[Spooks] UnId English 6840 AM; 0120 & 0150 UTC

[Mark Taylor]

On 11/19/04 5:27 PM, "Chris Smolinski" <csmolinski at blackcatsystems.com>
wrote:

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>> Sounds like an EAM.....Except the formatting is not
>> like a real EAM... probably pirate.  What exactly is
>> that "28 characters" thing she says?
>> 
>> That's what gives it away as pirate. Perhaps someone
>> is trying to imitate one.
>> 
>> 6840 is not a known GHFS frequency... but 6840 was
>> used by a pirate numbers station not to far back... I
>> rememmber one that would say "attention all stations,
>> attention all stations, prepare for one time-pad" Then
>> it read groups of numbers very very fast.. it was kind
>> of funny... the announcer sounded like JB from WHYP.
> 
> Yes, I was thinking of those broadcasts. We could have something
> similar at work here. AFAIK the US military has not used AM for
> several decades now.

The thought of someone having recorded an EAM and rebroadcast it in AM on
this frequency (where there have been quite a few weird things broadcast)
occurs to me after reading these entries.  A sort of "pirate".  Maybe
someone's idea of a joke to get a bunch of numbers monitors scratching their
heads.

Thanks for the opinions, I've never heard an EAM before, I'll go looking for
a recording on WUN or similar sites.

BTW, I've had a radio glued to 6840 AM with a recorder running while I was
at a concert last night.  All I heard was what probably was an E 10 on USB
(too distorted to tell, but what sounded like a call up, then groups of 5)
between 0045 - 0230.  Nothing tonight except some digital bursts about 0055
and now (0148).

Mark