[TenTec] OT: Strange CW on 80m

[Ron Castro]

Interesting stuff.  "Dah-dah-dah-dah" is the Cyrillic 'square O', one of 
four extra characters the Ruskies use.  Generally, they send in either 
5-letter groups, 5-number groups, or 5-'cut number' (like n for 9, a for 1, 
etc.) groups.  Mixing letters and numbers is unusual.  They also usually 
operate 'split', as we would call it, but the transmit and receive 
frequencies are often very far apart.

         Ron N6IE
      www.N6IE.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <john_egger at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 5:29 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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