[Spooks] HM01 numbers, thoughts, etc. for and from the last few days

[john]

Thanks for this report... it's fun to share the observations associated 
with these stations.

I used to listen to AM Pirates on 7400-7415 a LOT in the late 80s/early 
90s. There used to be a CW numbers station on 7413 that I began to follow, 
given that it was within the normal tuning range of my pirate listening.

Somewhere I still have my logs, but I began to copy the preamble/callup and 
code groups often enough to be able to establish patterns...what days the 
station would be on, when transmissions would repeat, when transmissions 
had technical problems and went haywire.  Modern technology makes this more 
practical (with the ability to spool an entire IF's worth of spectrum to 
disk for review/analysis).

I didn't get to log that many different stations , but I got a lot of 
enjoyment knowing a little more about what went on under the hood of this 
particular nameless station.

John



At 01:43 PM 1/24/2014, you wrote:
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>Back on 01/22/2014, HM01 @ 5855 kHz was barely audible under the static 
>and QRM from WTWW (5830). However, I have found out that I can get an 
>image of the transmission @ 4945 kHz (5855 -910 [AKA 2X IF], that is) 
>which was clearer than the primary signal. Numbers were:
>
>81817 // 14855 // 81785 // 82461 // 65525 // 61073 as they had been for 
>the past several days.
>
>However, later on that day (17 UT, 01/22/2014 @ 11530 kHz) I BARELY caught 
>wind of a new series of numbers (which would normally be the broadcast for 
>UT 01/23/2014):
>
>81818 (assumed; static, etc. made it impossible to determine for sure, so 
>I used my "rules" to make this assumption based on the transmission of the 
>following day) // 14856 // 60471 (replacing an expected 81786) // 82462 // 
>65526 // 61074
>
>On 01/24/2014 @ 05 UT on 5855, the signal was MUCH CLEARER (as well as at 
>the 4945 image I mentioned above, which exists due to my wacky radio) with 
>the following numbers:
>
>81871 // 14857 // 60472 // 82463 // 65527 // 61075
>
>On all broadcasts (in which each segment lasted only 22 minutes or so), 
>the segment abruptly ended BEFORE a repetition of 61075 and its associated 
>.TXT file (and may have also been one runthrough short, which contributed 
>to the segments lasting less than their usual 24 -25 minutes; remember 
>that two such segments = one transmission). This proves that the entire 
>transmission is prerecorded (either as a mp3 type file, CD, audio tape, 
>etc. prior to transmission) or else someone would have noticed this and 
>put in the appropriate material in subsequent transmissions.
>
>Early today, I heard the 05 UT transmission (carrier noticed by 0500 UT, 
>but no numbers, etc. transmitted until 0506 UT; off @ 0528 UT, back on @ 
>0529 UT and off by 0551 UT with carrier leaving by 0554 UT), the 06 UT 
>transmission @ 11435 (surprisingly good signal for this band; carrier on 
>by 0559 UT, numbers by 0559.5, off by 0621, back on @ 0629 UT-- yes, there 
>was an approximately 8 minute "bathroom break" between segments-- and off 
>@ 0651 UT), and the 07 UT transmission on 9330 (good signal; once 
>transmission strength established, I went to SLEEP-- note that by then it 
>was after 2 AM in the Eastern Time Zone in which I reside in).
>
>This has been your intrepid reporter,
>
>Shawn From Flushing NY
>
>signing off until next time
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