedfiles.blogspot.com/
  • MT Milcom Monitoring Blog (Monitoring Times Assistant-Technical Editor/Columnist Larry Van Horn) http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/
  • MT Shortwave Central (Monitoring Times Columnist/Frequency Manager Gayle Van Horn) http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/
  • MT Utility World (Monitoring Times Columnist Hugh Stegman) http://mt-utility.blogspot.com/
  • Ohio Area Milcom http://ohiomilcom.blogspot.com/
  • PGHscan Scanner Frequency Blog http://www.pghscan.com/blog/
    Radioskala http://radioskala.blogspot.com/
  • Relatório de Escuta http://relatoriodeescuta.blogspot.com/
  • Southeast Texas DXer http://setxdxer.blogspot.com/
  • Surfing the Radio Waves http://hfsurfing.blogspot.com/
  • The Btown Monitoring Post (Personal Radio Blog of Larry Van Horn) http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/ [The blog that host this list]
  • The Editor's Desk (Monitoring Times Managing Editor Rachel Baughn) http://mt-editor.blogspot.com/
  • VIPER Waveguide: Covers new North Carolina Statewide trunk radio system http://ncviper800.blogspot.com/
  • Western Mass Military Comms http://westernmass-milcom.blogspot.com/

  • Sunday, March 11, 2007

    Russian VOLMET Stations

    Did some extensive monitoring of the Russian VOLMET system this weekend. Below is a summary of what is active.

    Russian Language Network

    Network #1 - 2869.0 6693.0 8888.0 11318.0 kHz USB
    H+00/30 Syktyvkar
    H+05/35 Kol'tsovo(Ekaterinburg)
    H+10/40 Novosibirsk
    H+15/45 Samara
    H+20/50 Tumen'

    Network #2 - 2941.0 6617.0 8938.0 11297.0 kHz USB
    H+05/35 St. Petersburg
    H+15/45 Kiev
    H+25/55 Rostov

    Network #3 - 3116.0 5691.0 8861.0 13267.0 kHz USB
    H+00/30 Kirensk
    H+10/40 Yakutsk
    H+15/45 Khabarovsk
    H+20/50 Magadan
    H+25/55 Irkutsk

    Network #4 - 3407.0 6730.0 8819.0 11.279.0 kHz USB
    H+05/35 Aktubinsk
    H+10/40 Almaty
    H+15/45 Almaty
    H+20/50 Tashkent

    English Language Network
    Frequencies - 4663.0 10030.0 13279.0 kHz USB
    H+05/35 Khabarovsk
    H10/40 Kiev
    H+15/45 Tashkent
    H+20/50 Novosibirsk
    H+25/55 Moskva

    Friday, March 09, 2007

    Enigma 2000 39 Newsletter Available Online

    Are you interested in mystery and intrigue? Do you like things that go bump in the night" How about those spy number stations? If any of this fits then you need to check out the latest Enigma 2000 newsletter. My old friend Ary Boender has posted the Enigma 2000 Newsletter #39 is now online at http://home.luna.nl/~ary/en39a.zip.

    ARLP011 Propagation de K7RA

    QST de W1AW
    Propagation Forecast Bulletin 11 ARLP011
    From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA March 9, 2007

    SB PROP ARL ARLP011
    ARLP011 Propagation de K7RA

    On March 1 sunspot 944 was pointed straight at us. It was a small sunspot, followed a few days later by another small spot, 945. Sunspot 945 is visible in photos from March 5, just behind 944, but both spots seemed to disappear a day or two later, before they would have rotated off the visible solar disk. Now the Sun is blank, and the sunspot number is zero.

    The minimum non-zero sunspot number is 11, and lately sunspot numbers move from 0 to 11 to 23 or 24, and back to 11. No solar activity is expected for the next few days, so we will probably see at least several days with a zero sunspot number. Geomagnetic conditions are expected to remain quiet, at least until Monday or Tuesday, March 12-13. The USAF predicts a Planetary A index for March 9-15 of 5, 5, 7, 15, 20, 15 and 10. Geophysical Institute Prague predicts quiet conditions for March 9-10, quiet to unsettled March 11, active geomagnetic conditions for March 12, unsettled to active March 13, unsettled March 14 and quiet to unsettled March 15. A recurring solar wind stream is predicted for Monday, March 12, and should produce the expected geomagnetic instability.

    New predictions for the solar minimum are coming frequently of late. The monthly smoothed sunspot number forecast for the rest of 2007 from the NOAA Space Environment Center in the weekly Preliminary Report and Forecast has been adjusted again, the third time since the first of the year. The revised tables are on page 9 of issue 1635, and page 10 of issues 1640 and 1644 at, http://www.sec.noaa.gov/weekly/index.html (the table in 1640 is mislabeled at the bottom of the page as 03 January when it is really 06 February). Currently they predict a solar minimum for right now, with a smoothed sunspot number of 6 for March and April 2007, then 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16, 18 and 21 for the remaining eight months of this year.

    As mentioned in past bulletins, these are smoothed sunspot numbers, averaged over a year. So the prediction of 6 for this month means that if the prediction is accurate, at the end of September 2007 you could take half the average of daily sunspot numbers for that month, add it to half the average of daily sunspot numbers for September 2006, add the total to the monthly averages for each month in between, divide by 12, and get 6 as the result. Currently we're seeing higher values, with an average daily sunspot number of 19 for last week, 19.6 the week before, 14.6 for the week prior to that, 6.3 for the previous week, and 28.7 for the week prior to that, which was February 1-7.

    You can see an explanation of the method for determining the 12 month smoothed sunspot number at, http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/IONO/sunspot.html.

    Jim Headrick, W3CP of Stanfield, Oregon sent in a different prediction from the Australian government. It has the solar minimum centered on September 2007, and you can see it at, http://tinyurl.com/2ymk92. Note that the NOAA version mentioned previously ends in December 2007, but the one Jim sent goes through 2008 and 2009 as well. By the way, I don't know how long Jim has been a ham, but he was born early in sunspot cycle 15, and I'm sure he hopes to see the new cycle 24 all the way through. See a page of all the 20th century sunspot cycles at, http://wm7d.net/hamradio/solar/historical.shtml.

    We heard from another ham enjoying low power operations at the bottom of the cycle. Bill Raiford, NI4Y of Fredericksburg, Virginia says he operates 10 watts on 20 meters from his car. Bill says, "Last week I worked VK2KM and this week I worked VK2GWK from my 10 watt mobile station. No, VK isn't rare DX, but just the thought of 10 watts propagating from my vehicle in VA to VK land is quite amazing. I am at 194 countries from my mobile."

    Dave Green, VE5TLY of Ottawa, Ontario sent an interesting link from the BBC concerning the new STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) satellites which will soon be observing coronal mass ejections traveling through space in 3D. Read the article at, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6411349.stm.

    If you would like to make a comment or have a tip for our readers, email the author at, k7ra@arrl.net.

    For more information concerning radio propagation, see the ARRL Technical Information Service at, http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html. For a detailed
    explanation of the numbers used in this bulletin see, http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/k9la-prop.html. An archive of past propagation bulletins is at, http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/.
    Monthly propagation charts between four USA regions and twelve overseas locations are at, http://www.arrl.org/qst/propcharts/.

    Sunspot numbers for March 1 through 7 were 11, 23, 11, 24, 27, 26 and 11 with a mean of 19. 10.7 cm flux was 74.8, 75.5, 73.3, 72.5, 71.9, 71.9, and 72.9, with a mean of 73.3. Estimated planetary A indices were 11, 5, 2, 3, 8, 18 and 14 with a mean of 8.7. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 7, 4, 0, 4, 6, 14 and 12, with a mean of 6.7.

    Saturday, March 03, 2007

    NMF US Coast Guard FAX



    Thought I would share a FAX weather chart of the North Atlantic broadcast by US Coast Guard station NMF Boston at 1915 UTC 3-3-2007 on 12750 kHz.

    Personal Blog Logs 3/3/2007










    Here are a few things I heard while lounging around in the Btown Monitor Post 3/3/2007. Rcvr: Icom IC-706 MKIIG, Decoder: Skysweep Standard Plus, Antenna: Varierty of wire antennas. Times are UTC and frequencies are kHz unless otherwise indicated.

    8476.0 Probable French Navy station at Fort de France MRT with Stanag 4285. Could not get a good enough synch for a printout. Tried several settings. At 1530. Looks like a 300L 5N2.

    8502.0 NMG-US Coast Guard New Orleans, LA in USB at 1545 with Perfect Paul offshore weather information.

    8540.0 Another probable French Navy station at Fort de France MRT with Stanag 4285. Could not get a good enough synch for a printout. Tried several settings. At 1555. Looks like a 300L 5N2.

    8566.0 Another probable French Navy station at Fort de France MRT with Stanag 4285. Could not get a good enough synch for a printout. Tried several settings. At 1605. Looks like a 300L 5N2.

    8788.0 WLO-Mobile Radio, AL in USB at 1612 with Sexy Susie offshore weather information. Not in synch with 8806.0.

    8806.0 WLO-Mobile Radio, AL in USB at 1612 with Sexy Susie offshore weather information. Not in synch with 8788.0.

    8916.0 CAR-A MWARA New York Radio working a wide variety of aircraft in USB at 1518.

    8971-2.0 Feedback circuit noise are pretty much wiping out this USN HF assignment.

    9010.0 US DoD Link 11 data transmission at 1622.

    9029.0 Encrypted RTTY signal at 1622.

    9084.0 Encrypted RTTY signal at 1625(NPG Stockton CA?)

    9106.0 Shares SCN channel 5 active with ALE traffic.

    9215.0 Encrypted RTTY signal at 1635. This one is a flame thrower here.

    9370.0 [SWBC] WTJC-Newport NC USA, EE with hymnal religous music at 1637.

    9385.0 [SWBC] WWRB-Manchester TN USA, EE with some fire brand southern style preaching at 1641.

    9450.0 [SWBC] WEWN-Birmingham AL USA, EE a religous play about Mother Theresa at 1643.

    9480.0 [SWBC] KAIJ-Dallas TX USA, EE preacher discussing Judges 5 and how its relates to today's society at 1650.

    9610.0 [SWBC] Radio Canada International, ID//multilingual service on Sirius satellite. At 1705 EE news.

    9625.0 [SWBC] CBC NQ SW Service, in EE real weak with fading at 1208.

    9830.0 Encrypted RTTY signal at 1712. This one is a flame thrower and is definitely transmitting inside the SWBC band. Verified on several receivers.

    9955.0 [SWBC] WRMI-World Radio Miami Intl, with SS programming. Heavy bubble jamming that wipes them out when WRMI fades. At 1719.

    9985.0 [SWBC] WYFR-Family Radio, with EE religous programming at 1720.

    10000.0 WWV-STFS Fort Collins CO with usual tick tock fair.

    10330.0 [SWBC] All India Radio, Indian music noted through heavy QRM from Sailmail Radio, Rock Head SC Pactor-2 burst at 1729.

    10331.0 KZN508-Sailmail Radio Rock Head SC with Pactor-2 burst at 1729.