Guam, 1993

As recently as 1993, the Poacher acquired a far eastern sister, this time using another English folk song, “Cherry Ripe”, as its callsign. Cherry Ripe’s transmitters have not been accurately located, but appear to be in Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Guam. Its target may be China and its new province, Hong Kong.
“The sudden appearance of Cherry Ripe was really surprising for me,” says Mike Gauffman, a Kent-based short wave listener and one of the two founders of Enigma — the European Numbers Information Gathering and Monitoring Association (http://www.pcug.co.uk/~irdial/enigma.htm). The group, which began in 1993, has 200 to 300 worldwide supporters who are on the Net and on the air every day, logging schedules but never understanding a single word of the messages they monitor.

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