ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 29

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

Morse station news

A representative sample of the logs received, in the format introduced in Issue 26.

Unid1	May 25^th	13.00z	8686kHz	u/r CW chiefly composed of “dits” with another, weak, in background. MoK
Unid2	June 17^th	20.00z	8180kHz	MCW, ‘491’ 00000 cut. RNGB

M01

Please note, again, these changes.

(As published in Newsletter 23, July 2004 and ENIGMA Control List, Issue 20, July 2004 and log accordingly.)

M01 “Two Tone” MCW ending short “000”

This station has an annual “per months” sked structure and the designators are amended to :-

M01/1	Skeds ID197	Jan, Feb, Nov, Dec
M01/2	Skeds ID463	Mar, Apl, Sept, Oct
M01/3	Skeds ID025	May, June, July, Aug

M01/3

Freqs
4905, 5280, 6434, 6780

M01b

May 5^th

5761kHz

20.36z

“747 33 - - 99264 etc

M03 ICW, some CW

Again for this issue M03 has entertained us with :-

May 13^th	6252kHz	07.30z	(040/00) an unusual ending of “== 00 000”
May 13^th	6814kHz	~08.45z	unusual “tune up” of “series long tones then vvvvvvbbvv”

(are these TX’s “keyboard” (computer) generated – look at v & b standard “qwerty” key positions,shades of comments made regarding E10’s in recent issues Ed)

June 3^rd	6814kHz	08.00z	sent this odd TX
		08.00z	041 once only TX off
		08.01	tone
		08.03:50	tone
		08.04 – 08.05:13	“041/00”
June 17^th		same sked, again repeated a very similar aberration.

Freqs
5082, 5858, 6252, 6480, 6524, 6797, 6814, 6841, 7377, 7439, 7984, 8760, 9576, 10246.

M08a ICW

MS makes a general remark that (personal opinion) the 22.00/23.00z sked is sent much faster than any other !!, but not up to M24 speed.

The usual mix of missing/late/garbled TX’s again reported.

Had a quiet patch in mid June with many expected skeds NRH.

May 8^th	(Sun)	8136kHz	10.00z	Late start and omitted first addressee. No further TX’s on 8th ??
June 2^nd		6854kHz	22.00z	sent the sixth repeat of first mssg – important or miscoded ??. Ed
June 10^th		8135kHz	23.00z	sent different calls to those expected.
June 22^nd		7519/6854kHz	22.00/22.10z	wrong sked on wrong freq again, appears to like this time slot.

Freqs
3025, 3244, 3926, 4027, 4173, 4478, 6854, 6932, 7519, 7526, 8009, 8136, 9062, 9152, 9238, 9323, 9331, 10126, 10344, 10858, 11432, 12093

M10 ICW / MCW some CW

May 12^th	5093kHz	03.30z	This rpt of the 10/4 03.30z TX sent the “corrected” DK for the TX.
May 21^st		02.10z/04.00z	PoL reported QRM from both XWP & XJT to these skeds.
May 25^th	5078kHz	03.40z	came in with very strong sig. (to London UK) however the 12.00z TX’s on 8190//12295kHz were weak/fair while only some 30 miles away the position reversed to fair/weak.
May 26^th	9386kHz	19.50z	“555 118 33” stopped while still TX’ing intro – no return.

Freqs
3810//5861[1]**, 4030//6801 MCW, 4485//6763, 4836, 4836//7380, 4784//9369, 4836//7380, 5027//7380, 5076//8190, 5078, 5078//7745, 5078//8175, 5093, 5735, 5945//9166, 6758//9166, 7380//10921(3), 8143//12226, 8175//9986, 8190, 8190//12295, 9386, 12295, 14978

M12

	May 13th	8084kHz	18.00z	mssg not copied. RN
	May 14th	13418kHz	19.00z	‘462’ 1 447 61 78327 etc. RN
	May 24th	5784kHz	20.20z	“519” null mssg, only 3 min TX. Nice catch MoK.
Possible,	May 24th	5735kHz	21.30z	i/p noisy/fade, “ 87t 8 925 842 29214 29329 7569n ttt ttt “
	May 25th	8084kHz	17.00z	‘462’ 1 1495 142 26743 etc. RN
	June 2nd	7849kHz	18.40z	‘815’ 1376 142 36451 etc
	June 7th	10526kHz	19.00z	‘529’ nul
		6784kHz	20.00z	‘519’ nul
		5784kHz	20.20z	‘519’ nul
	June 14th	9965kHz	20.00z	‘823’ nul

M13 ICW / CW, rare MCW

May 9^th, 12216kHz, 22.00z, nice clear TX caught by MS :-

458 (R5) BT 247 21 BT
03386 38362 41864 38328 05199
04605 23285 33218 42712 51666
47477 19529 42759 29948 57679

28789 35523 23487 55933 49798
46245 BT //22.10z
into rpt

(interesting how often the various combinations of 2,3,8 arrive. Ed)

Another very good copy received May 12th, 12714kHz, 20.00z

June 6^th, 11612kHz, 20.00z ‘517’ sked, mssg 255 predicted but 254 sent.

MS remarked that during 2nd wk of May his “afternoon” (local time) reception conditions weakened markedly. (Same noted, for equivalent times, by UK & Europe monitors – CME ??, with quite a number of the expected skeds being NRH, Ed )

Interestingly MS & RN/GD, being either side of the Atlantic, often log this station on very different freqs within the same UTC time frame as well as common freqs.

Freqs
4732, 5085, 5093, 5172, 5377, 5758, 5918, 5924, 6212, 6627, 6837, 6932, 7484, 7518, 7698, 7735, 7878, 8085, 8175, 8588, 8932, 9093, 9357, 9813, 9818, 9915, 9928, 9965, 10245, 10427, 10536, 11307, 11612, 11667, 12216, 12714, 12834, 13158, 13257, 13415

M14 MCW

May 24^th

6857kHz

18.20z

clg ‘163’ 936 35 - 64319 etc.

M23

Possible,	May 23^rd	21.00z	c5737kHz	tight on M10 TX clg “555 406”
	June 1^st	08.30z	9990kHz	clg 555 for 10 mins only.	Nice catch GD

M45

June 2^nd

5074//5474kHz

17.02z

“074-847 / 31 = 66230 etc. 5474 stronger sig.

M87 MCW, hand, cut. (all per IB)

June 21^st	8554kHz	01.00z	“zxs de rdq qru va” variant
	9821kHz	01.30z	“249 nul format”
	16419kHz	03.30z	“154 nul format”
	9553kHz	09.00z	“345 345 333 333” rptd “ = = 070 070 23 23 = =” 5fg, 000 000
	12150kHz	13.00z	“698 nul format”
June 24^th	11249kHz	06.30z	“945 333” rptd “= = 36 36 50 50 = =” and “37 37 50 50”

Tnx to FN, GD, DoK, JoA, LW, MoK, MS, PLondon, PoSW, RNGB, Unid2 UK.

[1]P beacon being heard on freq.