ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 25

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

Oddities

Little reports this time other than Mazeilka

Backwards music station (XM)

Nil Reports

Carriers [Blank ].

Nil Reports

Crackle(XC)

Nil Reports

Jammers

These can be heard with some regularity on: 5320, 5600, 6420, 6880, 7040, 7050, 7070, 8320, 8340, 8515, 9360, 10280, 10470 and 13410, 16176kHz.

Mazeilka (X06)

DoK heard Mazeilka’s tones 12226kHz at 1413 until 1419z on 06/09. However, on Tuesday 07/09 at 2000z three X06 stations were heard simultaneously on different freqs: 9105, 10205 and 11093kHz. The 2nd and 3rd sendings had the same notes, all ended around 2006z [Tnx to Jochen and also RNGB who contacted Jochen initially]. RNGB added, "Whether the recent events in Russia [Beslan School] have anything to do with it, I found X06 on 5 different freqs within 10 minutes this evening, 3 of which were going out simultaneously (but not in phase) and more than one tone sequence. [Tnx to RNGB and Jochen for their work]. The other two, heard by RNGB and reported by Jochen via group were 2012z [07/09] via 8045 and 9174kHz.

Of the 07/09 10205kHz 1955z and 11093kHz 1953z sendings RNGB wrote, “Same tone sequence, but not in phase.” For the 2012z 9174 RNGB measured the tone sequence as 836/870/806/984/944/904 and noted the different sequence for the 2015z 8055kHz sending as 984/806/836/944/870/904 [Tnx RNGB]

15828kHz	1623z	14/09	[tone seq: 800/904/946/770/830/866]	RNGB
10270kHz	1300z	11/10	[tone seq: 926/854/822/968/790/890] Rptd until 1308z then QRT	RNGB

PoSW also offered his late August and September log:

27-Aug-04	Friday	2001 UTC	7,820 kHz	X06 with S9+ signal, carried on until after 2018z when it suddenly vanished; listened until 2022z, nothing further heard.
29-Aug-04	Sunday	0658 UTC	10,535 kHz	an early morning X06, strong signal with a background buzz, vanished a few seconds before 0700z, nothing further heard.

1-Sept-04	Wednesday		a burst of activity from the 6-tone repeating station;-
		1903 UTC	9,105 kHz	strong signal with background buzz, vanished just before 1907z, listened until 1910z, nothing further heard.
		1913 UTC	7,773 kHz	S9+ signal with background buzz; I am fairly sure the tones were not the same as heard earlier on 9,105 kHz. Went off just before 1919z, listened until 1922z, nothing further heard.
		1932 UTC	12,178 kHz	strong signal with background buzz, was on for over 20 minutes, went off after 1953z, nothing further heard.
7-Sept-04	Tuesday	2022 UTC	9,174 kHz	a strong X06 - and no background buzz!, carried on until just before 2035z when the tones stopped and the carrier stayed on for about a minute then went off. Nothing further heard.
13-Sept-04	Monday	1901 UTC	14,430 kHz	strong signal, tones stopped after 1903z, carrier stayed on for a further four minutes, unusually, went off after 1907z; followed by "Twittering" bursts of tone, something similar to - but not exactly the same as - "Crowd 36" as heard on the CDROM "Shortwave Eavesdropper", "Audio Guide to Data Modes", from Interproducts of Perth, Scotland. Similar noises have been heard on previous occasions from X06 but not for some time. Started and stopped several times and appeared to end after 1916z.
26-Sept-04	Sunday	0701 UTC	10,535 kHz	strong signal, no background buzz, suddenly went into the "Twittering" data mode at 0703z; only lasted for approx. 90 seconds, nothing further heard.

[Tnx PoSW]

These intercepts from DoK – see his Slavic Desk report.

6945kHz	1720z	07/10
12226kHz	1400z	07/09

S28 [formerly XB]

It buzzes away on 4625kHz.
www.geocities.com/uvb76

S30 [The Pip]

Continues to dominate 3757kHz in the 80M band also 5403.9kHz.

Slot machine (XSL)

XSL is heard on 4152.5, 4231, 4290.5, 6249.5, 6416.5, 6444.5, 8312.5, 8587.5 and 8703.5kHz. USB mode

Still being heard in US, Oceania and like areas. E2k would like to receive details of any observations made in Great Britain, Eire and Europe please.

XSL general transmission times [freqs of 8588.0//8703.5]

Sun	1500z	1600z	1900z
Mon	0900z	1700z	2215z
Tue	1510z	1530z	1600z
Wed	1400z	1500z	1545z
Thu	1600z
Fri	1450z	1600z	2140z
Sat	1400z	1600z	1700z

The text via <http://www.geocities.com/hfasia/files/Japanese-PSK.html> describes the Slot Machine as Japanese PSK with a Vertical bandwidth of 3kHz. It states frequencies in use as:
4152.5, 4231, 4290.5, 6249.5, 6416.5, 6444.5, 8312.5, 8587.5, 8703.5kHz

8588kHz

1300z

26/10

USB I/P; Poor signal, S2 or S3 Illinois

ZackUS

XSW [Squeaky wheel]

3829kHz continues to be the home of XSW.

XWP [Wop Wop]

This particular sound can be heard doing its stuff around the 6 and 8MHz bands. Note that the signal changes frequency every 20 mins and takes the odd break too. Believed to be Coastal Radar, samples exist in our sound samples file in group.

Teleprinter 4710

Can be heard on the usual frequencies of 4710, 6702, 9000kHz, 11122kHz [daytimes] and 15020kHz [evenings].

More Info on 'oddities' can be found on Brian of Sussex excellent web pages:
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/brogers/page2.html
Frequency information and trends can be downloaded from:
http://www.cvni.net/radio/

Thanks to AB, AF, Anon UK, AnonNI, Anon Scandinavia, AR, BMDartford, CD, D of Kent, 'E', GallusGallus, Gert of Holland, HFD, IB, IW, J of Aylesbury , JM, JMM, K of Kent, LP, LW Ben Mesander, Mike of Kent, Mark Slaten, PLondon, Peter of Saffron Walden, RNGB, and all others for their contributions to the Morse, Voice and Oddities columns.