[Spooks] Spooks Digest, Vol 134, Issue 2

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                                            Robert M Chrysler
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>     1. Re: HM01: Life after 9330 KHz? (Tom S)
>     2. Hm01 (Ernie Rice)
>     3. N&O 209 (Ary Boender)
>     4. Enigma newsletter 87 (Ary Boender)
>     5. Re: HM01: Life after 9330 KHz? (? KC2TTK)
>     6. M42d (ary at luna.nl)
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> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 08:31:07 -0600
> From: Tom S <tmsevart at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Spooks] HM01: Life after 9330 KHz?
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> I think it's unlikely that the Russians have installed a transmitter at
> Lourdes, since it is a listening post and they wouldn't want a high powered
> transmitter there.  It wouldn't be out of the question if they installed a
> transmitter elsewhere in order to support the Lourdes mission, though, as a
> possible backup to send data back to Moscow.
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> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:54 AM, ? KC2TTK <kc2ttk at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This has got to be the biggest blob of pure speculation I've ever put
>> down in writing, so feel free to dismiss it in its entirety.
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>> For a while now I've wanted to hear HM01 on 9330 KHz at 06:00 UTC on a
>> Tuesday or Thursday.  As you can guess, I didn't.  But seeing as how I
>> wasn't able to find HM01 in any of the familiar places, I kept my ears
>> open to the 9.3MHz range.  And it may have paid off.
>>
>> Somewhere around 06:07 I heard a string of numbers in Russian ("...tri
>> admin vosim nul"?) on 9332 KHz - just close enough to now-silent 9330
>> KHz.  About three minutes later (06:10) I heard a continuous tone on
>> 9331 KHz suggesting a carrier.  A few moments after that there began a
>> 10-minute-long transmission that, to my untrained ear, sounded like
>> RTTY.
>>
>> Now, at this point my brain starts going haywire: I'm expecting
>> Spanish, I've heard Russian, there's RTTY, and in the back of my mind
>> there's some recollection of Russia talking about reopening a
>> transmitter in Cuba.  After the better part of an hour searching
>> through the mailing list, N&Os, E2Ks, and Priyom, I finally hit on it:
>> "Lourdes Base: Cuba, Russia Agree to Reopen Spy Post, Source Says"
>> <
>> http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/lourdes-base-cuba-reopen/2014/07/16/id/583136
>> All throughout the search for "Lourdes" I kept an ear open in the 9.3
>> MHz range.  And, sure enough, I heard something that... well, I can't
>> quite describe it: it was an organized series of pulses lasting about
>> a second and running for two minutes.  The pulses had a constance and
>> static-like quality to them, which suggest data transmission - not a
>> burst of power which fades in potency.  I don't know what a diplomatic
>> communiqu? would sound like, but I suspect that's what I might have
>> heard.
>>
>> Anyway, after digesting all these facts and observations (and washing
>> it down with a cup of coffee) I began to think that maybe HM01's
>> Tu/Th/Sa 9330 KHz transmission might not be as dead as we think it is.
>> Perhaps (and it's a big "perhaps") what I heard was a
>> Russian-reactivated Lourdes Base test on seemingly-dead 9330?
>>
>> Like I said, pure speculation; feel free to dismiss it.  But, still... :-/
>>
>>   - KC2TTK
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