[Milsurplus] Strange signal on ~3595 kHz

Peter Gottlieb kb2vtl at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 22:37:22 EST 2019


What does M89 mean?  I found a big list of "numbers stations" with codes like 
this but no explanation of their significance.

Peter


On 1/4/2019 11:23 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> More responses, people have been monitoring and tracking operations for quite 
> a while:
>
> "This is a Chinese military station and in the numbers world is part of the 
> M89 family. I have it logged on 3597 with a parallel frequency of 3156kHz."
>
> From another fellow:
>
> "I have 8 frequencies for M89:
> 3238.00  V M8JF M8JF M8JF DE RIS9 RIS9
> 3378.00  V C4TY C4TY C4TY DE NHF5 NHF5
> 3642.00  V DKG6 DKG6 DKG6 DE 3A7D 3A7D
> 4904.00  V QW2A QW2A QW2A DE G5VD G5VD
> 7589.00  V ZJ3T ZJ3T ZJ3T DE QB4S QB4S
> 8150.00  V M81F M81F M81F DE RIS9 RIS9
> 8157.00  V M8JF M8JF M8JF DE RIS9 RIS9
> 12058.00 V ZJ3T ZJ3T ZJ3T DE QB4S QB4S"
>
> Another response:
>
> That is only the top of the iceberg. Check the logs in N&O or the Numbers 
> Stations Logs Database
> http://www.numbersoddities.nl/ndb-1978-2018.zip
> http://www.numbersoddities.nl/N&O-255.pdf
>
> Some more current info:
>
> "The list you provided is mostly out of date.  It appears that 3JWV DE QH4P 
> may be the replacement for M8JF DE RIS9.  DKG6 DE 3A7D is actually M95 with // 
> on 7602. During daytime, this R/S uses  5801 // 10180"
>
> Further comment on other groups about it being a "rather large operation".
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Kurt
>
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