This is Andrews Owl

"This is Andrews Owl" is the callsign of a clandestine random number station in English that can be heard on 13200 KHz(usb) at various times. This is believed to be part operation of the HF-GCS worldwide network of 15 high-power HF stations that provide air/ground HF command and control radio communications
between ground agencies and US military aircraft and ships. The HF-GCS is not dedicated to any service or command, but supports all DoD authorized users on a traffic precedence/priority basis. Therefore verification is chancy if not at all. This video snapshot was recorded at 0448 UTC, on March 4th, 2008.

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• radio
• pirate
• random
• number
• station

[cuilitang]

This is Andrew's Owl.

[LCduT]

Yep, it's an EAM. You can hear these simultaneously at lower freqs too, like 6739 or 4724 khz.

[cuilitang]

Thanks. It is yet to be verified. I did listen to similar loggings of different sources, but they are not exactly the same. This might what makes listening intriguing.

[vk3ftim]

This is 11175KHZ USB Andrews Airforce base in America that message was for the B52 that roams the world

[cuilitang]

Thanks. But to my best knowledge Andrews Airforce Base in the United States no longer carries any bombardment mission. My nearest US Airforce Base that does carry B52 is at Andersen Airforce Base in Guam. My logging was on 13200 KHz ( USB ) and it may well be some sort of air command as you suggested.

[MattExzy]

I have a similar recording on my channel, towards the end, it does say "Andrews out" because it's an emergency action message. An EAM wouldn't be on 2.4GHz+, that's microwave, you'd need something that can bounce off the ionosphere ;)

[cuilitang]

Thanks! It would be nice to hear your recording. I would agree that either "Andrews Out" or "Andrews Owl" has to be a single flow chunk of speech, but air-borne & bound EAM doesn't really work on any carrier to be bounced off the ionosphere for a fact.

[mongolianape]

this is night owl! the union is in ze soup! NOT ONION SOUP AGAIN!

[TheBlitz1]

This is Andrews Out

[FirstToken]

@cuilitang Not sure how you mean it is yet to be varified? This network is well known and documented. The tasking they provide is also well understood. The actual military people who have read off the messages have confirmed it was part of the network.

The "source" might be Andrews AFB, but the transmitters are around the World, all transmitting the same thing at the same time.

Other common frequencies for them are 4724, 6739, 8992, 11175, 13200, and 13200, all USB.

[ziggy2162]

One never knows does one!

[Mudboxman]

Sounds like a faked station. Why I don't know.

[lucadepu]

@Newkiller hahahahahaha how in the world could you think i was being serious

[Newkiller]

@lucadepu it's uniform, not unicorn and oscar, not owl!

November Oscar Oscar Bravo.

[redghost105]

@cuilitang whats the point of all these radio stations?