ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 29

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

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Voice stations

E has written in with a most interesting piece. He heard from a private source ‘that the Tyrolean Music Station was apparently run by SDECE. Apparently its cover was blown by a French radio magazine called Interferences Issue 3, Autumn 1975.’ His source has no hard copy of the mag so no substantiation is available. Perhaps our French Membership can help?

PoSW sums up the Voice transmissions since the last Newsletter:

The V02 Spanish Language YL from Cuba has gone into a remarkable decline over the last week or two and I don't think her absence is down to propagation. Very few of the hitherto regular weekly transmissions have been showing up, most notably the Thursday and Saturday UK early morning schedules which always used to be strong signals in the summer months.

There was some speculation in the press a few weeks ago as to the likely turn of events in Cuba when Fidel Castro finally leaves the scene; apparantly the descendents of the gangsters who used to run the place back in the fifties and who took up residence across the water in Florida are poised to make a spectacular return as soon as old Fidel expires and return Cuba to what it once was, a massive gambling den and brothel catering for customers from the USA.

Speaking of Cuba, I didn't realise until a few weeks ago that Radio Havana broadcasts programmes in the English language on the shortwave bands; the transmissions I have heard were at 0130 UTC on 6,000 kHz - 6 megs exactly - in the 49 metre band which is 2.30 AM BST; I admit I have been in a position to hear this on two occasions only, both in the wee small hours of a Sunday morning; I suspect the transmissions are targetted at the USA where it would be evening time. On a Sunday at 0130z, or just after, following the news headlines, there is a programme for shortwave listeners and radio amateurs, the sort of thing most shortwave broadcasters used to do twenty or thirty years ago. What surprised me was a piece heard a few weeks ago on the subject of amateur two metres and seventy centimetres mobile in Cuba because I don't believe any such activity exists ; if press reports in this country are correct there are very few private cars in Cuba apart from some old American models, late 1950's Chevrolets, Lincolns, Oldsmobiles and so on and very little petrol on which to run them. There was an item on the TV news a while ago about the Cuban army having given up their trucks and other motor vehicles and replaced them with Chinese made bicycles because of the lack of petrol and diesel. Mr Castro used to obtain fuel from the Russians at a very favourable price but since Cuba still professes some kind of communist system whereas Russia has wholeheartedly taken up the "gangster capitalism" way of doing things, this no longer applies.

The G06/S06/E06 family of number stations remain much as expected with the usual schedules appearing. E06 seems to be much less active these days in comparisson with two or three years ago. 

The Monday + Wednesday E07 schedule did a strange thing in June; it changed frequencies. When heard in the first week of the month the same three frequencies used in the month of June in previous years were used but when checked out around the middle of the month the frequencies had changed moving somewhat lower down the band. 

Thanks for yourongoing support PoSW. 

Onto the logs.

E03/E03a

Apart from the regulations concerning the reception of wireless stations within Great Britain advice on reporting intelligence matters also exists in the form of DA notices.

Whoever the messages, from E03/E03a, are aimed at ENIGMA 2000 has no wish to 'advertise' the existence of these stations to those who may not support the best interests of Great Britain, or its representatives abroad. Although we are unable to stop discussion of E03/E03a, ENIGMA 2000 will remain aloof from any such discussion and will not be including reports or analysis on E03/E03a.

Whilst in New Zealand PLondon used his Sony ICF-SW100E with 3m wire to have a listen around. The condx were poor but he did manage to pull in weak sendings of E03 and E03a. He deliberately went for the two last early morning sendings of E03a and heard both, albeit weakly.

PLondon also met a ZL and found that even using his rotating antenna results were not much better, even at night on 80m. These condx were mentioned to DoK who said the same about those in the northern hemisphere.

Before we move on many of you will note that our June logs are not as full as usual. This is because PLondon had a good time in NZ and was unable to continue with the Newsletter Construction whilst south of the equator.

Anon UK was asked to keep an eye on E06 and E07 and responded by sending his upto date charts for E06, E07, E11, G06 and V07.

This is a specialist chart for which we thank AnonUK for sharing [and supporting E2k].

Voice Skeds 2005
S06 E06 Blue E11 Gold V07 Green, E07 Violet G06 Red.

Read notes at end of table

©AnonUK & ENIGMA2000 28/06/05

The following notes apply:

E06 Tuesday 1100 and 1200 may change of frequency for same sked

E06 in italics are changes of frequency the same month

E06 1400 1500 1405 1505 are on alternate weeks

Note E07 at 2000/20/40 Changed frequencies on second week of June. ID now 319. Second Frequency Italics

E07 2000/20/40 After week one has changed frequency, is now on 13376/11103/9925

Thursday 0800 Blue Bold Italic E17Z

G06 Frequencies Thursday 1830 4519 5934 6887 Alternate weeks

G06 Friday 1930 4792 5442 5934 Alternate weeks

G06 2020, Second and Third Saturday and Sunday Each Month

May use second frequency on Third Saturday

Frequencies for May/June 2005 12210 and 10875

G06 Monday sked, first Monday each month.

Thursday 0900 Black Bold Italic S25

Thanks to AnonUK for his support of the Group.

Now onto the logs.

E06

The E06 English Man does not seem to be as active as he once was. The only regular schedules around at the moment, at least for those of us who are away from a radio in the daytime Monday to Friday would seem to be the weekly Sunday 1830 + 1930 UTC and a Wednesday 2100 + 2200 UTC, perhaps first and third Wednesdays in the month. Saturday afternoons, UK time, were well known for the appearance of several E06 schedules for many years but not for the last 18 months or so. [Tnx PoSW]

Sunday 1830 + 1930 UTC
Schedule, call is always "690";-

Wednesday 2100 + 2200 UTC Schedule;-

RNGB’s E06 Logs:

And others’ offerings:

SEE ALSO S06

E07 [“That’s wild, that’s really wild”]!

Known E07 schedules are as always, Monday + Wednesday starting at 2000 UTC in the summer months, Sunday + Wednesday starting at 1700 UTC and Thursday starting at 2010 UTC. It has been generally observed that E07 uses the same frequencies as in the same month in previous years with the exception of the Sunday + Wednesday 1700z. However, in June the Monday + Wednesday 2000z did something strange; although heard on the expected three frequencies early in the month, as in June of previous years, when searched for in the third week of June there was no trace of any of the sendings and was later found on entirely different frequencies. The problem with low levels of audio persists, often resulting in difficult copy despite a reasonably strong carrier but every once in a while E07 will turn up with really deep, almost broadcast quality modulation but it is often a case of "one performance only", returning to low modulation on the next occasion.

[Tnx PoSW]

Monday + Wednesday Schedule;-

Sunday + Wednesday Schedule;-

Thursday Schedule;-

RNGB’s logs for E07:

Others:

Now onto the E10 Desk, ably managed by Bob:

E10

From the pen of Bob we bring observations and analysis from our E10 desk:

E10 Desk For May 05

Freqencies and calls heard

MAY 05

Comments

KPA2 is now being heard on freq;s 10.352 and 12.223 (see above log) both new to me, though g0rgv (Richard) heard the same at 2016hrs on the 2/5/05 also. *SYN2 & VLB2 both swapped their lower band freq's at 2345 hrs but maintained 6930 & 6370 respectivly. MIW2 has reopened on freq 5339, and CIO2 on 5230.

A slightly different format from SYN2 on the 3/5. Commencing at 2343hrs one call, 2343 hrs +, two calls, 2344hrs two calls, 2344hrs +, two calls, then at 2348hrs as normal ending at 2351hrs. I also noted that VLB2 & CIO2 did not commence till 2347hrs

7/5 to 21/5 Visiting Family & Friends in Hong Kong, hence the gap in the log

A number of reports coming in confirming CIO ADF893Z645ZB being heard at some stage during its long transmission on freq's 4165 * 5230 * 6912 during the 23/5. Also CIO 98356 heard on the 22/5 on 6912 at 1957hrs. And a new freq for KPA2 on 13.555

23/5 YHF1 Heard at 2000hrs on 9202 5mins transmission no message, and on the 30/5, ULX1 on 4880 at 1900hrs no message.

Thanks to Ary Boender, Mike (West Sussex), g0rgv, Ian Wraith & Simon Parton. for their logs.

Also noted for the 31/5 at 2330z on 4461, E10 calling ART2, this then changed to VLB2 for 3-5 calls, then to FTJ for some minutes, followed by a 114 grp msg ( Thanks Fred? for your log)

E10 Desk for June 05

Frequencies & C/S Heard

June 05

Comments

VLB2 has been for what ever the reason, transmitting off freq ie 6369.7 AM/USB at 2145hrs during the last night or two.

*Entries for 1/6 0714hrs & 0730hrs from g0rgv. ( thanks Richard)

Sent in by RNGB covering a period during my absence in May for which many thanks.

©BMLongfield E10 Desk 27/06/05

[Tnx Bob]

RNGB’s E10 logs:

E11

Jochen announced via Group that a special one off ‘121’ message had been heard by a member of the German Branch of ENIGMA 2000.

The email reads:

Well done Frank !

E11b

Hand written message is PLondon’s original notes ‘taken at the time.’ In this first part of the message we see each group repeated [that includes 77777 stutter grp], next, each grp sent singly, perhaps as checksum? 184/33 184/33 184/33 184/33 184/33 Attn! 77777 77777 77777 77777 49807 49807 17987 17987 65073 65073 92006 92006 12040 12040 03346 03346 61971 61971 22618 22618 73751 73751 45279 45279 89210 89210 00094 00094 34616 34616 52490 52490 16941 16941 83363 83363 05181 95181 32176 32176 28489 28489 00745 00745 60518 60518 02058 02058 99255 99255 38202 38202 50230 50230 84151 84151 84304 84304 71042 71042 25740 25740 77777 77777 77777 77777 [33 grps inc stutter grps] Attn! 77777 77777 49807 17989 65073 92006 12040 03346 61971 22618 73751 45279 89210 00094 34616 52490 16941 83363 05181 32176 28489 00745 60518 02058 99255 38202 50230 84151 84304 71042 25740 77777 77777 OUT! At 0841z

E15

Revised Frequency schedule devised by Manolis Petrakis

And the phonetics used in station idents:

From MoK:

E17 No reports

E17z No reports

E23

AnonUK shares his E23 Chart to assist with the identification of the correct frequency. The frequencies stated are proved active by him :

E23 Frequencies and Times. All SSB

©AnonUK23050

Week 2 was M04 Not heard since September 2000

Since December 2004 skeds have become erratic, and may not stick to correct weeks. Some voice transmissions have been heard in week 2

Week 1 Usually starts on the first Monday of the Month, but there have been variations to this.

Times are not rigid, has been known to start as early as Hour + 52

[Tnx AnonUK].

Best frequency is usually 8188kHz. 3 weekly cycle starting on the first Monday of the Month. [See E23 entry in NL24].

E25 [From the E25 desk]

Frequency used so far: 9450 kHz, AM modulation.

ID 835 with arabic heard again!

- MoK reported us he heard the following:

E25 up today, may 6th ’05, signal absolutely horrendous, could only read in LSB once the music stopped but
music was readable in AM.
06/05/05,9450kHz, E25
12.37z YL Arabic singer i/p
12.47z start 422, 442, 242, 222 (some/all or combination) ??
12.51z m m m **** 1490 2610 4694 7507 4590 *333 5727 4*90
12.52:46 eom eotx.
Thanks MoK!

- Mike also heard E25 on may 13th ’05
Well thats a first! tuned in to 9450 for the E25 broadcast and got bad QRM from E11 on 9448!
Never expected a spy to block out a spy :-)
Anyway....
E25 did indeed come up on 9450 at 12:28, male calling what sounded like 909 27
But it was very faint, it was a AM signal but the best reception came from LSB until E11 started up.
The LSB signal was higher pitched than the USB one, the AM was there but difficult to copy.

- At 11.42 on mon may 23rd ’05 E25a made it’s appearance calling “785 76”. Tnx X.

- And another E25a heard by MoK, he writes:

E25 popped its' head above the parapat.
23/05/05, 12.03z, 9450kHz, E25 i/p only caught ending of 270 42.
weak noisy, wonder what time this one started ?

- Regular listener X reports:

On june 2nd ’05 E25a came up with a control message at 11.42z calling “785 79 80” for about 3 minutes.

Nothing else heard that day. No musical intro or ending.

- A very long message of 19 groups was heard by X on fri june 3rd ’05, starting at 11.58z. Note that the third and last groups are identical.

No musical introduction or music at the end.

275

Message (X3)

8057 9291 3810 6129 7980 7907 0272 0582 0107 2903

1705 5757 8944 8898 7417 0545 6313 2472 3810

Repeat (X3)

--- repeat of message ---

End of message / End of transmission.

Again a nice catch by X on thursday june 9th, 2005, at 12.00 UTC.

No musical intro

Calling 275

Message (X3)

3344 0331 8180 3813 0474 1580 4800 3064 6851 3936 0176 8180

Repeat (X3)

--- rpt of msg ---

End of message / End of transmission

On june 13th 2005 Monday Mike heard the following
11:28 9450 E25 Not clear Could hear the voice but unable to read.
12:01 9450 E25a 277 In progress.
I noted that to best hear this station you need to be in wide AM.

Thanks Mike.

Tom Heard a very interesting one via a web receiver, a female voice (or at least a different one)

A late log, heard E25 around 1235 UTC on the 11th of June with a YL announcer this time, I do not have any further details because I was struggling with a recording program and didn't take any notes. I find it a good log because of the YL announcer, usually its an OM.

Very nice Tom. This is the third voice know with this station.

A couple of days later Tom heard the same different voice:

Yet another intercept of E25 from web-based radio in Skurup SE on the 13th of June. This one I heard around 1203 UTC in progress, he was calling 277 and then read off a few 4 fig groups and then repeated.

Signal was very fady, I think this is the 3rd announcer I have heard so far.. he was shouting numbers in an excited manner.

X heard the new voice also, but now one day later on june 14th 2005 calling “270 25 26 277 27” over and over. Interestingly, this message was repeated one day later – the 15th – but now with the normal voice.

Yet another E25 log by Tom on the 14th of June. This time he caught E25a coming on at 1230 to 1234 UTC. OM announcer reading off a "control" message 909 28 29 for a few minutes then immediate signoff, signal was fady again but still copiable.

Both Tom and X intercepted E25 at it's 1140 sign on, good copy! June 16th 2005, thursday.

Boomed over WYFR. The man was calling 780 several times.
Then into;
Message Message Message
9451 0741 2510 7676 1856 6635 5417 1973 4966 4809 5119 5492 6262 4510
Repeat Repeat Repeat
(message again)
END OF MESSAGE
785 81 82 83 84 repeated several times
END OF TRANSMISSION! 1154 UTC

Tom had a very nice catch on thursday june 23 on an internetreceiver.

He tuned into E25 which started up at 1117 UTC. This time it came on with the Arabic music intro.

The live announcer came on calling "835" for a few minutes, then in English he says "message" 3 times. Then the 4 digit groups were all in Arabic I believe! Rather than English which is the norm.

Maybe E25 is not just English?

You are right Tom, this arabic man was heard earlier on tuesday february 8 2005 id 835, the same id. So it seems thare is one id which sends the message in arabic – id 835 - , all others are in english.

And a last one from Mike and ML, june 30 2005, thursday.

June 30th, 11.45z, 9450kHz, clg "722 27 22 29" ended 11.49:45

sig very weak, noisy, readable only with difficulty and content established from whole TX.

Tnx E25 desk!

G06

See AnonUK’s Chart shewn previously

Known schedules remain as ever, first Monday in the month 1900 + 2000 UTC, always with call "308" and the alternate Thursday 1830 UTC followed by a repeat of the message but with a different call at 1930 UTC on the following day. Searches to find possible transmissions on Saturdays and Sundays in the mid to late evenings UK time, observed in previous years, have proved fruitless in recent months.[Tnx PoSW]

First Monday in the Month Schedule

Thursday 1830 UTC Schedule;-

Friday 1930 UTC Schedule;-

Schedules for this station do exist:

First Monday of each month [2004]

[Repeated Tuesday if message]

Thursdays[2004]:

Friday[2004]:

[Friday Freqs are 4792, 5442 or 5934kHz and occur alternate weeks].

Saturday [2^nd and 3^rd Sats each month]:

Sundays

G22

Spanish lady: V02 and variants:

The Senorita from Havana has become somewhat unreliable in recent weeks; most of the long-standing transmissions heard in the UK early morning can no longer be counted on to appear every week as used to be the case.

[Tnx PoSW]

V02a

V02c

V02c schedule from MS:

V07

See AnonUK’s Chart shewn previously

Only report this time, from RNGB:

V13

In message 4573 dated 05/03 Ben Mesander wrote,

"For a while, V13 seemed to have timeshifted into slots where it was not possible to hear it at my QTH. It seems to have resumed at least some skeds that are possible to pick up in the western US. Check around 1100utc-1500utc on:

• 8300.0 kHz
• 9275.0 kHz
• 9725.0 kHz
• 11430.0 kHz
• 11433.0 kHz
• 13570.0 kHz
• 13650.0 kHz
• 13750.0 kHz
• 15388.0 kHz

Note that some of the above freqs are in error, but since it's been so many years since I monitored this station I can't remember the ones that are "real"."

[Tnx Ben]

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