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.