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Offline Josh

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Old Habits
« on: March 14, 2018, 1654 UTC »
So I'm messing around with the r390a trying to see if it's as sensitive as it's supposed to be and I tune a few megacycles down (without tuning the kilocycles knob) and hear a familiar sound.

Hm01.

How apropos.

The Cuban lady on 11435 rattles off some numbers en espanol and then rdft blares out. The carrier stayed up after she ended the bingo game, and promptly at 1625Z commenced another game of radio bingo, plus rdft.

I wonder if this specific 390 was used to monitor such espionage bcasts back in the "chilling" days of the cold war? It tuned right to an ongoing spy bcast so perhaps it knows what to tune to via spy radio instinct. Still sending at 1640Z.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-390A
http://priyom.org/number-stations/digital/hm01
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Re: Old Habits
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2019, 1632 UTC »
 16:25 UTC on 11435 KHZ.   Strong S9+10.  Silent carrier until 16:30 then the usual  Cuban YL with the numbers transmission.   Haven't heard her on this freq in a while.
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Re: Old Habits
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2019, 1710 UTC »
11435khz 1600 and 1630z
11530khz 1700 and 1730z
11635khz 1800 and 1830z
All daily
Has been in repeat mode for weeks.
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