ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 27

March 2005
Articles, newsreports and Items of interest :enigma2000-owner@yahoogroups.com

Overall view of the numbers scene

Before we move on PoSW’s overall view of the Numbers scene makes interesting reading:

“The S06 Russian Man appears to be less active than last year. E07, E06, G06, M14, M12 and S10d are all showing up as expected. E10 is as busy as ever including the rather unusal situation on 6,930 which has been going on for some time, i.e. a strong blank carrier which comes to life every now and then with "Sierra Yankee November 2" repeated over and over and nothing else; except on Tuesday 25-Jan when I checked 6,930 at around 1820z when the YL voice was repeating "Sierra Yankee November Sev-en Five" but was back to "SYN2" at 1953z. And on Tuesday 8-Feb at 1940z E10 on 6,930 was, unusually, in normal message mode finishing a couple of minutes after being tuned in with "End of message", etc.

All the early morning V02 Spanish language transmissions have been extremely weak over the last few months, all down to winter propagation conditions no doubt, but there are signs of slightly improved signals as we head slowly towards spring.

The established G06 German YL schedules have continued into 2005 and a strong transmission was noted on Sunday 6-Feb after 2200z on 4,441 kHz so there might be a late Sunday evening schedule to keep track of.

The S10d Czech YL schedules, or at least the ones to which I am able to listen, are much the same in February as they were in December although as the chart from the Slavic Desk says the next major change should be on 1st March 2005. Every once in a while an S10d comes up in single sideband suppressed carrier mode instead of the usual AM with carrier but with the lower sideband suppressed; two examples of this have been noted recently. On Thursday 13-January the 2130z transmission was logged with one frequency, 4,446 kHz, in suppressed carrier mode which needed the receiver to be in USB in order to copy whereas the parallel 5,904 was in the usual "with carrier" mode. On Monday 31-January the 1740z transmission on 5,028 // 7,605 kHz was noted with both frequencies in carrier supressed mode.”

[Tnx PoSw]