ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 29

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

Oddities

There have not been too many reports of oddities too late but E has excelled in this area:

Loud Raspings:	7965kHz	1912z	13/04
Gurgling water:	5870kHz	1932z	27/05

Backward music station

5084kHz

2032z

09/06

Crackle

Whilst E does not classify this as ‘The Crackle’ he describes it as ‘noise like the crackle’. E found this on:

4405kHz

1935z

27/05

Frogs[XFR]

9447.5kHz playing havoc 24/05 [heard by MoK whilst seeking E15].

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]

6-May-05	Friday	1811 UTC	8,180 kHz	strength S8, heterodyne with a carrier approx. 1.5 kHz higher, went off suddenly 1821z, listened until 1825z, nothing further heard.
6-May-05	Friday	1827 UTC	9,235 kHz	strong signal but close to an even stronger chugging, roaring "XJT" or similar. Vanished 1833z, nothing further heard.
23-May-05	Monday	2016 UTC	12,224 kHz	strong signal but QRM from an E10 YL about 1 kHz lower calling "Kilo Papa Alpha 2". X06 vanished 2020z, nothing further heard [see RNGB, E and Jochen below].

And no X06 activity heard in June reported. [Tnx PoSW].

23^rd May	2010	12224	tone sequence 904/980/866/804/834/936 hz (ended at 2020) [Also heard by E & Jochen]
29^th	0700	12158	not recorded (hardware problem) – 6 tones stopped and then a jumbled sequence of tones, for about 1 minute – then moved down to 12154 kHz with an abnormal sequence of tones, ended a few minutes later. Nothing else heard.

15829kHz

2010z

23/05

mndbs

[ Also by Jochen simultaneously with 12224kHz above].

Open carriers

The following open carriers were found by E in his travels around the dial. A number of members have asked their purpose. Is it something more insidious that just holding a channel open?

E opens with:

7880.4kHz 1915z 05/06. He notes that RTTY sometimes appears there and asks for its ID – anyone able to help here?

Then proceeds with these [tnx E]

3940.0kHz	1732z	05/06
5177.1kHz	1911z	05/06
5185.6kHz	2006z	10/06
6407.6kHz	1737z	05/06
6452.1kHz	1910z	05/06
6817.1kHz	1741z	05/06
8320.6kHz	1743z	05/06

Buzzer [formely XB] S28

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

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

XSW [Squeaky Wheel]

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.

6807kHz	1905z	09/06	to	6825kHz	E
9238kHz	1909z	10/06	to	9257kHz	E
9388kHz	0557z	31/05	whilst waiting for XP PLondon

XFR has been mentioned in passing and heard on a range of freqs near to a number of expected number station freqs.