[Spooks] [Fwd: [WUN] CW on 6980]

[Ben Mesander]

>> 6980 0430 14AUG03 CW
>>
>> Went too far back while scanning 40 meters and came across a buzzy, AC
>> tone-ish CW signal, loud (S9+20) and to the south.
>>
>> Heard the 5 letter groups and was about to dismiss it as a spook, when
>> another station broke in with a series of dits, and it changed it's text.
>> The other station sent fast dits, as if it was just a keyer or maybe a bug.
>> First station was sending about 13 wpm, other station at about 25-30 wpm.
>> Whenever the weaker station broke in, there would be about 2 or 3 5 letter
>> groups followed by a period.  They stopped at 0436, paused for a moment and
>> now the weaker station is sending gibberish/5 letter groups to the loud one.
>>
>> Here follows some text: ASDNNT NATTN MTUUTE LARUA WNAEIR IINDIK EE MAA NNIST
>> AUNTM ITINU ITUGNT DRRRD MLIWR UTGGEN IUUTT GT IAEEI WAIWUK E KEE.UTTAT

If his QTH is in N. America:
Possibly North Korean Embassy, Havana talking to some of its usual targets
(FARC-EP Columbia, CP Argentina, etc.) They send very strong buzzy CW.

>From 0200-0300 I typically hear them somewhere around 10700-11000kHz. RTTY
50/1000 sending KK plaintext, then 5fg's, and then they do corrections
after the RTTY is over in cut cw to the numbers. One side sends where in
the message they want a correction, other side sends the correction as cut
numbers. They are fond of fast dits to interrupt each other.

To confirm this, I'd look for RTTY 50/1000 or other FSK mode around 6980kHz
prior to the CW corrections and see if it contains KK plaintext with lots
of mentions of Havana, Pyongyang, Juche, and Kim Jong Il and then 5fg's.

http://neurosis.hungry.com/~ben/radio/dprk.html


--Ben