[Spooks] a little something

[Scott Robson]

This is definitely E10, a numbers station believed to originate from 
Israel. I'm familiar with E10 using 11.565 MHz (I think). They seem to 
use a mix of USB and AM transmission. I have forgotten the name of this 
emission type, which depending on your receiver may have given the 
impression it was on 11.568 or somesuch. What you were listening to was 
a very familiar callup group EZI. You will here EZI calling a lot.

Transmission lengths vary quite a bit and you will often here very very 
long messages before interesting events happen in the middle east. For 
example E10 recently began transmitting long messages on a new callup 
group just before a well known Lebanese leader was assassinated in 
Beirut. Those messages stopped about 24 hours before the car bomb went 
off that killed him.

Your transmission is definitely spies and most likely Israel (due to a 
number of RDF experiments conducted). Welcome to the world of numbers 
stations... yes some use letters :)

Scott

On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 05:21 PM, Arik Hesseldahl wrote:

> 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
>
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