ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 31

November 2005
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Beginners corner | German branch | Numbers predictions
Confirmed end user of number transmissions
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Report from our German branch

Many logs and one sensational event! - The report from the German Branch of E2K

Hallo liebe Kollegen und Freunde der deutschen Branche von E2K (Hello dear colleagues and friends of E2K's German Branch) the "Kopf" had a totally computer damage, which destroyed his hard disk! That's a pity, and it cost me a lot of nerves and time, but as you see here, a solution to this big problem is near. In the next week I will buy a new computer, and then I will be online in our group again - as busy as before. Anyway, many thanks to DanielE2Kde for log and volunteering and FritzE2Kch for his "mammot" logs, which we bring at the end of this report as usual.

The September was a mixed month of logs and one event; this event came at the end of the month. September began with an E10 string message "KPAC58D5", which was logged by DanielE2Kde, who presented it to me, as we met in Muenster - his QTH - on the last September weekend, and attached it to me in MP3 format. This string was monitored on September 15, 2006 till 2022 UTC, on 7605 kHz. Presumable it already began at 2000 UTC.

Two days later (September 17) it was E22 time again. Steve from Australia confirmed "BN2" at 1030 UTC(?). After this call, many hobbyfriends monitored the both freqs 15040 and 17387. All further calls, which came on this day ("HS5", "DY7", "GM5" and "NR9 (Niner)") can be confirmed by KopfE2Kde. As usual with strong signal (stronger on 15040 due to QRN on 17387).

Since mid-September, E2K's German Branch has a new member: PaulE2Kde, Delmenhorst/Northern Germany, better known as "Sancho Pansa" or "Don Quichotte". As you will see at the end of this report, he confirmed a very interesting E10 oddity at the end of October.

But now at last to the sensational event: On September 26, a man from Cologne/West Germany emailed me to tell me, that he is the owner of a real speech-Morse generating machine from 1985, built and used in the German Democratic Republic. He got it from an exhibition in Berlin, which was presented after Germany's re-unification. The man from Cologne played the voice function of this machine via phone to me, and I could find out, that the voice of G06 is used, which we also know from the last version of former G08. It was the first time for me to hear such a machine, which brings spoken numbers in an electronic way. The Morse function was not presented during this telephone call, cause I didn't ask him about it. Of course, I told the man from our numbers stations groups (especially our group), but also from the Conet Project. I informed Paul Beaumont and Akin Fernandez, the Conet Project moderator, immediately after this telephone call. I don't know, if Paul came in contact with Mr. Vreisleben, but Akin emailed him immediately, saying, that he would love to ask him hundreds of questions. Since the beginning of October I heard nothing from Mr. Vreisleben or Akin Fernandez again, but the contact especially to Mr. Vreisleben, the owner of this interesting machine, will go on!

In October I had almost two "logging weeks" during my vacation, till October 15, as my computer broke down. In October (and also sometimes in September) some XP skeds can be confirmed by KopfE2Kde, but unfortunately not all of them, cause I had vacation, and they usually come very early:-). So the 2-format msgs for example could not be confirmed by me.

In these "logging weeks", the both S06 skeds on on October 7(?) and 11 on 13550 kHz can be confirmed, also the 1830 E07 sked on 6926(?) kHz and one E06 sked. Further I can confirm a lot of the MX beacons in the week from October 10 till 14, so for example "A", which came as strong as the others like "C", "D" or "S" (more details about the confirmed MX beacons, see in the current E2K digest numbers or in this new E2K NL).

E03a changed its freqs
KopfE2Kde can confirm the new frequencies 17430 and 21865 with very weak signals, but readable. 12590 can not be confirmed, because of QRM through a RTTY coast stations.

X06

This station was found 4 times by KopfE2Kde: on October 14 on 9923 kHz in AM at 1500(?) with a well-known sequence. This one was repeated on the same freq some days later, but it was too short to record, and I don't have the time in mind any more, I only know, that it also came on the hour in the late afternoon. On October 18 on 17512 kHz in AM at 1500(?) with a rarer sequence (see also the logs of HFD, who I called during finding this station), on October 27 on 12110 in USB at 1030 till 1034 with a "6-note rising X06", which I only know from a recording, made in October 1983. In that recording it was in full AM and very strong but short, and on October 27 this year, it came in USB and went longer. Nearly at 1033, the signal stopped, and after a short break it came back for 6 rounds in full, and after the first half of the 7th round, it stopped. This sequence was sent again twice on October 31, first again on 12110, but this time in AM and a bit weaker than the transmission on Thursday before (monitored between 1048 and 1051 UTC, as it stopped), and then on 18349 in full AM and strong, monitored between 1106 and 1117 till it stopped; the carrier stayed there till 1146! After all 4 (5) monitored X06 transmission, there was nothing heard (no Morse, no RTTY or something similar).

S06 on odd freq

On October 18, KopfE2Kde could also monitor S06 on 19510 kHz at 1410 (see also in the logs of HFD, who I told this via phone). It was on a very high and odd freq, where S06 comes very rare, I think.

E10 oddities

In October, AlphaE2Kde, Erfurt/Eastern Germany, and PaulE2Kde, Delmenhorst/Northern Germany, could monitor odd things after E10 messages. AlphaE2Kde monitored a strange voice, saying something in an UNID language, on the 5820 "YHF" freq after the message. We couldn't figure out anything about what was said and in which language it was done till this E2K NL was edited. Anyway, it was monitored on October 16, after the 1800(?) sked. Some days later, on October 18, PaulE2Kde could observe similar things after the 1830 "PCD" sked on 8805 kHz. KopfE2Kde could find a double E10 on 4461 kHz on October 21, 2200, with "ULX2" and a 26 group msg for the usual "FTJ" (first group: SOXYG). Note, that the two IDs stopped to the same time, just before "message message" was said.

It's always the same: the computer gives up, when the numbers stations are most active! A kind of "effect of presentation" - grrr! But in the next weeks, all things will work fine again, I'm sure.

And now here is Fritz from Switzerland with his "mammot" work of logging Morse stations. For me it's time to say "Auf Wiedersehen bis zur letzten E2K NL Ausgabe dieses Jahres" (Good-bye till the last edition of E2K NL this year) Jochen Schäfer, the "Kopf" of E2K's German Branch

M01

M01A

M01B

M01C

M03 (text messages)

M10 logged sked (preamble available)

M12 logged sked (preambles available)

M13

M14

M24

M45

E10

From DanielE2kde:

[Tnx Daniel]

Thanks Jochen, Fritz and Daniel

Morse stations | Voice stations | Oddities | Polytones
Beginners corner | German branch | Numbers predictions
Confirmed end user of number transmissions
Verwaltung Aufklärung | E10 schedule research
HJH's watch | Secret service on the short wave | Killing of Colonel Callan
News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home