On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:26:01 -0600, Henry Kolesnik wrote:
non-amateur Morse code

If you have the time, please updated on here the shortwave frequencies and
time. My line noise makes it nearly impossible to get much except local
beacons.

I don't keep logs for this stuff, I'm usually listening in bed when I can't
sleep! But I find the 5MHz band in the early hours zulu (say from 0300z)
always turns up something, even if its only 4XZ ("Haifa Naval Radio")
sending code groups :-) 500KHz it pretty much dead now the Italians
have closed down. I have heard mention of a Turkish station still
operating but I've not heard it yet. Some Far-East stations are rumoured
to be still operating on 500KHz.

In fact most of the cw is pretty boring stuff almost always code groups
of some sort - very little plain text.

I did hear two, I think UK military, stations using cw as talk-back
when setting up a digital link - presumably the transmitter they were
working with had no voice capability. And I know the Royal Navy still
maintains some morse capability, as does the British Army.
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