Last night, I picked up some morse code on the shortwave radio. I am kinda green on morse code but I tried to decipher what seems to be the call letters for Station 0UIIO, it just keeps repeating.

What I found interesting was that this morning, while out in the back yard I managed to pick it up again but this time on a different frequency. Here’s my QSL information:

01:23 UTC/21 Apr 2009:
11.675mhz
-/-/-/-/-/..-/../../—
(0UIIO)

11:24 UTC/22 Apr 2009:
7.51mhz
-/-/-/-/-/..-/../../—
(0UIIO)

The only reference I could find for 0UIIO online was this site from the CPC, where apparantly they have a Russian-based station with the call letters “0UIIO”. Here’s a copy of the text (truncated to save space):

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER GLOBAL STATION DIRECTORY

LEGEND:
      STNID - 5 CHARACTER WMO STATION IDENTIFIER
      LAT   - LATITUDE IN HUNDRETHS, EX:  7093 = 70.93 N
                                         -1093 = 10.93 S
      LON   - LONGITUDE IN HUNDRETHS, EX: 34637 = 346.37
              IF LON > 180 LON = 360 - LON
      ELEV  - STATION ELEVATION IN WHOLE METERS
      CALL  - STATION IDENTIFICATION CALL LETTERS IF AVAILABLE

STNID   LAT    LON    ELEV        CALL  CITY                  COUNTRY
30713   5282   25523  525   48 99 0UIIO UST-ORDYNSKIJ         RUSSIA

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