ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 12

September 2002
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Unid1 CW
(per IB)

At 14.30z a similar 132 gps sent "will de bandar"

M01

Skeds almost as normal, noted that the 18.00z sked sometimes missed.

For Sept/Oct expect:-

The ID for these will be 463 with a low GC, <40.

It has stopped using the last gp as a date/GC indicator

M01a

Has ceased the regular EoM TX, still some but on random days/freqs

Reports required

M01b

No set freqs, skeds Mon 20.10z, Thu 20.32z, Fri 22.02z

Sends same mssg to 3 ID's, usually for 4 consecutive weeks.

From 13 June to 12 Aug sent 62gp mssg. (2 consecutive months for this one)

5813kHz, 729/261/62, 21.10z, 15-07-02

M03

No set freqs, has daily sked at 16.30z with the long running, at least 1997, 287 null call. Other skeds

M07

Possibly ended, not heard since 10 Dec 01

M08a

No set freqs, daily TX's, best in European mornings.

Poss new skeds

M10

No set freqs, daily TX's at 17.20z, 21.00z

Sun/Mon/Wed/Sat at 16.30z. the only M10 that sends 4 ID's - 049, 275, 435, 571 and increases speed with each message?

8/7/02 noted that 2 mssgs sent to "112" 40 & 32 gps on consecutive TX's

0.400z on 5860, 04.10z on 6780kHz. The 04.10z appeared to be a repeat of the 02.10z mssg on 7380kHz sent on 7/7/02

M10e

Regular 4 weekly cycle, 09.00z 5019/20kHz for 1 week, next dates W/C 23 Sept, 21 Oct. 5020kHz, 111:56728-12/23=10174 etc, 09.00z 29-07-02

During the 09.00z, 30-07-02 sked an unscheduled break occurred during the second mssg.

M12

No set freqs/skeds.
14728kHz, 963/1/1552/140, 19.10z, 16-07-02 & 750/000 20.20z

M13

ID's heard 253, 261, 517, 714, 746,

The new Aug early morning freq was spotted by MS

M13a

M13b

M13d (Transcript)

• 18 May 2002 TX

end of transcription

M13d

Aug sked not found

M14

No set freq/sked

Now only 1^st/3^rd Fri/Sat each month

M14a

Every Fri 19.00z, 4620kHz, ID560

M23

No set freqs, daily skeds.

Recently used freqs 10870//13400, 14920, 11170(also used by E15, much QRM), 10870kHz

Only sending 3f call for 10mins, no mssgs since 9 July.

01.00z 310, 01.30z 555, 03.30z 000, 17.00z 310, 17.30z 555

Newly found (26 Aug) :-

M24a

(2^nd addressee, hand keyed)

Skeds

Heard 4490kHz 19.00z 15-07-02 263/407

M29

No set freqs

The Mon/Tue skeds appear to have settled down again to their expected pattern

Note that it did not appear Mon/Tue 19/20^th Aug, it has done this before, but it was also the week that much of Central/Eastern Europe suffered severe flooding, it returned on 26^th.

M40

No set freqs, makes infrequent calls at 17.00z & 17.30z ID 515, 20.00z ID 749, only these calls can be heard in UK/N.Europe, others reported from E.Europe

M45

During Sept/Oct 02

Tue/Thu 18.02z 4555//4955kHz, ID 555 (M10 & M23 also use the ID 555)

M51

Daily during early mornings, various freqs, recently 4910 & 5838kHz at 07.00 & 07.30z, 4910 & 5885kHz at 06.00 & 07.00z sending endless 100gp mssg's.

Sends DIFFERENT mssg each day.

Intensive monitoring of this station by GD has revealed a very interesting phenomena about its habit of "disappearing" in the middle of a message - it does not have any form of natural break - just changes to another freq and carries on, then sometimes reverts again to the original freq, and sometimes not.

A 3^rd freq has never been found but there must be one, presumably between 4.5 & 6.0 meg for propagation purposes --- unless it is "satcomm" ?????

This raises the question of the possible recipient/s, it would be somewhat unusual for a "field agent" to have 2, if not 3, pretuned receivers to fully catch the TX, and any RX set that can auto retune within the space of a CW dot or dash is unknown here at ENIGMA 2000, so reasonably we can assume that the recipient/s are somewhat more substantial - such as Embassies, Legations, International Representative Bodies, Mil Sites etc. and that the traffic has a high importance.

Another "oddity" noted was that on 16-08-02 4910kHz at 06.00z was active - but so was 5868kHz, which stopped at 06.30z ??? while 4910 did a QSY to 5885kHz at 07.32z, is this freq change taking place at the same time in each TX - GD will investigate. Not known at this time if both TX's were the same.

M76

Not audible in UK till Nov, then probably at 05.00 & 17.50z on 3819

M83

No set freqs/skeds, now sending 50 gp mssg's

Credits:- AB, BM, CK, CR, GD, HFD, H, IB, ML, MS, PoSW, Anon1 UK, Anon2 UK, Anon1 EU, Anon2 EU

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