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Title: AFA5VZ 4018 CW 0237 UTC 16 JAN 2025
Post by: Robot Matrix on January 17, 2025, 0347 UTC
Station identifying as AFA5VZ transmitting in Morse Code around 15 WPM. Looking up that weird callsign was unfruitful. Any ideas who this could be?

My CW is rusty so I used a decoder, which did OK except during fades off and on. I cleaned up as much as I could but left the rest. Does this mean anything to anyone?

Here is the text:
... EH LINE 5 II ALL STATES IN FEMA REGION 5 I SAY AGN LINE 5 ALL STATES IN FEMA REGION 5 II LINE 6 II ICY ... ROADS SLOW DOWN I SAY AGN LINE 6 II ICY ROADS E SLOW DOWN I SAY AGN LINE 7 IS A CU INI L L B T E O W OF UM NE R 00&SOHW? BK ..... II LINE 7 II A C U BK ... REPEAT LINES LINE 7 IS A CU, A CU?BK .... U LINE 7 IS S U C U A KU ?TSNE EOZ I SAK WHSATAEE LINE 7 I I A CU LINE 7 EII A C U LINE 7 II A K U K E Z FINE U ETE T .... E W TEA A D V I S OR Y LINE 7 IS THE U T SE NTI C T I O N 3 L E T T I K IN S BHEEBT EEHI I WILL MAKE NET FALL NW + I C1 DE AFA5VZ Q HZ K B I N T IKE I N T Z BO K EN GZ GN IN T QSP K SEIGN IN T QSP K E HZ GN + 5 O Z DE AFA5VZ MA K N ET CALNSH CALL K I T....  NE DE AFA5VZ RR OK GUD WRK ASN ESIIE E= AM VY APPY OM5 YOURE SUPPORTING CWHIHI= I C H O MY C OOAND + 5 I C AO E AFA5VZ KJ II Z K J +  SK  ... TEESCLNSE ON KJ 3 7 3 ES TNDT A GT OM  SK EE ANTO NDIO CHECK ON R R51 ? K BKOK MOHEIIR N W
Title: Re: AFA5VZ 4018 CW 0237 UTC 16 JAN 2025
Post by: prldx on January 17, 2025, 2043 UTC
It's a USAF MARS callsign.

73,
Patrick
Title: Re: AFA5VZ 4018 CW 0237 UTC 16 JAN 2025
Post by: Robot Matrix on January 21, 2025, 0522 UTC
It's a USAF MARS callsign.

73,
Patrick

Ah... thanks. I didn't know they did CW. Learned something new.