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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We've recently been hearing from the ID
274 of Ukraine's E17z, which is now
always unscheduled, and renowned for frequent breakdowns whenever
there are messages longer than 10 groups. As we learned from the old
ENIGMA newsletters, it has already been like that back in the
1990s, when E17z was using the old E17 voice with longer
messages. This ID still makes appearances, usually once every a few
years.
Looking at the logs, even those from the previous years, this ID
consistently uses a ...
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Priyom has scanned and uploaded all the issues of the original "ENIGMA"
newsletter, that was published in the years 1993 - 2000 by the
European Numbers Information Gathering and Monitoring Association
(ENIGMA). These are currently very rare, and we're making them
available here to preserve history.
ENIGMA was a number station research group, founded in 1993 by
long-time enthusiasts Chris Midgley and Mike Gaufman. They
published a hard copy newsletter, first 4 times a year, then
twice-annual...
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Hello shortwave fans!
This episode focuses on the broadcasts known as X06 as well as
its variants - including the lesser known X07!
JochenKopf joins us as our special guest and really schools us
on this station, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we did!
X06 SPECIAL
WITH SPECIAL GUEST JOCHENKOPF
Gwraspe
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Hello!
Recently I got haunted by number stations again, so I started to
look for various documents and other info on the web about NS.
Specifically I wanted to find out more about Stasi Sprach speech
generators, which generated the famous voices that are heard on
number stations.
I came across an article written by Detlev and Daniel from
ENIGMA 2000 newsletters about NS, encryption methods, radios and
more. There is a lot of interesting information so make sure you
don't miss this one. Enj...
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Greetings shortwave fans.
Seems we have broken google calendar, so be careful using the
schedule, you may have to double check it. If you see stuff missing
please drop into the IRC and let us know.
Events are appearing and dissapearing at random it seems and the
calendar can be a whole day out.
At the time of writing this post it's the 30th of May but the
site is showing the calendar for the 29th of May. Very odd and I
cannot figure out why this is the case.
The second issue is with even...
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One of our members (Who wishes to remain anonymous!) has found
and been to one of the current broadcast sites of the buzzer:
60°18'40.1"N
30°16'40.5"E
The Buzzer source is fed to this shortwave site and other
broadcasting locations using R-414S radio relay/phone lines
directly from St. Petersburg's 60th Communication Hub (codename
Vulkan, from a
previous phone leak in February 2014, transcript) on
Palace Square.
Mutiple VGDSh antennas and other arrays then take care of
distributing the ...
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We have all enjoyed the mysteries of radio communication,
would it be through unknown signals, number stations or just
surfing the shortwaves in hope to find something inspiring. Now it
is time to help preserving the very piece of the history of
radio.
Please take time and sign the online petition to help saving
this beautiful landmark in Moscow!
https://www.causes.com/campaigns/76415-save-shukhov-tower-in-moscow
The tower seems to be falling a victim of real estate
development an...
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Hello,
as you may already know, Argonn has been monitoring and
recording the Buzzer and related Russian networks 24/7 using his own SDR and
upconverter setup (diagram) for
a while.
His reception is amazing and we would like to share it with all
of our readers.. So now we have a public streaming server set
up and ready for testing!
You can listen to:
The
Buzzer (S28, 4625 kHz)
The Pip
Day Freq (S30, 5448 kHz)
The
Pip Night Freq (S30, 3756 kHz)
Squeaky
Wheel Day F...
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After a long long hiatus Podcast episode 14 is out!
Get it here:
/podcast/uvb-76-podcast-episode-14.aspx
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