ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 15

March 2003
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Selected Morse stations

Unid 1 Per IB

Unid 2 Per IB

Unid 3 Per IB

Igor believes this may be a N.Korean number station, possibly in Hangul Morse.

A full typical TX transcript for this station was published in Issue 13.

Unid 4 Per IB

Unid 4 Per PoSW

Slow CW, keyed carrier tone modulated, sending "508 / 00" repeatedly. Ended " = = " then 3 well spaced dashes a few minutes later.

Has been previously logged same time/freq, always on a Wednesday, on 6 Nov & 11Dec 02

M08a

Some additional freqs logged for this issue 3826/ 4173/ 6933/ 7320/ 8009/ 8096/ 8136/ 9125/ 9237/ 9323/ 9328/ 10235/ 10446/ 11565/ 13594(harmonic of 6797)/ 13866/ 15780(harmonic of 7890)kHz.

Still having problems with mixing of multiple TX's, both M8a & V2a's. Two M8a's together is becoming a norm!

Even though we have previously stated that there are no fixed freqs for this station a definite pattern is beginning to emerge of the frequency/sked usage, thanks to all the hard work put in by MS & K1RC.

We hope to publish a "General Guide" in a future issue.

M10

Possible new/additional sked at 00.10z, heard once on 5027kHz. Normaly the 02.10/ 04.10z freq.

Possible sked at 20.20z on 4885kHz.

Possible // freq for 02.10z identified as 3532kHz (MP)

Other logs:-

• 4030//6763kHz, 16.30z

• 7603kHz, 17.31z in prog

• 11 Jan. 25Jan & 1 Feb same freq pair for 16.30 sked, odd keying.

• 5031kHZ, 18.31z, in prog, 13 Jan

• 4007kHz, 19.08z, in prog, 22 Jan

• 5741kHz, 17.00z 2 Feb & 18.00z 6 Feb

MS is investigating all M10 loggings, input required.

M10e

7380kHz, 08.00z, 15 Jan. Again with 2 x ID mssgs (97216 & 62540) of only 5 gps. Previously did his on 6 Nov 02.

M12

No set freqs/skeds, timing very erratic.

Sample logs.

• 5126kHz, 21.48z.. 4442kHz, 22.00z . 3 Jan

• 9101kHz, 19.40z. 7672kHz, 20.06z (same as Jan 2002). 5829kHz, 20.32z. 5 Jan. The 3 sendings of "168"

• 16216kHz, 08.00z (same as Dec 02, first sending would have been 07.40z on 14916kHz) "149" . 12 Jan

• 7672kHz, 20.00z. 5829kHz, 20.20z. 12 Jan (confirming reuse of 2002 freqs) 07.40z Tx not found.

M13

New 23.00z sked found on 6885kHz 13 Jan.

Now using the same freq for first, 05.30z & last 21.30z , daily Tx's of the 411 sked.

Other sample logs

M13d

The twice monthly sked. (sometimes)

Back again, last heard Oct 2002, (MS)

Worth checking on 8/9 & 15/16 Mar for 2nd sked.

M14

Fri 7 Feb, first & third Friday of month sked

M23

Recently 3 point DF'd, near Paris (AB)

Been very busy on 7795kHz daily 10.30z, could be tied into the hectic French activity in West Africa, their digi circuits also very active.

M51

No set freqs, TX'ing almost daily with its 100 gp mssgs, up to 5 hour skeds.

M62

M76

(ongoing investigation by GD)

The 4 character bogus c/s station. Will be using 3280kHz from Mar to Oct.

Usually only 2 TX's day at 05.00z & 17.50z, 25 wpm, long zero's. (heard in UK)

During 2002 it sent approx 30 messages in total.

As of 1st Mar it had already sent 195 messages!!! for 2003, with some very long TX's, up to 2 hours.

On 24th Feb it sent the messages:-
166/59, 163/36, 162/30, 161/39, 160/31, 159/37, 157/36, 156/31, 155/33, 154/28, 151/39, 150/33, 149/30, 148/36, 147/37 all in one TX sked, and these were quite long for this station.

The messaging structure is also odd, eg:-

On 27Feb it sent the following 6 messages, all of 11 gps, in one sked.

As can be seen the differences between these messages are minimal, no they are not mis-reads, and all start 40545 while all end with a 437, as have all M76's logged to date.

All messages have the first 11 groups similar to the above while the start to the preamble, after the c/s and No/GC is always 23610 with an "080" within the first 3 preamble groups, after several more groups you get RRRRR then usually either 206xx or 207xx followed by WWWWW . 437 obviously indicates "end of message" with the xxx's used as fillers to provide a 5 char. group, we can only speculate as to the significance of the 23610 and 080.

Certainly a very distinctive station..

There are obviously many more TX's during UK daytime which we cannot hear in Northern Europe and neither have any TX;s ever been heard in the 00.00 - 04.00z slot.

ANY additional info will be welcome, especially from Stateside, with as much detail as possible, it's time we nailed this one down.

M87

New sked,(IB) 8855kHz, 01.02z 1Jan, hand, 5f cut.

Call 482 482 482 91 91 all r, 189 189 51 51. All repeated.

Heard again, same freq/time, 14 Jan with Null mssg.

Thanks to: AB, BM, DoK, Gert, GD, IB, JMM, K1RC, LP, MP, MS, ML, MoK, PoSW, Anon 1 UK, Anon 1 EU

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