[Spooks] Typical Freq Ranges

[Zack Widup]

One of your best resources is the spynumbers database at 
http://www.spynumbers.com.  You can sort them by day of the week, then 
time, then frequency (just my own preference).  Many of the numbers 
stations repeat transmissions on a weekly basis on the same frequency at 
the same time.

Here in Illinois I can usually copy at least some transmissions of E10 
(Mossad), E03 (Lincolnshire Poacher), E04 (Cherry Ripe), V02/M08 (Cuba - 
usually very loud here), XSL (slot machine) and a few others.

There is a cluster of little CW beacons in the southwest USA desert 
centered around 4096 kHz.  I'm curious how they sound in California.  I 
can often hear them at night here but they pop in and out of the noise. 
This may be the farthest east you can hear them.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 ghajek at midway.uchicago.edu wrote:

> 
> 
> > KG6FT wrote:
> >
> >> but are the majority just out there "somewhere" and you find them by
> >> tooling around at the top of the hour? I imagine things shift w/the
> >> seasons as propagation changes.
> 
> Shutaro wrote:
>  
> > It seems like the only real way to get started is to dive in to the
> > data and start researching.
> 
> I'm rather enthusiastic about "tooling around," but it depends on one's
> equipment and the signals in question.  I got started listening to the
> numbers by stumbling upon a flamethrower E17 broadcast after a long
> night, using a Hallicrafters S-53A that I had picked up at an ersatz
> flea market long before that.
> 
> I later picked up a Kenwood R5000 and have spent many happy hours with
> it, but the old S-53 eventually proved indispensable in chasing around
> M24.  The Kenwood proved a bit of a hassle in a new RF-insane place,
> and I rather drifted away from the hobby, but I found myself testing out
> a Panasonic RF-2200 last month, and sure enough, there were Cubans
> aplenty.
> 
> I suppose this is a long-winded way of saying that a nice analog set
> strikes me as being the most engaging way to get started.  The pickings
> have gotten pretty slim for that game around here, but there's always a
> Racal RA-17 waiting in the wings if the mania sets in.
> 
> Cheers,
> Greg
>