[Spooks] a little something

[Arik Hesseldahl]

Thanks all.

It may very well have been a USB transmission. Can't recall if I had USB 
selected or not, and my notes don't indicate. Either way, it was certainly 
interesting. I've heard plenty of numbers stations before, but haven't 
gotten to the point where I can identify specific stations. But that comes 
with time. At least now I'll know E10 when next I hear it. Certainly no 
shortage of news from that part of the world.

Arik out.


At 05:38 PM 3/26/02, you wrote:
>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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