[Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

[Paul Beaumont]

Of course apart from using the Archived material fro 'Spooks' you could
also use the listings in the ENIGMA 2000 newsletters; available from the
files section of:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/enigma2000

73
Paul






At 10:40 AM 10/1/02 -0400, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 21:40, Susan C. Hickey wrote:
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>> Hi David;
>> 
>> I'm in the same boat as you, glad you asked these questions too because I
>> didn't want to seem silly! (I have managed to land some of them though...),
>> I even have a similar radio, ATS-818!
>> 73s, Sue
>
>A few months ago, I finally received my Sony ICF-2010 that'd been on
>backorder for several months, specifically ordered to listen to whatever
>numbers stations I could pick up.  I live in Florida, so it's easy for
>me to pick up the Cuban stations, but I've heard many other "weird"
>things on SW also.  
>
>I personally just sit down in the evening in a quiet spot, put my head
>down (helps me concentrate on the sound) with the radio turned up but
>not too loud and slowly spin the tuning knob until I hear something that
>doesn't sound like static.  (I made the choice on the 2010 because it
>has a really nice, smooth manual tuning knob that a lot of the units
>seem to be moving away from lately in favor of pushbuttons.  It's just
>not the same and I suspect anyone who uses their radios for this kind of
>thing prefers a knob over buttons.)
>
>I've picked up numbers, various beacons, airport weather reports from
>all over the East coast, (and local airport towers because the 2010 has
>air frequencies), pirate radio, and all kinds of non-numbers
>"oddities".  
>
>Just sit down in a quiet place and start tuning up the bands.  You'll
>pick *something* up soon enough.  Keep a piece of paper handy to log the
>time and frequency.  I've found that looking up what you've found is
>almost always more interesting than the signal itself.
>
>-- 
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
>{$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
>$t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
>[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
>"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
>unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
>>>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
>8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
>print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval 
>
>usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
>    | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec - 
>
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