[Spooks] I Love the Sound of SK01 in the Morning

[Hugh Stegman]

17436.0 USB (actually AM on 17435, but my Ethernet card transmits there).

Cuban digital RDFT file transfer mode (SK01), with repeated transfers of 
71 byte file 50109981.TXT between 1600 and 1630 UTC.  Usual huge 
carrier.  (15 Apr 08)

Some people have noted that when a file is a straight binary, the second 
character (in ASCII) is a "b."  This time it's an "a."  Stands for 
ASCII?  Are we supposed to treat this as an ASCII file instead of their 
usual binary whatever?

If it does stand for ASCII, then what we have here is a file of question 
marks (hex 3F, decimal 63).

No comprendo.


-hugh



Hex dump of the file:


0000: 3F 61 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F   ?a??????????????
0010: 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F   ????????????????
0020: 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F   ????????????????
0030: 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F   ????????????????
0040: 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F                              ???????