ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 21

March 2004
Articles, newsreports and Items of interest :enigma2000-owner@yahoogroups.com

Morse stations

Unid1

per KoK

Wed 28 Jan

15.58z

7595kHz

Fast hand CW, unread, followed by 4 series of data of 16 secs each.

Unid2

per KoK

Sun 1 Feb

15.56z

5355kHz

Possible // 5400kHz. Noisy, fading, believed MCW, unreadable.

Unid3

per Kok

Sun 1 Feb

16.03z

5000kHz

hand “XSFU” rptd ending AR

Unid4

per KoK

Poss M83, in prog, 5f auto, ending by hand “12072 AR” after TX ends sends ANKC SHKS SA IMI OSA AS

M01

Will be starting a new schedule this month (Mar 04).

M03

Still running 18 TX’s a week, mainly null skeds, the daily 16.30z /287 null sked still with us, going for at least 6 years.

On Thu 11 Dec, 10.00z, 10384kHz it sent a very unusual 987/133 gp mssg., the longest we have any records for. It normally sends gps in the 30’s or 50’s, it took GD by surprise !!

Towards the end of January GD noticed an increase in activity - up to 23 TX’s a week, skeds available – feedback needed.

A strange message, never before logged, is being sent and was noted on Tue 23 Dec, Wed 7 Jan and Tue 27 Jan where a letter R is sent between each gp and RR between every 10 gps. Logs of this particular variant urgently needed.

M08a

Evidence of a further reduction in skeds at the latter part of 2003, we watch with interest if it continues.

For Issue 20 I had prepared a full breakdown of the logged freqs used in 2003, as an aid to this years monitoring, however as that was lost with the HD problem. I will list the freqs anew from this issue and then only add new ones logged in subsequent issues, and give the “lost Dec 03 ones”

Freqs heard:-

Dec 03	3025, 3244, 3245, 3926, 4027, 4173, 4478, 6797, 6933, 6993, 7320, 7519, 7526, 7555, 7680, 7890, 8009, 8135, 8136, 9062, 9152, 9153, 9238, 9323, 9330, 10119, 10125, 10126, 10235, 10344, 10346, 10445, 10446kHz.
Jan/Feb 04	3025, 3244, 3926, 4027, 4173, 4478, 5377, 6797, 6885, 6933, 7320, 7519, 7526, 7681, 7890, 8009, 8096, 8135, 8136, 8186, 9062, 9152, 9153, 9238, 9323, 10125, 10126, 10235, 10236, 10346, 10714, 11432, 11565,

The use of 3926kHz (out of its slot) appeared to have been a mistake as the TX stopped part way and moved to the expected freq of 4173kHz .

MS informs us that on the Dec 13^th 12.00/13.00z 6933/7980kHz sked this station made a mistake in the TX’s :- When sending the AR AR AR BT between mssgs and at the ending OE was sent for AR and K for BT, as MS remarks “It’s always interesting to see what they will goof up next”

It did exactly the same on 14^th, 16^th, 17^th, 19^th, 20^th, 24^th, 29^th, 30^th, 31^st Dec and continued to Jan 9th 04.

The 18 Dec logs from MS contained the re-use of 3025kHz at 09.00/10.00/11.00z and all 3 skeds were to different addressees, MS (or E2K) have not seen this before – is it going to be a regular feature ??

The 29 Dec sig on 9153kHz at 10.00z was very distorted and sounded as being only composed of 0’s & 2’s, this has been noticed on a previous occasion, while the 03.00z 4027kHz & 04.00z 3926kHz sigs were extremely garbled with no character spacing – as if 2 TX’s were simultaneous.

On Jan 15^th, 22.00/23.00z TX’s MS noted the use of “4” as the final digit in the last two addresses while on the 16^th, same sked, 5 was used. This pattern continues as at end of FEB , using digits above 3 in some TX’s as the final character (as were some V2a’s) and is obviously a quite marked, and permenant ?, change.

M10

Heard 23 Dec 22.12z in prog, 5301kHz good sig in UK

Freqs heard:-
3522//5076, 5301, 3522//5027, 8143//12227

Wed 7 Jan	18.42z	8143//12227kHz	“321 321 321 42 041 041 041 17” “321 321 321 07 07 42 42”
Mon 19 Jan	21.09z	4007kHz	in prog, ending “= = 44 44 38 38 906 906 906 30 30 38 38 = =”
Wed 28 Jan	16.30z	6763kHz.	“555 571 32 275 34 049”
Wed 28 Jan	21.02z	3523kHz	“555 555 555 869 869 869 21 190 190 190 37” then “869 869 869 76 76 21 21 = =” 5F’s
			Note this is inside the 80 Metre Band
Sun 1 Jan	16.40z	6763kHz	MCW, “555 275 049 435”
Tue 3 Jan	14.10z	9986kHz.	“555 944 32 811 23”
Mon 9 Jan	16.32z	6763kHz.	“555 275 39 049 38 435 28”
Thu 12 Jan	17.20z	7745kHz.	Poor “729 29 40”

M10e

M12

Would appear to have reduced activity at the last few months of 2003, the regular 17.00/17.20/17.40z skeds were still active. The expected repeat freq usage from previous years also did not produce the usual results.

All this changed in Jan/Feb 2004 with a marked increase in activity and a repeat of the 2003 skeds has helped to catch many of the TX's

During late 2003 GD spotted a new Saturday 13.00/13.20/13.40z sked and a further one on Friday 05.30z.

Freqs reported:- See following chart

Sample logs:-

Sat 17 Jan	18.30z	8179kHz	18.50z	6907kHz	19.10z	5248kHz	clg “192 192 192 1” “384 63 384 63”
							Same as the Sat sked in Jan 2003
Fri 23 Jan	20.00z	5844kHz	20.20z	5167kHz	20.40z	4517kHz	clg “477 477 477 1” “128 54 128 54” Rapid flutter.
							Propagation disturbance evident over much of the HF band this evening.
Sun 25 Jan	07.40z	13484kHz	08.05z	14784kHz	08.20z	16084kHz	clg “134 134 134 1” “259 83 259 83”
							Same as Fri sked in Jan
Wed 28 Jan	17.05z	6782kHz					clg 749 1 142
Fri 30 Jan	20.00z	5844kHz	20.20z	5167kHz	20.40z	4517kHz	clg “477 477 477 1” “519 55 519 55” very strong. (note the 477 reflecting the Hz figure in the TX freq.
Sun 1 Feb	17.00z	6782kHz					null 749 000
Tue 3 Feb	20.40z	5273kHz					clg “263 263 263 1” “938 74 938 74”
							This was a bonus for PoSW as the RX was set to 5272kHz ready for the 20.50z S10d TX.
Sat 7 Feb	18.30z	10826kHz	18.50z	9449kHz	19.10z	8128kHz	clg “841 841 841 1” “674 65 674 65”
Mon 9 Feb	17.05z	6782kHz					in prog, 749 ?.
	17.20z	7657kHz					749 1 237 141 ending 000 000
							This TX repeated Wed 18 Feb

Logged activity during Feb 04, if you have any logs that “fill the gaps” please forward them to E2K, this will enable us to provide more accurate prediction in the future. Although this station keeps to CET the chart is corrected to UTC/Z

(Chart provided jointly by Gert & GD)

M12 Regular known skeds
[NOTE. Station keeps CET time]

February frequencies

Day	Time	Freq(kHz)	Time	Freq(kHz)	Time	Freq(kHz)	ID

sun	07.40z	13484	08.00z	14784	08.20z	16084	134

mon	06.00		06.20		06.40
	06.30	12146	06.50	13446	07.10	14646	146
	11.30		11.50		13.40
	11.40		12.00
	17.00	6782	17.20	7657	17.40	8173	749
	19.30		19.50		20.10
	20.10		20.30		20.50

tue	04.40		05.00		05.20
	07.00		07.20		07.40
	13.00		13.20		13.40
	17.00	6782	17.20	7657	17.40	8173	749
	18.30		18.50		19.10
	19.30	8084	19.50	6855	20.10	5790
	20.00	6782	20.20	5876	20.40	5274
			21.00	3997			248

wed	05.30		05.50		06.10
	17.00	6782	17.20	7657	17.40	8173	749
	19.30	8084	19.50	6855	20.10	5790
	19.30	12133	19.50	13544	20.10	14728	963
	19.40		20.00	7717	20.20		413
	20.00	6782	20.20	5876	20.40	5274	263

thu	5.00		5.20		5.40
	6.30	12146	6.50	13446	7.10	14646	146
	18.00		18.20		18.40
	19.40		20.00		20.20

fri	13.30		13.50		14.10
	17.00	6782	17.20	7657	17.40	8173	749
	20.00	6782	20.20	5876	20.40	5274	263
	22.00		22.20		22.40

sat	15.00	158XX	15.20	14522	15.40	13384	853
	17.00	6782	17.20	7657			749
	18.10		18.30		18.50
	18.30	10826	1850	9449	19.10	8128	841

sun	07.00		07.20		07.40
	17.00	6782	17.20	7657			749

M13

Still a very active station, we will supply predictions for this one but we need to have regular feedback as the overall picture is far from complete even after years of monitoring.

Freqs reported:-	3315, 3428 MCW, 3824, 4121, 4283, 4583, 4687, 4846, 5062, 5274, 5377, 5778, 5864, 6273, 6378, 6382, 6387, 6397, 6472, 6574, 6922, 6935, 6980/1
(in MCW)	6993, 7485, 7737, 7824, 7926, 8873, 9056, 10624, 19419,

Sample logs:-

Fri 26 Dec	16.00z	6981kHz	clg 926 then “=231 21 =” 5F’s
Sun 4 Jan	?	6378kHz	clg 261
Wed 7 Jan	22.52z	5377kHz	in prog, slower than usual, 757 for 1 min then “= 257 20 =” 5F’s
Mon 2 Feb	22.12z	3493kHz	in prog, clg 427 then “= 836 23 =” 5F’s
			PoSW remarks that it’s unusual to find an M13 on the LF side of the 80 Metre Band
Wed 18 Feb	07.02z	9264kHz	clg 823 then “= 233 21 =” 5F’s (a/c ripple & chirpy)

M13d

No reports

M14

Only the 1^st/3^rdFriday/Saturday TX’s now being regularly heard.

First Fri.
Fri 4 Jan	20.00z	4470kHz	CC/KA MCW “262 262 262 00000”. Second sending 21.00z ,4920kHz.
			Note the second sending is on a higher freq, opposite to the norm . This has been logged in previous years at with the 1^st/3^rd Fri TX’s MCW skeds.
Third Fri.
Fri 16 Jan	20.00z	4470kHz	clg 263, “409 409 31 31 = =”, second sending again on 4920kHz, poor keying,
Tue 10 Feb	09.30z	13373kHz	839 – 465/139 = 80088
Sun 15 Feb	20.12z	5065kHz	in prog, ending “= = 784 784 55 55 00000”

M14a

Possibly only the Friday sked is now running

M21

Sat 14 Feb

19.50z

4955kHz

Null ?

M23

Currently only the daily 14.30z TX being heard sending null/555

M24

The regular skeds were heard in Nov 03 but not from Dec onwards until spotted by PoSW on

Tue 10th Feb	18.32z	10555kHz	very fast “239” till 18.34z then DK/GC 784 784 90 90 and 5F’s.
Mon 16 Feb	12.00z	10470kHz	v fast “762” heard by Gert

M24a

Only being heard Mon/Wed at 19.00z

M39

No regular times/freqs.

Elusive as ever but GD caught it on Tue 2 Dec at 09.00z, an odd TX as it was hand sent.

M40

Has this one stopped, last heard Oct 03

M51

Very much reduced activity with this one, but it is still with us. Heard by KoK

Wed 28 Jan	15.45z	8125//7950kHz	poor sig.
	16.11z	6965kHz	poor sig, in prog
Mon 9 Feb	16.50z	5350kHz	clg 749
Wed 18 Feb	15.35z	4790Khz	in prog.

M55

This very rare and elusive beastie was spotted by GD on Tuesday 2 Dec at 13.00z, and by Gert on Tue 10 Feb, 13.00z, 12150kHz sending null mssg 698.

Two logs of same

M76

Heard again, as expected, from November – 5^th year in a row. VERY busy this time around as by 4^th Dec it had sent 1104 mssgs, in 2002 it only sent 458 in total.

A small change in its’ behaviour spotted, when no messg to follow it sends “= 229XX” after the preamble.

M82

7 Jan

16.00z

4700kHz

nr 935.

M87

Although mostly heard by IB there was one occasion when, to his delight, it was logged by GD

16 Dec 03

01.30z

9839kHz

MCW, null mssg, 249 249 249 000 000

On 16 Dec IB heard a possible variant, judging by the signal characteristics,

01.00z

8555kHz

sending varying length strings of “zxs zxs zxs zxs zxs de rdq rdq rdq qru qru”

M89

Wed 28 Jan

17.20z

5780kHz

Auto. BFR7 de 4XML rptd.

Thanks to:-
Anon2 UK, Anon1 EU, BM, Gert, GD, IB, KoK, ML, MoK, MS(suffering from the pressures of work), PoL, PoSW, RN.