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john has a long mustache... john has a long mustache.... Clint -- -- If you sympathize with terrorists & middle eastern tyrants, vote for liberals... -- "Jack" wrote in message ... On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 08:57:29 GMT, (billy ball) wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 04:10:46 GMT, Frank Dresser wrote: The most common ones here are voiced by an automated female in Spanish. They are more fun to theorize about than actually listen to. Here's a few links: http://www.spynumbers.com/ http://home.freeuk.com/spook007/ http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/ Frank Dresser - wow, that must be the *slowest* way to transfer files! Gawd... I recall back in the 60's when I was just beginning. It was a very human woman's voice in Spanish speaking endless 5 number cipher groups. I recall the first time I heard her. Mid-afternoon one summer in 1967 on something close to 8 Mhz. My receiver was a 1937 A****er Kent console my father recapped and gave me. The one that intrigued me the most was a signal that sounded like a inebriated bagpiper playing the same weird series of notes over and over, broken by infrequent short bursts of what sounded like scrambled speech (inverted sideband?). It would show up at a wide assortment of HF frwquencies, most often around 10-10.5, 11-12, 14-15, and 17 Mhz. I don't know if it was riding propagation or what; seemed to be random. Sometimes several different bagpipes were playing at once on different freqs. Sometimes it appeared broken, with tones missing or slight variations of the sequence. This occurred more frequently as the years went on. I first heard it around 1965, but it was still around, in one variation or another, until at least 1978, when I was forced to "get a life" and stop SWL'ing. Anybody think they know the one I'm referring to? (I wish I still had the tapes I made of it). On a slightly different note, there was what appeared to be a PTP relay for a paging service that was heard on oddball HF freqs between 14 and 18 MHz at different times of day, ca.late 60's, early 70's. "Rochester Tel-Page, KEC519. We have no messages for our subscribers at this time. KEC519." It had a sister station, KEC518, uttering the same repetitive message. No records in the FCC archive, but KEC518 belonged to an Arlington, VA based paging (Type CD) service (canceled in 1999). I used to drive my parents nuts listening to these weird utility/spy(?) stations for the rare message traffic between the repetition.. Yeah, I'm kinda strange. g 73 Jack -- Email replies to: n2hqc at earthlink dot net Now that I'm retired and SWL'ing again, it would be just too weird to run into it (or it's digitally synthesized successor) again! g |
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