[Spooks] End of year thoughts...

[Tom Sevart]

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From: "Captain Davros" <captain.davros@virgin.net>
To: <spooks@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 11:41
Subject: [Spooks] End of year thoughts...


> Hi there list
>
> well, since we are at the end of the year, how about a gathering together
of
> thoughts about our hobby?  Does anyone have any outstanding
> memories/comments to make about numbers stations and the listening to
> thereof?

I will say that since getting my Icom R75 earlier this year, I have been
able to log many more numbers stations (among other things).  Since the
reciever can also use computer control, I have been able to log many more
stations by entering their frequencies in a memory bank and scanning them at
the top of the hour.

I have also noticed which stations have not been as active.  P7X has not
been heard for a couple years now.  This was a CW station that sent 5L
messages for several hours a night which appeared to be some sort of Morse
practice station.  Each message was sent twice in a half hour, and they
always consisted of 120 groups.  In between the CW message blocks was some
sort of high-speed data signal.  The last time I logged it was 8 March 1999.

Tom Sevart
Registered Monitor KKS0CE
Amateur N2UHC
37�27'00N 94�41'21W