[TenTec] OT: Strange CW on 80m

[Dave Reynolds]

Hi Ron, Sounds like you were a Spook aka CT in the Navy.
I was just a Tin Can sailor but had a friend that was a CT. He was my RCPO 
in boot camp but kept up with him for awhile. Eventually lost track of him. 
Time window was early 62 to about 68. The last thing I heard about him was 
the ship he served in had something close to a mutiny somewhere in the 
Pacific. I happened to read about it in some news magazine and his name was 
mentioned as one of the guys who helped stop it. I only heard about it one 
time and then I think there was a lid put on it. His name was Frank T 
Feeney. One other guy I knew was a CT named Wally Flanagan, I went to high 
school with him.
I am curious if you ever heard about the incident I mentioned?

                 cu es 73
                                 Dave K6WRF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Strange CW on 80m


> 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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