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Five minutes prior to transmission on the hour, this station sends in Morse code 
the callsign OLX in the form " VVV DE OLX OLX." Interestingly enough OLX is allocated 
to CETEKA, the Czech
Press Agency! A three digit message identifier is repeated for five minutes beginning 
on the hour or half hour. This number is used to indicate whether or not the broadcast 
will carry traffic. if not, then the transmission
ends after two minutes. In the below, 73 represents the group count.

Preamble: 

424 424 424 424 424.…

Message: 

73 57966 85288 30427 74322.... Papaqui 73 57966 85288 30427 74322 .... Conet.

Broadcasts, which begin on the hour or half hour, are presented in non-standard Czech 
by a computer synthesised female voice at 10 groups per minute. Note the nonstandard 
pronunciation, in particular of "yedna",
which in standard Czech is pronounced as "yeden." This is believed to be a Czech 
military pronunciation.

  1. yedna    6. shest       Papaqui - Repeat
  2. dva      7. fedum       Conet - End
  3. shi      8. ossum
  4. shtiri   9. deviet
  5. pyet     0. Nolla

Broadcasts from this station used to occur with stunning regularity. month after 
month. However, all this was to change during the wave of revolutions that swept 
Eastern Europe during 1989, and it was only recently that
regular schedules were partly resumed. With this reactivation, its new frequencies 
are shared with a Morse Code version of the same station aimed at Czech agents, possibly 
in Europe.