Hot Frequencies and Digital Data Transmission Screenshots

Shortwave utility radio stations, partly monitored during our recent Malaysia Mauritius Reunion Rodrigues Sarawak Singapore monitoring missions.

Rodrigues
Baie Topaze
View from Plaine Mapou
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Mauritius
Le Morne Brabant and the South Coast
Aerial picture courtesy of Air Mauritius
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For decades, carefully selected sites on Mauritius and Rodrigues have been among our favourite hot spots for overseas monitoring missions in the tropics. The small island of Rodrigues, see the photo on the left, is surrounded by a reef three times larger than the surface of the island itself! From here it's thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean to the Antarctic, Arabia, Australia, India, Madagascar and Southeast Asia. There is no industry, no people, no traffic = no interference and no static noise - and ample space for hundreds of meters of antennas ... One particular good radio monitoring location on the "mainland" is the Maujean Bungalow on the north slope of Le Morne Brabant Mountain, see the photo on the right where Air Mauritius' AIRBUS A340-300 3B-NAT is on the final approach to runway 31 of Sir Sewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport near Plaisance, further down the coastline. Thirty 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 pretty basic Blue Lagoon Beach Hotel. The photo shows Le Morne Brabant Mountain on the left, and the south coast near Baie du Cap (the dark-blue break in the white-surf reef) and the vast sugar cane fields of Bel Ombre Estate. Behind Le Morne is the village of Black River where 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 to Chemin Grenier near Bel Ombre where you can catch the bus back to civilization. The small peak on the highlands just above Le Morne is the highest point of Mauritius, Black River Mountain, an easy 1½ hours walk providing stunning views as well.


A brandnew CD gives you more than 6,600 (six thousand six hundred!) digital data decoder screenshots from our continuous HF radio monitoring between 1997 and today! See 2009/2010 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 or .w61file, 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.


13303.0 kHz H17 Telde Air, Canary Islands, + aircraft LVG456

6834.0 kHz GYA Royal Navy London, United Kingdom, special chart for the Iraq theatre

8318.0 kHz RETJ Spanish Navy Madrid, Spain

6358.5 kHz PBB Royal Netherlands Navy Den Helder, Netherlands

6834.0 kHz GYA Royal Navy London, United Kingdom, special chart for the Iraq theatre

7652.8 kHz Digital data station

4240.2 kHz FUE French Navy Brest, France

17967.0 kHz H15 Muhurroq Air, Bahrain, + aircraft AY1792

6532.0 kHz H07 Shannon Air, Ireland, + aircraft 9V-SKB

10066.0 kHz H06 Hat Yai Air, Thailand, + aircraft LVG244

14025.8 kHz Digital data station

8834.0 kHz H08 Johannesburg Air, South Africa (Republic of), + aircraft WAN110

10412.1 kHz CIS-36 MFSK digital data station

4240.2 kHz FUE French Navy Brest, France

10087.0 kHz H14 Krasnoyarsk Air, Russian Federation, + aircraft UPS150

12654.0 kHz TAH Istanbul Radio, Turkey

8424.0 kHz SVO Olympia Radio, Athens, Greece

4228.0 kHz UIW Kaliningrad Radio, Russian Federation

4250.5 kHz HEB Berne Radio, Switzerland

10100.8 kHz DDK9 Hamburg Meteo, Germany

8151.0 kHz IGJ Italian Navy Augusta, Italy

4271.0 kHz CFH Canadian Forces Halifax NS, Canada

8454.8 kHz FUG French Navy Saissac, France

2610.2 kHz FUO French Navy Toulon, France

8424.0 kHz SVO Olympia Radio, Athens, Greece

4218.5 kHz LZW Varna Radio, Bulgaria

4209.5 kHz TAH Istanbul Radio, Turkey

4560.0 kHz TAH Istanbul Radio, Turkey

10087.0 kHz H14 Krasnoyarsk Air, Russian Federation, + aircraft EI-LVB + JY-AYJ

11184.0 kHz H03 Reykjavik Air, Iceland, + aircraft RJA108

4493.8 kHz Digital data station

8977.0 kHz H03 Reykjavik Air, Iceland, + aircraft OH-LBX

4188.5 kHz Ship stations calling SAB Goeteborg Radio, Sweden,
with automatic encrypted GPS position data

4271.0 kHz CFH Canadian Forces Halifax NS, Canada

4271.0 kHz CFH Canadian Forces Halifax NS, Canada

8977.0 kHz H03 Reykjavik Air, Iceland, + aircraft N301UP + OH-LBR + ZS-SNE

6834.0 kHz GYA Royal Navy London, United Kingdom, special chart for the Iraq theatre

12903.0 kHz RBSL Indian Navy Mumbai, India

12603.5 kHz SVO Olympia Radio, Athens, Greece

13413.4 kHz FUF French Navy Fort-de-France, Martinique

13050.0 kHz UDK Murmansk Radio, Russian Federation

518.0 kHz IAR Rome Radio, Italy

518.0 kHz 9AS Split Radio, Croatia

6559.0 kHz H01 San Franciso Air CA, United States of America, + aircraft ZS-SND

5652.0 kHz H04 Riverhead Air NY, United States of America, + aircraft N204UW

5652.0 kHz H04 Riverhead Air NY, United States of America, + aircraft CLX715

13444.2 kHz RFQP French Forces Jibuti, Djibouti, to RFVI French Forces Le Port de la Riviere des Galets, Reunion

17967.0 kHz H15 Muhurroq Air, Bahrain, + aircraft N593FE + OH-LBS + 5A-DMG

518.0 kHz Hamburg Meteo, Germany

14531.7 kHz Egyptian diplomatic station, 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 a few 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?

10063.0 kHz H11 Panama City Air, Panama, + aircraft N583AS

4518.5 kHz FDI22 French Air Force Narbonne, France

8551.5 kHz CTP North Atlantic Treaty Organization Lisbon, Portugal

11612.0 kHz Baku, Azerbaijan

4555.2 kHz German Coast Guard Cuxhaven, Germany

4214.0 kHz IDR Italian Navy Rome, Italy

6532.0 kHz H07 Shannon Air, Ireland, + aircraft B-6099 + VP-BRY

8106.9 kHz SWA Athens Meteo, Greece

16051.8 kHz RFQP French Forces Jibuti, Djibouti

11348.0 kHz H17 Telde Air, Canary Islands, + aircraft D-ALCI

4240.2 kHz FUE French Navy Brest, France

4240.2 kHz FUE French Navy Brest, France

5195.0 kHz DRA5 Kiel, Germany

4259.0 kHz SAB Goeteborg Radio, Sweden

518.0 kHz 7TA El Djaza'ir Radio, Algeria

4250.5 kHz HEB Berne Radio, Switzerland

4240.2 kHz FUE French Navy Brest, France

4207.0 kHz PETROMAR Platforma Centrala oilfield, Romania

7880.0 kHz DDK3 Hamburg Meteo, Germany

3855.0 kHz DDK6 Hamburg Meteo, Germany

6532.0 kHz H07 Shannon Air, Ireland, + aircraft FX0000

4916.0 kHz 02973 Digital data station

4849.8 kHz Digital data station

4849.8 kHz Digital data station

8431.5 kHz UAT Moscow Radio, Russian Federation

2806.0 kHz IGJ Italian Navy Augusta, Italy

11348.0 kHz H17 Telde Air, Canary Islands, + aircraft HS-TNE

4235.0 kHz NMF United States Coast Guard Boston MA, United States of America

11354.0 kHz H09 Barrow Air, Alaska, + aircraft SU0141

4067.1 kHz Tashkent Meteo, Uzbekistan
Identification of the logo in the lower right corner (the chart here is rotated 90 degrees clockwise) by means of historic screenshots on our unique Digital Data Decoder Screenshots CD!

4610.0 kHz GYA Royal Navy London, United Kingdom

12603.5 kHz SVO Olympia Radio, Athens, Greece

10945.0 kHz CFH Canadian Forces Halifax NS, Canada

13846.7 kHz RFVI French Forces Le Port de la Riviere des Galets, Reunion

6362.0 kHz MGJ Royal Navy Faslane, United Kingdom. Three to five minutes late as usual - since 2004 ... Never seen a GPS time standard? Porco cane! Could some buddy please please ask them to switch forward to GMT, finally???

3855.0 kHz DDK6 Hamburg Meteo, Germany

6529.0 kHz H17 Telde Air, Canary Islands, + aircraft CO0022 + LA1733 + LM0236 + MU0553 + SA0208 + ZS-SNF

4271.0 kHz CFH Canadian Forces Halifax NS, Canada

8421.5 kHz LZW Varna Radio, Bulgaria

6318.0 kHz IDR Italian Navy Rome, Italy

7949.5 kHz CALORIE French military station

4610.0 kHz GYA Royal Navy London, United Kingdom

8454.8 kHz FUG French Navy Saissac, France

8834.0 kHz H08 Johannesburg Air, South Africa (Republic of), + aircraft SU0798 + 5A-DMG

2461.5 kHz 0A Irish Navy Dublin, Ireland

3855.0 kHz DDK6 Hamburg Meteo, Germany

3855.0 kHz DDK6 Hamburg Meteo, Germany

12965.0 kHz USO Izmail Radio, Ukraine

3855.0 kHz DDK6 Hamburg Meteo, Germany

4610.0 kHz GYA Royal Navy London, United Kingdom

2530 - 2630 kHz gives you no less than 11 PSK aggregate signals. Not all of these are simple STANAG 4285!

5315.0 kHz SAB Goeteborg Radio, Sweden

11056.7 kHz Egyptian Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cairo, Egypt, 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 a few 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?

518.0 kHz Gislovshammar Radio, Sweden

15043.0 kHz NAU United States Navy Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico

4721.0 kHz JDG United States Navy Diego Garcia

518.0 kHz Reykjavik Radio, Iceland

518.0 kHz 9HD Valetta Radio, Malta

5379.0 kHz BORA Digital data station, Albania, to DRINI Drini, Albania

518.0 kHz OXJ Torshavn Radio, Faroe Islands, Denmark

7880.0 kHz DDK3 Hamburg Meteo, Germany

518.0 kHz EJM Irish Coast Guard Malin Head, Ireland

518.0 kHz Centre Regional Operationnel de Surveillance et de Sauvetage Corsen, France

3764.4 kHz PBH Royal Netherlands Navy Den Helder, Netherlands

12721.0 kHz 9HD Valetta Radio, Malta

490.0 kHz Centre Regional Operationnel de Surveillance et de Sauvetage Toulon, France

518.0 kHz GPK Portpatrick Radio, United Kingdom

5430.0 kHz USDS Tarko-Sale Air, Russian Federation

4610.0 kHz GYA Royal Navy London, United Kingdom

7644.2 kHz RFVI French Forces Le Port de la Riviere des Galets, Reunion, to RFFA Ministry of Defence Paris, France

5850.0 kHz OXT Copenhagen Meteo, Denmark

8418.0 kHz IAR Rome Radio, Italy

4583.0 kHz DDK2 Hamburg Meteo, Germany

12629.0 kHz TAH Istanbul Radio, Turkey. Sonagram shows clearly the Morse code callsign - .- .... after the three SITOR QSX strings

3855.0 kHz DDK6 Hamburg Meteo, Germany

6507.0 kHz VTP Indian Navy Vishakhapatnam, India, extremely bad reception here in the current sunspot minimum, correct aggregate would read
YRYRYRYRYRY VTP 13/14 RBSL VNR VNR RYRYRY SGSGSG
where VNR = Vishakhapatnam Naval Radio. Funny inconsequence, up to this day, on the "Mumbai" channels they continue to identify as BNR = Bombay Naval Radio, and not as MNR ... not to mention "Chennai"!

13312.0 kHz H16 Agana Air, Guam, + aircraft SU0241

2187.5 kHz 002241024 Valencia Radio, Spain

293.5 kHz DGPS Beacon Iffezheim, Germany, including a screenshot of the GARMIN GPSmap 60CSx that shows the location of transmitter ID 760 near Bad Abbach. We use two of these excellent units, daily. It's simply the best GPS receiver for outdoor and wilderness applications. Forget the new Colorado and Oregon series!

518.0 kHz EAR La Coruna Radio, Spain

518.0 kHz UGE Arkhangelsk Radio, Russian Federation

518.0 kHz GNI Niton Radio, United Kingdom

4209.5 kHz Makung Radio, Taiwan (Democratic Republic of China)

4322.0 kHz GYA Royal Navy London, United Kingdom

4616.0 kHz BMF T'ai-pei Meteo, Taiwan (Democratic Republic of China)

4616.0 kHz BMF T'ai-pei Meteo, Taiwan (Democratic Republic of China)

13351.0 kHz H05 Auckland Air, New Zealand, + aircraft CN-ROR

4616.0 kHz BMF T'ai-pei Meteo, Taiwan (Democratic Republic of China)

4616.0 kHz BMF T'ai-pei Meteo, Taiwan (Democratic Republic of China)

4616.2 kHz Digital data station

12579.0 kHz NMF United States Coast Guard Boston MA, United States of America

8424.0 kHz SVO Olympia Radio, Athens, Greece

4610.0 kHz GYA Royal Navy London, United Kingdom

4610.0 kHz GYA Royal Navy London, United Kingdom

518.0 kHz IDC Cagliari Radio, Italy

518.0 kHz TAH Istanbul Radio, Turkey

4271.0 kHz CFH Canadian Forces Halifax NS, Canada

4235.0 kHz NMF United States Coast Guard Boston MA, United States of America

4235.0 kHz NMF United States Coast Guard Boston MA, United States of America

4235.0 kHz NMF United States Coast Guard Boston MA, United States of America

10011.7 kHz Tipasa Prefecture, Algeria, to 7RA20 Ministry of Interior El Djaza'ir, Algeria

10011.7 kHz El Tarf Prefecture, Algeria, to 7RA20 Ministry of Interior El Djaza'ir, Algeria

10011.7 kHz Ech Chelif Prefecture, Algeria, to 7RA20 Ministry of Interior El Djaza'ir, Algeria

10011.7 kHz Bou Saada Prefecture, Algeria, to 7RA20 Ministry of Interior El Djaza'ir, Algeria

518.0 kHz UUI Odessa Radio, Ukraine

5180.2 kHz UNLL Kolkpashevo Air SW, Russian Federation

4209.5 kHz XVG Hai Phong Radio, Viet Nam

4271.0 kHz CFH Canadian Forces Halifax NS, Canada

11298.3 kHz Biskra Prefecture, Algeria, to 7RA20 Ministry of Interior El Djaza'ir, Algeria

4556.3 kHz RETA Spanish Army Madrid, Spain

6330.5 kHz OSY Sailmail Radio, Brugge, Belgium, and ship station FH2407

8184.7 kHz Egyptian Embassy Rome, Italy, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cairo, Egypt, 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 a few 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?

13957.0 kHz Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tunis, Tunisia

5252.6 kHz DDA31 Münster/Osnabrück Meteo, Germany

12745.5 kHz JJC Kyodo Tsushin Tokyo, Japan

12579.0 kHz NMC United States Coast Guard San Francisco CA, United States of America

5544.0 kHz H15 Muhurroq Air, Bahrain, + aircraft B-6050 + ZS-SNH

16278.8 kHz Algerian Embassy Rabat, Morocco, to 7RQ20 Ministry of Foreign Affairs El Djaza'ir, Algeria

13572.5 kHz RFFX Ministry of Defence Paris, France, to RFFXL French Forces Naqoura, Lebanon

13572.5 kHz RFFX Ministry of Defence Paris, France, to RFFXL French Forces Naqoura, Lebanon

12579.0 kHz NRV United States Coast Guard Apra Harbour, Guam

4364.5 kHz 3AC Monte Carlo Radio, Monaco

4625.6 kHz Digital data station

18529.5 kHz 7RV50 Algerian Embassy Moscow, Russian Federation, to 7RQ20 Ministry of Foreign Affairs El Djaza'ir, Algeria

6478.0 kHz SAB Goeteborg Radio, Sweden

18529.5 kHz Algerian Embassy Jakarta, Indonesia, to 7RQ20 Ministry of Foreign Affairs El Djaza'ir, Algeria

17550.9 kHz RFTJ French Forces Dakar, Senegal, to RFFA Ministry of Defence Paris, France

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!

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 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!

13973.0 kHz RC1BAS International Committee of the Red Cross Basrah, Iraq, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC1KOW International Committee of the Red Cross Safat, Kuwait. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!

13973.0 kHz RC2KAN International Committee of the Red Cross Kandahar, 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!

7709.7 kHz Egyptian Embassy Paris, France, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cairo, Egypt, 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 a few 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?

Immediately after the beginning of the latest war in Iraq: 13973.0 kHz HB8GVA International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, Switzerland, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2BAG International Committee of the Red Cross Baghdad, Iraq. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!

13973.0 kHz RC2BAG International Committee of the Red Cross Baghdad, Iraq, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC1AMM International Committee of the Red Cross Amman, Jordan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!

Immediately before the beginning of the latest war in Iraq: 13973.0 kHz RC2KAB International Committee of the Red Cross Kabul, Afghanistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2JAL International Committee of the Red Cross Jalalabad, Afghanistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!

14802.0 kHz RFFXCKO French Forces Mitrovica, Serbia, to RFFP Ministry of Defence Paris, France

518.0 kHz NMC United States Coast Guard San Francisco CA, United States of America, one day after 11 SEP 2001

13973.0 kHz RC2PES International Committee of the Red Cross Peshawar, Pakistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2JAL International Committee of the Red Cross Jalalabad, Afghanistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!

13973.0 kHz HB8GVA International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, Switzerland, 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!

16278.8 kHz Algerian Embassy Hanoi, Viet Nam, to 7RQ20 Ministry of Foreign Affairs El Djaza'ir, Algeria

8500.0 kHz RBSL Indian Navy Mumbai, India

7741.7 kHz Egyptian Embassy London, United Kingdom, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cairo, Egypt, 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 a few 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?

8057.7 kHz WGM Sailmail Radio Hollywood FL, United States of America

14575.0 kHz P6Z Ministry of Foreign Affairs Paris, France, to D2Z French Embassy Budapest, Hungary, still using the idiotic C substitution: CF = A, CG = B, CH = C, CI = D, ... Got it?

20633.7 kHz RFVI French Forces Le Port de la Riviere des Galets, Reunion, to RFFA Ministry of Defence Paris, France

19021.5 kHz ERMRGD Brazilian Navy Rio Grande, Brazil, to ERMBRA Brazilian Navy Brasilia

11080.0 kHz Syrian Arab News Agency Damascus, Syria, using the 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 a few 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?

13973.0 kHz RC2KAN International Committee of the Red Cross Kandahar, Afghanistan, via MB1TBI International Committee of the Red Cross Tbilisi, Georgia, to RC2ISL International Committee of the Red Cross Islamabad, Pakistan. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!

16747.0 kHz Ship station relaying Philippine News Agency

518.0 kHz NMC United States Coast Guard San Francisco CA, United States of America

16373.0 kHz 8WB4 Indian Embassy Tehran, Iran, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Delhi, India

14639.0 kHz Polish Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, to SNN299 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Warsaw, Poland

10284.0 kHz RC2PRI International Committee of the Red Cross Pristina, Serbia, via MB1GVA International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, Switzerland, to HB8GVA International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, Switzerland. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!

19101.7 kHz RFLI French Forces Fort de France, Martinique, to RFFA Ministry of Defence Paris, France

10284.0 kHz RC2PRI International Committee of the Red Cross Pristina, Serbia, via MB1GVA International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, Switzerland, to HB8GVA International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, Switzerland. PACTOR-2 variant cracked exclusively by WAVECOM!

15946.5 kHz EAE220 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Madrid, Spain, to Spanish Embassy San Salvador, El Salvador

16800.0 kHz Ship station relaying Philippine News Agency

17462.7 kHz RFPTC French Forces N'djamena, Chad, to RFFA Ministry of Defence Paris, France

16800.0 kHz Ship station relaying Philippine News Agency

16327.0 kHz Romanian Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bucharest, Romania

5326.0 kHz RFFEDFO French Forces Hradiste, Czech Republic, to RFFE/SOUGE French Forces Bordeaux, France

15821.9 kHz SAM Ministry of Foreign Affairs Stockholm, Sweden, to SAM52 Swedish Embassy Tel Aviv, Israel, still using year 1999 instead of 2000

9179.0 kHz HBD55 Swiss Embassy Madrid, Spain, to HBD20 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Berne, Switzerland

20011.7 kHz Ministry of Foreign Affairs Islamabad, Pakistan, to Pakistan Embassy Paris, France

20630.4 kHz HGX45 Hungarian Embassy Islamabad, Pakistan, to HGX21 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Budapest, Hungary

21974.0 kHz TAD Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ankara, Turkey

20584.0 kHz SALCOST Garafiri, Guinea, to SALCOST Rome, Italy

13933.0 kHz DOR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sofia, Bulgaria

18206.5 kHz Indonesian Embassy Damascus, Syria, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jakarta, Indonesia

6777.2 kHz AGA5MC United States Air Force Military Affiliated Radio System McChord Air Force Base, Tacoma WA, United States of America

5049.2 kHz CSP20 Lisbon Police, Portugal

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