NEW 10508kHz Asian numbers station or oddity

**Update***

The data in this recording appears to be known as "ALE", or automatic link establishment, which is widely used by military and other apps. ALE sample here:

http://www.kb9ukd.com/digital/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_link_establishment

This is another rare find... Caught me completely off-guard!

Not listed on the Spy Numbers database. The voice seems to say two signoffs at the end of the speech period.

At the 1.10 mark, a long data stream is transmitted... Which is definitely something out of the ordinary.

Recorded in SSB mode with the BFO dead center. Not sure if it's related to 8375kHz, as it transmits in AM.

Sounds like a live reading, and with the data burst it could possibly be some sort of navy/military communications...

Perhaps a language expert can shed some light on what is being said.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• numbers
• number
• station
• spy
• spying
• automatic
• link
• establishment
• ALE
• china
• chinese
• navy
• milcom
• intelligence
• SIGINT
• DXing
• shortwave
• radio
• ham
• 10508kHz
• 10.508MHz

[LCduT]

Excellent catch. I concur with sixpackgenius - sounds southern accented Mandarin, possibly Taiwan.

3 figure groups, each immediately repeated. Does sound military rather than spy.

It's bugging me as I can't understand all the numbers. 123456 and 8 are ordinary Mandarin (albeit 1 is 'yao' and 2 is 'liang' - fairly ordinary phoneticisms), but 'guai' and what sounds like 'dou/gou' appear to be military phonetic - and nowhere can I get a guide as to which of these numbers is 7, 9 or 0.

[MattExzy]

I agree, it definitely sounds military on the second listen - she seems to rush the last bit of what she's saying (new on the job maybe lol). I've actually heard that data burst all over the place at times, especially around the HF GCS freqs... But not that loud!

[MattExzy]

Further, it appears to some sort of automated link..

[sixpackgenius]

It is Mandarin probably from Taiwan. I got one of my Chinese co-workers to tell me what she was saying. She was repeating "3,3,....4,4..." and some words that could not be made out.

[MattExzy]

Thanks, I thought it sounded like something being repeated..

[mantis914]

@tiebiatongmu

My thoughts exactly! She certainly does have a cute accent even if it is automated... :)

[idontuseyewtube]

Dummy station or not you'd think if they had no direct knowledge of what it was for they would jam it. It's the chinese afterall...

[singma8]

ah..hello , I'm a Taiwanese

I try my best to "listen" the video and then translation (record) what the radio said

i listen from the start to about 1 min.

------below is the radio said (it is 3 numbers as a group)-------

036-036-773-773-031-031-773-77­3-032-032-773-773-038-033-773-­77-357-357-373-373-064-064-093­-093-225-225-332-332-486-486-4­86

------------------------------­------------------

hope these translation can help you~

:)

[tattooyu]

It's a got a catchy beat, but you can't dance to it! It's cool whatever it is.

[thephntm]

Sounds like the previous one on this station, as I had some dja vu when I noticed that it sounded like, "Tubado, tubado, tubado."

[sz42781]

I would get hard if I knew I could decode that

[grapenutster]

lulz

[tiebiatongmu]

sorry about the choice of word, by "out of taiwan" i mean "coming from taiwan"... apart from the heavy accent, this frequency is known as "xin xing" or "new star" radio station operated by taiwan millitary. many ppl say it is a dummy station to make the mainland china feel its been infiltrated, but again nobody have concrete evidence to support that theory.

by the way, her accent is cute lol

[LCduT]

Thanks. That guai3 thing was bugging me - seem to be no sources on the internets for this sort of thing.

And when you say 'out of Taiwan', you mean you think it's coming from Taiwan? Aside from accent would there be another clue (word usage, etc)?