Shortwave utility radio stations, partly monitored during our recent Malaysia Mauritius Reunion Rodrigues Sarawak Singapore monitoring missions.
Shortwave utility radio stations, partly monitored during our recent Malaysia Mauritius Reunion Rodrigues Sarawak Singapore monitoring missions.
Indian Ocean, Mauritius, aerial view during the final approach to runway 13 of Sir Sewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport near Plaisance. Twenty years ago all pilots of the then few Air Mauritius planes were from what we call Safrica, and their favourite stopover place between flights was the Blue Lagoon Beach Hotel. The photo shows the southwest coast between Flic en Flac with the well-established Hotel La Pirogue in the foreground, Tamarin Bay, Mont Tamarin, and the peninsula of Le Morne Brabant in the background, surrounded by a large tropical reef. On this picture you see why Tamarin Bay is a hotspot for surfers: only here there’s no reef. Budget surfers and travellers sleep at Lagane’s Place right on Beach Road, some tourists stay at the peaceful Chinese-run Tamarin Hotel and have dinner at La Bonne Chute, a few kilometres down the main road to Black River. From Black River you can trek into the new National Park and all the way up to Le Petrin on the highland, passing superb lookouts with excellent views across the large sugar cane fields down to the coast. Even better, take a taxi up to the central plateau and walk down to the coast - there's even a superb unknown trail down towards Chemin Grenier near the south coast where you can catch the bus back to civilization. Carefully selected sites such as secret locations on Le Morne and on fascinating Rodrigues, one of the Outer Islands of Mauritius such as Agalega and other tiny coral reefs, have been among our favourite hotspots for overseas monitoring missions in the tropics for decades: no industry, no people, no traffic = no interference and no static noise - and ample space for hundreds of meters of antennas...
A brandnew CD gives you more than 3,900 (three thousand nine hundred!) digital data decoder screenshots from our continuous HF radio monitoring between 1997 and today! See 2005/2006 Guide to Utility Radio Stations for more information such as schedules and traffic details. All frequencies are in kHz, and all system times are UTC. Our guidebook Radiotelex Messages includes hundreds of similar screenshots; that unique collection will give you an excellent overview on the state of the art in this fascinating field: think of worldwide terrorist networks using HF e-mail! For good reasons we lay particular stress on the fact that all screenshots were directly supplied by co-operating COMINT and ELINT and SIGINT units, equipment manufacturers abroad, and foreign radio monitoring experts beyond the reach of teutonic jurisdiction (German "authorities" simply click here!): just send us a short e-mail and attach a standard .w40 or .w41 or .w51 file, then we have even your system's timestamps! The following - very recent! - screenshots were taken and uploaded independently to this pooling webpage by our worldwide net of cooperators, using advanced equipment such as the superb Wavecom Digital Data Decoders. A straight message to all users of inadequate hard- and software: you cannot repeat CAN NOT! decode really complex protocols - such as all those revealing customer-specified PACTOR-2 multi-channel DBPSK DQPSK D8PSK D16PSK etc. systems with Huffman or pseudo-Markov compression and additional run-length encoding - by means of cheap hobbyist decoders, let alone through a computer soundcard!
4777.5 kHz IMB Rome Meteo, Italy
16278.8 kHz 7RQ20 Ministry of Foreign Affairs El Djaza'ir, Algeria, to Algerian Embassy Belgrade, Serbia
4295.0 kHz FUE French Navy Brest, France
12587.0 kHz LZW Varna Radio, Bulgaria
12654.0 kHz TAH Istanbul Radio, Turkey
7880.0 kHz DDK3 Hamburg Meteo, Germany
16278.8 kHz Algerian Embassy Tripoli, Libya, to 7RQ20 Ministry of Foreign Affairs El Djaza'ir, Algeria, partly using the ATU-Arabic teleprinter alphabet. You can easily "translate" this text by means of our Radio Data Code Manual and state-of-the-art technology such as WAVECOM Digital Data Decoders and Microsoft Windows. The procedure can be fully automated: 1. mark the text that you wish to translate; 2. copy it into the clipboard (using String-C); 3. go to your word processing software such as Microsoft Word for Windows and open a new document; 4. copy the contents of the clipboard into the document; 5. save this document somewhere under e.g. arabic.doc; 6. record a macro that replaces character for character according to our code tables (this is case-sensitive: search for capital letters such as A and change them to small letters such as q, B to ch, C to t, etc.). Needless to say, different alphabets such as standard Arabic, or Cyrillic, or third-shift Cyrillic, or third-shift Korean, or any simple substitutions such as those used by certain diplomatic and military radionets, require different macros. The whole procedure takes not more than 20 seconds - for any length of text! The result is Arabic phonetic text; 7. search for words, if necessary use our vocabulary. A very good Arabic-English dictionary that we have used for decades is The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. It says on page 780 that qa'ida means foundation, groundwork; basis; fundament; base; support, socle, foot, pedestal; chassis, undercarriage; precept, rule, principle, maxim; formula; method, manner, mode; model, pattern. Got it?
9111.7 kHz RFLIG French Forces Cayenne, Guyana (French), to RFFA Ministry of Defence Paris, France
4271.0 kHz CFH Canadian Forces Halifax NS, Canada
6368.5 kHz HEB Berne Radio, Switzerland
13572.0 kHz RFFX Ministry of Defence Paris, France, to RFFXL French Forces Naqoura, Lebanon
13572.0 kHz RFFX Ministry of Defence Paris, France, to RFFXL French Forces Naqoura, Lebanon
18063.3 kHz RC2JAL International Committee of the Red Cross Jalalabad, Afghanistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2KAB International Committee of the Red Cross Kabul, Afghanistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!
18063.3 kHz RC2HER International Committee of the Red Cross Herat, Afghanistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2KAB International Committee of the Red Cross Kabul, Afghanistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!
13973.0 kHz RC2PES International Committee of the Red Cross Peshawar, Pakistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2MAZ International Committee of the Red Cross Mazar-e Sherif, Afghanistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!
18063.3 kHz RC2KAB International Committee of the Red Cross Kabul, Afghanistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2KAN International Committee of the Red Cross Kandahar, Afghanistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM. The author of this message should indeed been "faced" out!
18063.3 kHz RC2KAB International Committee of the Red Cross Kabul, Afghanistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2KAN International Committee of the Red Cross Kandahar, Afghanistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM. The author of this message should indeed been "faced" out!
18063.3 kHz HB8GVA International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, Switzerland, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC1TAC International Committee of the Red Cross Tashkent, Uzbekistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!
18063.3 kHz RC2KAB International Committee of the Red Cross Kabul, Afghanistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2KAN International Committee of the Red Cross Kandahar, Afghanistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!
18063.3 kHz RC2PES International Committee of the Red Cross Peshawar, Pakistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2KAN International Committee of the Red Cross Kandahar, Afghanistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!
18063.3 kHz RC2KAB International Committee of the Red Cross Kabul, Afghanistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2KAN International Committee of the Red Cross Kandahar, Afghanistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM. The author of this message should indeed been "faced" out!
Waterfall analysis
