[Spooks] a little something

[Arik Hesseldahl]

Not really a numbers broadcast, but, similar, so I wanted to share this 
interesting thing I heard with the list membership for comments.

I first caught it at 0203 UTC on 3-23-2002.
11.566 MHz to 11.568 MHz (signal strength tended to shift between these two 
freqs during the broadcast)

It was a female voice, slight British accent or possibly with a French 
accent. For several minutes she repeated the words " ECHO- ZULU-INDIA" 
several times over several minutes. I stepped away and grabbed a pad and 
pen, and returned just as she said "MESSAGE MESSAGE MESSAGE." She then 
proceeded to read off a long list of words like "XRAY, NOVEMBER, BRAVO, 
CHARLIE, ZULU, YANKEE, CHARLES, WHISKEY, TANGO, KILO, GOLF, DELTA, SIERRA 
UNIFORM" and so on. I also happened to notice that among them were "Quebec" 
(pronounced it "kay-BEK" or "Qweee-beck"; my notes aren't clear) Also 
"VICTOR" sounded like "VEEK-tore," hence my suspicion about the French 
accent, leading me to believe it was a Canadian transmission of some kind.

The transmission continued until 0225 UTC, at which time she said "END OF 
MESSAGE. END OF TRANSMISSION" and the signal cut out. Sorry, I didn't have 
any recording equipment with me at the time.

My guess is Canadian. Any other ideas?

Arik