ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 7

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

Selected Morse stations

Note that freqs shown "cNNNN" are approx, analogue receivers.

This is only a limited representation of the logs received, in full they would have taken up the whole issue. Welcome to our new CW contributors and thanks to all.

5680

(M23), see issue 5 info, up to its tricks again interfering with the S & R freq.

M01

Hand sent, short zero. Continues on regular schedule.

Report received of TX

c7800kHz	08.00z	12/10	[436 22=84985]

5017kHz	20.00z	04/09	463
6261kHz	15.00z	15/09	463-40#/33=31440
5474kHz	18.00z	20/09	463 620

M01a

5017kHz

20.00z

29/09

463 333

End of month variant (thanks HFD)

M08

Poss TX's heard on these unusual freqs

c9360kHz	07..00z	26/9
c9060kHz	07.10z	26/09	(2^nd freq ?, parallel ? )

M08a

Busy as usual, slight variations in start times especially on 9330kHz as the following log excerpt shows, 11432kHz has also been starting early. Indications that some schedules may be discontinued.

All 9330kHz	30/08	31/08	05/09		06.58z
	27/08	06/09			06.59z
	01/09	03/09	10/09		07.00z
	20/08	22/08	23/08	07/09	07.01z
	08/09				07.02z
	28/08	29/08			07.06z
	04/09				07.07z
	06/10				05.24z
	13/10				05.25z

While on 5/9 it waited until 07.10z then TX'd on 9239kHz ?? , highlighted in LP's log, also noted by MS (USA). This freq is particularly strong in Asia as is 9323, 9331, 10216 and 10446kHz

Other freqs noted :- 3025, 3244, 9323, 5758, 4173, 4329, 4506, 10235, 10344, 5420, 7976, 3926, 11432, 7864, 9153,4016, 4478, 6825, 10858, 8186, 8136kHz ++

M10

c4795kHz	21.14z	10/10	555 619 26 071 23
5741kHz	22.03z	04/09	555x3, 482x3, 263x3	// 9165kHz
6945kHz	21.04z	18/07	555 619 32 071	Active most evenings
			619 08 32
	21.13z	19/08	in progress	// 4783kHz
6945kHz	21.03z	12/08	555 619 24 071 22
			619 26 24 then faster 5F gps
c9180kHz	22.05z	25/09	555 483 20 919 37
8190kHz	18.05z	22/07	555x3, 126x3, 801x3
	21.05z	22/07	555 619 31 071
12295kHz	19.31z	20/08	in progress, slowed to send "BT BT 48 48 40 40 ,417 x 3, 26 x 4, BT BT" then faster 5F gps.
10922kHz	17.28	28/08	in progress
			"BT BT 63 63 38 38, 450 x 3, 03 03 24 24 BT BT"

Other freqs noted :- 4783, 7745, 7845, 8190, 5470, 6780, 5737, 6834, 8112kHz, ++

M12

Peter comments that the Friday night schedule changed for September and the Sunday morning freqs have reverted to those used earlier in the year.

This is a very good station for those monitors wanting to improve their CW skills, plenty of traffic, not too fast, good number of groups, usually good sigs, various "dependable" times. This tabulation shows the current range of freqs and those most active.

4583kHz
5783kHz	21.07z	11/09	in progress, 875 x 3, DK/GC 600 169	Key clicks. Repeat at 21.20z 4583kHz
5788kHz
6782kHz	16.00z	27/08	749 x 3 DK/GC 2916 144	Almost daily TX. Repeats at 16.20z 7657kHz and 16.40 8173kHz.
6856kHz	18.50z	08/08	583 x 3, DK/GC 3925 145.	Repeat at 19.10 5788kHz
7657kHz
8064kHz	17.00z	16/07	462 x 3, DK/GC 8261 143.	Moved here from 8084 to avoid E05,on 8085, which has now gone. Repeats were 17.20z 6856kHz and 17.40z 5788kHz, very weak.
	10.00z	23/07	462 x 3, DK/GC 7459 107?, very low GC.	Weak sig. Repeats were 17.20z 6856kHz, 17.40z 5788kHz. Both very weak.
	17.00z	06/08	462 x 3, DK/GC 5431 135.	Repeat 17.20z 6856kHz and 17.40z 5788kHz
	17.06z	23/08	in progress	Repeats at 17.20z 6856kHz and 17.40z 5788kHz
	17.00z	27/08	462 x 3, DK/GC 2916 144	Repeats at 17.20z 6856kHz and 17.40 5788kHz Note that the DK/GC was the same as the "749" TX an hour earlier on 6782kHz etc !!!
8084kHz	18.36z	08/08	in progress	key clicks. Very strong
	18.30z	29/08	583 x 3, DK/GC 7613 143	Repeats at 18.50z 6856kHz and 19.10z 5788kHz Strong, key clicks
8173kHz	2.42	10/09	in progress
10234kHz`	21.02z	07/09	in progress, DK/GC 7631 65	Schedule change for Sept ?? nothing heard on previous Aug freqs
12062kHz	21.04z	03/08	in progress, ended 21.06z "000 000"
12072kHz	20.44z	07/09	in progress
12203kHz	19.25z	07/09	in progress
13502kHz	19.44z	27/08	in progress
13537kHz	20.40z	03/08	750 x 3, DK/GC 2198 51	Very strong
13576kHz
14387kHz	20.21z	03/08	493 x 3, DK/GC 4184 143	Strong sig
14453kHz	07.05z	05/08	in progress
	07.00z	19/08	494 494 494 000 rpt	Very strong Repeat at 07.20z 15953.
	07.00z	26/08	494 494 494 000.	Repeat at 07.20 15953kHz
	07.00z	09/09	505 505 505 000	Repeat at 07.20z 16032kHz
14602kHz	19.26z	27/08	in progress
14621kHz	19.13z	20/08	in progress, ended 19.23z "000 000"
	19.10z	27/08	516 x 3 DK/GC 479 151	Good sigs, is this becoming a regular Monday slot ?
14672kHz	20.37z	27/07	in progress, with 14729kHz, ended 20.41 "000 000"
14729kHz	20.20z	17/07	750 x 3, DK/GC 184 31.	Slight keying problem. Repeats were 20.40z 13537kHz and 21.00z 12062kHz.
	20.20z	20/07	750 x 3, DK/GC 184 31.	Repeat 20.40z 13527kHz
	20.20z	27/07	750 750 750 000 rpt.	Strong sig
	20.24z	03/08	in progress, ended 20.26z "000 000"
	20.20z	07/08	750 750 750 000 rpt
	20.20z	21/08	750 750 750 000 rpt
	20.20z	28/08	750 x 3 DK/GC 4826 74	Strong sig Repeats at 20.40z 13537kHz and 21.00z 12062kHz
	20.23z	31/08	"750" in progress	This well established Friday schedule was MUCH stronger than the 14387kHz TX'ing at the same time. Peter comments that they either come from different sites or are being "beamed" straight at him. Repeats at 20.40z 13537kHz and 21.00z 12062kHz
14934kHz	21.01z	10/09	295 x 3, DK/GC 2834 107	Very strong Repeat at 21.20z 13576kHz
15953kHz	07.23z	05/08	in progress.	Freq change for August.
15962kHz	20.01z	31/08	493 x 3, DK/GC 4716 305	VERY long message. Repeat at 20.20z 14387, only a minute after the above finished.
16032kHz	07.20z	15/07	505 x 3, DK/GC 948 33	good sig.
	07.20z	22/07	505 505 505 000 rpt 2 mins	good sig
	07.20z	29/07	505 505 505 000 rpt
16136kHz	19.11z	30/07	941 x 3, DK/GC 6981 209.	Possible that this schedule has been running on Mondays in July plus one other day too.
17425kHz	18.54z	30/07	in progress, ended 19.06 "000 000"
17477kHz	19.44z	31/08	in progress
17532kHz	07.40z	15/07		repeat of 16032.
18963kHz	18.36z	30/07	in progress, ended 18.46z "000 000"

Other freqs noted:- 12200, 13503,

M13

9416kHz	08.00z	02/10	"456" BT 151 50 BT
9183kHz	21.07z	17/07	in progress, 272 for 1 min then "BT 246 20 BT, 5F gps	thought faster TX than usual, with short finishing dashes
9241kHz	20.03z	06/08	"261", BT 246 24 BT, 5F gps	again thought to be faster
10372kHz	19.12z	07/08	in progress, ended 19.14z
12614kHz	20.00z	23/08	"714", BT 203 22 BT	ended 20.13z, 3 slow dashes
8065kHz	19.00z	26/08	"417", BT 203 24 BT
4051kHz	21.00z	26/08	"659", BT 241 53 BT	nice slow TX

Other freqs noted :- 5584, 4535, 10982, 9342, 9975, 11215, 11424, 6883, 7636, 3937, 11516kHz ++

M13a

????kHz

03.00z

10/09

139x3 000 (R5)

M14

11425kHz	19.00z	20/07	256 256 256 00000	MCW, the regular 3^rd Friday slot
			repeated 20.00z 10635kHz
	19.00z	17/08	as above	3^rd Friday slot
	19.00z	03/08	256, DK/GC 701 701 34 34	MCW, 1^st Friday slot
			repeated 20.00z, 10635kHZ
11415kHz	19.00z	04/08	as above, repeat 20.00z 10635
			usual "next day" repeat of full message
9273kHz	18.32z	07/09	"203" rpt, DK/GC 791 791 54 54 BT BT

M16

(Note that this station has been withdrawn from Control List)

c7668kHz	18.50z	22/09	8BY 629/237/816/395/155/914
			// 10248kHz. Many TX's daily

M21

Good sigs in Japan in 4 - 7 mHz range

c7890kHz	07.30z	11/10	11739300131104 etc
c7910kHz	07.28z	13/10	1784858538628? etc

M22

The 10 - 13 mHz range giving good sigs into Far East

c8110kHz	21.45z	22/09	4XZ
c10100kHz	21.50z	12/10
c8100kHz	21.57z	12/10
c4280kHz	22.35z	12/10

M23

10910kHz	06.00z	15/09	Null mssg, 111 R10	almost daily
	06.00z	16/09	Null mssg, 111 R10
9340kHz	07.08z	22/09	ID 10333 then 18gp mssg
	07.00z	23/09	repeat of above	Auto, 11WPM
	07.00z	24/09	ID 10333 then 21gp mssg	Auto, 11WPM Interestingly both mssgs were only "11666 12666 13666" rptd

Other freqs noted :- 8307// 9285, 10650//9600, 19820kHz

M24

As of early October most of the schedules have gone ??

Will be interesting to see what happens long term.

17491kHz	21.10z	19/08	527x4 893x2 161x2 BTx2
			repeated 21.40z 14941kHz
16218kHz	22.00z	20/08	289x4 163x2 207x2 BTx2
			repeated 22.32z 13838kHz
9418kHz	08.00z	21/08	528x4 169x2 333x2 BTx2
			repeated 08.46z 7304kHz
			MS comments " longest M24 TX this year"
19405kHz	22.00z	13/09	Null mssg, 531x3 00000 (R4)

Other freqs noted :- 7304, 8157, 14532, 12184, 13838, 13349,14578, 12195,15672, 16023, 17446, 17544, 15748, 15648, 19405, 19826, 17446kHz ++

M29

Still with us, voice counterpart G04 ceased. Current known schedule :-

Mon/Tue	06.00/06.30z	5470/5570kHz
Mon	08.00/08.30z	5170/5270kHz

M34

Brian logged odd activity on the 5/6/7 Sept , only properly readable from around 18.00z, on 4003kHz. All the TX's were in progress before becoming readable. Space does not allow full transcriptions but the times Brian recorded.

05/09	in progress	18.38z	ends 19.15z
06/09	in progress	17.58z	ends 19.36z
07/09	in progress	18.58z	ends 19.09z (from the log this one was possibly a "null mssg")

See Issue 8.

M40

10620 & 12950kHz appear to be the active Sept freqs with one report of 14958.5kHx

M45

4555kHz

18.02z

20/09

555-172/32=25604

// 4955kHz

M51

c5810kHz	21.35z	10/10	" = NR 31 0 10 23 : 30721 2001 ="
	22.09z	12/10	" = NR 534 ???"	poor sig

MX

c9110kHz	12.45z	23/09	"F"
6870kHz	19.15z	19/09	"F"	mixing with E6
13527kHz	19.00z	21/09	"CSM&F"	cluster

C notes that "M" & particularly "F" are being heard more often in the cluster bands and Takashi in Japan has noticed the same, what's special about "F" ?

Odd stations

Heard by Peter on 9165kHz , 18.20z (ish), MCW, 12/6, 28/8, 5/9, 6/9, a typical pattern is:-

" di dah di dah" 1 minute sent slowly
nnn nnn nnn nn nn nn nn BT BT
5F gps
BT BT nn nn nn nn 3 slow dashes
"Did di dah" 1 minute sent slowly

Further reports appreciated, the format is quite distinctive.

Heard by LP on 10319, 16.51z, 16/9. c7800kHz

"5MRO GBL034 AR AR AR"

Commented " rapid careless characters which could form a variety of readings, depending on spacing "

Ed - This has a familiarity about it, but can't find my " bit of paper", comments welcome.

See Issue 8 .