ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 33

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

Oddities

Due to the varying nature of the reports on these bumps and squeaks ENIGMA 2000 will only report on their status as and when we receive reports:

Mazeilka[X06]

PoSW writes, As always not too much too report here, mainly because finding X06 is a matter of chance, there being no regular schedules to follow although some frequencies seem to be favourites.

11-Jan-06	Wednesday	2207 UTC	5,831 kHz	S9 signal, first X06 of this year! S9 signal, tones stopped 2213z, carrier went QRT a few seconds afterwards. Listened until after 2216z, nothing further heard. 5,831 was also logged with X06 on 15-Nov-05.
16-Jan-06	Monday	2049 UTC	6,962 kHz	strong signal, slight QRM sideband splash from the Hebrew language broadcaster on 6,973. Tones stopped 2101z, carrier stayed up for a further 20 seconds. Listened for about 3 minutes - at one time an X06 going off would be followed by badly sent, hand keyed Morse, but not for some time now, - nothing further heard.

4-Feb-06	Saturday	1331 UTC	16,117 kHz	the highest frequency on which I have heard X06 for a long time. S9 signal, the last five notes sounded, to my ear, like the song "Whist-le while you work" from Disney's Snow White animated movie and I have heard this sequence of tones many times before.

[Tnx PoSW]

7912kHz	1630z	17/02	AF
11224kHz	1304z	04/02	AF

Buzzer [formely XB] S28

It buzzes away on 4625kHz. www.geocities.com/uvb76 refers. BUT Mikendbs heard a lot more than that. He writes,

When the Buzzer Stops

My interest in numbers stations started with the usual random intercepts of E03/a and a fascination with the strange sounds around the shortwave spectrum.

Clearly XB The Buzzer and XSW The Squeaky Wheel were among the first stations that I tuned in.

Now of course we know that both XB and XSW have carried voice traffic and thus have been reclassified as S28 and S32.

S32 (XSW) continues to have voice traffic and always by the same female I am told that the voice transmissions may be propagation checks, if you sit up on 3828 USB during the evening its likely you will catch one of these voice transmissions.

(See News Letter 28 page 45 for indication of transmission times.)

However S28 (XB) seemed far more elusive and as far as I can tell the most recent voice traffic it sent was around 2002.

That was until today! And Once again E2K is first with the news.

Tuesday 21^st Feb 2006 I had my radio in scan mode flicking through the various frequencies I have stored when at 07:57 it landed on 4625 AM and, NO Buzz!

Instead I head a somewhat distorted male voice speaking in Russian and I scrambled to get my tape recorder running and captured a 1.36 clip of the voice.

It’s about this time of day that S28 starts to fade out and there was large amount of noise on the frequency, this meant I had to switch to USB to get a clear copy. My feeling is that the transmission may have started at 07:55 ?

S28 is actually known as UVB76 and located in Povarovo to the north west of Moscow. Its run by the Staff of the Moscow military and its purpose seems to be transmission of the warnings, commands and mobilizations. You can learn more from these two web sites and see pictures of the actual transmitter site in the second!

And for your interest I am featuring the sound clip on my web site.

Here is a direct link to the page http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/thesecretsiteofmike/mikes.htm

Scroll down and you will soon find it J

75 59 75 59 <> 39 52 53 58 <> 5 5 2 5 <> <> <> <> konstantin
1 9 0 9 0 8 9 8
tatiayna oksana anna elena pavel schuka <> konstantin 8 4 <> 9 7
5 5 9 tatiayna <> <> <> anna larisa uliyana 9 4 1 4 3 4 8...

Please let us know if you can offer more detail.

[Tnx Mike – spiffing stuff and well done]!