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1 1 Russian Diplomatic & Intelligence stations M42, M42a, M42b, F01, F06 & X06 variants First edition: March 1995 Revision date: 30 June 2017 1995-2017 Numbers & Oddities / UDXF Keywords: KGB, GRU, FSB, SRV, FAPSI, MFA Contents Chapter 1: General information .. 2 Chapter 2: Description and designators .. 3 Chapter 3: M42 history .. 4 Chapter 4: M42 transcripts and examples .. 8 Chapter 5: M42b .. 11 Chapter 6: F01 protocol .. 12 Chapter 7: F01 messages .. 13 Chapter 8: F06 protocol.

2 14 Chapter 9: F06 messages .. 16 Chapter 10: F06a structure .. 18 Chapter 11: Meta data .. 19 Chapter 12: M42a .. 21 Chapter 13: M43 .. 22 Chapter 14: Transmission modes .. 23 Chapter 15: Mazielka X06 and X06 variants .. 24 Chapter 16: Frequencies .. 24 Chapter 17: Link id s and callsigns .. 25 Chapter 18: Credits and links .. 30 2 Chapter 1: General information Country name: Short name: Former names: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya ( Russian Federation) Rossiya (Russia) Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Capital: Moskva (Moscow) 46 Oblastey.

3 Amur, Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', Belgorod, Bryansk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Kirov, Kostroma, Kurgan, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Magadan, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Orel, Penza, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan', Sakhalin, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk, Tambov, Tomsk, Tula, Tver', Tyumen', Ul'yanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl' 21 Respublik: Adygeya, Altay, Bashkortostan, Buryatiya, Chechnya, Chuvashiya, Dagestan, Ingushetiya, Kabardino-Balkariya, Kalmykiya, Karachayevo-Cherkesiya, Kareliya, Khakasiya, Komi, Krym, Mariy-El, Mordoviya, North Ossetia, Sakha, Tatarstan, Tyva, Udmurtiya 4 Avtonomnykh okrugov: Chukotka, Khanty-Mansi-Yugra, Nenets, Yamalo-Nenet 9 Krayev: Altay, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Perm', Primorskiy, Stavropol', Zabaykal'sk 3 Goroda.

4 Moscow (Moskva), Saint Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg), Sevastopol 1 Avtonomnaya oblast': Yevreyskaya Note: Note: Many countries do not recognize Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the municipality of Sevastopol, nor their redesignation as the Respublik Krym and the Gorod Sevastopol. Military branches: (situation in 2014) Ground Troops (Sukhoputnyye Voyskia, SV) including motorized-rifle troops, tank troops, missile and artillery troops, air defense of the Ground Troops Navy (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot, VMF) Air Forces (Voyenno-Vozdushniye Sily, VVS) Airborne Troops (Vozdushno-Desantnyye Voyska, VDV) Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (Raketnyye Voyska Strategicheskogo Naznacheniya, RVSN)

5 Referred to commonly as Strategic Rocket Forces Aerospace Defense Troops (Voyska Vozdushno-Kosmicheskoy Oborony or Voyska VKO) are independent "combat arms," not subordinate to any of the three branches Dictionary: Province(s) Republic(s) Autonomous okrug (s) Kray(s) Federal city/cities Autonomic Oblast(s) Oblast / Oblastey Respublika / Respublik Avtonomnyy okrug / Avtonomnykh okrugov Kray / Krayev Gorod / Goroda Avtonomnaya Oblast / Avtonomnaya Oblastey 3 Chapter 2: Description and designators Although the number of numbers station decreased since 1989, the Russians still operate a lot of them.

6 It is hard, if not impossible, to find out if the transmissions are actually related to espionage activities. Some of them are probably spy stations , or at least used by the secret services to communicate with their operatives outside Russia. Some are definitely linked to governmental communications (embassy traffic etc.), and a lot of them are military stations , either GRU related or just plain military activity (tactical nets, naval stations , etc.). The military stations are however not the scope of this document and are therefore omitted.

7 Russian diplo/ Intelligence /governmental designators: 1. Enigma/N&O/Priyom codes for alleged spy stations : Voice stations : E06, E06a, E06b, E07, E07a, E17, G06, G07, G17, S06, S06b, S06c, S07, S25, V06, V07, V23 Morse stations : M12, M14. M42a Digital modes: DP01, F01, F06, F06a, M42, M42b, X06, X06a, X06b, X06c, XP, XPA, XPA2, XPH, XPL, XPM 2. Enigma codes for Israeli nets including Moscow: M43 (see also the separate M43 document) Notes: Note that not all the above mentioned stations are active.

8 Some inactive stations may briefly be revived during exercises/tests. M42 is not only used for the Diplomatic service and Intelligence , but also for other Government related networks. Most alledged government owned point-to-point stations are coded as M42b. X06, the Mazielka selcal mode and Serdolik MFSK-34 along with some FSK transmissions are thought to be used by the Diplomatic service. Covered in this document are M42, M42a, M42b, F01, F06, F06a and the X06 variants. Ministry of Foreign Affairs at 32 Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square, Moscow Lourdes SIGINT complex.

9 Cuba 4 Chapter 3: M42 history The Russian Diplomatic / Intelligence digital modes networks have been monitored by a large number of dxers since the early 1980's and even before that time when they were using Morse only. When we first discovered these networks we didn't know who they were, so we nicknamed them "the Brotherhood". A couple of years and a lot of work later we know that these nets are in fact Soviet (now Russian ) governmental/ Intelligence networks. In the 1990's a new name was used to identify them.

10 According to several sources the main user of the net was SOUD, so this name replaced "the Brotherhood". If SOUD really was involved is however still the question. Probably some SOUD traffic along with all other traffic was passed, but I seriously doubt that SOUD was the main user. Later FAPSI has been used. Why FAPSI? In 1995 by decree of President Boris Yeltsin all cryptographic systems except those licensed by FAPSI were forbidden in the Russian Federation. There are widespread rumors that all systems licensed by FAPSI have backdoors allowing the agency to freely access the encrypted information.