[Spooks] Morse Code @ 7000 or so Khz early this UT AM

[Zack Widup]

I posted this one on Saturday:

http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,14924.0.html

This was in the 13 MHz beacon band. I hadn't heard it before. I'll listen
for this other one on 7 MHz in the next couple days.

Zack


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:08 PM, shawn fahrer <ssfahrer at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Or so it sounded.  Well off of the dial on my "41 meter band" (perhaps as
> low as below 7000 kHz), I was hearing the following from 525 - 534 UT, 554
> - 604 UT, and 623 - 634 UT earlier today (01/14/14):
>
> Eight dots and one dash (multiple times) occasionally broken up by a nine
> dots and one dash transmission. What was odd was that if on the second dot
> there was an apparent "hand slip" -- as if this were being keyed by hand,
> that transmission would be a nine dot /one dash transmission. As a result,
> I don't believe that this was done by a human keyer, but a semi-random
> "tape loop" (since the interval between 9 dots / 1 dash was one time 14
> units, another time two units, etc.
>
> For the record, I calculated the average "typing speed" at 9 characters
> per 5 seconds (or 108 characters per minute). In terms of "wpm" this would
> be 36 wpm (for a three letter word) or 21.6 wpm (for a five letter word). I
> know virtually ZERO about Morse Code, so what is coming is mere speculation.
>
> The 8 dots, one dash may mean S S U (3 + 3 + 2 + dash) or S H A (3 + 4+ 1
> + dash) while the 9 dots, one dash may mean S S V (3 + 3 + 3 + dash) or S
>  H U (3 + 4 + 2 + dash)-- or is it an 8 dot error message starting with the
> second dot?
>
> Note that the tones did NOT sound like "beeps". May be similar to what was
> reported (at least with regards to frequency) at
> http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,11231.0.html, but did
> not appear to be a "ditter network" as described at
> http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,10533.0.html -- just
> the combinations (8 +1 or 9 +1) I described at the top. Note also that the
> sound was best heard when my antenna was pointed to the Northwest from my
> home in NYC (similar to the best sound for some of the Cuban frequencies --
> not South towards Havana -- for some odd reason, especially on the infamous
> 25 meter band).
>
> Does anyone have any idea what this was? The frequency may be WAY off, so
> it may not help as a key -- it maybe best to just use what I heard as a
> guide to figuring out what it was.
>
> Shawn From Flushing NY
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