(E22) STATUS-ACTIVE
17385 kHz 9 JUL 05
Thanks Alexandr in Ukraine
Yankee Delta 6
recorded 1100 on 22 JUL 05.
I tuned between 15400 and 17385 kHz during the recording.
Yankee
Delta 6
X-Ray November 6
Zulu Yankee 8 recorded
1400 on 22 JUL 05 on 15040 kHz .
Zulu
Yankee 8
Golf November 2 (Poacher in Russia)
E22 Golf Mike 5 recorded
1130 17385 kHz 11SEP 05
Golf Mike 5 Female presenter
call up (Poacher in Russia)
Golf Mike 5 Female presenter message (Poacher in Russia)
This full
transmission was recorded at my QTH.
November Romeo 9 recorded 1430-1436 on 17 SEP 05 on 15040 kHz
November Romeo 9 15400 kHz
Quebec Romeo 7 full transmission 17385 kHz 1100 UTC 14 DEC 05
Quebec Romeo 7
(Poacher in Russia)
Further recordings
at: Mike's
page
In order to identify the language used, I
posted the clip to the Usenet group soc.culture.china. He is a reply from
"gus"
It was a very old language. It is
similar to language of Chinese Monk. However, the source of voice seems
from Europe. It talked about little thing of India and financial ministery
of EU in Europe. There was no politic in the message. It was financial
business news. The message was too short to get rich from it.
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But wait! I played the clip to a colleague of mine who travels to China and who has a Chinese translator. He said it is NOT Chinese, but may be Thai. I then sent the clip to the website http://www.thailandqa.com/ and got the following reply:
First
of all this is definitely Thai.
They speak about India, Europe and a Prime Minister, but haven't
translated it completely.
Here is a complete translation by Mike of the above forum.
...และสิ่งของเล็กๆ น้อยๆ ของอินเดีย ดีได้รีบร้องมากขี้น นาย Peter Mandelson หลังจากที่ทานได้พบปะหาเรื่องกับนาย Kamal Nath รัฐมนตรีพาณิชย์ ซึงได้ขอร้องให้คนประเทศยุโรบ ส่วนที่จะให้ความ....
...and the small products of India, was quick to ask for much more. Mr Peter Mandelson, after meeting and squabbling with Indian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath who had appealed to European countries which give....
I'm not sure about the ดีได้รีบร้อง bit, I think that's probably wrong, but you can get the gist of it. She seems to say "Mandela" but I reckon it must be Mandelson, if you Google for meetings between Peter Mandelson and Kamal Nath you get quite a few results."
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The station also got a mention in the DX Digest:
"UNIDENTIFIED.
Dear Friends, Some coded messages are observed on the AIR frequencies
on 15040 and 17387 at around 0930 UT. Today they were announcing as
Oscar Papa 3. (17387 is an old favourite AIR freq)
Similar reports are there in Glenn Hauser's DX Lister's DX Digest. 73
(Jose Jacob, VU2JOS National Institute of Amateur Radio Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad 500082, India
dx india via WORLD OF RADIO 1296, DXLD)"
Then
Mike solved the mystery:
Apparently "The Arabic Man" is a test transmission of All
India Radio's transmitters. The code words spoken by the announcer presumably
identify the actual transmitter site used.
