ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 31

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

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Voice stations

PoSW leads us nicely into Voice Stations with his whistlestop appraisal of a variety of stations.

The E06 English Man seems to be running at a very low level of activity; the only regular schedules I can find are the Sunday 1830 + 1930z,always call "690" and a first and third Wednesday in the month at 2100 + 2200z. This family of stations will stay on UTC with the ending of summertime on the last weekend of October so will appear one hour earlier local time.

The E07 English Man is still on at the usual times, i.e. Mondays and Wednesdays starting at 2000z, Sundays and Wednesdays starting at 1700z and Thursdays starting at 2010z. The usual E07 problem of low modulation continues making copy difficult, especially so when a transmission is located inside one of the broadcast bands as is often the case. This schedule usually shifts by one hour UTC when the clocks change at the end of summertime so as to turn up at the same local time.

The G06 German YL has been following her established routine on the first Monday in the month at 1900 + 2000z and the twice a month Thursday 1830z and Friday 1930z sendings. I logged the Saturday 2020z G06 in September thanks to Gert's prediction list but have lost track of it in October.

The S06 Russian Man continues with the well known U.K. evening schedules, the Tuesday 1630 + 1730z and 1850 + 1950z , second and fourth Saturday 1600 + 1700z and a Monday schedule, second and fourth Mondays in the month at 2115z which I think is the second sending; so far I have managed to miss the first at 2015z.

The S10d Czech YL follows the schedules similar to those logged in 2004 with changes as of September, mostly moving lower in frequency. Many S10d transmissions have become very weak signals in recent weeks and the occasional use of suppressed carrier mode adds a bit of variety. This station is expected to stay on UTC with the end of summertime and so will show up an hour earlier clock time with the onset of winter.

The V02 Spanish Language YL transmissions starting at 0500 and 0600z have become much weaker in recent weeks but no doubt this is the usual seasonal effect on propagation - although it does seem that some long established schedules have gone, or do not appear on a regular weekly basis as they once did. A transmission in the UK evening after 2000z on 7,887 kHz has been noted in September and October and this and other evening sendings may become stronger as we head into winter.

[Tnx PoSW]

Now onto the expanded 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.

E06

This English Man is nowhere near as active as his Russian speaking cousin; the only regular schedules of which I am aware in the UK evening time - no doubt there are others during the working day - are the weekly Sunday 1830 + 1930 UTC with call "690" and a schedule on the first and third Wednesdays in the month 2100 + 2200 UTC.

Sunday 1830 + 1930 UTC Schedule

First and Third Wednesday in the Month 2100 + 2200 UTC Schedule

[Tnx PoSW]

RNGB’s log:

E07

The E07 English Man continues with the long established schedules, i.e. Monday + Wednesday starting at 2000 UTC, Sunday + Wednesday starting at 1700 UTC and Thursday starting at 2010 UTC. The long-standing problem of low levels of modulation is still much in evidence and the strange practise of putting one of the three sendings inside one of the broadcast bands is a regular feature. The combination of low mod plus interference from a broadcast station usually contrives to make an E07 located inside the 31 or 41 metre BC band unreadable.

Monday + Wednesday Schedule

Sunday + Wednesday Schedule

Thursday Schedule

[Thanks PoSW]

Freqs for the Wednesday sendings also discovered by RNGB:
10128/9069/7519kHz at 2000/2020/2040z respectively. Message heard 105 687 29 40391 [Tnx RNGB].

RNGB’s log

Other E07 reports via mndbs and HJH

E10

E10 Desk for September 05

Frequencies list with C/S Heard (USB)

Other Activity

31/8 at 2230hrs on freq 4.880. ULX on extended call, this was ongoing until 2253hrs when a group message was sent.

At 2301hrs the call changed to PCD2 and ended one minute later at 2302 hrs.At 2304hrs ULX2 returned calling 3x only. (NFH)

From the logs of J.Chircop for Sept 05 I extracted the following info.

From the beginning to the end of the month repeated messages were constantly being transmitted by the same few Callsigns.I noted the following

The following were also logged for the 18th Sept

(Thanks JC)

18/9 at 1839hrs on freq 5339, MIW with a G14 message (MJUHT). This may have commenced at 1815hrs as I later caught a repeat at 2000hrs, the transmission ended at 2005hrs. Its also possible tha KPA was active at the same time though nothing heard by me (Initial log from Mike, West Sussex)

{As logged by Ary Boender)

20/9 at 0246hrs VLB2 working on 6930 + 5230 normally SYN2 & CIO2 freq's

Freq Variations USB

Observations on E10

Its very welcome to note other members monitoring E10 calls and raising comments through the group.

In all its not the most exciting listening post but its reasonably easy to monitor. The hardest thing is to try and make sense of it all, and just how is the intelligence accomplished. All below are not complete as there are a number of variations be it a number or a letter or both that I have ommited, these are the most frequently heard calls, there are also a number of exceptions to the expected transmission as one may soon encounter.

• CIO2 , SYN2 , VLB2 ( H+45mins) and KPA2 , MIW2 (H+15mins)
  All the above are Very Active but no messages it would appear are transmitted, the stn just repeats the c/s ie VLB2 for approx 5mins. On occasions this can go into an extended transmission for 1 to 3 hrs and has been known to go for 24hrs but no group messages are sent. (The 2 suffix would indicate null message.Then I ask why constantly go to all that trouble?)

• CIO, SYN, VLB, MIW, KPA
  This group of Stns are heard to a lesser degree but, I belieive are the main part of the working group and with having no 2 suffix may be expected to have some intellgence to pass on.
  Normally they come on the air with a 5mins call then may send a group message consisting of a number of 5 letter groups, these may repeated for over an hour or longer and during this time may change to a long string/special header ie CIOA2M2C4 (3 Feb 02) this I believe is where the intelligence may lie.

Looking thru my previous Year Logs 02 to 05 all the Special Headers I have recorded have been from the above Lesser heard stns. To my knowledge no other E10 C/s appears to do this. MIW being the lesser active within this department. The longest Header so far recorded was KPAE88211600K42211630 (Oct 20th 04)

Other Main Working Stations

The following transmit on the hour or at 30mins past or both.
ART. EZI. FTJ. JSR. PCD. ULX. YHF.

These groups are normally on time and do send regular group messages of different lengths. Some of these messages are constantly repeated by the same Stn over the whole month or longer ( Ian Wraith sends regular reports). All the xxx2 variations of the above send the normal 5mins call and no message. Again one might ask why the need to constantly repeat the same message over such a long period

Other E10 (Rare)

ABC, (Last Heard 3Feb 03) FDU + Variations and HNC + Variations, MPA (LH 7 Aug 04)

All these appear to operate on their own set freq each time, with no set opening times, and just transmit so they are pretty hard to catch. To whom the message if any is intended, they must have had previous instructions as to when the Stn would transmit being it so infrequent. (Signals Instructions etc?) Having said this,and looking through my previous records I have not once recorded anyone of them sending a group message, that is not to say it has not happened. There are obviously deeper reasons to which we are not privy.

E10 Desk For October 05

Frequencies List With C/S Heard (USB)

Freq Variations Noted

Comments

Frequency Swopping is not uncommon with the below callsigns.and the changes have commenced during this month. These are not permanant and will eventually revert to old owners with maybe the odd exception. Was this was due to reception conditions which are pretty ropey at the moment or just keeping the receivers on their toes? who knows.

2Oct at 1949hrs and 1954hrs on freq's 4648 + 6370 KPA79 (As Logged by Ian Wraith)

I have managed to hear very little this month, my location here in Kent seems to be in the no reception area, hence the rather meagre information. Also owing to current problems with my email setup, I do apologise to any person who may have sent in E10 info, but I have not received anything for most of this month which I would have included.

Many thanks to JC Malta for this contribution, for which I have just received (Thanks Paul) and gratefully add. Glancing through it I still see that PCD & JSR are sending the same group messages as sent in September and other repeated messages by EZI and ULX (*Repeated Messages)

©BMlongfield 2005

Thanks Bob – excellent as ever!

E11

To start, a copy of an email from Gert who wrote,

"Found an unknown E11 today, Thursday 25^th which I heard at 13.40z when it was already in progress with a message. It ended 13.42z so probably started at 13.30z. Frequency was 9179 kHz (a new one).Not sure if it will return on this frequency with a regular sked, could well be a one-off."

[Tnx Gert – excellent find].

[Note: Freq change for November – JoA has sent predictions – at end of E11 column].

*Accompanying this report Simon writes, “It was only about 1dB on the S-meter but the overall readability of the signal was good with minimal interference (man made or natural) which was lucky since that part of the band is usually cluttered with digital transmissions. The 1030z could not be heard because of nearby digital and radiotelephone traffic.”
Excellent catch Simon, thanks for sharing with us.

E11a

• 8544kHz 0830z 182 oblique 57 S6 with some QRM

"Attention (each group sent twice)
95986 00413 84641 21554 72626 38544 97104 6122186469 57806
27194 16049 80140 81308 42531 63885 82427 96120 04991 47535
73389 54984 35637 21275 24961 65760 52623 86144 47954 99403
33236 90954 03567 17809 75162 71804 77490 62622 73582 71076
44068 00169 35077 83050 56984 73810 39061 22739 90351 13749
19346 65945 11116 20117 28700 91971 57947.
“Attention (each group sent once only)
95986 00413 84641 21554 72626 38544 97104 6122186469 57806
27194 16049 80140 81308 42531 63885 82427 96120 04991 47535
73389 54984 35637 21275 24961 65760 52623 86144 47954 99403
33236 90954 03567 17809 75162 71804 77490 62622 73582 71076
44068 00169 35077 83050 56984 73810 39061 22739 90351 13749
19346 65945 11116 20117 28700 91971 57947

RNGB heard this E11a:

Call up was a good solid S9 then dropped to S4 at 10:35 Message began but shortly after this E11 suffered a sudden drop the S meter falling to noise level only! I left the tape running and at 1037z E11 came back up and finished the message and repeat.

Here is the message:

312 oblique 64
Attention.
04435 04435 34153 34153 30535 30535 19820 19820 80989 80989 74314 74314
26735 26735 1 ---------------------TX dropped------------ 97 60509 60509
97639 97639 56476 56476 65663 65663 93937 93937 93807 93807 18241 18241
88460 88460 76576 76576 76263 76263 84904 84904 35477 35477 89323 89323
06099 06099 25305 25305 87110 87110 97646 97646 39511 39511 11149 11149
95166 95166 22122 22122 32167 32167 48645 48645 51990 51990 54520 54520
69812 69812 04663 04663 52109 52109 22973 22973 75317 75317 45667 45667
47547 47547 78242 78242 70100 70100 57772 57772 84803 84803 30158 30158
44869 44869 53022 53022 78080 78080 78468 78468 18685 18685 72348 72348
45149 45149 85864 85864 74460 74460 62588 62588 89951 89951 12963 12963

Attention.
04435 34153 30535 19820 80989 74314 26735 18666 89935 12195 30580 49112
52322 64749 38797 60509 97639 56476 65663 93937 93807 18241 88460 76576
76263 76263 76263 84904 84904 35477 35477 89323 89323 06099 25305 87110
97646 39511 11149 95166 22122 32167 48645 51990 54520 69812 04663 52109
22973 75317 45667 47547 78242 70100 57772 84803 30158 44869 53022 78080
78468 18685 72348 45149 85864 74460 62588 89951 12963 OUT.

The above message was resent as

• 8544kHz 0830z 25/10 message below:

189/57
Attention.
95986 00413 84641 21554 72626 38544 97104 61221 86469 57806
27194 16049 80140 81308 42531 63885 82427 96120 04991 47535
73389 54984 35637 21275 24961 65760 52623 86144 47954 99403 
33236 90954 03567 17809 75162 71804 77490 62622 73582 71076
44068 00169 35077 83050 56984 73810 39061 22739 90351 13749
19346 65945 11116 20117 28700 91971 57947
Attention
Msg Rptd. [5f gps with strength as S4/S6/S3]

This was a repeat of E11a message on 04/10

[Tnx JoA]

AnonUK informed us that there was a 23 group message sent by the Morse sister of this station M03 on 8544kHz at 1300z using the rare 121 identifier. [121/23].

Mndbs writes, ‘Here is the message, the first part repeats each block of five numbers but I have shown them only once. I also noticed that the message is actually divided up with a pause between number blocks.

I have shown this below, its also repeated in the confirmation set at the end!

Three sets of twenty then one set of 10.

184 oblique 70
Attention

64600 37233 17142 13862 35844 02757 59772 05080 05410 39071
42266 54548 35859 00397 33360 49023 07794 22395 43090 42427.

80992 87300 09054 47639 66017 89999 15800 31127 90947 48766
94922 57060 19766 62584 64007 02768 66709 51331 72970 37303.

72057 51916 18255 68170 15875 15783 61353 55298 00932 30311
32040 29801 25853 79731 22228 47713 21668 97266 01890 25402.

98317 72872 77368 60847 50070 55377 85212 99800 25467 36612.
Out

E11b

E11 November 05
[Expected per JoA]

E15

Revised Frequency schedule devised by Manolis Petrakis

And the phonetics used in station idents:

MoK reports :27/09 carrier, with no mod, up on 11000kHz at 1301z, went down at 13:06.30z.

This is about the timing I would expect from E15, wonder if they've turned the wick down really low as last heard it 23 May, and I always check this one.

This sked last logged 23 May, probably started 11.00z and this was the repeat.

Possibly also on 6715kHz at 11:36.10z - 11:39.18z, snatches of what sounded as PAR in high noise sig & QRM from -3 & +2k, this is not a confirmed logging.

Today, 12 Oct, possible E15 at 11.00z, 18000kHz. This is based on my set locking onto a very low level carrier - in synchro mode, no audio heard, at 11:00.11z until 11:15.43z (typical E15 times) and SpecLab, in Plotter Mode, showing a carrier going in & out of the noise along with a previously noted 180Hz (3 x 60) tone.

E17

No Reports

E17z

No Reports

E22

[Definitive document available from Group Files]

Freqs: 15040//17385kHz [Note: This freq measured to be 17387kHz, pse correct your charts]

*Freqin ‘14MHz area’ possibly stated from analogue Rx and actually 15040kHz.

^Taken from an unreliable source.

‘late at 1006z.

On Sunday 11^th September at 1124z PLondon received a very short telephone message from DoK; he said simply, ‘Huge carrier 15040.’

PLondon immediately switched his Icom on and selected memory 30 for the quoted frequency. He was rewarded with a noisy carrier.

Then memory 31 [17385] was selected on his FRG-100. Nothing.

1. At around 1126z the carrier was heard on the FRG-100 and then the expected1kHz tone modulated the carrier, followed by the same on 15040kHz.
2. At 1130z [the 17m freq announcment led the 15m] an accented FEMALE voice announced ‘This is GM 5 GM5 GM5 GM5.’
3. At 1135z Some speech heard from YL [17m for PLondon – 15m too noisy]. Appeared to be Chinese type lingo – any Chinese Linguists out there?
4. At 1136z Carrier with het followed by FEMALE announcer ‘GM5 GM5 GM5 GM5,’ with carrier down at 1139z.

Immediately on close down PLondon notified Group and the next monitor on his contact list.

At 1227z the carrier was heard to rise on 17m followed by the 1kHz tone and then at 1230z a MALE announcement RM8 RM8 RM8 RM8 during which a guttural cough was heard. Then silence until 1237z when RM8 RM8 RM8 RM8 was heard yet again. On the last ‘RM8’ the carrier was removed, the sending ending at 1238z.

By this time the 15m freq was unusable as far as PLondon was concerned and the 17m was not much better. Listening for the expected final sending at 1325z PLondon heard nothing.

On 15^th September Simon Mason posted to group revealing the GM2 1030z transmission along with recordings from ‘Poacher’ apparently in Russia.

Solar Flux : 116 k   7.2   Stated LUF : 13.5MHz Stated MUF : 27.8MHz

Later PLondon received a soundfile from Steve in SE Queensland [Australia] which contained the RM8 sending. Not only was it surprising that E22 was audible in Australia but the last soundfile produced TQ4 at 1325z. [Tnx Steve – good stuff].

The failing transmission of TQ4 was also heard by AnonUK, who described the sending a very poor and noisy.

The sendings were sent when the geomagnetic field was active to extremely severe storm, whilst propagation on long distance northeast-southwest paths was expected to be poor. [Note NE to SE]. The measured indeces for this period [1200z] were k7.2 with Solar flux at 116.

A bearing was again taken independently of PLondon and found to indicate the general area of Algeria. PLondon looked at propogation from his QTH to Algeria.

Freqs 15040//17387kHz

• Note use of YL announcer
• Note use of OM announcer:

*GN2 definitely heard on 17387kHz

Although not shown as a documented intercept DoK monitored 15040kHz on 12/09.

This is what he heard:

1. 0830z
   Carrier up and down; Hum/raw AC content. Off at 0842z
2. 1226z
   Carrier up and down until 1227z
3. 1229z
   Modulated carrier up and down, with voices heard until 1232z.

PLondon checked his auto system and found evidence of an intermittent carrier with muffled speech on 17385kHz at 1230z.

Conditions were variable on both freqs.

Thanks to all concerned in the current E22 obs.

Identification of the UNID language heard during 1125z 11/09 [A two part tale]:

During the 1125z sending [GM5] 11/09 an apparent female voice was heard speaking an unknown language. Suggestions were made that it was Arabic or from MalcF, Hindi.

[Part 1]:

It was neither. Simon Mason took the challenge to be the first to have a translation and set about having the clip identified.

This is what Simon Mason posted to E2k:

 "It was a very old language. It is similar to language of Chinese Monk. However, the source of voice seems from Europe. It talked about little thing of India and financial ministry of EU in Europe. There was no politic in the message. It was financial business news. The message was too short to get rich from it."

[Thanks to Simon Mason for allowing E2k to use and to Poacher for supplying the original clip and gus@execs.com of the soc.culture.china newsgroup with the language ID - many thanks all].

[Part 2]:

PLondon supplied a clip of the sound file to speakers of a variety of tongues from the Far East, none of whom recognised the language.

One stated it was from the Indonesian area, she was familiar with the intonations used but not the meaning.

Another friend of PLondon, a fluent Chinese language speaker, born in Hong Kong, along with his Chinese wife heard the recording and read the intended E22 piece, stating immediately, “this is not Chinese, ancient or otherwise. Someone is taking the micky with the Chinese Monk bit according to my wife.” [Tnx Paul – your bus journeys will never be the same now]!

Enter Hui. “Could you listen to this for me, please?” “Of course.” The sample was played and Hui stated, “This is a newscast in theThai language that I speak at home. It’s very slow and needs speeding up.” [This does beg the question of how much the sound sample had been processed]? The ‘news reader’ was of Male gender.

[Speeded up to Hui’s satisfaction] ‘Notes made at the scene……………………’

The E22 unid language sample actually refers to the Eu matters of ‘India: Challenges and Opportunities' at the EU-India Business Summit New Delhi, India, 7 September and ‘Challenges and Opportunities for EU and China' at the Central Party School, Beijing, China, 6 September 2005

The above reads: “……… and small things from India ……. Mr Peter Manella [Peter Mandelson Eu MP]… after he had a meeting with Mr Tong Umnaj … Senior Minister from Paris to ask for European contribution……”  sample ends.

[Tnx Hui]

Solar Flux : 104 k   2   Stated LUF : 10.0MHz Stated MUF : 27.8MHz

On 17/09 at 1006z DoK was sitting by his receivers when he heard a carrier rise followed by a YL with an strong accent, possibly Far Eastern – Indian, who then gave a short newscast. DoK thought it sounded much like the cut-in on the GM5 transmision of 11/09. The interesting content was a short diatribe concerning the deportation of 42000 persons [Believed to be a newscast concerning the number of Somali refugees in the Yemen]. At 1025z this was followed by ‘Zulu November 2’. This was also heard by Steve in Australia – well done there – who duly posted to Group. Others then monitored the station. Idents heard are shown above.

It is noteable that DoK heard the first sending, no doubt as he did on 11/09. The time has not only changed from H+55 for carrier to rise to H+25, but the transmissions now occur 90 mins later [poss loss of one sending]. Six transmissions were originally received on 16/07 and perhaps showed the full extent of a scheduled sending. That same sending has apparently moved 90 mins as conditions change but note only five sendings.

On the last sending of 17/09 the carrier strengths on both freqs rose dramatically as shown from the spectrum analyzer plots from PLondons PC rx screen. [Note also the freq display of 17387kHz].

1025z [15040 top 17387 lower]	1425z [15040 top 17387 lower]
©PLondon170905
Note the increase in carrier amplitudes at:	1025z 15/17 respectively: 41/39dB
	1425z 15/17 respectively: 47/43dB

Either the wick was turned up or a directional antenna is being employed. If the former it suggests a commercial transmitter, perhaps at a radio station, and possibly used without the knowledge of the bosses.

That at least would explain the cut in newspieces and such phrases as heard before. [Especially the Thai piece since identified].

PLondon discovered he could listen to both freqs comfortably on his Sony SW55 and used this to take a bearing. It was 187º, indicating the direction of Algeria

It must be noted that the hum that heralded the advent of sendings in July has not appeared this time. The entire operation now seems more proficient.

The transmissions on 17/09 were not only heard in Australia, but also in Japan, Crete, Nederlands, Germany and Great Britain. That the signal can be put into both hemispheres perhaps indicates a central point as this Algeria centred Azimuthal map indicates:

The red line indicates the short path to Japan; Australia and elsewhere can be easily found due to the large landmass!

No further E22 transmission for rest of September but on 27/09 strong carrier, S9+ up on 15040kHz, 1315.10z. down 1316. 51z reported by both MoK and DoK

DoK sent in his E22 report:

Since the advent of Arab Man I have been monitoring both frequencies from 0800z to 1800z, and sometimes later. This has tied up two receivers and has meant my having to change some of my procedures and scheduled routines in connection with M10/S10d.

Since the last full transmission of E22 on 17^th September 2005 only brief carriers have been heard, as follows:

To avoid any confusion, these signals were way above the weaker BC carriers that can be heard later in the afternoon, propagation permitting.

The signal strength on these transmissions has been S7 to S9 with the BC carriers not registering.

Having reached the point of finishing this report [wed 26/10] the following applies:

Thanks, DoK for your most valid reports.

PLondon adds:

Derek rang me on the occurrence of the 26/10 but unfortunately I was in bed thanks to a nasty cold. However the occurrences of 19/10 and 22/10 were both downloaded from my auto recorders – they were hefty sendings – apparent on a 3 m wire chucked up above a bookcase.

Another last minute entry: 28/10 15040kHz Whilst in conversation with PLondon discussing the Slavic Chart and E22 the *usual* raising of an intermittent carrier occurred between 1344 to 1346z again. Both noted the signal with background voice and music unfortunately too weak for ident purposes. PLondon took a quick bearing on his shack system which produced a null bearing of 180º.

E23

E23 Frequencies and Times. All SSB
[From AnonUK]

©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].

E25

[From the E25 desk]

From now on a message will only be shown once – without repeat – as we all know the message is always repeated. In case a repeated message is different it will be shown complete.

ID’s used with messages so far (new ones are underlined:
222 275 440 555 720 730 780 835 (arabic counting) and 906

ID’s used with control messages so far (new ones are underlined):
200 209 220 227 270 272 276 277 377 440 442 557 784 785 788 830 837 905 909

Transmission times: any time between 11.00 and 15.00 UTC. Likes 12.30 and 12.45. More transmissions on one day possible.

Only one frequency in use: 9450 kHz, mode AM.

E25a = control message (for example 277 2 or 788 96 97)

Null message: calling 280 over and over for 5 minutes. Preamble with id possible

All transmissions can start with a musical intro lasting between 3 and 20 minutes.

So far there seems to be three different voices.

• Voice nr.1 is a deep male voice.
• Voice nr.2 has a higher voice (but defenitly male) and sounds more ‘enthousiastic’.
• And there is a voice nr.3 which sounds very high pitched, almost female.

In short

For the period september and october 2005.

In detail

ML heard the first E25 in September with an E25a control transmission.

Heard on thu September 1^st.
Weak, deep fades, high noise, the "older" OM.
12.45z carrier up with 1k tone
12:44.33z tone dropped
12:45.28z music start, poss YL singer.
12:49.00z TX start "220 3 5" ,long pause 3 to 5 presumed separate figs rather than 35.
12:52.40z ends, no sign-off, carrier down

September 2^nd we received this log from ML:

Very weak,deep fades - sinking into noise, freq drift, high noise, same voice as yesterday. QRM exeptionally high this morning.
Fri 02/09/05, 9450kHz,

1. 12:38.00z carrier up
2. 12:41.45z 1k tone
3. 12:42.30z tone down
4. 12:44.00z music with singer (poss two)
5. 12:48.50z TX start "222" R
6. 12:52.54z m m m "6042 etc" 24 gps, repeated
7. 12:55.20z eom
8. 12:55.30z "220 3 5 6" R (long pauses as yesterday)
9. 12:56.12z eot, carrier down.

X heard E25 with a long message on fri, sept 9^th starting at 12.45z. Male with the deep voice.

222 222 222
M m m
6049 9291 8310 5825 9572 2379 0944 0926 3473 6896
7796 6685 4338 2259 9193 3589 1776 5977 8310
Eom eot.

ML reports:

• 15/09/05, 9450kHz, E25,very weak, deep fades, possible mis-reads.

11:44.00z carrier i/p
11:46.00z 720 R (deep voice)
11:49.19z mssg 947* 1001 429* 2263 3447 6*93 5966 9725 9492 **90
rpt
11:51.15z eom, eot, carrier down. (no mike taps heard)
11:58.30z carrier up again, signal worsening, high noise.
12:01.00z 277 1 R, same voice. had to read using DSB
12:05.25z 4 taps on mike, carrier down.

Another interesting log from X heard 19^th september, starting 12.50 UTC with a combined E25a control message and an actual message:

227 5 8 9 10 (spoken as one-zero) repeated for 2 minutes, than into a message:
222 222 222
M m m
9122 1381 6210 7285 7530 8812 4373 9180 7691 7795
7673 2233 6413 2661 2087 5355 5217 6212
Eom eot

Note the slight difference between the third and last group, an error?

Log from ML heard on 20/09/05, 9450kHz, 12:44.00z, E25

12:44.00z Arabic music & singer, v weak, deep fades, high noise floor.
12:49.20z Music stops
12:50.00z "222" R, older OM
12:53.00z mmm, **22 1**1 *210 72** (stopped trying to copy)
12:56.12z rrr
12:58.52z eom eotx

This is a repeat of a day earlier (the 19^th sept).

Another one heard by ML on september 21^st:

12.45z E25 sked, just above the (high) noise floor and mainly u/r
12:46z i/p music
12:48.00z "227" R, older OM
 227 227 *9 *2 27 12 14 15
 (assembled from whole TX)
end time not established, poss about 12.52z

X heard E25a on sept 25^th at 11.45z calling 785 3 4 for a couple of minutes.

This one was hear by TomH and ML on 27-09-2005 1158 -1209
Intro "Eastern" music with Announcer "1" (Excited voice)
Called:
277 2
275
Then he went into calling "275" after a few minutes

"Message message message"
3344 2801 9540 1259 3675 2350 5013 8021 6333 9540

REPEAT (x3)
--- rpt of msg ---
End of message, end of transmission.

This transmission was also intercepted by ML but with a little difference in the message:

12:07.00z
275 275 275
m m m
3344 2301 9540 1259 3675 2350 5013 8021 6333 9540
r r r (rpt of message)
eom eotx, carrier down (end 12:09.12z).

TomH heard this one on 4 oct 2005 at 1244-1251z on a dx-tuner in Sweden.

Message for 780, om announcer.

M m m
9152 3011 0510 6060 0846 8779 7656 7369 6859 1222 0510
R r r
--- rpt of message ---
End of message, end of transmission.
Off immediately 1251z.

Mike reported this one a day later on wednesday oct 5 2005 at 13:48z

222 222 222
M m m
2172 2890 6110 7641 4267 8687 6430 5604 6110
R r r
--- rpt of msg ---
End of message end of transmission
Carrier still up at 14:02

Another one heard on 10 Oct,12:04.30z, very good sig, older OM.

Missed start.
12:04.30z, 275
12:04.35z, m m m
9233 3301 9450 1259 3675 2350 5013 8021 6333 9540
12:05.50z, r r r
12:07.09z, eom eotx, carrier down

Thanks ML.

Report from Mike. Time 12:00z, oct 11 2005.

275 275 275 275
Message message message.
9433 3301 9540 1259 3675 2350 5013 8021 6333 9540
Repeat repeat.
--- rpt of msg ---
End of message end of transmission

This message was repeated a day later, october 12, also at 12.00z and reported by ML.

October 12 E25 was noted with music at 11:25z by Mike. He writes: ”I don't have time today to listen, should be a 12:00 TX” which was later confirmed by TomH who tuned in too late but heard the final groups of a E25 message. ML heard the complete message:

11:59.55z 275 275 275 R (older OM, very good with some fade).
12:03.00z started speaking "275" a bit faster
12:03.51z m m m
repeat of Mon/Tue (oct 10 and 11) "9233" etc
12:06.27z eom eotx, carrier down

Simon Mason heard an E25 on oct 14^th and reported it was a message for ID 275.

And the last E25a for this month is heard by ML on tue oct 25^th starting 12.47z.

Older OM, generally good sig.

442 9 440 ??
442 1 440, all x 10
12:50.00z 44 ????????
No repeat, did not hear eom eotx

About the purpose of the control messages I have the idea that there is a possibility that the 'control-id's' are linked to a different 'message-id'.
Some are really close to each other,suggesting a kind of link. For example:

Contol id Message id
220 227 222
270 272 276 277 275
830 837 835 (in arab)
905 909 906

It might be possible that the first two digits of the control-id are related to the msg-id and that the last digit of the control-id is some sort of time and/or day indicator. Any idea’s welcome.

Thanks everyone for their effort (in random order): Mike, ML, X, TomH and PL.

Finally MikeL send us this E25 snippet from his shack:

• Oct 31st, 9450kHz, 10.57z +
  noticeable minor freq drift this morning making audio difficult to follow without constant "tweaking"

10:57.00z	carrier & tone up
10:59.00z	275 R
11:04.20z	m m m , then had to answer door, a bunch of "Holy Joes" !!!****~~~~.
11:07.40z	eom, eotx

A second E25 arrived this morning, by now all the kit was switched on, analysis showed a 38Hz "slow oscillation" of the carrier and reception was best in DSB, also allows me to "inject" a tone to track carrier.

• Oct 31st, 9450kHz, 11.43z.

11:43.00z	carrier noted i/p
11:45.00z	780 R
11:48.00z	m m m
	9344 4080 7170 2558