[TenTec] OT: Strange CW on 80m

[Jim M.]

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On Behalf Of John
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Strange CW on 80m

I find this very interesting  carry on !   John Kb2huk

Ten Tec  OIL
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From: <ktnjoepark at aol.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 2:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Strange CW on 80m


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> Howdy All,? This all brings back some memories,? I was stationed at the 
> Naval Radio Station on Oahu in 1955 and I was hitching a ride to the beach

> when a fellow sailor picked me up in about a 53, or 54 Pontiac, He had 
> radios from the steering wheel to the passenger door, It was all chrome, I

> suspect maybe Gonset Gear.? He was a CT stationed on the same base, they 
> had their own bldg.? I got my ticket about 5 years later. been doing 
> mobile every since.
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> since this is a Ten Tec group,? I do have a 509/405 station
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> Joe WB6AGR
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> From: Dave Reynolds <Dave at k6wrf.com>
> To: Ron Castro <ronc at sonic.net>; Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment 
> <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 5:26 pm
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Strange CW on 80m
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> 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 
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> 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?
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>                 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
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>> 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.
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>>         Ron N6IE
>>      www.N6IE.com
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>> ----- 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
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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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