ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 6

September 2001
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Selected Morse stations

5680

The station that was documented in Issue 5 has apparently been logged since 1993 onwards. It once had a fixed daytime schedule which now seems to have ceased. Nowadays it appears to come on randomly, in both time and frequency.

M01

Hand sent and using short zero. On regular schedule.

M03

Usually ICW, sent at about 17wpm but one slow [8wpm]. The speeds vary between 17 and 8 WPM . Some of the null calls are in MCW. The slow one has not been on Mondays and Tuesdays at 0800 and 0900 for a very long time. That ID, 508 is on at present on Tuesday at 0745 on 10250.

We have been informed that the 6905kHz 2000Z 10/04 documented in Issue 4 with ID 121 is a special ID that can come on at any time. [Thanks Anon of UK].

M08

AnonUK sent these interesting observations in:

and these from Mark Slaten via 'Spooks' who converted the cut figs and noticed the same!

M08a

An interesting anomaly occurred in the early hours of 22/06. As reported by Mark Slaten via 'Spooks':

Seemed as though the operator had his frequencies mixed up, or perhaps a little confused himself?

On another occasion, 13/07, John Maky US reports anomalous behaviour concerning M08a and V02a

Mark Slaten US remarked that the 29/07 9052kHz 0510Z transmission was up late due to transmitter going up and down. [Seems to be a general malady at moment, see XPH]

Regarding M08a, Takashi has this to say from Nagasaki: M08a, The Cuban Cut CW numbers, can be heard a lot from 0700z to 1300z (From East Asian evening to night). Occasionally two different M08a transmissions can be heard simultaneously on the different freq. Trying a lot, I've never heard this one before 0700z. Where is this M08a transmitting from in Cuba?

M10

Apart from the 0210Z 8190kHz slot AnonUK has found M10 to be extremely busy with many transmissions each day and sent these examples to us:

• 0725Z on 5383kHz [799 476] [988 24]

• 0800Z on 5737kHz [708] [708 30]

• 1500Z on 14562kHz [853]

• 1630Z on 5861kHz [571 275 049 435]

• 1700Z on 6780kHz [708] [708 30]

• 1720Z on 11416kHz [185 or 275 450] [186 25 450 31]

• 1900Z on 5948kHz [708 30] Source remarks ' Must be an important message for 708, 3 repeats'!

• 2100Z on 4782kHz [619 32 071 17]

The 1720Z and 2100Z transmissions have been on daily for some weeks now.

The 5737kHz transmission was as follows:

AnonUK observed that other transmissions probably exist too. Pse notify E2k if you are aware of them.

Mark Slaten [US] found 0410Z 8112kHz where the 0210Z 14/07 transmission was repeated 15/07.

LP remarks "9330kHz is allocated to, and used by BC stn WBCQ Montecello, Maine, USA.

M10E

July's transmission was heard as:

This schedule is reflected in S10E

M12

Logs in numerical order:

Again we thank Peter of Saffron Walden for his splendid analysis of this station along with Peter's log.

Peter writes: "M12 cw remains busy, although the late Friday evening schedule has changed for the July. The earlier evening schedules of 8084, 6856 and 5788kHz remain as for the last few months except for the schedule which operates on Mondays and Thursdays starting at 1700Z with call 462. Here, the first sending has shifted from 8084kHz to 8064kHz. I assume this is because M12's owners realised that the first sending was being flattened by an E05 transmission at 1700Z on 8085kHz. All well and good, except that E05 has now gone!"

Onto Peter's excellent log of this station:

184 were strong signals with key clicks and were sent on the following frequencies and times:

184 not heard in July

462 produced some weak endings:

*Uses 8064kHz in anticipation of E05 using 8084kHz. That schedule since defunct.

505 messages as follows:

731 produced some clean strong sigs:

731 not heard in July.

Another M12 was heard calling 510 510 510 000 on 12147kHz 2121Z 19/06 as well as on 26/07. Not around Friday nights. 13534kHz 2100Z 26/06 saw M12 over riding an E10 YL calling EZI a Khz lower.

M13

Sent in ICW and constantly changes times and frequencies, usually between 3.8 and 12MHz. Sent circa 9wpm usually very strong in UK. If you are observing M13 please offer us your log in exchange for the next months expected freqs.

Anon of UK made this interesting remark about M13, "Since 1st July started using hand sent morse, I have never in the 5 years I have logged it, heard it hand sent before. I wonder why, perhaps the machine has broken and they cannot afford to repair it.

Anon of UK also mentions, "There is one M13 ID that I cannot list, 123, as it does not have any set times or frequencies. If anyone hears it at all I would like to know. The only logs I have of it are:

Please send details of hearing this station via E2k using the usual methods. Thanks AnonUK."

M14

Transmits on the first and third Friday of the month, ICW, MCW and machine sent.

Peter of Saffron Walden notes:

11425kHz 1900Z 06/07 [256 256 256 00000]

"As expected the first Friday of the month brings the M14 MCW. A very strong signal, carrier was on at 1847Z."

« Second sending of 1900Z transmission, even stronger than the first sending. When I tuned across 10635kHz later the carrier was still on, finally going QRT at 2042Z. »

M14A

There is a regular M14A transmission every Friday at 1900Z on around 4620kHz.

M16

ICW auto, usually VVVx3 8BY followed by 3 fig each group separated by (/).

Occasionally hand sent.

7668, 12075, 12169, 12283, 14433, 14925, 14931, 18415, 20946kHz

M18

Of this station Takashi of Nagasaki writes, 'Unable to hear M18 on 4073kHz at all for more than two months.' Certainly looks as though that is the flavour for this one world wide, with no reports coming in.

M21

Russian Air Defense, can be heard still on 4560 and 6330kHz in dirty CW during the East Asian evening. Sending "BT991303??8?????" at 0906z. UTC+4hrs. Moscow time? Unbelievable! Its time isn't accurate.[Takashi of Nagasaki].

M22

4XZ reported by LP as:

M23

Has been heard at 2000Z on 5155kHz sending 123

As well as:

M24

These 30 to 40wpm transmissions continue:

M29

ICW in three formats, freqs around 3 to 6MHz with speed of 12wpm

Anon of UK contacted us to suggest these times and freqs where he has heard weak signals on a Monday:

heard active in the past up to 9^th October, 2000.

M40

One heard in the Uk is on at 1700Z on 12300kHz, and 1730Z on 16100kHz[CQ 515].

Not on every day. 2000Z on 10642kHz [CQ 747]

This station changes its frequencies in March, May, Sept and Nov.

Anon of UK makes this helpful comment on receiving M40 in GB: "In the last NL you mentioned some frequencies for M40. I don't think that any of those are audible in the UK. It is still active but not every day. The frequencies that I can hear are:

Thanks Anon of UK most helpful.

In addition to the above Takashi makes this most valid comment, 'Although the North Korean AM numbers went QRT completely last year, M40 and M82, North Korean CW numbers, can be heard occasionally.'

M45

M50

A new designation of M50a has been registered. This variant sends 20 group messages.

Anon of UK writes:

M50A is on at 1930Z on 5372kHz. It is not always on every night. It was on last night

( Wednesday 11/07 ), again the sending was awful.

They sent a message of 40 groups, without a space in the whole message. Also as the sending was so bad I could only make out about 50% of the figures. I am sure no one could make any sense out of it, so I wonder what the purpose of it is. If it was for training, surely things should improve. The M50 I heard 4 years ago, the sending never improved at all, yet all the M1 M1B and M45 ops are very good

M53 Renumbered M40.

M83

MX

We last mentioned that this series of SLHFM's have been heard world wide and reported as such on these frequencies: 3195kHz R, 3594kHz, 3658kHz V, 4558kHz F&M, 4878kHz V, 5466kHz R, 7039kHz F&M, 8495kHz Unid.

John Maky noticed the strange 'CHH' being sent and askes if anyone has any ideas about that.

Although John monitored this transmission two days later, and some 4 hours earlier, note absence of 'CHH':

'C' Marker heard at 2113Z on 15/07 on the following frequencies:
5154kHz, 7039kHz, 8495kHz, 10872kHz, 13528kHz and 16332kHz
[This info from Ary Boender]

Takashi in Nagasaki sends the following interesting observations: The irregular letters transmissions in CW such as "FFUFRSURUFAFUSUFFIIUAF" have been heard a lot on 3594, 5154, 8495, 10528 and 13528kHz since the beginning of this July. Unable to hear usual "F" and "M" on these freq. Are these are coming from Vladivostok and suffering malfunctioning?

K ", very slow keying CW with a distinctive hum, has been occasionally heard on 5154, 10528 and 13528kHz. Unable to confirm 4558 and 7039kHz because of heavy QRM from North Korean clandestine (4557kHz) plus South Korean jamming and Hams.

We acknowledge the use of 'Spooks' in the production of this column.

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