ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 32

January 2006
Articles, newsreports and Items of interest :enigma2000-owner@yahoogroups.com

Morse stations | Voice stations | Oddities | Polytones
E2K master index | German branch | Numbers predictions
E03 & E03a prediction charts | E22 uncovered | An interesting piece
G06 schedules over a year | E11 schedules over a year
Numerals | If it had not been for 15 minutes (1/6)
News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home

Oddities

Few direct logs this time, but excellent coverage on XSL. Thanks to all those who posted their logs direct to E2k or via Group.

Backward music station

Nil Reported

Carriers

Nil Reported

Crackle

Nil Reported

Frogs[XFR]

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

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]

A majority of X06 intercepts can be found in Jochen's German Branch report at the beginning of this Newsletter

PoSW had limited intercepts of this selcall system:

RNGB submitted the following log:

[Tnx RNGB]

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.

Defunct site <http://www.geocities.com/hfasia/files/Japanese-PSK.html> described the Slot Machine as Japanese PSK with a Vertical bandwidth of 3kHz. It stated frequencies in use as:
4152.5, 4231, 4290.5, 6249.5, 6416.5, 6444.5, 8312.5, 8587.5, 8703.5kHz

Mndbs has been monitoring XSL and started a bit of a trend amongst other monitors. Tom Norris sent this in and asked a question to boot:

Nearly every morning I can copy all freqs of XSL regardless of current solar conditions. The list below are the usual freqs, though I've heard a couple more - 6714 and 8266 - with only sporadic traffic. Are there additional frequencies that I should also be monitoring?

[also posted to Spooks]

Further activity adequately recorded by Tom Norris is US – and read his interesting Grey Line commenst too:

XSL 13/11/05 Sunday

-- 14 Nov --

Tom NU4G

Manchester, TN USA

MISC NOTES -

For daily or semi-daily logs, listings are arranged by time heard. Logs taken more frequently toward local grayline.

13 Nov - local noise floor rose near local noon - near 1700 - masking very weak, noise-level signals on 8312.5 and 8587.5 signal levels rising back to near noise floor by 1930. On 8587 14 Nov 0300 very strong signal Spanish language voice heard on freq (sound like fishermen.) Also a popular area of 8 MHz for chirpsounders throughout the day.

14th @ 0400, every thing slowly fades down below noise til inaudible by 0430 then slowly back up to strong S7 at 0444z 4231.5, 8703 have dota modem most of the time. Toward 0900, XSL starts to come up out of noise as this modem signal goes down in strength. Local noise floor started coming up around 1120.

EQUIPMENT NOTES --

Unless otherwise noted, receiver bandwidth setting is 1.8 kHz IF bandwidth filter setting, soft rolloff.

The IF setting noted at the bottom of a log section is used for that entire section.

Noise reduction is set at 50% for all readings unless otherwise noted. Receiver is IC-756 ProII and antenna is B&W broadband end fed vee pointed N-S.

[Tnx Tom]

From Fritz Nusser

S32 [prev XSW squeaky wheel]

Nil Reported

Morse stations | Voice stations | Oddities | Polytones
E2K master index | German branch | Numbers predictions
E03 & E03a prediction charts | E22 uncovered | An interesting piece
G06 schedules over a year | E11 schedules over a year
Numerals | If it had not been for 15 minutes (1/6)
News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home