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

Voice stations

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

We start with PoSW’s comment and then move onto the logs proper:

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

First and Third Wednesday in the Month Schedule;-

Thursday Schedule

Other E06 transmissions;-

[Tnx PoSW]

RNGB’s E06 log:

• 4580kHz 1930z 20/11[690 587/325 long message ending at 2029z] mndbs

70099 81522 75267 82509 61451 71436 33442 94315 47163 03083
78076 04099 87184 87024 04725 80768 58731 15292 04741 08569
04914 53007 53244 53969 09054 56510 85419 77540 90149 30268
87636 64087 47413 79479 33753 21181 84284 06293 81698 04677
77420 21712 31098 35133 99329 93867 25164 81699 63911 90571
39788 03508 55088 60756 88996 88484 21150 07580 25047 08147
22107 77382 37068 81629 34602 07989 02048 06615 29507 11464
93377 58499 43608 03623 72981 71711 75719 68860 49998 78992
97338 09071 72819 10426 21067 33290 65138 04498 62011 47801
15050 25288 35426 23452 77638 18504 89929 63278 47664 77196
98016 65225 73020 56428 27746 55226 46224 24653 39063 85865
52943 06457 92647 91066 35484 00903 73163 48215 28505 18806
01147 61983 49462 56236 18825 12377 83091 48449 99361 65708
91647 92406 61544 91453 70749 29755 39267 33181 88352 12883
82522 52187 69799 93493 21194 17563 81709 97612 55845 38962
77900 10848 14469 28979 56855 37169 09960 63726 64981 55814
29076 73267 73952 02609 07714 68816 73488 06098 71496 82498
34315 62820 49607 00315 65066 36523 07604 73588 43138 82920
93710 40073 86777 71642 03359 14092 33454 07740 33793 08992
50198 02814 49967 87259 20481 46647 00226 09589 53979 99051
57217 18430 64544 22999 30768 48668 91420 96023 51521 91707
59421 03300 58076 72192 34011 19669 96631 15098 38185 71635
13230 48770 17396 09443 29047 72383 99995 98752 70836 94088
39746 71024 01406 57546 25282 84579 61370 40784 54677 26652
44496 84113 90712 19337 86075 87858 97711 86638 62803 45923
40974 74476 43343 54589 29160 51288 74445 04738 24314 08582
20263 64448 05858 52838 91396 38299 46848 05425 00861 16620
04636 66070 71555 20512 15142 62515 23031 60776 35737 75187
94265 01142 01499 90514 84713 17004 78653 37440 87017 83610
55229 95932 78496 31779 78670 29686 73301 43433 63424 84861
00315 52251 36277 38125 38333 37275 57495 93077 14009 09248
34659 42595 27228 24448 44388 09296 88926 52561 76744 95047
36877 16660 56584 95440 59499 587 325 00000.

IW wrote in answer to mndbs posting,

"Interesting to see another long E06 message after so many nulls. This one is unusual in that although it has a normal distribution of 0's, 1's, 2's etc etc but the group 00315 is repeated twice and it contains the groups 94315 and 34315. So we see the group xx315 a total of 4 times in 325 groups. I doubt if it has any meaning but the odds against it seem high."

Note – to show a snip of E06 activity these logs, from AF, Germany are in day order for November.

E sends:

E07

E07 continues in December with the usual schedules, i.e. Sunday and Wednesday starting at 1800z, Monday and Wednesday starting at 2100z and Thursday starting at 2110z. The problem of low modulation levels continues, often making copy extremely difficult or even impossible, especially so when a transmission is located inside a broadcast band as is often the case. It is hard to understand why someone would waste so much time and effort week in and week out transmitting a signal which is unreadable.

Sunday + Wednesday Schedule;-

Monday + Wednesday Schedule

Thursday Schedule

[Tnx PoSW]

November logs from RNGB:

Others…

E10 desk for Nov 05

Frequencies and C/S Heard (USB)

Freq Variations USB

Further freq moves during NOV

Comments

• 31 Oct 05
  YHF was heard for 2mins on freq 6370 kHz at 0131-0133hrs no message sent. (Normally KPA2 freq)
• 08 Nov 05
  Mike L reports that KPA2 came up on 6912 kHz at 2117hrs ending at 2120hrs the carrier staying up till 2145hrs. (Normally MIW2 Freq)
• 09 Nov 05
  at 2100hrs on 5091 kHz PCD with a G50 ZCMSX (Normally JSR freq) Extremely good signal, ended 2121hrs. At 2130hrs JSR was back on freq 5091 kHz with a much weaker signal and a G104 message.
• 18 Nov 05
  at 2200hrs on 6575 kHz HNC-S 5mins transmission no group message weak signal.
• 23 Nov 05
  at 2115 hrs on 5230 kHz KPA2. (Another freq move)

As you may have gathered my approach towards E10 is on the lighter side though I do try to be accurate in what I say or write when sending the logs for our excellent newsletter. I mention this because in NL No31 there is a very interesting E10 contribution that goes into much more depth of study covering a number of callsigns and the pattern of transmissions and I hope that authors AlphaVax & MysticOne will be able to continue this for future issues.

Logs from Ian Wraith

1. 16th Nov 2005
   6840 kHz E10 EZI at 19:00 with a 82 group message starting ZCTJQ
   6986 kHz E10 ART at 19:30 with a 37 group message starting CWGPI
2. 17 Nov 2005
   6840 kHz E10 EZI at 19:00 with a 82 group message starting ZCTJQ
3. 18th Nov 2005
   6840 kHz E10 EZI at 19:00 with a 82 group message starting ZCTJQ
   6986 kHz E10 ART at 19:30 with a 37 group message starting CWGPI
   Note : I first logged the ZCTJQ message on November 4th and the first CWGPI message on October 2nd.

Logs from JC Malta

This months logs submitted from JC Malta were quite extensive. Covering a period from 31/10 to 19/11 showing the normal expected traffic from the various stations. However what was still apparent was the long standing Repeated Messages ongoing since September 05 from JSR, G100 WMNPP + G23 GUWHH and G89 JMHZM. Also from ART G37 CWGPI and G67 CINMA. Also During the above period EZI G82 ZCTJQ appeared each day.

E10 desk for Dec 05

Frequencies and C/S heard (USB)

Oddities

Comments

• 13 Dec 05
  at 2354hrs on freq 6428 ABC one of our more rarer callsigns transmitting c/s only (ongoing at 0100hrs 14 Dec 05))
• 14 Dec 05
  at 1620hrs on freq 6428 ABC (Still ongoing at 0125hrs 15th Dec) Fading in and out of background noise.
• ABC was also reported by Ian Wraith, Fritz Nusser and Tom H. Catching this one is a bonus as there appears to be no schedule as such, you just keep listening in on the last freq heard and hope to pick it up.
• Looking thru my records between Dec 2001 and Sept 2002 ABC was heard 45 times in most cases transmitting for hours on end mainly on 6428KHz but also on 5170 & 5230KHz no group messages were ever sent This stn goes from lots of activity once operating to long periods of absence a difficult one to catch. Feb 2003 was the last time I heard this stn till now. ABC2 was last heard on two occasions the 5th/ 6th of Aug 02, I have not heard it since

Thankyou to everyone who sent in their E10 Logs during the 2005 year I did look through them and added the good bits to the E10 Logs during the various months, with I hope giving credit to the right persons where due ie:- J Chircop Malta,, Mike L, Ian Wraith, Tom H, Fritz Nusser, (First time for ABC) Ary Boender, Mike West Sussex, g0rgv (Richard), RNGB, John Crow and not forgetting Paul B for his supporting comments.

Year log for 2005

E10 Monitored Networks & Callsigns Jan 05 to Dec 05

As at 21 Dec 05

String Variations

Call Sign. Date Last Heard & Frequencies Used

Happy Christmas to you all [Thanks Bob, and Seasons Compliments to you and yours]!

BMLongfield E10 Desk 21 Dec 05

©BMLongfield E10 Desk

Now onto…….

E10 Message analysis from AlphaVax……………………..

Today i wanna write about some observations with E10 messages.

Logging since 3 years, i got many messages. The last 4 weeks of logging i begun to typethem into computer files directly. The other are currently not on computer. Analysing the messages i observed interesting things. Summarized the things are the following:

1. the messages belong to different callsign mostly
2. they occured all nearly the same time (date)
3. most of them are still running
4. they contain the 'same' groups, but all slightly less or more 'changed', as described below.

I proceeded monitoring these slots, currently only 1 message was changing, the others are still the same.

Lets go to detail, showing what slots are relevant:

As one can see and to my currently complete daily analysis of each E10 callsign, no other callsign (EZI,PCD,YHF) transmitts messages with such

properties shown below.

The frequencies show us that they targeted to nearly the same region.

Now i will transcribe the mostly short messages to show whats going on:

I give each number a unique id, so we can identify them easy now.

(*)= message sent until Oct. 22, then since Oct. 29 sent again. Between ART2 was sent..

Mysterious thing too, indeed. But the same thing happened with FTJ 0100z slot in past too.

(**)= Message number 9 comes into play at November 20th! Before the messages in PCD slot 1630z were

normal messages with no special properties. But since then it changed to a messages with the special properties as observed in the other slots since month. The thing is getting more mysterious now. But with a more long time observation we can learn more I hope.

Now let’s show the messages with its ciphertext:

As one can see, the groups are slightly other, some are equal.

This interesting fact rises some questions. At first, the first group is not an coded agent-id as i thought earlier.

It can not be an OTP encryption. May be its a special codebook encryption or things like that?

And are these special encoded messages targeted to some equal region?

This would mean, that the different call signs didn’t cover a unique target area for its own.

In the next section i show the next 2 messages, where the same thing happened, but the groups are 'shifted', but nearly the same as above.

Example:

Above we have HzJZF, in the messages presented next we have: QHZJZ.

The slots relevant are the following:

The messages relevant are:

Transcription of messages:

As one can see, the same thing as above, but the the shifting one right.

Look at messages 1 and 3! They are nearly the same!!! But very different time and call! Great, isn't it?

So we have now 10 different slots with such special properties of the cryptograms!

May be we found more during our E10 analysis. This gives us the interesting questions as mentioned above.

I think this observation is an interesting effort i made in analysing E10 messages.

I will extend my computer software to find out more interesting stuff.

Discussions, speculations and interesting thoughts are welcome.

I remembered the groups like KEEDL or KEDDL and PEDEF from the past years! I will search these messages in my archive and analyse them too.

[Tnx AlphaVax]

Alpha then sent results of his interesting analysis:

Hi number fans, here a nearly complete actual E10-message grid!

It would not be possible without the great help of my Italian project-friend MysticOne!

Big Thx to him again from here.

Working was divided in 75% of messages logged from me and 25% from MysticOne.

The actual grid shows 173 messages, 13 are repeats, so 160 messages total sent from a total of 279 slots.

This is of course a little varying from time to time, but it shows what happens on E10 daily.I wrote on messags changes in the intro to the skeds. I started the grid in October and hold the slots mostly up-to-date, until MysticOne completed the rest of the slots.

• --- means: nothing send
• 2 means: idle
• : means: message not received yet,

All others gives the group count and the first message group.

Regards,

EZI a.k.a alpha.

[Tnx AlphVax]

E11 November 05

[per JoA]

H-FD has supplied ENIGMA 2000 with a derived yearly schedule. It appears at the end of this Newsletter.

E11a

E11b

E15

Revised Frequency schedule devised by Manolis Petrakis

And the phonetics used in station idents:

AND!!! An intercept from Mike mndbs:

“Queen Baker Union (then) Oscar Susan Susan (back to) QBU (from 12:39) TX ended! Very weak, but rising out of QRM/N every so often.”

Now read Mike mndbs’ E15 Observations:

Ever since joining the Enigma 2000 group I have been fascinated and frustrated by the ever so elusive E15.

Even when I have managed to hear it the strange pronunciation of the old style phonetic makes it very hard to understand!

Still that’s part of the attraction of the station for me.

I have posted to the group a number of times regarding the tone I can hear on 18000 kHz this was usually the best frequency for me to hear E15 on its 11:00 time slot.

However this tone has been up for some time and on the 25^th November I found it was giving me a S8 and of course blocking out E15 that usually comes in at S3.

I asked about possible jammers for E15 or was it someone trying to hide E15 from us?

Quite a bit of discussion took place on the group as to what the tone might be. See group messages 7420 onwards
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/enigma2000/message/7420

29/11/2005 Tuesday at 12:30 all my persistence paid off! On 11170 at 12:30 I caught E15 calling (so I thought) Queen Baker Union (then) Oscar Susan Susan then back to QBU. 12:39 TX ended! Very weak but rising out of QRM/N every so often.

Fortunately Mike L corrected my observation and pointed out that what I had in fact heard was QRU (Queen Robert Union) i.e."I have nothing for you" a Null TX.

This shows how very careful you need to be if you are lucky enough to hear E15.

There is a brilliant guide to E15 by Manolis Petrakis to be found in the group’s files section.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/enigma2000/files/Guidance%20Docs/ called E15.pdf

Tnx Mike!

E17

E17z

And a write up of E17 logs from mndbs:

Mikesndbs E17 intercepts.

Group member GD kindly told me that E17 would be on its 08:00 Thursday 11170 schedule.

My first time with E17 proved interesting!

Carrier noted at 07:45. Windows critical stop sound at 07:50 Tones and odd low buzzes during tune up.

E17 was in AM but I had to switch to USB as there was a seemingly deliberate tone up on LSB.

10/11/2005 Thursday on 11170 at 08:00 E17 calling 674, 253/8.

The curious accent of the female voice struck me when she says ‘five’ it sounds almost an American.

Anyway she came up and passed 674. 253/8 87523, 04677, 03075, 64455, 25505,62808, 55428, 75552.

253/8 00000 the family resemblance to E06/07 was clear! However the signal was not that strong and I miss heard the fourth group as 84455 and only discovered this when I was cleaning up the recording for my web page.
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/thesecretsiteofmike/num/01/spy01.htm

The next time I heard E17 was the following Thursday (17/11/05) again at 08:00 on 11170 this time the lady sent 674, 674, 674, 0 0 0 0 0 So this was a null message! Once again conditions were a challenge and I had to use USB to hear her properly.

Group member Tom PA, USA also heard E17 on an internet radio in Southern Sweden.

Tom commented on the voice saying “Why is it that the voice sounds so different? I'd have to compare it with my recordings on my archive CD's”

What did you find Tom?

24/11/05 on 11170 at 08.00 E17 again calling 674,674,674, 00000. Tone up at 0737 674 called 0747 and 0748. Weak, readable, on my Sony 2001D using the MiniWhip antenna.

December 1^st produced E17 with a message! Fq 11170 UTC 08:00 E17 calling

674, 674, 674, 674 239/8
45243 57598 58624 68493 38842 58873 63538 34254 239/8 00000.

I noted a 674 call at 07:44 s30 much slower almost male voice! Call made again at 07:45 s45 with normal female voice.

Noted that I got best reception with my loop beaming 70 degrees. My QTH West Sussex.

December 8^th produced a repeat of the message sent on the 1^st. Terrible was noted QRM.

Again Tom from the USA heard E17 at the same time listening from Skurup Sweden on an internet tuner.

GD posted to the group (referring to my observation about the repeated message) and said “This is usual for E17. Will be a null message the rest of the month, then in January a message will be sent for first two weeks 73 GD” thanks again GD J

This was proved when on the 15^th December I heard E17 again on 11170 at 08:00 calling 674 674 674 00000.

So it’s well worth trying for this station every Thursday on 11170 at 08:00 UTC.

Bye for now Mikesndbs.

[Tnx Mike]

E22

[‘E22 Secrets’ document available from Files section of Group]

Before reading on please be aware that Mike mndbs has unearthed the apparent site of E22, its meaning and purpose. A document, ‘E22 Secrets’ has been written by Mike and is available via Group. It is copyright to author and ENIGMA 2000

Those paying attention to the transmission tables should be aware that those obs in italics are those that are heard by one person, of historical interest and which cannot be firther proved.

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.
• † Heard on 11620kHz in VU – note different ‘ident’.

Freqs 11620 kHz, 15040//17387kHz

*GN2 definitely heard on 17387kHz

On Sunday 4^th December 2005 at 0953 PLondon was sitting by his radio when he heard a carrier rise on 15040kHz. His practice is to record to PC all that occurs so he was able to ready his email to group should a full transmission occur. He was astounded to hear ‘Foxtrot Yankee Six’ as the het carrier dropped [incidentally modulated with a 1000Hz tone prior to sending]. Immediately he alerted group and two other members by phone and one by text which read, “E22 up at 0955z. 17385.6 best wid hum es FY6. 15m wk rdbl……73 P”. That was sent at 1002z.

PLondon received a telcon from DoK to say he had measured the 17m freq and discovered it to be 17386kHz on this occasion.

Whilst the 0955z sending was weak it was also fairly normal on the 15MHz freq. PLondon turned his attention to the 17M freq at 1003z and was astounded to hear the high level of hum on the sending, although the repeated FY6 was strong and readable.

PLondon took a bearing on his loop during the 1200z sending, this bearing was 183° and checked against a BC station after [170°] in concert with Mike mndbs who’s loop maintained the same bearing for that station 173°.

With only three sendings monitored PLondon asks if there could possibly be another, earlier, sending.

Perhaps the answer to that was answered on Wednesday 7^th December. Mndbs phoned PLondon on his mobile at 0859z 07/12 to inform PL that a transmission had occurred at 0830z and that the ident was FP3 [tnx Mike]. Unfortunately PLondon was working, but no worry here.

PLondon runs an automatic receiving system programmed for coverage of whatever frequency is input. Looking at file ‘15040_E220825z_21072005.wav’ PLondon was able to monitor the transmission as received at his QTH from 0825 until 0840z.

A very strong carrier was obvious, so strong one could almost imagine a ground wave. Much like the strong sendings in July is was easy to assume the signal was a single hop. PLondon’s Longwire antenna points 15/195° so is roughly in the right direction for Algeria/Morocco etc.

The 5.59MB file started with four minutes of solid carrier which was then modulated with a 1000Hz tone which was gently ‘wound up’ to full strength and lasting 43 seconds until the first announcement. ‘This is Foxtrot Papa Two’ followed by 8.17 seconds of 145Hz hum until the next FP2 and another 8.07 of varying amplitude of hum until the next ‘FP2.’ There was a noisy passage through the other two IDs being sent and throughout the mic could be heard being knocked and the operators microphone technique was so bad it would make a DJ in a second rate pirate radio station sweat with fear.

On the continuation the carrier rose and proceeded through the 1000Hz tone to the final five FP2 announcements. The quality of these was better. The sending ended at 0837z as the carrier was removed. There were no other sendings received that day.

On 11Dec at 0742z PLondon was awakened by his mobile phone responding to txt msg from Mndbs; it read, simply, E22 0735 QR7. On ringing Mike back PLondon learnt that Mike had himself been awakened by his homebrewed electronic alarm that alerts of any signal over S7. An hour later

15040//17387 was heard with YB8 followed by KU3. What is interesting is that a different voice was used announcing each ident. Noticeable was the pronunciation of Quebec as ‘Cubeek’ and later the three accompanied with a little guttural throat clearing.

Again, on 14^th December whilst PLondon was upto his arms in Lithium he received alerts from mndbs, JoA and DoK as to a sending at 1100z.

Whilst PLondon was not in a position to receive the initial sending his autosystem picked the transmission up at home. PLondon reckons a very strong signal and possibly towards 30dBs. DoK and mndbs also experienced like strengths as did RNGB.

Then at 1300z, whilst eating a pizza on a Christmas jolly PLondon’s mobile phone alerted Deep Pan Pizza on Victoria Stations to the fact that DS2 had been heard by mndbs on 11620kHz.

DoK sent in four tapes, comment and his full log on the sendings mentioned above, the input reads:

As is mentioned in my Slavic stations write up my bout of ‘flu interfered with my monitoring routines, the result being some transmissions missed. As a result I have been placed on a 252! [until FFI Derek]!

Over this two month period numerous carrier ‘blips’ have occurred, at times, almost on a daily basis, although I have not listed this in great detail.

The latest transmissions have provoked much discussion as to pronunciations etc.

We are also being plagued with some very wild statements made without brain being engaged. I have no doubt that those without a measure of formal training will not be singing from the same hymn sheet as those who have been fortunate enough to have been so endowed.

Unlike some monitors I have been very lucky and blessed with excellent signal levels. The 0830 Transmission received on Sunday seems to say ‘Yankee Devil 8’ but I am sure this should be ‘Yankee Delta 8 (or should it)?

It is noted that different operators/announcers adds to the problems with pronunciations. With this in mind my latest tapes – along with those of another member – have been forwarded to the Inner Circle for further discussion.

I send an example of my logs to show the level of interception [and I am aware of other monitors, like trained, who keep other detailed logs]:

Sunday 04/12/05

Monday 05/12/05

Tuesday 06/12/05

Wednesday 07/12/05

Friday 09/12/05

Saturday 11/12/05

Nothing Further heard

Bearings are still continuing to be taken, the last from PLondon using an AoR LA380 giving a deep null of 183º. At the time PLondon was chatting with Mike mndbs and they DF’d the 15335kHz RTM Morocco sending in concert. Mike’s bearing was 170º and PLondon’s 173º Whilst the bearings point more at Tunisia than Morocco it is worth remembering that RTM Morocco, audible between 1100 to 1500z daily, is transmitted by the IBB whose transmitter may actually be in Tunsia. [The contact address for the IBB is via the US Embassy.] An email has been sent to the IBB requesting positional detail for the antennae used in the transmission of RTM Morocco but we do not hold much hope of receiving this. [There was no reply as was expected].

Then Mike had his information windfall leading to the E22 Secrets document -- thanks Mike!

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):
  200 209 220 227 270 272 276 277 377 440 442 477 557 784 785 788 830 837 875 877 905 909

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 known: 9450 kHz, mode AM.

Possible 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 November and December 2005.

A strange type of messageformat occurred several times. Consisting of a combination of one or two 4f groups followed by a serie of 280’s repeated.

In detail

November 1st, 12.04z E25a i/p, heard by ML,

12:04.00z 477 4 older OM, slow delivery
12:05.30z  longer pause then change to 277 4 with younger OM
12:07.00z  eom eotx, carrier down.

And a little later – starting at 12:07.10z with a message, calling:

780 780 780, drifting again - as yesterday - older OM
12:48.30z  m m m repeat of yesterday 11.45z sked
9347 4080 7170 2558 3084 9662 5733 7107
R r r
12:51.00   eom eotx, carrier down
Note change in first group to yesterday, 9344 / 9347, both groups clearly heard on each TX. ML reports that this has been reported before and asks what's the significance of this change. Any anwsers welcome.

RNGB heard the same message and game with this interpretation of the message:
’780’ 9344 4080 7170 4558 3044 9662 5733 7107 end

And at 13.48 ML heard E25 again with another message:

Arabic music and singer. TX was older OM, slight drift.
222 222 222
M m m
4272 4301 1330 5595 2001 7983 1704 4572 7975 1330
R r r
Eom eotx, carrier down

November 2^nd E25 came with a message at 13.46z, Older OM

i/p music & YL sing.
222 222 222
M m m
Repeat of yesterdays TX, 4272 4301 1330 5595 2001 7983 1704 4572 7975 1330
Eom eotx.

ML heard E25 on november 8th, 12:17z
Heard unusual Arabic tune/singer just above the noise, thought ??? as it was not one of the usual BC's.

835 835 835 R almost u/r, older OM, in English
M m m
Change to younger high pitch voice for :-
Mssg in arabic, only clearly caught "wahid & khamsa", gc unknown.
R r r (in English) older OM, only heard r r.
Eom eotx (in English) older OM, only caught eotx.

And a some later by ML at 12:39.20z; Strong carrier & tone up.

440 440 440 R, older OM, v good sig, up to S9.
M m m, 440 x 1 + garbled, as tape break, stopped.
Restarted, 440 R
M m m
1049 3080 0210 0982 3784 8861 9901 0210
R r r
End of message, end of transmission.

Nov 10th, 12.41z, ML heard E25 with a S9+10 signal

12:41.45z 1K tone, till
12:44.50z 442 442 442 R, older OM (poss live as speed of delivery erratic)
12:49.00 stopped
12:49.20 restarted 442
12:49.43z stopped, carrier down

ML reports:

November 17^th, 11.45z, very strange E25 today, not heard anything like this before, older OM

275 275 275 R
M m m
4982 5370 082 082 082 082 082
R r r
repeat the same
12:05.50z eom eotx, carrier down

ML logged this one on18 nov, 13.40z carrier i/p music & sing.

13:49.00z 222 222 222 R, older OM
13:53.19z m m m, older OM, mssg then in younger OM/YL type voice
4182 5380 6110 9883 9335 6483 0620 6110
r r r (older OM)
mssg in younger voice.
13:55.36 eom eotx (older OM) carrier down

A log from GD heard november 23 at 12.00z, calling:

275 275 275 R
M M M
3322 7301 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 280
R R R
Same message repeated,
EOM EOT

Another report frome ML, heard on 23 nov, 13.44z.

13:44.00z music start, later with singer
13:48.35 222 R, poss live - definite long pauses between SOME 222 x5 gps.
13:52.40 m m m
*051 6390 0440 5583 3638
13:53.40 Loud "hum" increasing in intensity, TX stopped in mid flow,
carrier dropped. Message obviously incomplete. (looks as if the TX'er is knackered, wonder how long before repaired).

Log from X, 26 nov 2005, 12.45 UTC

780 780 780
Message, message, message.
4091 5002 8910 3226 8135 7346 2962 5287 5350 4172
8822 5376 3973 4445 3380 8268 1896 8205 1216 8910
Repeat, repeat, repeat
4091 5002 8910 3226 8135 7346 2962 5287 5350 4172
8822 5376 3973 4445 3380 8268 1896 8205 1216 8
transmission stopped
A few minutes later it continued with the completely repeated message:
--- Rpt of message ---
End of message, end of transmission.

RNGB and X came with this E25 report, 26 november:

E25 came up with music intro around 1340 then young male with '222' repeated. Then message:

9147 7391 8701 0401 3572 2191 2431 4430 3026 2630 6924 4087 6858 7976 4674 2582 6633 1708 8701
R r r
Whole message repeated once - then 'end of transmission'
Note that the 3rd and last groups are the same.

On december 5^th E25 was heard again:

11:50z, carrier up
11:51.50z 1k tone till, nice tone today
11:59.20z 275 x 40, speeded up slightly for last 10
12:03.20z m m m
4384 8370 280 280 280 280 280
R r r
12:05.15z eom, eotx, carrier down after 15 secs.

Mike and TomH report:06 dec 2005, 12.05z

275 275 275 R
Repeat, Repeat 4384 8370 280, 280, 280, 280, 280.
End of message end of transmission.

This is a repeat of yesterday, same time.

And later that same day, 6^th november, TomH, Mike and ML heard an E25a followed by an E25 with message:

12:45z 875-16, 877-15, 440, 15-440 (S9)
12:48z 785-16, 788-15, 440 until 12:51 when:
440, 440, 440
M m m
6104, 4001, 3510, 3401, 3777, 8146, 3731, 5345, 3424, 3510
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
Repeat of message
End of message end of transmission.

Like this was not enough for today E25 came again with a message, heard by ML and Mike:

6th Dec, 13.45z, older OM, S9+10 peak but noisey.

13:43.05z, carrier up
13:45.20z, Arabic Music starts
13:46.20z, singer starts, very clearly a YL
13:48.15z, 222 x 41 (rather than usual 40, erratic speed)
13:52.18z, m m m
3082 9390 4421 8887 5439 0420 6776 1337 4421
R r r
13:54.38z, eom eotx, carrier down

Log from ML, 7th Dec, 12.00z sked, older OM.

11:54.00z, carrier & tone up, B/C QRM
11:59.10z, 275 x 40, speeded up slightly for last 10
12:03.00z, m m m
4384 8370 280 280 280 280 280
R r r
12:04.50z, eom eotx
This sked & Mssg starting last Monday repeated Tue & Wed, will be interesting to see how long it lasts for.

Log from Mike, 7 dec 2005

12:45z 440 440 440 R
Message, message message
6104 4001 3510 3401 3777 8146 3731 5345 3434 3510
Repeat, repeat repeat
---Repeat of message---
EOM EOT.

And another one from ML, 8th Dec, 12.00z, S9+20 peak, older OM.

11:55.00z, carrier & tone i/p. Slight B/C QRM
11:59.20z, 275 x 45 (not yesterdays 40)
12:03.35z, m m m (still the repeat of Monday)
4384 8370 280 280 280 280 280 280
R r r
12:05.23z eom eotx, carrier down.

Log from X, heard 11 dec 2005, 12.30z, calling:

555 555 555 R
M m m
7346 2031 6521 9906 1725 0823 5087 4265 8801 1523 1323 7040 6521
R r r
Eom, eot.

Fred and ML heard E25 on 15^th december at 1200z, calling

11:55.00z, i/p with tone, strange note (rising/falling) older OM.
12:00.00z, 275 x ?(could have been as low as 20, got distracted)
12:04.00z, m m m
9311 280 (x 10)
R r r
12:05.23z eom eotx, carrier down

Mike’s log of 20 dec 2005 

13:45z Music up,
13:48z call 222 S7 but deep fades making message hard to hear.

Log from ML, 27th Dec, 12.00z older OM,

10 x 280 again.
12.01z i/p 275
12:04z m m m
7384 1221 280 (x 10)
R r r
12:06.33z eom eotx

And a last log for december from ML, 28^th dec:

12.00z older OM, 10 x 280 again.
12:00z i/p 275
12:01z m m m
7385 1421 280 (x 10) [yesterday 7384 1221]
R r r
12:03.40z eom eotx

G06

SEE H-FD’s SUGGESTED YEARLY SCHEDULE AT END OF THIS NEWSLETTER

Thanks for updates AF

Schedules for this station do exist:

First Monday of each month:

[Repeated Tuesday if message]

-

Thursdays:

*Read PoSW’s entry EN32

Friday:

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

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

Sundays

Having perused the schedules above please take time to read PoSW’s most interesting commentary on events surrounding G06 over this latest period:

The usual first Monday in the month and the twice a month Thursday and Friday schedules continue with some unusual behaviour noted on Fridays; and the Saturday evening schedule, which I hadn't been able to find since September, has turned up again in December.

First Monday in the Month Schedule

Twice a Month Thursday 1830 UTC schedule

Friday 1930 UTC

Saturday Schedule

[Tnx PoSW]

and onto a full G06 message, sent by mndbs:

24618 43350 47606 73795 70390 38054 89550 68568 59704 48415
84581 30552 90243 75586 99339 57434 64862 60179 77962 18422
14670 05966 18436 67522 46467 04645 65522 32730 74097 84623
22465 43833 76181 34253 13996 25797 35611 91861 00354 37546
85868 12146 51236 74750 61854 98535 83213 01624 65066 95529
635/50 00000

[Tnx Mike]!

G22

Slavic stations

Before we move on to our logs and such like we have again included the European Number Systems with a change in the S04 pronunciations. It can be found at the end of the Newsletter.

Now onto the Slavic Desk’s chart and review, followed by the logs:

Chart 22

M10, S10d and S17c from 1^st November 2005 to 28^th February, 2006

Compiled by the Slavic Desk

Freqs ± 2kHz

Activity Designations:

• R: Regular transmissions on the time and day shown weekly
• ALT: Regular transmissions on the day and time shown, but on alternate weeks.
• NC: Not Confirmed

M11 Activity for the period 1^st November to 31^st December 2005:

The period covered by this chart has not been without problems. A virulent flu bug laid me low for almost four weeks, my usual M10/S10d and S17c schedules suffered accordingly. Note the number of ALT/NC entries and needless to say, E22 activities also suffered.

Thanks again to Fritz Knusser for finding the S17c parallel frequency on 5945kHz. Quite why anyone in thier right mind would use this freq I don’t know, it took me four days to confirm as wanted signals were affected by BC signals.

Another received report gave details of a new S10d schedule on Thursday and Friday at 1230z on 14445kHz, further details will be given.

The ALT week programme has undergone considerable change since the beginning of December, mostly Wed/Thurs/Fri schedules.

There still appears to be a problem regarding S10d and S17c. With all the information continually published, and on file, I fail to see how anyone can confuse one with the other. Perhaps “knowing a man who can” is not the right way to obtain the correct answer.

In closing, my usual thoughts at this time of year, “A ŠŤASTNŶ NOVŶ ROK 2006”

S04

Pronunciation of numerals

• 0 is Nuar
• 2 Should be Davouka
• 3 is Thuree.
• The figure 8 Osem Sounds like Arthur
• The figure 9 Devet Sounds like David.

S06

Gert kindly sends his S06/E06 analysis chart:

[Tnx Gert]

PoSW leads us into the logs with his observations but look out for his last comment on ‘Other S06’

The usual weekend and UK evening schedules listed below much as always, although I lost track of the long standing Tuesday 1850 + 1950 UTC, call "254" S06 in November and I couldn't find it again until 13-December.

Tuesday 1630 + 1730 UTC Schedule;-

Tuesday 1850 + 1950 UTC Schedule, call always "254";-

In October this schedule was heard at 1850 UTC, 6,780 kHz and 1950 UTC, 5,330 kHz but I have only found one transmission in November and so far not at all in December;-

Second and Fourth Saturdays in the Month, 1600 + 1700 UTC Schedule, call always "724";-

Second and Fourth Monday in the Month Schedule;-

This schedule has shifted by an hour with the end of summertime so that it still appears at 9.15 PM and 10.15 PM UK time as it did in the summer months, last heard on 24-October, 2015z, 9.15 PM BST and 2115z, 10.15 PM BST. It is unusual for a member of this family of number stations to compensate for the seasonal adjustment of the clocks; the only other example which comes to mind is the related first and third Friday in the month M14 MCW which shows up at 8 PM and 9 PM UK time in both summer and winter

Other S06;-

[Excellent Peter!!! I always stated to DoK the only reason Jordan came onboard during the original Gulf War was because the RSGB had told JY1 they were going to suspend his membership and use of the QSL Bureau].

Onto RNGB’s S06 log and comment:

The S6 YL was having some trouble getting her messages out this morning.

She started OK at 0820 on 6880 with ‘471’ 268 9 groups, but when she powered up 9260 kHz I could hear the ‘471’ message breaking through in the background.

At 0830 on 7335 kHz she came up with the usual ‘745’ and a message starting 286 9 groups, but on 9260 kHz she should tune up ready for ID 328 at 0840. She must have mixed her plugs about because she was transmitting ‘745’ instead of ‘328’ at 0830.

So now ‘745’ was broadcast in parallel on both frequencies. Faintly on 9260 kHz I could also hear the repeat message of ID ‘471’ which was being broadcast on 7840 kHz.

I parked a radio on 11415 waiting for her to tune up ready for the repeat of ‘328’ at 0850

The transmitter on 9260 kHz was left open and running and at 0840 she broadcast ‘328’ mixed with ‘745’ and then both messages mixed.

So now we know for certain that ID ‘745’ does indeed have a repeat somewhere at 0840 (Maybe it is buried beneath a loud BC station in 5 or 9 MHz). At 0850 she finally got 11415 kHz up and running and sent the repeat message for ID 328.

S06 continued

[Tnx RNGB]

S10d

Comment by PoSW

Several S10d schedules underwent the expected seasonal changes of frequencies as we moved through autumn and these have remained the same in December. Signal levels received in the UK in general are somewhat weaker at this time of the year than in the summer months. All predictable and much as expected but the occasional use of suppressed carrier mode requiring the transmission to be received with the receiver set to upper sideband adds a bit of variety. Schedules operating at "civilised" times of day, for a member of the toiling suburban proletariat that is, include Monday and Tuesday two-message at 1740z which changed frequencies in November, Saturday and Thursday 2130z, Tuesday and Sunday 2050z and Saturday 1520z.

• Monday + Tuesday Schedule, 1740 UTC;-
  frequencies in November and December 5,028 // 7,605 kHz, changed from 6,945 // 10,582 kHz used in October. This transmission always comes up with two seperate 5F messages. Signal strengths vary from week to week and 5,028 often suffers from a broadcast station on 5,030 kHz, presumably from somewhere tropical.
• Saturday + Thursday Schedule, 2130 UTC;-
  in November and December is on 4,446 // 5,904 kHz, changed from 5,473 // 6,894 kHz used in October. 4,446 usually the strongest signal, 5,904 often so weak as to be hardly detectable and, since 5,904 is inside the 49 metre band, subject to sideband splash QRM from a broadcast station On two occasions recently, Thursday 10-November and Thursday 8-December the suppressed carrier mode was used.
• Tuesday + Sunday Schedule, 2050 UTC;-
  frequencies in November and December are 5,272 // 5,904 kHz, changed from 6,894 // 7,745 used in earlier months. Wide variations in signal strengths from week to week and was heard in carrier suppressed mode, i.e. single sideband (upper) on Sunday 6-November and Sunday 4- December.
• Saturday Schedule, 1520 UTC,
  still on 8,175 // 9,985 kHz used since the first Saturday in September having changed from 7,745 // 9,165 used in the summer months. 8,175 is usually the strongest of the two frequencies although often masked by a massive "XJT" roaring away slightly LF which can be totally removed, as if by magic, by selecting USB mode on the receiver and tuning the S10d carrier for zero beat. 9,985 suffers from broadcast station interference to a greater or lesser extent, no cause for complaint since it is an intruder in the 31 metre band! On 17-December 8,175 was much stronger than usual, the "XJT" unusually weak and the // on 9,985 couldn't be heard at all.

[Tnx PoSW]

RNGB’s S10d log:

[Tnx RNGB]

S11a

Nil Reported

S17c

Freqs for this station 5945 // 9166kHz 1250 to 1257z

5f groups sent by H-FD and DoK:

S21

V02 Spanish Lady Transmissions

PoSW has observed the V02 Spanish Language station from England and shares his log with us.

In general the 0600 and 0700 UTC V02 transmissions have become very weak signals now that we are well into winter. Some of the sendings heard in the UK evening time are somewhat stronger and the biggest surprise is a V02 starting at 1200z, i.e midday on Sundays, 10,715 kHz, first noted in late November.

[Tnx PoSW]

From RNGB:

V02a

The following chart was generated by PLondon using available reports into ENIGMA 2000.

It is not claimed to be complete but exists to guide those who wish to attempt an intercept of this station.

V02a Time vs Day Transmissions. [November 05]