ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 25

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

Morse stations

A representative sample of logs received, including any pertinent info that would have been included in Issue 24

M08’s hurricane damage ? was not completely out of action but certainly restricted its output.

Unid 1, per IB

Mon 18^th Oct, MCW, poss cut, 00.16z 5611kHz, 544 R5, = = =, ta6a3a4 x 2, stopped.

M01 hand

(see intro of issue 23)

Full /3 skeds being monitored until end Aug.

The /2 skeds began in Sept and will continue to end of Oct when the M01/1 skeds will start and continue until end of Feb 05, change to ID 197 and move freqs.

Heard	12^th Oct	18.00z	5474kHz	clg “463”
	16^th Oct	15.00z	6261kHz	clg “463 471 32”
	24^th Oct	07.00z	6508kHz	clg “463”

M01b

Only 4 skeds being logged.

M03 ICW, some MCW

Quiet, null mssgs only, will change freqs until end Feb 05

M08a ICW

Busy as usual, unpredictable as to whether the /a or /c format will be TX’d, no pattern has yet been established.

A number of monitors have remarked over the past couple of months that they are hearing a pattern of 3 “scratchy dits” after the final 000 000.

Additional freqs:-, per MS
9060, 9062, 10236

M08c

Heard 17^th Jul 11.00/12.00z on 8136/9152kHz and 12.00/13.00z 10858/12093kHz with different mssg.

Additional freqs, per MS:-
3296, 4173, 6856, 7681, 10235, 11432, 8136, 9062, 9152, 10858, 11431, 12214

M10 ICW, some CW

Here’s a nice catch from Sal ibn Hari

Sat 23^rd Oct (started 02.10z ended 02.20z) on 4485kHz sending “555 543 21 0 0 0”

This was a repeat of the TX at 17.20z on Fri 22^nd Oct.

(M10’s see also major entry in the Slavic section of Voice Stations where Chart 16 appears, compiled by our Slavic Desk this is the most comprehensive current information available).

M12 ICW, has used MCW

As expected it changed many freqs in July which are still being chased up, GD had identified 24 skeds by 10^th Jul – very well done, and kindly supplied us with the following sked chart, he welcomes all help in filling the “blanks”

M12 Regular	Skeds	July	2004
Day of the week	Time (utc)	Freq (kHz)	Time (utc)	Freq (kHz)	Time (utc)	Freq (kHz)	ID
sun	07.00		07.20		07.40
	16.00	6782	16.20	7657			749

sun	19.40	9942	20.00	8169	20.20	6934	463
mon
	05.30	10428	05.50	11428	06.10	12228	442
	11.30		11.50		13.40
	11.40		12.00
	16.00	6782	16.20	7657	16.40	8173	749
	19.30		19.50		20.10
	20.10		20.30		20.50

tue
	06.00	9344	06.20	10744	06.40	12144	371
	16.00	6782	16.20	7657	16.40	8173	749
	17.00	10343	17.20	9166	17.40	7849	124
	18.30	12133	18.50	13544	19.10	14728	963
	19.00	13567	19.20	12153	19.40	10819	739
	20.00	6784	20.20	5784	20.40	4784	519
	21.00	14836					848
			21.20	8123			918

wed	11.40		12.00		12.20
	16.00	6782	16.20	7657	16.40	8173	749
	18.30	12133	18.50	13544	19.10	14728	963
	19.40	9942	20.00	8169	20.20	6934	463

thu	05.30	10428	05.50	11428	06.10	12228	442
	18.00	10343	18.20	9166	18.40	7849	124
	19.00	10343	19.20	9166	19.40	7849	124
	2030	14565	20.50	13465	21.10		545
	21.00	14976	21.20	13576	21.40		950

fri			13.50		14.10
	16.00	6782	16.20	7657	16.40	8173	749
	17.00	10343	17.20	9166	17.40	7849	124
	18.00	10343	18.20	9166	18.40	7849	124
	19.00	13567	19.20	12153	19.40	10820	735
	21.00	14976	21.20	13576	21.40		545

sat	15.00
	16.00	6782	16.20	7657			749
	18.30

Other logs/ freqs for Sept / Oct
9 Sept at 04.00z, 9067kHz, “303” null. 9069/5731/8084/6856/5788/9438(inside BC band)/7693/9272/7472kHz

M13 ICW, rarely MCW

Behaving generally as predicted.

5 Jul	19.00/20.00z	11054kHz	clg “517”
7/8 Jul	03.00z	7722kHz	clg “254”
8 Jul	20.00z	12754kHz	clg “714”

On Jul 11th MS caught the July “501” sked on 10387kHz, 04.15z. [501 (R5) BT 242 22 BT] with a repeat at 21.15z on 10213kHz. All repeated on the 12^th Jul.

6^th Aug	20.00z	12752kHz	“253” BT 242 21 BT
8^th Aug	03.00z	5733kHz	clg “378” BT 274 20 BT
	04.30z	5622kHz	clg “411” BT 264 21 BT
2^nd Sept	20.00z	11216kHz	clg “253”
3^rd Sept	20.00z	6883kHz	clg “284”
6^th Sept	19.00z	7426kHz	clg “261” stronger than usual sig.
22^nd Sept	06.00z	5394kHz	clg “572” BT 241 21 BT

Additional freqs:-
6627, 12494,

The sked chart produced by GD is still available , on request only, and feedback required to justify the amount of work involved.

M14 ICW / MCW / MCW CC

Was only 1^st & 3^rd Fri’s of month.

Further to our note in Issue 23 that a Sat TX had been found Brian has come up with another during July Thur / Fri 18.00z on 6925kHz clg “203”

Since confirmed that M14 is operating Mon – Fri, that was a big increase in activity and GC’s are between 50 & 60. By Oct they had reduced again.

M23 ICW

GD reported that after a period of relative inactivity this one came back to life June/July with a 10.00z sked on 7800kHz logged, by 2^nd week July it had reduced activity to the 06.00z, 9950kHz sked and not logged at all during Oct.

M24 / M24a ICW / MCW / MCW CC

Noted increase in activity June/early July with at least 9 skeds per week with the Wed 19.00z being a M24a, although not being logged every week.

By late July only the Mon 12.00/12.30z, 10210/11439kHz was reliable and Oct produced NRH.

M39 MCW

No known skeds or freqs, very “pot luck” so a difficult one to say the least.

This very unpredictable station, no current logs, may have restarted (or we have missed the TX’s) its’ voice counterpart S18.

A report and voice recording from AB was of the same format as M39 but unlike the original S18 has changed from an OM to a YL.

Tentatively we have assigned it S18a until such time that it is confirmed, or found to need a new ID.

It belongs to the IXC family of S18//S17/S19/M39

No change to the Control List at this time.

M45 hand

Tue / Thu 5074kHz 17.02z,

GD remarks “odd that it starts at H+2”

Logged on Tue 7^th Sept at 18.02z on 4555//4955kHz and Thu 9^th on 4555kHz clg “555” and Tue 28^th at 18.02z on 4955kHz, by AF

Heard 12^th Oct, 18.02z, 4555kHz, clg “555 381 31”

M51

Only heard once w/e 24 Jul, Tue 19.00z, 7361kHz

M55

Still with us on Tue 13.00z, 12150kHz, ID 698, null mssg, weak sig.

GD remarks that he is interested as to how the UK time change from BST to GMT at end of Oct will affect this one from Novembers’ expected TX sked.

M76 MCW

Another station with a November interest, will it come back on its expected freq of 3819kHz ? , will it change its’ “null format” or will we have to wait until early 2005 to find out.

M87 hand, cut. (mainly heard by IB)

Current known sked Tue/Thu/Sat at 01.30z on 9835……9854kHz, freq varies.

Thu 5^th Oct on 9854kHz, 01.32z i/p “041 37” with good sig. IB has an mp3 available (1.3 Mb)

M89

No reports, although a busy station without fixed skeds / freqs

M93 MCW

We have received a note from Ary that M93 is still with us on a fixed sked but changes freq at least monthly, that kills our “possible special event” comment in an earlier issue.

Further logs required.

Thanks to :-
AB, AF, Anon UK, Anon2 EU, BM, CA, DoK, GD, HfD, IB, ML, MoK, MS, MT, PoSW, SiH