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From Laval Desbiens 20 April 2016
In my early radio years as a monitoring operator, I often encountered those said 'numbers' stations during my spectrum searches.
Since we were more concerned with known domestic stations and some foreign activities, I thought that it would serve no radio regulations purposes for me to go after those knowing damn well that others ( in Ottawa and elsewhere ) had time for it.
Here is an interesting article on the subject from BBC News
From John Gilbert 21 April 2016
I don`t recall ever having heard these stations although there were many curious signals on the bands back in the 50s. I will see Bill Stadnyk in Winnipeg on Sunday and will ask him about the SAC broadcasts during the Cold War. We have discussed those a couple of times on the JAWS site. The characteristic part of the broadcast was “Skyking, Skyking do not answer, do not answer”. It seems to be the stuff of conspiracy theories these days and there are a number of Google returns but many of the links are suspicious according to my ant-virus.
Most of my amateur radio work was on 7MHz which is ideal frequency for long-haul signals. While I did not do a lot of SWLing, there were always intruders around 7MHz and they would often be strange signals, not unlike the ones you mention.
For a period in the early/mid 50s the Russians were forbidden to QSO western stations but there were thousands of them on the air. They did not call CQ, but rather something that I copied as WSEM, although the code may have represented letters in the Russian alphabet rather than ours. I have asked some Russians in recent years about this and none of them can recall using WSEM or even what it might mean, even when I spell it out in Morse .- - ... . - -
John
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