If you're already familiar with the KiwiSDR project, you can
check out our new receiver
map and scroll down to read what else the Priyom team is doing
with it!
For many including myself, discovering and listening to numbers
stations live was only possible thanks to the University of Twente
WebSDR. I think it's fair to say that it has been such a unique
and successful receiver, it was a major milestone and became a
staple of shortwave listening.
Over the past year, a new generation ...
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You probably have heard about North Korea reactivating its
number station broadcasts not very long ago. Well, we're glad to
anounce that V15 now transmits on FM!
On December 21st, 2016, North Korea decided to change some
frequencies from their main broadcast stations. This includes Echo
of Hope and Radio Pyongyang, among others. In the case of Radio
Pyongyang, they dropped three MW frequencies (684, 729 and 1080
khz), and they started to broadcast on FM! And not only on one
frequency, but f...
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This June North Korea has resumed its Number Station broadcasts
on Radio Pyongyang. The station V15 has been defunct since 2001,
but it has been reactivated!
There has been a change in operation habits, scheduling and
format.
At the start time, they play a piece of music that varies by the
agent number. Then they send the message for the agent number. The
messages are now read as this: "Page <1-999>, Number
<1-100>".
The station still uses the same frequencies as regular...
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On Thursday 24th of September S28 has transmitted famous Mark
Bernes song "Zhuravli" (Cranes). This song is about WWII soldiers
and says
"It seems to me sometimes that our soldiers
Who were not to return from fields of gore
Did not one day lie down into our land
But turned into a skein (wedge) of white
cranes..."
Purpose of this transmisson is suspected to be test of the relay
line. Recording of the transmission can be found in our Buzzer log
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The Russian military network The Buzzer on 4625
kHz is not transmitted from the Kerro transmitter site ("Irtysh")
anymore. It seems that the Russians are reverting to their old
structure, when the frequency 4625 kHz was only used for the Moscow
Military District. At present, The Buzzer appears to be broadcast
only from the 69th Communication Hub in Naro Fominsk.
A new military marker, similar to The Buzzer, The Pip, The Squeaky
Wheel and S5292, was
discovered on the frequency 4525 kHz,...
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Priyom found a new frequency for the famous Russian circular
military network The Squeaky
Wheel. It is 7009 kHz and operates in parallel
to network's normal day frequency, 5473 kHz. You can enjoy it here.
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THIS
FREQUENCY WAS TEMPORARY AND IS NOW NO LONGER IN
USE
It hasn't been long since Russian military added a channel
marker (B Marker mentioned in last blog post) to a
channel - which sends monolith messages just like Buzzer,
Pip, Wheel and so on - using frequency 5292kHz. It looks
like the Western & Central military districts at least are
undergoing some changes and/or upgrades, for the past few days the
Buzzer has been also sending continuously on
3216kHz as well as its regular...
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We now have a fifth Russian military circular station with a
channel marker! First there was Buzzer, then Pip, then Wheel, then
R marker, well let us introduce to you the D marker!
On Thursday 11th February 2015 we have found a new Russian
military channel marker, akin to the buzzer! This is not something
we expected to find in 2015 but rather would expect the opposite,
less and less shortwave usage and more movement towards newer
systems. The frequency for this new channel marker is 5292kH...
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On November 25th, 2014, we noticed a transmission made with an
FSK digital mode used by Polish intelligence, which started an
investigation of its internals. This system has been in use since
at least 2009, and a decoder for it is already included in certain
expensive software, but little of its operation habits have been
documented in public sources.
This system uses the baud rate of 100 bd, the shift of 740 Hz,
and a custom 16-bit alphabet.
POL FSK without a message (December 8th, 2...
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The following is a description of a very interesting
transmission that took place on October 14th.
At about 07:20 UTC we spotted a carrier on 10755 kHz, a
frequency commonly used by the Russian military intelligence agency
GRU for unscheduled E06 and S06 with ID 975. The
carrier had a characteristic of one of GRU's transmitters - that
is, the transmitter hum present on both side bands, the actual
audio on the upper, and only traces of it on the lower. Expecting
E06 or S06 to start any time ...
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