Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:00:34 +0100
From: John Pumford-Green <gm4slv@sighthound.demon.co.uk>
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Hello Jim, Trond, LF,

I was playing in the shack tonight and thought I'd leave the RX on
500.5 to monitor SK6RUD and the mystery "VVV TEST" - both there, some
QSB. I even recorded them together, in a 2,4kHz bandwidth, and put a
snip on my website.

Later I heard something odd, as Jim said previously - a QSO seemed to
start. I recorded what I could here - but only one side of it was
audible here.


One station seemed to call itself XJ and was sending "---. -..-" as the
call of its opposite number.

This seems to be foreigh CW symbol, possible =C3=96 from what I can find on
the web


I heard (roughly):

=C3=96X =C3=96X DE XJ XJ UR QSA4 QSA4 SB HW? =C3=96X DE XJ K

Later I heard another exchange from the "XJ" station and "73"

I will try to pick this later exchange out of the recording too.

The recording of the first exchange - again in a 2,4kHz bw, CW REV to
move SK6RUD out of the passband is on my 500kHz sound recordings page:

http://www.gm4slv.org.uk/sounds.htm

I'll try to put up the other bits I could here too.
Odder and odder....

Just shows the value of sitting idly listening.


John GM4SLV=20




On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:40:22 +0200 (MEST)
Trond Jacobsen <vesleulv@online.no> wrote:

> Hello James and LF group
>=20
> Could have been Russian Navy, I observed very weak RN style 5FG and
> prosigns traffic at 500.3 / 500.7 ( most likely only one station but
> changing frequency ) last week. No full copy of either ID nor text
> tough, due to static crashes.=20
>=20
> Best regards
>=20
> Trond J.
> Hvaler archipelago SE Norway
> 59.033N 11.033E
>=20
> > From: James Moritz [james.moritz@btopenworld.com]
> > Sent: 2008-09-17 09:04:27 CEST
> > To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
> > Subject: LF: More odd sigs on 500.5
> >=20
> > Dear LF Group,
> >=20
> > I had the RX on monitoring the mystery "VVV TEST" signal to see if
> > it would get strong enough to get a better bearing with the loop,
> > when around 2230utc I noticed that there seemed to be some sort of
> > QSO going on. Along with SK6RUD there seemed to be 3 CW signals
> > between about 500.5 and 501.0 kHz, none of which  were very good
> > copy here. The occasional bits I could hear sounded like some sort
> > of amateur QSO with RST reports, Q codes and so on, but no
> > recognisable callsigns! Did anyone else notice anything - maybe we
> > have company...
> >=20
> > Cheers, Jim Moritz
> > 73 de M0BMU
> >=20
> >=20