ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 28

May 2005
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German branch report

Many logs and events – German Branch's report

Hallo liebe Freunde der deutschen Branche
Hello dear friends of the German Branch of E2K,

This branch is in action since exactly one year. It works and grows. In this period, we got two new members from the Saarland in Southwestern Germany, which both belong to E2K, and a new correspondent from East Germany (also E2K member): JoergE2Kde. Here is the report for March/April 2005, followed by the detailed logs of FritzE2Kch in Zuerich:

The March began with a phone call on March 2^nd from HFD, who showd me S11A on 4016 kHz at 2100 with "971/00"; at my QTH only weak receivable, but see also HFD's logs.

Here are the logs from our correspondent DanielE2Kde, Muenster/West Germany (unfortunately only for March):

G06 on March 11^th, 5442 kHz at 1930 in AM with a 41 group msg for "947". On the same day: X06 Mazielka at 1948 in AM on 6878 kHz. It went till 1954, 2 seconds later carrier off and nothing further heard. On march 13^th on 11674 kHz: M12(?) in CW at 0602 (went off in the same minute, perhaps a 0-msg of M12?). And the last one comes from March 23th, a UNID "Dotsburst" station in CW (8 sec burst, 7 sec brake). Daniel sent me a soundfile, which I forwarded to Paul, who didn't know that one too.

New German website

Since March, there is a German shortwave website online, called "SIS Germany". It's an international site (in English and German), which is produced by Mike Hoehn, who we know from several reports in the German television station ZDF about the E05 location. Mike and his correspondents made a website, which also deals with utility/numbers stations, and it's worth to look at it. If you want to be member of SIS Germany, you have to register. Then you can send messages to this site, which has many forums. The address is: www.sis-germany.de

Another X06 report came from Sandra, my youngest X06 assistant, who phoned me on March 21^st in the evening, as she heard one arround 1700 on a freq between 7500and 8000 kHz (unfortunately, she's till not famliar with the reqs, and I couldn't her it for myself, because as I came back from work and heard her on my answering machine, it was away).

One day later, S06 came on 6780 at 2010 with a msg for "270" KopfE2Kde).

On April 4^th, OliverE2Kde in Darmstadt sent a few logs from stations, which he monitored at ca. 2000: E10 "YHF1" on 9202, M13 on 8127 with a msg for "261" and on 10623 for "517".

On April 9^th, there were two logs from KopfE2Kde: S06C at 1600 on 6923 with a 0-msg for "890", and a VERY long X06 exactly two hours later on 11411 with a very strong signal, going over half an hour; after it, the carrier went off and nothing further heard. On April 11^th, KopfE2Kde logged E07 at 2020 on 12217 with msg and S7.

International contacts are built up

On April 17^th, Hobart Radio International brought Pt. 2 and 3 of its "Spy Station Special", produced by KopfE2Kde on tapes. This special, which is now completed, is also available at www28.websamba.com/GGamaG/SSS-Pt.2.rm (/SSS-Pt.3.rm). In Pt. 2 and 3 I featured especially German stations. It's worth to listen, because I brought very rare sound samples.

The last log comes from April 19^th, at 0804 on 9300. It's an unusual X06 with only 2 tones, which were coming three times after another – the same one, which I could find on November 10^th 2003, and which is also in the 'files' section. Thanks to Richard Ness in UK, who informed me and emailed the sound file (KopfE2Kde).

Also the most XP transmissions in April can be confirmed by KopfE2Kde.

On April 24^th, 0900 till 0930, on BBC Radio 4 came the feature about numbers stations, but unfortunately without German contribution (details about the feature see in the newsletter).

Short outlook

At the beginning of May, Simon Mason will update his homepage with soundfiles from KopfE2Kde, which I sent to Akin Fernandes several years ago. And at the end of May, OliverE2Kde and KopfE2Kde will bring a feature about numbers stations in "Free Radio Darmstadt" (RaDar), which sends from the QTH of OliverE2Kde.

At the end of this report, here come the logs from FritzE2Kch in Zuerich, Switzerland [thanks Fritz]. But first I want to say "Auf Wiedersehen" and good-bye to you all – till the next report.

Jochen Schäfer, the "Kopf" of E2K's German Branch [Tnx Jochen!]

M03 March 2005

M03 April 2005

M10 March 2005

M10 April 2005

M12 March 2005

M12 April 2005

M18

M21

M51

Major changes per April 1st 2005:

• Now operates sometimes on Fridays too.
• Now uses frequencies for more than one week.
• And, most important: M51 got rid of its typical sound and rhythm.
  Format remains, for example: 21.4. at 1542z on 4628: nr 58 a 21 17:41:16 = 5LG x100

M62

Messages:

After (at least) 9 years uninterrupted operation M62 permitted itself a new format per April 1st. The last change was in August 2003 - since then the parallel frequency on 1732 seems to be quiet. Since November 2001 M62 kept its actual set of callsigns. Sometimes in 2002 the frequency changed from 4396 to 3486.

XSW

On April 6th I heard the "Squeaky Wheel" for the first time on the frequency 6992 kHz. It seems to stay there since, the signal here is sometimes very faint.

[Tnx Jochen – excellent piece].

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