[Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings

[mslaten]

JR of Texas wrote:
   9.062        Thu   11242005 0420    CW Consisting mainly of u, n, w and r 
characters
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Hi JR:
    Welcome to the Spooks List.
    The CW station above is one of the many Cuban M8a (Enigma Designation) 
stations to be heard each day.
    The sked is a regular Thursday 0400z sked on 9062m.  It is a repeat of 
0300z at 10344m.
    The characters you heard were cut numbers.  The Cuban cut numbers are as 
follows:
A = 1, N = 2, D = 3, U = 4, W = 5, R = 6, I = 7, G = 8,
M = 9, and T = 0.
    As you can see, the Cubans cut all ten numerals.  The only letters that 
M8a sends in their transmissions are:
BT, AR and SK.
    If you do a search in the Spooks Database, you can find current sked 
times and freqs for other M8a's as well as the voice counterpart V2a's.
    Be aware, the Cubans are very lax in their broadcast practices, and 
sometimes come up late, in the middle of a message without callups, with an 
open microphone so you hear people talking in the background, but no sked 
being broadcast and many other errors that must drive the signals officer 
crazy.  Not too mention the intended recipient of the messages.
    Have fun monitoring.
73's
Mark