From ae411@yfn.ysu.edu Mon Apr  3 20:11:40 1995
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 14:10:40 -0400
From: Richard Baker 
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Subject: WUNNEWS: WUN Special; 'The Brotherhood' 1/2
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        (=-  DIGITAL REVIEW  -=)   (=- NUMBERS & ODDITIES -=)
                       (=- Special Edition -=)
                         
                    Monitoring the 'Brotherhood'
                          by Ary Boender
 
                    Internet: ary@bitbike.iaf.nl
                       Fidonet:  2:283/512.24
                      Copyright 1995 A.Boender
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Hello WUNners, in this extra edition of the WUN Newsletter, I'd like to
introduce you to the 'Brotherhood', a Russian related diplo network that
fits in both the 'Digital Review' and 'Numbers & Oddities' columns.
 
 
Chapter 1: The story so far (1979 - 1995)
Chapter 2: Examples of chatter, preambles and messages
Chapter 3: List of link-id's and Callsigns
Chapter 4: Frequency lists
 
 
       (=- a huge THANK YOU goes to my fellow Brotherhood-monitors -=)
        (-= Leif Dehio, Dave Batcho, Paul Scalzo and Don Schimmel -=)
         (-= and to those who sent logs,  comments & suggestions -=)
          (=-      Thanks for the input and your time guys      -=)
 
 
 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Chapter 1: The story so far <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
 
 
The first encounters in the USA with the 'Brotherhood' stations were in
the late 70's when they still used high speed CW (ca 32 WPM). Most of the
early CW stations (PSN, BPA, SPK, WNY, YBU) are still active today. 'ROL'
however disappeared completely. In the mid 80's the RTTY transmissions
started. The speed used was 50bd. Messages to YBU were the most common
ones in those days. Also messages to PSN were monitored. The callup was
slightly different from the system that is used nowadays:
 
       VVV PSN PSN PSN 2/245 VVV PSN PSN 2/245
       NW NW
       NR 271  GR 135
       + 5L or 5F groups
 
Then sometime in the mid-1980's they changed to the 5 group preamble they use
now. But the original link designator's were different then.
 
Callsign / Link-id
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 YBU        07386
 SPK        06446
 PSN        03861
 KAC        00172
 JMS        00484
 GMN        05418
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