[Spooks] Spooks Digest, Vol 134, Issue 2

Mon Apr 20 16:02:15 EDT 2015

Hi Robert, on 9332 kHz you heard a S06s (with ID 371) number station from Ukraine. Run by SZRU. Putin and his company not used anymore Lourdes. 
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spanishguy. 

С любовью. 

> 20 апр. 2015 г., в 18:44, Robert <umbra13 at cmaaccess.com> написал(а):
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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.
>>> 
>>> 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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