[Spooks] Bizarre experience

[monacof at bellsouth.net]

>What is the echo sound on these transmissions? Are they simulcasting from different locations and the echoes are the result of propogation delays from all the stations? 

Frank Monaco / AE4ZV / monacof at bellsouth.net  




> From: blitz <blitz at macronet.net>
> Date: 2004/08/14 Sat PM 04:51:50 EDT
> To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations <spooks at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Spooks] Bizarre experience
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> Sounds like you found 11175 and heard the Nightwatch stuff (Air Force) its 
> a busy place.
> 
> At 19:47 8/13/2004, you wrote:
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> >Hey, y'all.
> >
> >Just stumbled onto a bizarre station on my shortwave.  It was somewhere in 
> >the early 11s (I'm using a crappy analog radio right now, so I don't know 
> >the exact location), and consisted of a strange, echoing, asexual voice- 
> >similar in quality to what you get when you play a woman's voice in slow 
> >motion, a vaguely creepy asexual sound.  It listed off a series of letters 
> >in the phonetic alphabet, repeating the series at least twice (I tuned in 
> >at the middle of the broadcast).  I picked it up at around 0030 UTC, from 
> >northern Alabama.
> >
> >Here's a partial transcription of the end of the broadcast (the voice was 
> >so distorted and the quality so poor that I couldn't pick everything up):
> >
> >Romeo Victor Mike ? Zulu Hero ? Mike ? ? Yankee Foxtrot Yankee Victor 
> >Uniform Libra Libra ? ? ? Hero ? Julius ? Zulu November ? Bravo
> >[some kind of ending message went here, followed by a pair of beeps]
> >
> >Anyone have any idea what it is?
> >
> >--Sooz
> >--Confused Noob
> >
> >**END TRANSMISSION**
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