ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 3

March 2001
Articles, newsreports and Items of interest : e2k_news@hotmail.com

Well, here we are again, the 2 months since Issue 2 have flown by.

Your editors have had a very busy time dealing with the incoming information and again say "Thank You" to all those submitting.

It was not so very long ago that there was much comment regarding the diminishing amount of Number Stations and "not a lot happening" on the scene.

The past couple of months have proved otherwise and turned out to be quite exiting for us Numberists, and the ENIGMA 2000 monitors were "on the ball" as usual.

Here are the highlights (more details, where available, appear in the relevant section).

E25 NEW STATION, appeared late December 2000, being logged daily. It appears to have 2 formats and has been added into the latest issue of the ENIGMA CONTROL LIST.
E15 After an absence of some 6 months it "popped up" again on 31 Jan in its 1400Z slot and was reported by 2 monitors.
E06 Has reverted to the "original" male voice.
E07 Has changed to a "new" male voice.
V02 The possibility of format change/addition not totally discounted. (Article in Newsletter)..
V07 Has changed to a female voice.
M52 After 2 year absence (?) was logged on 12 Feb.
XSL is the classification of the peculiar 'Slot Machine' regularly heard in the US.

Our "Stations" editor informs me that the Morse Team co-ordinator has most recently issued watch lists to new Morse monitors. We still need more Morse 'literate' monitors to volunteer their services. [Contact our Morse co-ordinator via the email address given on pop up on web site, seen when clicking on 'Morse Short List' or 'Profiles'].

See you all next time around and good monitoring.

Contact as ever via the usual e-mail or pager numbers given in this newsletter.

A message panel has been added to the last page.

Morse stations notes

Profile of M3
- M3
- M3A
Stations not heard recently.
- M26
- M34
- M50
- M52
- M16 8BY
- M51
Formats of most covered stations
- M1
- M1A
- M3
- M3
- M3A
- M4
- M7
- M8
- M10
- M12
- M13
- M13A
- M14
- M14A
- M16
- M23
- M24
- M29
- M40
- M45
- M51
- M76
- M83
Station notes
- M1
- M1A
- M1B
- M3
- M4
- M7
- M8
- M10
- M12
- M13
- M14
- M14A
- M23
- M24
- M24A
- M29
- M39
- M40
- M45
- M51
- M76
- M83

Selected voice stations

E03a
E05
E06
E07
E10 - Frequency usage - update
- High traffic Stations
- Low traffic Stations
- Non traffic Stations
E11
E15
E17
E18
E23
E25
G04
G07
S06
S6A
S10E
S17C
S21
V02
V02A [DGI Cuba]
V02A
V07
V13
XPH

Oddities

Alarm
Faders (XF)
FSK bursts
Link 11
Pip (S30)
Rapid pip
Slot-machine (XSL)
Squeaky wheel
Teleprinter 4710 kHz
Whales (XM Backwards Music Station)
Workshop (XW)
Zebedee

Notes on jamming

E03 Lincolnshire poacher
E03a Cherry ripe
E05 Counting stations
Others

ENIGMA 2000 article - ENIGMA 2000 'covert' loop antenna

Design Notes
Components
Construction
Use
Performance

Book review - Between silk and cynide, the coding battles of World War Two

News items

Estonia expels two Russian Diplomats.
GCHQ web challenge cracked in a week
Tracking phone users.
All British Subscribers under threat of 'carte blanche' spying by the State.
Dame Stella Rimmington's Memoirs leaked but later approved for print..
Romanian ex head of Secret Police Charged.
Credit for breaking Japanese Naval code challenged.
Naval Spy apprehended in Japan.
US drops charges against 'Chinese' spy.
Attempt to kill President Putin Foiled.
French Hacker in Court revealed secrets available in books.
Stasi files expose British Mole

Relevant web sites

Requests

Stop press

Contribution deadlines for 2001