ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 33

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

Morse stations | Voice stations | Oddities | Polytones
Favourable comments | German branch | Numbers predictions
E03 & E03a prediction charts | RDF bearings | Gross misuse of MoD email system
Cuban schedules | G06 schedules over a year | E11 schedules over a year
Software defined radio | If it had not been for 15 minutes (2/6)
HJH's watch | News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
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Report from the German branch

ably managed by Jochen

Hallo liebe Freunde und Kollegen der deutschen Branche von E2K (Hello dear friends and colleagues of E2K’s German Branch),

This is the first report from the German Branch in 2006. – There are 2 facts in it, which I will combine with the words “Yes, Paul, it’s true ;)”, where I mean Paul B, the moderator of E2K. Why this? Cause they are surpressions. Lately, I had a conversation with him, which he will remember during reading about the first fact. The second one will not only be new for him, but for most of you – out of Germany. So it’s worth enough to read further. Also you’ll find something about the main focus this period: E10 analysis.

Before we begin, let me express my big “Thanks” to Paul B and Mike L, two of the moderators of E2K, who informed some of us, that they are officers of special functions within E2K. Under these people, there is the “Kopf” from Germany, who is responsible for the German Branch since March 2004. I want to tell you, that I am proud to have this official function now, and you can be sure, that I want to support the group as I did it before. You’ll see my new title at the end of this report. – Well, that was necessary, but now we’ll start.

E03a

This station changed its frequencies, as reported in E2K 31. In January, FritzE2Kch, our Swiss correspondent, confirmed also the 3^rd freq: 12590 kHz with weak, but audible signal.

E06/G06 on 4465 kHz

These Russian family voice stations were heard to different times by KopfE2Kde: E06 in progress with its 1930 sked (missed ID), G06 on February 6^{th at} 2000 with a 0-msg for “308”, while searching E10 strings – which didn’t come (see below).

X06

After the very long X06 section last edition, we have only 4 transmission, which we can report about this time:

1. January 10^th, 1635 UTC, 7822 kHz (scale: 463125) (tnx to FritzE2Kch);
2. January 23rd, 0945 – 0955 UTC, 18245 kHz (scale: 231654 – a rarer sequence) (KopfE2Kde);
3. one day later, 1107 – 1117 UTC, 16320 kHz (scale: 241563 – also a rarer sequence) (KopfE2Kde);
4. at last a long running X06 on February 21^st, monitored between 1930 and 2000 UTC, 5932 kHz (scale: 351264 – very weak signal here, but audible anyway) (tnx FrankE2Kde in Berlin for calling me; he had the same weak signal).

Piccolo on 11442 confirmed

It came on January 10^th, monitored in the late morning (near 1200 UTC) on 11442 kHz with a very weak signal. Some hobbyfriends payed our attention to this freq.

In this period, NO XPA sked was monitored by Germans. Obviously, XPA follows XP. That’s what I (KopfE2Kde) wanted to check before regular monitoring. Also the XP like station, which I reported about in last E2K edition, I didn’t find again. Perhaps next period.

E10

Before we beginn with the E10 discoveries this year, which stay interesting, here is a little note to another E10 transmission, which was reported in E2K 25. I mean “SYN2” in November 2004, where the submitter understood “7” instead of “Y”. The signal is very noisy, but if you listen very carefully, you can of course recognize the normal “SYN2” transmission.

The German Branch can be glad to have 2 excellent E10 specialists, who log and analyze the regular coming E10 transmissions very busy and carefully: AlphaE2Kde (AlphaVax), Erfurt/Eastern Germany, and PaulE2Kde (Sancho_Pansa11), Delmenhorst/Northern Germany. Their good work is supported by many hobbyfriends in Europe, under them – sporadically in February – KopfE2Kde in Germany. AlphaE2Kde and PaulE2Kde bring their analysis in this edition of E2K, so it’s not necessary to bring them at this place again. So here is only a little overview about the most important E10 events of the last 2 months: On January 23rd, FritzE2Kch informed the group about hearing the long running “ABC” transmission on 6428 kHz at 1900 UTC, which was confirmed by KopfE2Kde in the later evening; also he confirmed the station in the late evening of the following day. Kopf’s best listening possibility was USB at both days. - On February 5^th, some friends out of Germany observed some interesting and long running strings (“CIO”, “SYN” and “VLB” had very long calls, which are described in this E2K edition more exactly). These ones were not confirmed by Germany, but the other friends did analyze them very carefully, presuming, that there could be a schedule on February 6^th, 2000Z. So we searched for such a sked, but we couldn’t find one. All what I found, was the G06, which I mentioned above. – Other “SYN” and “VLB” strings were confirmed on February 27^th, 0345 till at last 0530 UTC, by AlphaE2Kde (more details see also in the E10 section of E2K 33). Also on February 27^th, KopfE2Kde found “PCD1” test transmission on 4270 kHz at 1900 UTC (USB).

Thanks to AlphaE2Kde and PaulE2Kde for their E10 analysis and logs. We know, that we will confirm more from you according to E10. We wish you much success for that!

Morse stations

As you will see soon, the number of M station specialists is rising in the German Branch.

M14

Here is an M14 log from DanielE2Kde, Muenster/Northwestern Germany:

• January 20^th, 2105 UTC on 4470 kHz in AM. His comments:
  “MCW, hand-keyed, paired 5f groups, short zeros, fair signal up to S9+40 with some QSB, ends 2111z. Caught last 28 groups and final: … 69057 55104 24787 73492 BT BT 421 421 36 36 0 0 0 0 0 (frequency, schedule and description matches M14)” (Tnx Daniel)

M12

We have a new M12 specialist in Germany. CapitaneXE2Kde, near Dresden/Eastern Germany (yes, Paul, it’s true ;)) presents us now his M12 logs for February

M12 - February – Monday - Logs

M12 - February – Tuesday – Logs

M12 - February – Wednesday – Logs

M12 - February – Thursday – Logs

M12 - February – Friday – Logs

M12 - February – Saturday – Logs

M12 - February – Sunday – Logs

(Many tnx to CapitaneX)

And here come the observations by FritzE2Kch from Zuerich/Switzerland – this time not at the end of the whole report:

OBSERVATIONS IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006

M01

M01a

M01b

M03c, M03d

M10

M12

M14

M23 (R10 means R3 to R12)

M45

M50

(Tnx Fritz)

25 years of numbers station recordings on cassette pairs

At the end of December 1980, I began the recording of numbers stations on so called “cassette pairs”, which means, that I record all transmissions twice on 2 different recorders. If you listen to the recordings stereo and you come to the same point with the 2 recorders, you get a fascinating sound, like someone would fly directly above you. That’s the beginning of my numbers station recording history. As shown in the “Spy Station Special”, Pt. 2 and 3, I can give a historical development especially of the West German stations.

My big jubileum is the reason, why I initiated the first inofficial German “ENIGMA meeting”. Such a meeting is already traditional in England. This German meeting will be on March 4^th this year in my home in Marburg (yes, Paul, it’s true ;)). We will be 4 hobbyfriends from Germany. It shall be an inofficial meeting, where an official one will follow later. We hope, that we will give some impulses for the whole numbers scene. More about it can be found in the next E2K German Branch report.

Till then I say “Auf Wiedersehen” and good-bye to all

Jochen Schäfer, manager [Kopf] E2K German Branch & X06 consultant

Morse stations | Voice stations | Oddities | Polytones
Favourable comments | German branch | Numbers predictions
E03 & E03a prediction charts | RDF bearings | Gross misuse of MoD email system
Cuban schedules | G06 schedules over a year | E11 schedules over a year
Software defined radio | If it had not been for 15 minutes (2/6)
HJH's watch | News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home