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From: <john_egger@comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:29 AM
Subject: [TenTec] OT: Strange CW on 80m
> Shortly after 0000Z, for the last two nights, I have heard a station on
> 3.561 (Thursday evening) and 3.557 (Friday) MHz that may be commercial or
> military. Using CW at about 20-25 wpm with a good signal (569 in New
> England), Thursday I heard "KMBL de 5HMX QTC K" and a few minutes later
> five-symbol groups like "HNYRW FBFSH" etc., including some characters like
> dah-dah-dah-dah (and others with four dit/dahs) I'm not familiar with. A
> few minutes later, what seemed like the same station began sending "YUAH
> de 5O7Y K", and 5O7Y then called GSO7, YTCB, 3OXV, and J6MN.
>
> On Friday (3557 KHz), the operator seemed a little less smooth, making a
> few mistakes. He send "HYDS QTC ZOLAR" and then "5O7Y 449 2T 17 T248 ... "
> with more five-letter groups and some of the four-symbol characters I
> don't know. 5O7Y then called "YUAH de 5O7Y R 449? K" and other stations
> VGS8, YTCB, 3OXV, KMBL, J6MN, and NM8I.
>
> Does anyone in the group know what these stations are, and what this
> traffic is? (I think the four-character groups I'm unfamiliar with may be
> punctuation marks like semicolons, etc., but I'm not sure about that.)
>
> --K3GHH
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>I heard the groups on 3557 last Friday also......Had not heard that type of
>communication since my Air Force days in the late 1960-70's......It raised
>my interest because it was not in "plain text".......Kent.....N3KB
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