31 July 2024

unid FSK 300Bd/300 bursts

Interesting and unidentified FSK 300Bd/300 bursts heard on ~14490 KHz and sent to me by my friends ANgazu and cryptomaster (Figure 1).

Fig. 1 - FSK 300Bd/300 bursts

The signals recorded by the latter (6 bursts) have a better SNR and therefore more suitable to be analyzed. As you can see in Figure 2, the demodulated bitstreams (d1-d6) can be divided into the 4 groups G1, G2, G3, and G4:

Fig. 2 - couples of demodulated bitstreams d1-d2, d3-d4, d5-d6
 

G1: (40 bits) probably a header/SOM sequence, this group is common to all the bitstreams;

G2: (40 bits) this group is different in every bitstream and maybe consists of something related to the message. In a 10-bit format it's possible to see repeated "fields", when reshaped to a 20-bit format the groups may consist of a 11-bit "field" followed by a common 9-bit pattern (Figure 3);

Fig. 3 - G2 groups

G3: (variable length)  I think this group is the data part of the message, this is sent twice into two different bursts (sometimes 3 times in 3 bursts). These groups have a period of 50 bits in length that appears to have some form of structure (Figure 4);

Fig. 4 - G3 groups

G4: (20 bits) probably the EOM sequence, this group is common to all the bitstreams.

During the formation of this FSK signal the phases of the two frequencies are preserved after each "shift" (Figure 5), ie the frequency shift is generated by a single generator and its clock frequency changes, so the manipulation is achieved without disrupting the phase of the signal. If two frequency generators are used then we should see changes of phase in both f1 and f2, unless the two generators are in some way phase synchronized.

f2 ~ 1976,98 HZ (2:0,001011640)
f1 ~ 1676,95 Hz (2:0,001192640)

as expecetd, 300 Hz shift (f2 - f1).

Fig. 5 - phases of the two frequencies

The prevailing opinion is that this is probably some type of selcall or ALE probing, in which case the G2 groups could be the addresses.

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