[Qcwa] Numbers Station on 30 Metres

Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:12:54 -0600

Hi Raymond.   We have a regular "Numbers" station that comes up on our Army
MARS net weekly.  Before we got educated about this a few of us were busy
copying the text every week trying to figure out what the heck it was, who
sent it etc.   No ID, but I would commend whoever it is on the nice fist.
*Probably mechanical or computer but who knows?

I did a google search and found this (And many others)  Check this link for
some more info
http://www.dxing.com/numbers.htm

BTW I "believe" this qualifies as a hit on the intruder watch.  I don't
remember who you report this to but when you hear unauthorized stations on
the air the reports go to the IARU (If I remember right) and they have had
some luck getting jammers and other un authorized stations moved to non
amatuer bands.   Of course 30M  is not fully Amatuer so???

Anyone know for sure?

73 de Jay W0VNE

> Message: 1
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 09:42:54 EST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Qcwa] (no subject)
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> Dear Friends:
>
> I happened to be up very early the morning of January 9 taking care of a
sick
> XYL. When I couldn't get back to sleep, I decided to pass the time by
> scanning various bands. To my utter surprise I began to hear almost
perfect
> CW at about 12-13 WPM on 10.126, so I tried the old "see if you can copy
this
> in your head" trick. It seemed to make no sense, so I got out pencil and
> began to copy by hand.
>
> To my utter surprise there was almost perfect code in random five letter
> groups. This went on from about 3:20 AM (CST) to 3:30 AM. Then off about
four
> minutes. Then on again for about ten minutes. Then off. Then back for a
> shorter time. There was no ID nor call letters given. Occasionally there
was
> a series of several "AR" or "BT" or a string of "v." All in very strong
> signals, very rigid character, extremely easy to copy, but at the same
time
> puzzling.
>
> Does anyone know who is doing this? Surely no ham would just blatently do
> this with no ID? Or would they? Or have I stumbled onto some non-ham
services
> which also use these frequencies? Was this some clandestine communique in
> some strange code? Does anyone on this forum know?
>
> 73   Raymond          W5VPU