[Spooks] 4lg cw station, 10223kHz

[Ben Mesander]

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>Hi Ben, Ralph and all,
>
>I've been copying Bandar for the past couple of nights also.
>Signal is weak but readable with QSB and about 50-60% copy.
>Signal gets better after about 0100z.
>
>It definitely is a training station. Below is one of the message
>headers sent to LARY on the 0000z 11/20 sked.
>He/She started with V's at 2355z.
>
>"LARY DE BANDAR 000/324 -- PP -- 210001Z GR 334 GR 334 BT
>CONTINUE TRAINING AS SCHEDULED."
>
>First and last group in msgs are  "LORTN  ZYYYY".
>
>If nothing else, its good CW practice.
>Maybe if they're watching this reflector, we can ask him to move
>up about 1 khz away from the SS USB stations on freq, or back
>up to 16 mhz where copy was a lot better in the past....
>But that may be a bit much to ask.

CW & RTTY fans who also like encoded gibberish like us can also check out
10700-10900kHz range from 0200-0300 utc. There is often traffic from the
North Korean embassy in Havana. Modes are RTTY 50/1000 (sends plaintext
korean notices and encoded 5fg's), CW (sends 5fg's to correct errors in
RTTY transmissions), and occasionally USB opchat.

--Ben