ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 30

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

Voice stations | Oddities | Polytones
German branch | Numbers predictions
July 7th, 2005 | E22 analysis
Slavic stations | Feedback
HJH's watch | A room in Berlin
News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
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Report from the German Branch

Hallo liebe Freunde und Mitarbeiter der deutschen Branche (Hello dear friends and correspondents of the German Branch)

It’s summertime, a time, where many of us have enough time to log stations, others have to work hard and can’t find the time to log. But also in this report there is much stuff from my correspondents and me.

In July, the whole ENIGMA2000 list stood “Kopf” (a German idiom, meaning, people are excited, banned, and have only one thought in mind): What’s with the renewed activity of E22?! – Cause I think, E22 will be mentioned very often in this E2K NL edition, here are only a few short notes from Germany:

This station was monitored especially by 3 people: Mike from SIS Germany, CarlozE2Kde, Saarlouis/Southwestern Germany (occasionally) and KopfE2Kde. The calls “PS5” and “YD6” could be found by Mike on July 16, and on the same day KopfE2Kde found “QT3”. CarlozE2Kde was very active in searching and monitoring E22, as his correspondence for the E2K group shows.

OTP Demo

DanielE2Kde, Muenster/Northwestern Germany sent me a OTP demonstration in form of an XLS file. It’s a pre-work for an article, which he wants to send for one of the next editions of E2K NL. This demonstration shall show, that OTP is the surest method to send encrypted msgs to a receiver, which are unbrakable for others, who don’t have the keys. With examples he showed, that it is possible with mathematical methods to encipher recent signs and so to create a text, but that it is not the text of the encrypted msg, which was sent to the receiver. - The XLS file Is in German, but Daniel looks forward to send an English version for E2K NL.

SIS Germany

The cooperation with SIS Germany goes on. Paul Beaumont sent an English explanation of what are numbers stations to SIS Germany, which I want to translate into Germany in the next time – hopefully already in September, but that’s not for sure, cause I have much to do in the next month, but I’ll keep it in mind. SIS Germany (www.sis-germany.de) is an international shortwave web page with the focus of utility (also numbers) stations. It’s presented in English and German. Everyone of you is invited to register and then to discuss with us. Cause the page was first created in March this year, there’s much work to do, till it has got a comparable status to other shortwave websites. Anyway, your contributions are always welcome. SIS also cooperates with E2K.

XP

Many XP skeds can be confirmed by KopfE2Kde. Unfortunately, XP had many 0-msgs in August, and only the last week of August there came a msg. In July there were more msg transmissions.

XM

It was monitored on August 10 at 0030 on 4474 kHz (USB) by DanielE2Kde from his vacation QTH in Cologne/Germany with a Yupitero MVT7200D scanner. He writes: “Squeaking sound like acoustic feedback with fast changing frequency; could hear a higher frequency component and a lower one, which resembles to speech”.

Unfortunately no X06 report this period, neither from my correspondents, nor from hobbyfriends abroad. Note: You can always contact me, if you find an X06 (see last NL).

Voice logs (by DanielE2Kde and KopfE2Kde)

E03 was reported from DanielE2Kde (Cologne) not only on the standard freq 12603, but also 13800 (also a standard freq?) with a msg for “40301”, first group: 75427. It came on August 7 at 1700 (USB). This freq payed my attention, cause I don’t know it as E03 freq.

E11 was monitored also by DanielE2Kde (Cologne) on August 9 at 1232 in USB on 9448 kHz with a 0-msg for “312” (312/00).

V2a was monitored by both DanielE2Kde (cologne) and KopfE2Kde (Friedberg/Southwestern Germany – my vacation QTH). Daniel found it twice on August 13 (i. p.): 1. at 0107 on 6768 kHz (USB), 2. at 2231 on 6797 (AM). On the same frequency I could find it exactly 3 days later at arround 2205 – also in AM and also i. p.

Strange station on 6869/6878 was monitored by KopfE2Kde on August 8 in the evening hours. There came a computerized mail voice, saying “385 6878), in the background a strange electronic Gong sound.This station – recognized as a French pirate station (thanks to Ary Boender) – was monitored in AM on 6869 by me, and in LSB on 6878 from another hobbyfriend from abroad (sent via group).

Morse stations

Monitoring Morse stations becomes more and more modern for our German Branch. Not only FritzE2Kch, our “foreign observer” from Zuerich/Switzerland monitors and reports them very detailed (also in this section at the bottom), but also DanielE2Kde (Cologne) and FrankE2Kde (Berlin). On August 3, Daniel found a station, what he presumed was M13. Here are his notes:

“Frequency: 6628 kHz [+/-], time: 0254 UTC, date: August 3rd 2005, mode: CW, S-range: 2-9, short zero, slow CW, ca. 1 second of break between the groups. [Text:] 50594 42674 15216 62875 27385 [..…] BT 757 (x4) […..] BT [...] 276 21 BT 60293 13060 58779 51345 42746 61081 31248 14416 25390 07145 60974 18442 50594 42674 15216 […..] BT 0 0 0 (end), mode: ICW”.

FrankE2Kde found: M14 on August 15 at 1701 on 6786 kHz:

“258(x3) 00000 (end 1704) CW”, and M12(?) 2 days later, August 17 at 1901 on 5131 kHz: “303(x3) 000 (end 1903) CW”.

And again Daniel (this time from Muenster) on August 21 at 2306 on 5232 kHz M62(?)

“MCW with 5fg and short zeros (T), excerpt: 10927 99385 78531 40760; strong S9+20 carrier, but weak modulation”.

And now the collected observations July/August 2005 by FritzE2Kch, Zuerich:

Little outlook for September

On September 3 there will be a big shortwave listener’s meeting at the “IFA” (International Radio Exhibition) in Berlin. I informed all numbers lists including SIS Germany, but only FrankE2Kde told me to come to the meeting. Hopefully, it will be successful. People can report about the different aspects of shortwave listening there. If it’s appreciated, I will tell them something about numbers stations.

Till the next report I say “Auf Wiedersehen” and “Good-bye”

Jochen Schäfer, the “Kopf” of E2K’s German Branch

[Tnx Jochen]

Voice stations | Oddities | Polytones
German branch | Numbers predictions
July 7th, 2005 | E22 analysis
Slavic stations | Feedback
HJH's watch | A room in Berlin
News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home