ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 14

January 2003
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Selected Morse stations

Unid 1

Per AB, 5634kHz, the "dashless" CW station.

Another monitor has remarked that under weak signal conditions it does sound "dashless" but managed to log a repeated "GM3Z GM3Z GM3Z DE PNW9 PNW9 PNW9 V" for over an hour with a relatively clean signal.

Further info/ comment invited.

Unid 2

Per IB

5115kHz

14.00z

5 Nov 02

MCW

"vvv vvv vvv cq cq cq de 625 625 625 qrk5 qtc k (rptd) hr w37 bt" 37 x 5f all rpt with long pause after each 5^th group

Unid 3

Per IB

5523kHz

07.50z

24 Dec

"uuu 22 1850 = w/k ar = wk/ar = wk/ar
uuu 23 1850 = o/f = ar = o/f ar = o/f ar
etc
ending ar qsl 19.00 qsl 1900"

M08a

Would appear that skeds have been reduced since December

No set freqs (although some patterns are beginning to emerge), daily TX's, usually best in the early hours but logs from the 08.00-12.00z slot are increasing, possibly due to both improved conditions and more intensive monitoring. Still a lot of "sloppy ops" - getting to be a regular feature.

Also noted were unusual "trailing numbers" to the 5f gps on some TX's, we will monitor. (MS)

Heard on 3025/3244/4027/4478/6796/7890/8136/91529323/10126/10346/11432kHz etc during this "morning" slot and would indicate that the TX's are intended to be received over a very wide area.

Other freqs4506/5758/ 7555/7519/7526/7580/8135/9026/9063.

MS remarks:-

[The 07.00z sked, 18 Dec, on 9063kHz was most interesting, it started out in CW with garbled xmtr cxr sending :- ?. 22000 22220 (stops, goes silent), at 07.07z AM xmtr cxr comes on and 2 (two) V2a b'casts come up blocking each other out !
Please note that as far as the 07.00z CW portion goes, I copied an M8a sked on 31 Oct 02, 09.00z, 10126kHz, sending callup of "20 00200 00200 02020" R3, then went into the standard three messages which were composed of all 0's & 2's. Could this be a new M8a procedure, is there a significance to these all 0 and 2 b'casts, has anyone else seen (heard) this phenomenon.]

ED, a full transcript of this TX was given in Issue 13, but the above is the first logging of a possible repeat sequence.

M10

No set freqs, Daily skeds,MCW

See the interesting M10/S10d article at beginning of Voice Section.

26 Oct 02	07.20z		9165kHz	sent longer than usual mssg, not ending until 17.34z
27 Oct 02	16.30z	5078	7745kHz	a 4 mssg TX to 571 275 049 & 435 followed by another to 571-54-42.
2 Nov 02	16.30z		6783kHz	sked went out on a new freq of 6783kHz, // not found, but possibly 4030kHz as found on 3 Nov with the repeat TX.

Possible change of freq for the 02.10/04.10z skeds implemented from 1 Nov 02, still trying to track them down ***

On 25 Nov noted with header change to 222, 22.00z 5301kHz.

"222 608 21 320 17" R5 "608 50 21, 21 x 5f" "50 21 320 46 17, 17 x 5f" "46 17 000"

*** Found, 16/18 Dec 02 02.10z/04.10z skeds, 5027kHz "555x3 898x3 19 310x3 22" R5

Other freqs heard:-4007, 5301, 5471, 5860, 6763//4030kHz

M10e

Still with us, heard 6 Nov 02, 08.00z, 7381kHz , hand sent,with an odd 2 ID (91953 & 12802) TX with only a 5gp msg to each !! (GD)

M12

No set freqs/skeds, timing is still erratic

Heard on 7644kHz, 22.33z ,in prog, 4 Nov 02 with a small "glitch" , a pause between end of mssg and the sign-off, and again on 11 Nov same time/freq with a "269 x 3, 0 0 0 " null sked.

29 Oct 02

13.37z

12133kHz

first sending of the "963" sked with second sending at 19.50z, 13544kHz

Records show that skeds appear to be a repeat of last year, for November at least.

Other freqs heard:- 5471, 5796( QRM from Radio Sofia), 6767, 6856, 7675, 8084, 9411(inside 31m b'cast band), 10823, 14916, 16143, 17443, 18743,

M13

Noted that there is BC blocking to many Tx's

Came up on 4927kHz, 2 Nov 02, with 411 but very weak, with other expected Tx's being NRH

Other sample logs:-

5 Nov 02	6837kHz	22.00z	"272 R5, BT 262 21 BT"
6 Nov 02	9044kHz	07.00z	"823 R5, BT 218 22 BT"
15 Nov 02	9252kHz	21.00z	"714 R5, BT 218 21 BT"
17 Nov 02	4927kHz	05.30z	"411 R5, BT 243 21 BT" repeated on same freq at 21.30z
6 Dec 02	5283kHz	22.45z	"757 R5 BT 244 20 BT
9 Dec 02	4846kHz	21.00z	"695 R5 BT 225 20 BT
17 Dec 02	6272kHz	21.00z	"517 R5, BT 224 21 BT" repeated on 6472 at 22.00z.

M13d

Appears to be taking a holiday again !!

M14

1^st & 3^rd Fri of month sked

Fri 1 Nov 02

20.00z

6940kHz

clg 831. DK/GC 407 407 23 23 = = 5F's. MCW

P remarked that possibly this was the first full mssg sent by this sked since July 02, 21.00z repeat TX not found.

Fri 15 Nov	20.00z	6940kHz	831 831 831 00000, 21.00z repeat TX not found
			Very Odd one
Wed 6 Nov 02	20.00z	5110kHz	started sending the 1^st Fri TX "831 831 831 00000 for 4 mins ????
			Carrier up at 19.46z, tone at 19.50z, long sequence of "dits" at 19.55z
			At 21.00z, 5735kHz, started the second sending, at a higher freq than the first - opposite way round to the usual, but not entirely unexpected as this pattern of behaviour has been observed previously during winter months, in Dec 01 it used 5075 then 5450kHz, possibly the same will happen in Jan 03. But why?? . Are the 1^st& 3^rd Fri TX's going to add a 1^st & 3^rd Wed sked - we will be watching.

M23

Made a further appearance, 6 Nov 02, 11.00z, 7800kHz, clg 284. Last heard on this freq 9 July 02 (GD)

Possible new sked/freq 07.00z /6575kHz also noted 6 Nov. "555 R10" (MS)

13 Nov

01.35z

10870kHz

in prog, "555 R"

M24

21 Oct 02	18.39z	11140kHz	ending 378 378 120 120 00000 (short)
26 Oct 02	19.37z	5455kHz	ending 954 954 102 102 00000 ( short)
6 Nov 02	19.36z	5450kHz	ending 902 902 103 103 00000 (short)
24 Nov 02	19.38z	5450kHz	273 273 105 105 00000 (short Using RAF Volmet freq.)
10 Nov 02	16.01z	8017kHz	sending 946 946 946 00000 (short) Sent in MCW !! (appeared to be constant carrier ,keyed audio)

M40

20WPM, short zero, poss N Korean heard 1Nov 02, 4350kHz, with header "vvv cq611 934" R5 "hr hr 46 46"

M51

18WPM, Auto

30 Nov	08.16z	5402kHz	"BT NR 12 N 20 09.15, 56 2002 B*T" suffering QRM/QRN
10 Dec	07.50z	5345kHz?	BT NR 45 D 10 08.49 59 2002 B*T

M83

4dig c/s, long zero, auto, 6-10WPM.
14/19/28 Nov, 5302/5303/5246kHz, 08.02, 08.18, 08.41z sending "PV5R de ADKZ" differing mssgs.

M87

Difficult to hear outside East Europe/East Asia, only logged once in UK/EU ( by GD) but is a sporadic regular for Igor in Siberia.

Format is "nnn (3f ID sent up to 20 times) 000 (short)" possibly hand sent. The Id's are never repeated and only null Tx's have ever been heard.

No regular skeds or freqs established.

1 Nov 02	13.00z	12150kHz	sending 698
6 Nov 02	23.00z	10515kHz	sending 651

SLHFB's

During Oct/early Nov good conditions prevaile for the MXI's, cluster beacons, especially those on the higher freqs, for example:-

16332/13282/20048kHz, P, D & C being heard on all, the P being replaced by S on 2^nd Nov

Thanks to: AB, BM, DoK, Gert, GD, IB, JD, LP, MS, ML, MoK, PoSW, Anon1 UK