Your comment on my video is deleted. Comments disabled and will always be on my channel.
I assume you mean the comment I made on your supposed chirpsounder video has been deleted? The video is now “private” so I can’t tell.
Corrections made on the Cuban Spy Numbers Station video. FSK to 8 tone BPSK. HM01 and other names are not official names. Not proven anyway or disproved. Just fan made. Like a gentlemen's agreement. That wont be corrected.
Of course it is your choice to use such widely accepted names or not.
In general there are no “official” names for numbers station, with very few possible exceptions, like the old OLX station.
The designator system you are talking about has been around almost 20 years, since before the end of 1997. They are in very wide-spread use when discussing numbers stations, both inside and outside the hobby. It is the single most common way to ID the majority of numbers stations. They grew as a catalog system from the confusion of previously NOT having a way to tell one number station from the other before that. Often two people, or two groups of people, called the same station different things, and so it was difficult to correlate receptions or to figure out exactly how active a specific station was. I will give a couple of examples.
There are currently at least three different stations, from two different countries, that use a female voice, in Spanish, sending groups of 5 figures. One is called V07 and originates from Russian sources, one is V02a and is Cuban (almost unused today, but still occasionally heard), the other is HM01 and is Cuban. To say “Spanish language numbers station, female voice, sending groups of 5 figures” does not narrow down the list. With the designators a person can know which ones are being discussed quickly and easily, with one master list of descriptions (the Enigma Control List, or ECL). And if I say “Cuban Spy Numbers Station” that can be any one of four currently active stations, V21, M08a, V02a, or HM01, each very different. In order to know which I am talking about I must include details, such as “the Cuban spy numbers station that is sending in Morse code, in groups of 5 figures”, for the station called M08a.
The designator system is a shorthand for discussing these stations, and it does reduce misunderstandings and errors.
I noticed last night in the #wunclub channel you were using the name the “Buzzer” to describe a station on 4625 kHz, that name was originated by the same basic group of people who originated what are currently called the ENIGMA designators for numbers station, and it is also not an official name. That name is a shorthand, an unofficial nick name, that makes it easy to ID which signal you are talking about. There are many signals that buzz on shortwave, but since that name was first published (early 1990’s) people have not had to say something like “the Russian sourced signal on 4625 kHz that is a buzzing sound about 1.2 seconds long with about 1.3 second pauses” to know what was being discussed.
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