[MilCom] 11175.0 - DRUG 63 & ANDREWS; PERFERATE with traffic (!!)

[Jeff Haverlah]

0415z  02 Oct 2024

0000z 01 Oct 2024 - New Fiscal Year.

2052z STRATEGY (HFGCS) broadcast the 30 character EAM C6GII6.  New prefix.
2130z STRATEGY broadcast C6IGII6 restoral repeat.
2200z  Nothing heard.

    2328z DRUG 63 (sounds like; good levels on east coast) called MAINSAIL
and raised ANDREWS and requested "Latest message traffic for training" and
repeated the request when ANDREWS requested a repeat. At 2329z ANDREWS
stated "I have no EAM (garbled but maybe "in queue") at this time." DRUG 63
then closed the session.

2345z STRATEGY broadcast the 30 character EAM P5W5AO. Another new prefix.

0000z 02 Oct 2024.

     0007z *PERFORATE* broadcast to MAINSAIL with their daily new UTC day
communications test count, a daily practice of many decades. No DTMF tones
noted at the end of the broadcast (which is sometimes normal.) Said to be
the daily changing callword for the US STRATCOM command post. (It gets very
interesting later.)

0022z XYLOPHONE (newday HFGCS) broadcast 30-character C6NQUQ.
0026z XYLOPHONE (weaker; unheard on west coast SDR; perhaps from ANDREWS
site?) began a new transmission of C6NQUQ but cut out during preamble with
no "disregard."

0027z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30 character EAM C6T5EZ.
0033z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30 character EAM C6HP6R.
0046z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30 character EAM P57VGT.
0057z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30 character EAM C6UQ5B.

0108z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30-character EAM C6PYNW.
0149z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30 character EAM C6DR36.

     0204z *PERFORATE* (good levels) broadcast to ALL STATIONS the 0149z
C6DR36. The transmission ended with their usually common DTMF fones.

     *It is an understatement to say that PERFORATE's transmission is
highly unusual*.  I've heard one other instance of this station
broadcasting HF "traffic" and that was in the latter part of 1999 (Y2K)
when they fired up a very powerful local evening "voice of coom"
transmission of a 30 character 888800 connectivity string.  Those 888800
strings  were common on the HF ZULU frequency nets during 1999, and I've
always assumed they were part of Y2K testing leading up to 2000. And it was
highly unusual 25 years ago to hear such a HF transmission from that
station. Are there examples over the past 25 years of other instances of
such HF traffic?

And to top it off.

0354z (after two disregarded attempts at 0350z and 0352z) XYLOPHONE;
FJUY4J; 22-character string (a character count rarity.)
FJUY4JGWQEZ3VGGV7LL7FK

Jeff
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Jeff Haverlah               Coastal Texas
East coast SDRs
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