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It was very strong into here all evening (noted about 0200 on past 0306 GMT). Sends encrypted messages in 5-letter groups. Each message preamble has a number, a time and a 1986 date, then they go into the 5-letter cipher groups. It comes in very strongly on my northeast beverage, weaker on all other receiving antennas. Added to my rain static, power line noise and thunderstorm QRN this evening, the Ghetto was pretty much unusable. I contacted a station in TX on 3800, but finally lost him in the bedlam. I QSY'ed over and zero beated my carrier on the CW as the intruder kept on sending, but that didn't help otherwise shitty band condx. This same station was on 3640 a few evenings ago, and another evening was noted on 3647.5, and a day or two later had QSY'ed to 3528.5. This station was a recent topic of discussion on the CW Reflector: ...his preambles follow sequentially this pattern for each message..
nr 38 d 04 00:52:51 1986
nr 39 d 04 00:59:07 1986
Also the time group in the preamble advances in time with my CPU clock
although his time given is one hour advanced over UTC....
The year being 1986 seems strange...
Each message is about 6-7 mins long... Reported very strong in northeast US and eastern Canada. The consensus is that the transmitter is located somewhere in the vicinity of NJ. |
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« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2008, 07:54:13 AM » |
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1986?
This may be a late KGB message reporting shipping transit info in/out of New York Harbor.
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« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2008, 08:27:36 AM » |
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messages from IRB.....he needs a pair of 1625s for the modulator
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« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2008, 09:01:55 AM » |
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Quite strong here in South Arkansas at times last evening.  |
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« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2008, 12:41:22 PM » |
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Don
i have also heard it late nights
very strong, clean 18 / 20 wpm
machine sent morse code
listened for about 20 mins
mac
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« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2008, 01:00:33 PM » |
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I have not caught them when they first come on the air, or had the patience to wait until they signed out to see if they transmit any kind of station ID. But if they are of US origin, what in the hell are they doing inside the amateur band? I thought that's what frequencies like the now-defunct proposed 60m band are supposed to be reserved for, precluding any further expansion of HF amateur allocations. Maybe they are on a ship anchored just off the coast. Somali, maybe?  |
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« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2008, 01:36:29 PM » |
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echoes in the aether from WWII ? ... beefus
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« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2008, 03:30:04 PM » |
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messages from IRB.....he needs a pair of 1625s for the modulator
Yep, that's it for sure! And the other info is a reference to specific article and paragraph numbers in the US Constitution.  |
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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2008, 03:38:44 PM » |
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Funny that IRB would be mentioned but there almost always was a CW message, that wasn't very nice, running under the A.M. QSO's when IRB was on the air.
I hear gross body noises, and heavy burping, when Phil, K2PG is in QSO, at times.
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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2008, 05:19:51 PM » |
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there is also one at 7481 khz,evenings, sending 5 letter code groups, but not using any of the 4 character letters, l,p,q, etc. no id heard yet
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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2008, 06:25:44 PM » |
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And that darn Ecuadorian Time Station that straps in early mornings on 3810 Kc.
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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2008, 07:46:35 PM » |
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Yah, I heard it strapping into New England last night. I never heard it before, so I simply chalked it up to weird band conditions. Hope it doesn't show up there too frequenly!
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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2008, 11:57:18 PM » |
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Yosemite Sam has learned CW.. So, who's doing the DF to track this one down? Is it automated?
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« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2008, 12:02:29 AM » |
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I just decoded it:
THE DESALINATOR IS NOT WORKING AT A.F.
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« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2008, 08:54:29 AM » |
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" THE DESALINATOR IS NOT WORKING AT A.F. "
Must be the old codebook, I decoded at as
PLEASE SEND MORE BREWSTER BUFFALOS
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What? Me worry?
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« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2008, 09:53:16 AM » |
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Hmmmm, Midway Island's desalinator is kaput. Those Brewster Buffaloes, and few F4Fs they have, are in for a rough ride when the A6Ms arrive. Inform Yamamoto if this!
Ellen - AF9J
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« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2008, 11:09:53 AM » |
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ITS ITS THEM!!!
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« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2008, 12:25:08 PM » |
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Them?
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« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2008, 01:06:01 PM » |
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Them?
burn it, burn it all! |
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« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2008, 01:07:51 PM » |
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" THE DESALINATOR IS NOT WORKING AT A.F. "
Must be the old codebook, I decoded at as
PLEASE SEND MORE BREWSTER BUFFALOS
please send no repeat no brewster buffalos please send Grummand F4F Wildcats |
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« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2008, 01:59:56 PM » |
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FCC: "The record is devoid of a demonstrated nexus between Morse code proficiency and on-the-air conduct."
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« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2008, 06:35:44 PM » |
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I'll take the ones made by Grumman. Much better. TNX.
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« Reply #23 on: December 15, 2008, 11:08:37 AM » |
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Heard the CW intruder...whatever it is...this morning on or around 3881 sending: EBS EBS EBS continually in beacon fashion. Does that stand for Extreme B S or what?
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« Reply #24 on: December 15, 2008, 01:22:43 PM » |
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"Extraordinarily Bad Schitt."  Tirangulated from trans Netptunian Lagrange pt. III (in sync motion w/Neptune.) |
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