Hello friends,

Today a new English-language station was heard in Europe that baffled us a bit...

It began earlier in the day on 10250kHz with what was believed to be XPA2. This was odd in itself, as that's an unexpected frequency and schedule for said station.

Then, at around 1850UTC, reports of a high-powered carrier and test counts began coming in on that same frequency in the voice of E06. Not long after that, the messages started coming in.

The call was 123 123 123 1 334,

Followed by a 4 digit ID, and message count of groups of 5. The message ends with 000 000.

At the time the Twente WebSDR had gone down, so by the time I was able to load up globaltuners.com and hit record, I pulled in two messages (from the receiver located in Greece).

The first began at ~2025UTC

E06?-10250USB-20140503-2025-Test-BySparkyXI

 

4726 24

86414 44323 40722 21104 74642
87243 06631 11766 87256 64764
43475 48884 62783 62410 02334
01175 30507 62866 12720 68328
30653 18125 27030 55706

E06?-10250USB-20140503-2050-Test-BySparkyXI

 

Then again at ~2050UTC...

7011 26

40731 16317 81221 78222 07628
07107 77828 77643 06207 73661
60475 63430 24220 01833 02672
25531 61381 63152 42240 44806
53320 32543 06022 11213 60318
78266

~~ SparkyXI

Webweasel here.

Looking back through our chat log (I was AFK/R for most of this event) Webdevdan shouted about a station on 10.250Mhz around 19:48 UTC TotoCz started monitoring and logging what was being broadcast. The carrier came up and down a few times and the E06 voice came up repeating 456. It stopped and started a few times before carrying on. After several faltering starts, this E06 voiced station broadcast the two messages logged by SparkyXI above. They don't fit the usual message format as they have 2 additional start fields. 123 1 334
7011 26 compared to a standard E06 start 321 594 20. E06 also repeats each five figure group when broadcasting and this station didn't. So we can't class it as E06, and for now we are not quite sure what to call it. We will see if the station broadcasts again and what our friend at Enigma 2000 think. Update: It has been mentioned by Gwraspe and Danix111 that this is closer to E07a which has a start format: 815 1 33925 8434 67

 

UPDATE:

Dude1300 had logged the whole set:

E06?-10250USB-20140503-2013z-msg-ByDude1300

05/03/14    20:13    10250u   
456 456 456 1 123
42854 72637 83220 31425 26673 74173
43613 88203 83822 8357* 18326 64116
31803 46170 38376 76444 47351 40335
37038 64886 11767 24458 80561 56377
43615 57078 27562 20668 04746 000 000

E06?-10250USB-20140503-2018z-msg-ByDude1300

05/03/14    20:18    10250u
456 456 456 1 123
64886 11767 24458 80561 56377 43615
57078 27562 20668 04746 000 000

05/03/14    20:25    10250u    E06   
123 123 123 1 334 4726 24
86414 44323 40722 21104 74662 87243
06631 11766 87256 64764 43475 48884
62783 62410 02334 01175 30507 62866
12720 68328 30653 18125 27030 55706 000 000

05/03/14    20:33    10250u    E06    Repeat of above

05/03/14    20:48    10250u     E06
123 123 123 1 334 7011 26
40731 16317 81221 78222 07628 07107
77828 77643 06207 73661 60405 63430
24220 01833 02672 25531 61381 63152
42240 44806 53320 32543 06022 11213
60318 78266 000 000

05/03/14    20:56    10250u    E06    MSG - Stopped 1/2 way through
05/03/14    21:00    10250u    E06    MSG