Hi gang. Not much in the way of news to report this month except that the E5 Counting Stations have been more active. This may be related to the ongoing air war in the former Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time as of late to monitor, so most of the following loggings are from John Maky:

4028 - Cuban YL/SS w/ 3 5F msgs in AM at 0600. (TS)
4174 - Cuban YL/SS 5F msg in AM at 0723. (TS)
4329 - Cuban YL/SS 5F msg in AM at 0436. (TS)
4479 - Atencion/V2a 0400 Fri 5/14/99 YL/SS directly into 5FG w/o benefit of call-up. Op evedently realized error and re-round tape on the air which started again w/A 39539 43333 85433 call-up. Op drinking heavily. (JM)
4506 - Cuban cut # station in CW at 0318. (TS)
4640//5046 - TCS/E5 0000 Sat 5/15/99 YL/EE rptg 410 Count 145 3/2FG. (JM)
5435 - MOSSAD/E10 0300 Sun 5/9/99 YL/EE rptg ART 5LG. (JM)
5800 - Atencion/V2a 0300 Mon 5/17/99 YL/SS 5FG in progress. Using LSB mode. (JM)
6270//7760 - MOSSAD/E10 0100 Wed 4/21/99 YL/EE rptg ULX 5LG. (JM)
6768 - Atencion/V2a 0100 Sat 5/15/99 YL/SS 5FG in progress. (JM)
7734 - Atencion/V2a?? 0400 Fri 5/14/99 carrier up for regular transmission, but no audio ever appeared. Bottle half empty. (JM)
7918 - MOSSAD/E10 0200 Sat 5/15/99 YL/EE rptg YHF 5LG. (JM)
8300 - New Star Broadcasting/V13 1400 Tue 5/18/99 YL/CC 4FGx2 (JM)
8464//10426 - LP/E3 1500 Tue 4/20/99 YL/EE extremely weak. (JM)
10125.5 - M8a 0400 Sat 5/15/99 5LG in progress. (JM)
10180 - The English Lady/E17 0400 Sat 5/15/99 YL/EE rptg 946 then 147 147 86 86 and into 5FGx2. (JM)
10236 - Atencion/V2a 0300 Mon 5/17/99 YL/SS 5FG in progress. (JM)
10426 - LP/E3 1500 Tue 5/18/99 YL/EE extremely weak. (JM)
10740 Two-Letter German/G16 0400 Sun 5/9/99 YL/GG rptg Whiskey Lima w/electronic tune. At 0405 ...522; 522 57 gruppen... Achtung! and into 3/2FGx2. Down at :12 w/ende. (JM)
11491//14421 - The Counting Station in English rptg 047... odd; this is usually a SS pair. Count 235 again! On now at 0100 Saturday 5/15. (JM)
11501 - The English Lady/E17 0130 Sun 4/25/99 YL/EE rptg 864 then 973 973 182 182 and into 5FGx2. Down at :05 w/973 973 182 182 00000. (JM)
11566 - Atencion/V2a/M8a 0300 Fri 5/14/99 M8a broadcast played on AM until :06 when op noticed error and started V2 transmission w/A 28809 36012 50421 call-up. Op neglected to cut out M8 tape which played for the remainder of the broadcast. Must have emptied bottle. (JM)
12603//14487//16314 - LP/E3 1400 Tue 5/18/99 YL/EE rptg 29936 5FGx2. (JM)
13375//15682 - LP/E3 1600 Tue 5/18/99 YL/EE extremely weak. (JM)
13533 - MOSSAD/E10 0100 Sat 5/15/99 YL/EE rptg EZI2 then down. Note frequency change. (JM)
13452//15651 - TCS/V5 0100 Wed 4/21/99 YL/SS rptg 018 Grupo 224 3/2FG. (JM)
15651//17390 - TCS/E5 2200 Tue 5/18/99 YL/EE rptg 421 Count 135 3/2FG. Note new schedule. (JM)
22108 - Cherry Ripe/E4 2300 Tue 5/18/99 YL/EE rptg 14127 5FGx2. (JM)
Contributors: JM - John Maky, AR; TS - Tom Sevart, KS

Many thanks to John for his many loggings. John, why would you think the highly-trained professionals of the Cuban Intelligence service would be drinking on the job? :-) If you would like yours listed here, send them to me at the email or snail mail address at the top of the page. Until next month, good listening.

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