[Spooks] Automated CW beacon heard on 5371.5 kHz

[Martin Potter]

Bart Rowlett wrote:
> 
> 25 Nov 2004 1500Z (0700 PST)
> I'm hearing a recurring CW broadcast with a carrier frequency of 
> approximately 5372.2 kHz, right on one of the 60m channels amateurs 
> share with other services.  Each broadcast consists of 15 characters and 
> is sent once per minute.  It was 589 in the Los Angeles CA region at 
> 1500Z and is getting weaker by the minute.
> The sequence appears to be some sort of semiautomated propagation beacon 
> with the first numerical field in each message incrementing every 
> transmission, possibly for use as a time stamp.
> 
> BT/ 991748??8?????
> BT/ 991749??8?????
> BT/ 99175T??8?????    notice the cut 0
> BT/ 991751??8?????
> .

Doesn't 1500Z correspond to 1800 Moscow time?  (1748, 1749, 1750, ... ) 
  I recall that the Russian military uses Moscow time everywhere.  If 
your signal was fading out at 1500Z, it might be from the Russian Far 
East.  Just a thought.

... Martin    VE3OAT