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Title: Magadan
Post by: East Troy Don on July 26, 2018, 2138 UTC

Transmitting CW Channel Marker M on 7039.4 KHZ @ 00:58 UTC  26 July 18 (19:58 CDT local 25 July 18) - Former Soviet (now defunct) Naval base.

Gudym (also known as Anadyr-1 or Magadan-11) was both a secret Soviet military base and a military town, located in the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East. Nowadays it’s a derelict shell of abandoned buildings.

Title: Re: Magadan
Post by: sat_dxer on July 27, 2018, 2318 UTC

Magadan RUS is not located in the Chukotka Peninsula

Title: Re: Magadan
Post by: East Troy Don on July 28, 2018, 0220 UTC

Magadan, not Magadan Oblast.   On the Northern coast of Sea of Okhotsk east of Arman and west of Ola, not the peninsula.

Thanks for the clarification.

Don

Title: Re: Magadan
Post by: sat_dxer on July 28, 2018, 1317 UTC

8495.4kHz "M" cw from 1310z 28 Jul 2018

Title: Re: Magadan
Post by: Looking-Glass on July 29, 2018, 0112 UTC

"Nagayevo was an urban type settlement on the shore of Nagayev Bay, Sea of Okhotsk, in what became present day Magadan Oblast in the Russian Far East. Presently Nagayevo is a micro district in and the port area of Magadan, Russian Far East, in the administrative centre of Magadan Oblast."

Title: Re: Magadan
Post by: sat_dxer on July 29, 2018, 0408 UTC

In the Newsletter 32 of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter (aka NSNL) of 24 Dec 2000; “M” Magadan (RUS) is listed in a “Historic _now defunc_ stations” table on 8682.0kHz.

The Newsletter 34 of 3 Mar 2001 has the report that “M re-appeared. M transmitted from Magadan in the past and probably still does…”

But in the Newsletter 35 of 01 Apr 2001 it’s remarked: “…supposedly from the home of 'M', Magadan.”
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However the HFU wiki has a table citing from NSNL 32 that "a Russian naval radio operator...confirmed...channel markers (are) mostly used by the navy" which by inference suggests this:
M    RTS    Magadan, RUS 

...to be continued*

Title: Re: Magadan
Post by: East Troy Don on July 29, 2018, 1720 UTC

" Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". – Winston Churchill

Looks like old Winnie was right!

Title: Re: Magadan
Post by: Josh on July 29, 2018, 1744 UTC

But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Anyway, not hard to keep remote hf sites going, barring theft/vandalism.

Title: Re: Magadan
Post by: sat_dxer on July 30, 2018, 1500 UTC

Magadan is GMT + 11

*this inference now part of the IARU Region 1 Intruders reports:
"July 29th  2018
7039.400
beacon “M” – “RTS” - Magadan"