ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 18

September 2003
Articles, newsreports and Items of interest :enigma2000-owner@yahoogroups.com

Selected Morse stations

CW traffic jam:- GD

On Mon 25th Aug, 21.00z, 5735kHz
M10 “555” / M51 in prog and M01a “333” all decided to use the same freq, a bit of a nightmare for the recipients !!

M10e, back again, see entry,
M13b, back again, see entry
M18, back with us, see entry. (Now re-activated in the Control List)
M56 possibly heard again after some 6 years !!!, see entry

Unid1 voice IB

3 July, 06.30z, 9101kHz, suspected Chinese Mil but in LSB with YL synth voice

Unid GD

On Mon 28 Jul 20.00z 6805kHz Clg “238” for 4 mins, nothing other
On Wed 30 Jul 20.00z 6805kHz Clg “238” for 3 mins, nothing other
On Wed 6 Aug 20.00z 6805kHz Clg “238” for 4 mins, nothing other
On Wed 6 Aug 20.00z 5327kHz Clg “523” for 9 mins, nothing other

GD comments that his initial impression was that this could have been an M23, however when M23 sends a 3f ID it usually lasts for 10 mins and is sent daily, this CW did not have the expected characteristic M23 sound.

(GD has offered to investigate further pending allocation of a new ID number, Ed)

M01

Still active on its regular freqs, although noticed that the CG is lower than previous, as low as 24.

M01a (end of month variant)

On Mon 25th Aug, 21.00z (in prog), 5735kHz. [Sending was so bad that even GD had great difficulty in understanding it]
Example:-
“784784784333 48 45477 783784785333 44777 44777 78 478 784333 43777 43777
784784 4333 44577 784784784 333 45198 78488478433 44198 45198 784784784 333 etc”
On Tue 26th Aug GD caught the repeat at 21.00z, 5735kHz and managed, with difficulty, to sort out the TX as being:-
784 784 784 333 43991 43991
784 784 784 333 43771 43771
040 01
040 01
784 784 784 333 43284 43284 all x 10
784 784 784 333 44341 44341 all x 11
784 784 784 333 43811 43811
784 000

even in this TX all the 784 & 333's were sent without any spaces, and why so many uneven repeats for just two 5f gps ?

There was no further repeat on the Wednesday.

[If these TX's are intended as instructions for “field agents” they are either very competent CW readers, ignore the TX's or these TX's have no significance other than mis-information/dis-information. Ed]

M08a

Late starts becoming a habit, where it tends to omit the calls and go straight into the mssg.

On July 4th the 02.10z & 04.10z skeds were NRH
On July 6th, 10.00z 8136kHz the TX stopped at 10.02z but carrier remained up for normal sked time. However the TX restarted on 3925kHz at 10.02z !!!
On 13 July, 11.00z, 9238kHz (uncopiable, strong carrier overriding)
On 19 July, 10.00z, 9323kHz the first mssg was the same number as the first mssg on the 10.00z 3025kHz sked !!
(MS remarked he had never observed this happen previously) [ nothing found in our archives either, Ed]
On 9th Aug, 03.00z it TX'ed on 10125 // 4028 with the V2a sked on 4028kHz being blocked by M8a !! (another C'up)
On 31st Aug, 08.00z / 09.00z, 10236 / 9323kHz the sig was so bad the dits & dahs all sounded as dits.

Additional freqs heard 3025, 3244, 3926, 4027, 4478, 5763, 7975, 8010, 8136, 8186, 9060, 9112, 9153, 9238, 9323, 9328, 9330/1, 10119, 10126, 10235, 10293, 10343, 10345, 10446, 10566, 10715, 10858, 11430, 11565, 12093

M10

Are there some changes afoot here, from 5 July to 19th the 02.10z, 04.10z & 17.20z skeds have been NRH (and the 02.10z “new mssg” was not sent on 4th but a day late on 5th).

No set freqs, appears to be using many as in 2002

On July 3rd, 02.10z, 7380kHz
On July 19th, 02.10z / 04.10z, 7380 / 6780kHz “555 x 3, 041 x 3, 35, 277 x 3, 31” (R5)
On July 28th, 04.00z, 3808kHz “555” with very strong sig (S9+) into London UK, back to S5 on 29th !!!
From July 20th to 9TH Aug the 02.10z & 04.10z skeds were NRH.
On Aug 9th, 02.10z 7380kHz & 04.10z, 6780kHz “555” skeds and again on 30th Aug.

M10e

Back again (GD)

Not heard since 15 Jan 03 appeared again on Tue 19 Aug 07.00z, 7381kHz with very short mssgs, hand sent Clg 111 x 3, 18153 x 3, 07 x 3, 72862 x 3, 06 x 3

Also possibly found on Wednesdays, 11.00z, 7845kHz, with longer mssgs in MCW. (GD investigating)

M12

On 18 July, 20.20z ,12229kHz, “219” sked

M13

On 6 July, 19.00z & 20.00z, 12494kHz , “261” sked.
On 10 July, 20.00z, 12745kHz, “714” sked.
On 19 & 20 July, 04.30z, 5878kHz, “411” sked, both poor copy.
On 20 July,20.14z in prog, 12494kHz. (probably “261” sked)
On 3 Aug, 04.30z, 5622kHz “411” & 19.00z, 11444kHz “261” both reported as very poor sigs by MS with 20.00z sked NRH

M13b

Last reported March 2002, (appears 21.00z summertime/22.00z wintertime). nice catch JP.

On 13 July, 21.00z, 4638kHz, Clg 175 274 21.
(JP remarks “should have been 273 ?”)

[maybe this was its 2nd msg, so 274 could be correct. Ed/GD]

M13d

6 July, 02.30z sked nil heard.
NRH up to 30rd Aug

M18

After a very long absence on 26th Aug 21.20z, 4503kHz. Reported with an online “heads up” by Ary Boender

This station now re-activated in the ENIGMA Control List as from issue 19, to be published during September 2003.

M23 ICW per GD

On July3rd, 09.00z, 7800kHz, sent the string “TNNAIAIAINIIA” (has been known to send a series of I's before a mssg)
On July 4th/ 6th 04.00z, 7630kHz, Clg 555 (R10)
On July 5th, 05.00z, 10520kHz, Clg 555 (R10) and 04.30z on 6th
On July 9th, 16.00 & 16.30z, 19950kHz Clg 555 (a high freq for this station)
On 7 July, 09.57z, 7800kHz. A very strange TX caught by GD
Sent letter S every 10 seconds for 8 minutes
Sent letter D every 10 seconds for 8 minutes
Then mix of both letters for 3 minutes, no message or other info sent
On July 11th, 09.28z, 7800kHz sending letters A D E I N O S T in random order
On 19 July, 04.30z, 10520kHz, Clg 555 (R10)

M39

No fixed freqs or skeds known

No reports

M40

On 23 July, 02.00z, 6680kHz. Clg “vvv cq 466, 437 hr hr 49 49”

M51

On 22 July, 06.58z, 3805kHz (very low freq), noted that the keying was “slurred” at times causing letters to merge.

M56

(a very remarkable catch by GD, 90% certainty of ID)

This is the first E2K logging of M56 (possibly a Special Forces station) ,certainly none have been reported in the “numbers press” since Aug 1997.

On Thu 31 July, 17.55z, 5280kHz, long zeros.
Clg 87 87 01 01 52273 52273 000 1800 = 87 87 00 00 88888 01620 01620.
At 18.00z M01 then came up on same freq, no more heard from M56

(I wonder if the above was in fact the complete TX as reports from the mid 90's also indicated very short TX's. Ed)

M83

On 7 July, 06.55z, 5200kHz
On 11 July, 06.53z, 5228kHz (a slow Auto TX)

M87

MCW & CW cut (all per IB)

On 8 July, 03.30z, 16420kHz, hand MCW
… 154 x 6, 000 000
154 x 11, 000 000
154 x 22, 000 000
154 x 7, 000 000
(Unusual TX in that every set of 3f groups ends with “000 000” rather than just the expected final group, Ed)
On 14 July, 00.01z, 7940kHz, CW.
… 684 x 11, 000
684 x 20, 000
684 x 11, 000 000

Thanks to AB, BM, DoK GD, JP, LP, ML, MoK, MS, PoL, RNGB, Anon2 UK, Anon1 EU.