Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Monitoring the Middle East Tinder Box 8-1 Update

There has been some milair traffic associated with the Middle East crisis passed on the new RAF TASCOMM net (Info first presented here July 7, 2006). Watch for activity from Cyprus:

Cyprus
Voice Call Sign: CYPRUS
Frequency (USB mode): Channel 1 - 4742 kHz (a) Channel 2 - 9031 kHz Channel 3 - 11247 kHs, Note: (a) H+15 weather broadcasts, when active.

Keep a real close watch also on the JCS HF-GCS primary 11175 kHz USB as the RAF Cyprus station has used this frequency in the past crisis.

You can get complete shortwave broadcast schedules and frequencies from the region on Gayle's Blog page (see link on the right). Here is a summary of recently logged frequencies for various Israeli intelligence and military services.

You will find information on Lebanese amateur radio activity including echolink repeater info on my personal blog at http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/.

And for those in country (Israel) with an amateur radio license check out the Israel FM Repeater Network website amateur radio repeater information.

Kol Israel.com
Live TV and radio feeds, news and sports, newspaper links, plus links to over 150 hot Israeli sites. There are also links to various Arabic news sources in English.




Israeli Mossad Number Station (Enigma E10)
An excellent writeup on the Mossad number stations is on Simon Mason's numbers website.
High Traffic ART EZI FTJ JSR KPA PCD SYN ULX VLB YHF
Low Traffic CIO MIW
No Traffic ABC BAY FDU GBZ HNC NDP OEM ROV TMS ZWL

Transmission times:
H+15 KPA MIW
H+45 CIO SYN VLB

ABC 6428.0
ART 3415.0 5435.0 6986.0
BAY 5530.0
CIO 3557.0 4780.0
EZI 6840.0 9130.0 11565.0 15980.0 17410.0
FDU 4418.0 6210.0
FTJ 2628.0 4461.0 7358.0
GBZ 5170.0
HNC 4110.0 6575.0
JSR 5091.0
KPA 3230.0 5339.0
MIW 3270.0 4360.0 5230.0
NDP 6658.0
OEM 5339.0 6911.0
PCD 3150.0 4270.0 6498.0
ROV 4604.0 6438.0
SYN 3640.0 4648.0
TMS 4015.0 5339.0
ULX 2743.0 4880.0 5091.0 6270.0 7760.0
VLB 3360.0 5170.0 5710.0 9165.0
YHF 2844.0 3840.0 4560.0 5820.0 7918.0 9202.0 10648.0
ZWL 3940.0

Military branches: Israel Defense Forces (includes ground, naval, and air components), Pioneer Fighting Youth (Nahal), Frontier Guard, Chen (women)
Note - historically there have been no separate Israeli military services
Website: http://www.idf.il/

4XZ Israeli Defense Forces Haifa(Enigma M22)
Mode: Morse Code (V CW Marker)
2680.0 2800.0 3150.0 3594.0 4159.0 4241.0 4331.0 5159.0 6379.0 8437.0 8594.0 8780.0 10064.0 11096.0 12984.0 kHz

VFT: 6775.3 7866.3 9253.3 11461.3 13485.3 kHz

Israeli Air Force
Voice Tactical Net: 11208 kHz (USB)

Mode: USB/ALE (MIL-STD-188-141A)
3823.0 4507.0 4681.0 4823.0 5210.0 5456.0 5478.0 5720.0 5813.0 6224.0 6288.0 6565.0 6720.0 7390.0 7839.0 7848.0 7957.0 8020.0 8040.0 8135.0 8234.0 8365.0 8858.0 9229.0 9232.0 10537.0 17128.0 19602.0 kHz

Other previously reported frequencies:
5418.0 6864.0 7630.0 7734.0 7780.0 8100.0 9080.0 9248.0 10614.0 11465.0 11491.0 13442.0 14422.0 14535.0 14913.0 19043.0 19309.0 22769.0 kHz

ALE Addresses:
AA1 Ben Gurion (Lod Air Base), 103th Squadron
AA3 Ben Gurion (Lod Air Base)
BB1 Palmachim Air Base, 124th Squadron
BB3 Palmachim Air Base, 161st Squadron
AAA Tel Aviv AF HQ/NCS
RAM Ramat David Air Base

Other stations: 055, AS5, BB2, C53, C56, C65, CCC, DD1, DD2, EEE, MN1, NAK, SSS, TKM, TS2, TSR

USB/ALE (MIL-STD-188-141A)
Frequency: 10537.0 kHz
1DVIAF AF 1st Division
8DVIAF AF 8th Division

Israeli Border Patrols
Frequencies in MHz and narrowband FM mode.
30.000 30.250 30.300 30.350 30.550 30.600 30.750 30.800 30.900 30.950 31.050 31.200 31.250 31.350 31.450 31.850 31.950 32.000 32.050 32.100 32.200 32.300 32.350 32.400 32.450 32.650 32.800 33.050 33.250 33.300 33.350 33.400 33.500 33.600 33.700 33.950 34.050 34.100 34.200 34.300 34.350 34.400 34.450 34.750 34.900 35.000 35.050 35.250 35.300 35.650 35.700 35.750 35.800 36.100 36.150 36.200 36.250 36.350 36.850 37.000 37.400 37.460 37.500 37.850 38.200 38.450 38.800 39.350 39.400 39.500 39.700 40.000 40.150 40.200 40.300 40.400 40.500 40.550 40.600 40.650 40.700 40.750 40.900 41.150 41.200 41.450 41.500 41.550 41.600 41.650 41.700 41.850 41.900 41.950 42.100 42.150 42.300 42.750 42.800 42.850 42.950 43.100 43.200 43.250 43.450 43.550 43.600 43.800 43.850 44.350 44.550 44.850 45.000 45.850 45.950 46.150 46.500 46.600 46.650 46.700 46.750 46.800 47.100

More information as it becomes available.