[Spooks] Korean Traffic

[Mike Tibor]

Thanks Ary and Token,

I probably should've mentioned that I'm in Alaska and that's probably 
contributing to my difficulty receiving much from the Korean penninsula, 
given their respective transmit azimuths and power.

>From my brief lurking here as well as my other poking around, it sounds as 
if I would greatly benefit from throwing away my Grundig Satellit 750 and 
getting a good Software Defined Radio.  It sounds like the ability to 
record a given timeslice of bandwidth for later exploration is extremely 
useful.  Any SDR recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

For what it's worth I would love to hear recommendations for anything 
FreeBSD/Linux related.  I've seen a couple of FreeBSD packages that decode 
RTTY/PSK*/MFSK* and other digital modes, and I'm curious if anyone here 
has had any experience with them.  I've heard a few polytone transmissions 
and wonder if they're numbers stations, but I'm guessing it's probably 
nothing more than the dry cleaning request of a senior naval officer 
somewhere.  I'd love to be able to see if it translates to 5fg or plain 
text.

Thanks,
Mike


On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Token wrote:

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> South Korean V24 and M94 traffic has had a very slight change in habits
> recently.
>
> The average message length has increased in the last week, not beyond the
> maximum that has been seen in the past but still longer on average.
>
> V24 has added a couple of new time slots and rearranged a couple of the old
> ones.  For example in the last week or so there have been more 1630 slots
> than normal, but this could just be caused by errors in early slots.  I can
> not prove but do believe that the 1630 slot is sometimes used to "catch up"
> or to correct for earlier errors in addition to hosting its regularly
> scheduled traffic.
>
> Other than this I have seen no changes to Korean or Chinese numbers traffic.
>
> T!
> Mohave Desert, California, USA
>
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> From: "Mike Tibor" <tibor at tibor.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 12:24 AM
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>> I'm just getting started back into SWL after a 20+ year hiatus, but I was
>> curious if anyone has noticed any changes in North or South Korean numbers
>> station traffic patterns, particularly wrt the recent hostilities.
>>
>> I have yet to pick up any numbers stations that sound remotely Asian.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
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