30th July 2001:  Updates

Lots of updates to the ALE Database, and to the Romanian Diplo profile.

1st February 2001:  MIL-1880-110A & STANAG4285 on Test

See the latest logs for some MIL-188-110A 2400bd HF modem catches with some new software.

30th January 2001:  Israeli Naval Transmissions on the Move Again

4XZ, the Israeli Navy station at Haifa appears to be undergoing one of its periodic shuffling of frequencies.  So far, a two new frequencies of 5186kHz and 8103kHz have been logged.
See the profile on this station for more information. 

3rd September 2000: Algerian Customs and MOI ALE Net Re-discovered 

Jim Dunnett of WUN and others finally made a breakthrough in an ALE network discovered a few months ago on at least a dozen frequencies using digit identifiers like "2222" and letter identifiers like "ALG", "TFT" and "KARIM".  After patient listening, many of the identifiers used correspond to those used when the network's traffic was carried by Coquelet-8 and more recently, PacTOR-II.  This net can be heard on the following frequencies: 

5362, 5410, 5430, 5755, 5855, 6788.3, 7573, 7650, 7738.3, 7753 
7813, 7966, 7969, 8046, 8096, 8164, 9315, 10190, 10244, 10275 
11130, 11466, and 12160kHz 

A profile of the customs network is also here. 

19th July 2000: US-based SuperDARN HF Radar Identified  

Readers of my Monitoring Times column will know that the familiar "cracka-cracka" machine-gun like sound that can be heard in a variety of places on the HF dial is generated  
by the SuperDARN radar.  This is a collaboration between a number of academic institutions studying HF propagation, including Johns Hopkins University in Maryland USA.  JHU's Applied Physics Lab has it's transmitter sited at Chiniak, Alaska.  

Using the FCC database I was able to pinpoint the license for this station, filed under experimental callsign WA2XPM.  Frequency ranges quoted are: 8000-8100, 9040-9500, 9900-9950, 10150-11175, 11400-11650, 12050-12230, 13410-13600, 13800-14000, 14350-14990, 15600-16360, 17410-17550, 18030-18068, 18168-18780, 18900-19680, and 19800-19990kHz.  

30th June 2000:  Israeli Naval Transmissions on the Move 

4XZ, the Israeli Navy station at Haifa appears to be undergoing one of its periodic shuffling of frequencies.  So far, a new frequency of 9256kHz has been logged, 14648kHz is QSY to 14695kHz and 18481 is QSY to 18426kHz. See the profile on this station for more information.