Morse code transmission over the Voice of Turkey's signal
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I have been regularly recording the small spectrum window containing the endangered stations I mentioned in one of my previous posts. Three days ago I noticed something strange: a morse code transmission superimposed onto the Voice of Turkey's signal on 9460 kHz (video below):
Using SDR# I extracted the coded signal while suppressing the rest of the audio (recording embedded in the player below):
My Morse knowledge is patchy to say the least, so I decoded it using Fldigi. At the start of the recording, the sequence "8T1" is repeated a dozen of times. I Googled around and found another YouTube video of a Morse code transmission from a numbers station, reportedly codenamed M01, which also had multiple repetitions of "8T1".
Numbers stations are still sending messages from many different corners of the world. However, if I indeed captured an M01 transmission in this instance, what makes it unusual is that it was embedded inside a signal from a broadcast station and that it was strong enough to be heard clearly. I'll watch out for further occurrences of M01 on the airwaves.
Update: I received the following pointer from @priyom_org:
@LondonShortwave Not M01, but rather M14. Sends daily 1900 UTC on 9463 kHz and repeats 1930 UTC around 7353 kHz.— Priyom.org (@priyom_org) 16 June 2016
While the station supposedly operates daily, it's the first time I heard it over the Voice of Turkey's broadcast at that time of day.
Very interesting, and very nice catch! Please keep us posted on what you find out!! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteHeard also on this frequency RST 449 on 3 Jul 2016 @ 17.15 UTC, QTH nr Norwich.
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