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Title: Unid OM voice (Russian?) 6917 USB 0449 UTC 15 July 2015 via Twente NL
Post by: Zoidberg on July 15, 2015, 0655 UTC
Unidentified male voice communication, possibly Russian, on 6917 kHz USB, 0449 UTC, 15 July 2015.  Repeated phrases, one word sounded similar to "Shatili" (Georgia?).  Recorded via web SDR based in University of Twente, NL.

I Googled the heck out of this, came up empty.  Any ideas?

Approx. 90 second off-air recording (https://archive.org/details/websdr_recording_2015-07-15_T04-49-33Z_6917.0kHz_voice-Russian-or-similar).
Title: Re: Unid OM voice (Russian?) 6917 USB 0449 UTC 15 July 2015 via Twente NL
Post by: Oliver on July 15, 2015, 1212 UTC
Lex,
The language is Russian.
I would judge this as a Russian number station.
The male voice is counting the following:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10__1 2 3 4 5__1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10__1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10__1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10__1 2 3 4_1 2 3 4__1 2 3 4__1 2 3 4 5

I hope this helps.

Title: Re: Unid OM voice (Russian?) 6917 USB 0449 UTC 15 July 2015 via Twente NL
Post by: Zoidberg on July 15, 2015, 1356 UTC
Thanks. I should have thought to try a basic Russian tutorial in numbers and letters. The "chyetyrye" for four would have grabbed my attention.

Has this been noted before on 6917 USB?  I Googled around and didn't find anything.
Title: Re: Unid OM voice (Russian?) 6917 USB 0449 UTC 15 July 2015 via Twente NL
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on July 15, 2015, 1522 UTC
According to one of the Priyom (Spy Numbers) guys, this was a Russian military station, testing.

FWIW, I checked my SDR recording, and had nothing here around this time.
Title: Re: Unid OM voice (Russian?) 6917 USB 0449 UTC 15 July 2015 via Twente NL
Post by: Rypp on July 30, 2015, 1629 UTC
That's true. A man counts from one to ten with strong Asian (Kazakh, Tadzhik) or Caucasian accent. For example, the speaker says "Shatili", not "chetyri", like most of Russian-speaking people, and it may confuse listeners. I guess it's a station from some ex-USSR republic.