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Group count 40. Preamble matches the 1997-11-02 archive byte for byte, including the two dropped frames at 0:11. Same operator. Same room tone.

Twenty-nine years is a long time to keep a tape machine running.

No carrier. Station silent for forty-one minutes.

Three listeners in separate countries independently logged the same seventeen seconds of breathing at 02:19. The recordings do not match each other. The timestamps match to the sample.

Transmission opened by addressing a callsign that has never been issued by any administration. It was addressed four times, then the operator waited.

Whoever it was waiting for did not answer. It has asked again every Sunday since.

Frequency drifted 100 Hz low for the entire block. Drift ended mid-word, not at a word boundary, which a temperature-compensated oscillator cannot do.

Decoded text is a list of 212 five-digit groups.

Group 118 is not five digits.

Routine block, 36 groups, read twice as always. Nothing of note except that the second reading was faster than the first by 1.8 seconds, which has never happened. A recording does not get impatient.

Block interrupted at group 19 by four seconds of a second voice, much closer to the microphone, saying something in the negative. The original reading resumed at group 19 and continued to the end without correcting itself.

Twenty-three people have transcribed those four seconds. No two transcriptions agree, and everyone is certain.

Longest block on record: 604 groups, three hours and eleven minutes. Read once. It has never read a block only once before or since.

My receiver logged the block beginning at 02:15:31. Six other stations logged it beginning at 02:15:31. My recording is nineteen minutes long. Everyone else's is eleven.

The extra eight minutes are at the start of my file, before the preamble, and they are not silence.

Antenna down for storm damage; nothing connected to the receiver but a 50 Ω dummy load. Logged a clean block at S7.

Filed as decoded because the groups were legible. I am aware that is not the interesting part of this entry.

Block of 88 groups. Every group identical: 00000. Read twice, at correct pace, for fifty-one minutes.

A one-time pad encrypting a message of eighty-eight zeroes produces the pad itself. So for fifty-one minutes, on an open frequency, in clear, it read out the key.

Nobody has ever found the message it unlocks. It may not have been sent yet.

Solstice. Routine block. Included here only because it is the last entry before the operator's voice changed, and I did not notice at the time.

Found it by accident while chasing a Chinese broadcaster two hundred kilohertz up. Carrier, unmodulated, dead steady. I logged it as unidentified and went to bed.

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