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
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.

Last time we included a chart itemising the schedule of E03/E03a. Unfortunately gremlins had crept in. As a result frequency detail was incomplete. We correct at the end of this issue. There is also an update in the E03a section.

[Tnx Fred, Malcolm and Eddy]

E06

The regular UK evening E06 schedules have survived into 2006, i.e the weekly Sunday 1830 + 1930 UTC always with call "690" - although the first sending in January proved somewhat elusive for most of the month - and the first and third Wednesdays in the month 2100 + 2200 UTC. There is an E06 which appears to be on the first and third Fridays in the month at 2130 UTC, has been logged in December, January and February always on 4,760 kHz with call "472".

Sunday 1830 + 1930 UTC Schedule

First and Third Wednesdays in the Month 2100 + 2200 UTC Schedule.

Friday Schedule (seems to be first and third in the month);-

[Tnx PoSW]

RNGB’s log:

E07

PoSW leads us with his observations and analysis of this station:

E07 continues in 2006 with the long-established schedules, i.e. Monday + Wednesday starting at 2100 UTC, Sunday + Wednesday starting at 1800 UTC and Thursday starting at 2110 UTC. The low audio problem is still a noteable feature making copy difficult to say the least, together with the practice of locating one sending inside the 49 metre band where it can be flattened by some multi megawatt broadcaster from Mittel Europa.

Monday + Wednesday Schedule

Sunday + Wednesday Schedule

Thursday Schedule

[Tnx PoSW]

ML kicks off with his logs:

PoSWs' previous comment as to why they bother with these freqs is quite appropriate.

AF also caught the above sendings making the same claim of very bad and extremely weak.

Sun and Mon part scheds [HFD] for January:

Wed schedule [HFD] for January:

RNGB offers his logs:

E10 Desk Jan 06

Frequencies and C/S Heard (USB)

Comments

Logs for the period Dec 04-13th from J Chircop Malta, arrived just after I had sent in my logs to the editor for the last News Letter. However going through them it was noticable that messages from JSR (Group 100 WMNPP and Group 89 JMHZM) also ART (Group 67 CINMA and Group 37 CWGPI) which were first picked up in September 05 are still being transmitted on a daily basis.

• Jan 12 KPA83 on Freq's 5339 & 3230KHz at 2120hrs reception poor severe background noise. Ended 2212hrs. At 2216hrs back to normal as KPA2.
• Jan 23 at 2150hrs on 6.428KHz ABC continuous call no group message on going at 2346hrs weak reception in background hiss.
• Jan 23 at 2218hrs on 5.230 MIW84 continuous call no group message on going at 2235hrs weak reception, lost contact at 2239hrs At 2315hrs schedule back to MIW2
• Jan 24 at 1636hrs on 6428KHz ABC no message weak signal fading in and out, last heard Still transmitting at 2356hrs 24th Jan
• Jan 26 at 1754hrs on 6428KHz ABC no message weak signal fading in and out of background noise Still ongoing 2330hrs
  It would seem from what I have heard and from other reports that ABC could have been transmitting the full 24hrs each day for almost a week.
• Jan 28 at 0152hrs on 6428 ABC Still Transmitting no change Also at 2130hrs 28/1 6428KHz.

Other welcome contributions

• Jan 18th at 2200hrs on 3150 kHz PCD with 2 group messages. The first is 65 groups and starts OZYPI. The second is 38 groups and starts HCDHW.
  The transmission ended at 22:26 before the repeat of the 2nd message had completed
  There was no 22:30 broadcast.
  (Credit to Ian Wraith)
• Jan 19th at 1830hrs on 4270 kHz. PCD and a 97 group message starting YERRS. This message was mentioned in a recent NL as being first logged back in September 2005 so quite a long running message. (Credit Ian Wraith)
  NB: Originater J Chircop of Malta on the 5^th Sept 05 who first bought this to notice in his logs. (E10 Desk)
• Jan 24^th Hi, E10 is again active with the ABC call on 6428 kHz at 1952 UTC (Credit Ary Boender)
• Jan 25^th at 0920z, on 14000KHz with its ABC roundslip. (Credit Fritz Nusser)

23 Jan 06 Logs from Ian Wraith

Logs From J Chircop Malta

* Denotes Repeated Messages as heard between the 5^th to 14^th Jan 06

Credit to J Chircop Malta

E10 Desk Feb 06

Frequencies (USB) and C/S Heard

Special Strings Heard During Feb 06

Other Noted Net Activities for Feb 06

Comments

The sudden excitement of the E10 Strings on Sunday the 5th of Jan 06 was well noted and bought out a great number of thoughts as to what they might convey, although very Interesting perhaps a little too soon to judge. Mike L pointed out that M****D are too much of a Pro Org to let anything that simple pass through the net, except by design.

It might be worth noting that this came after a prolonged ABC activity during December & January.

An interesting snippet from Ian Wraith in regards to a query on the history of E10 callsigns

He states

quote "I have the book "Uno, Dos, Cuatro" by Havana Moon from 1987.

That book mentions E10 stns ART, BAC, CIO, EZI, FLU, GBZ, JID, JSR, KPA, MIW, PCD, RCH, ULX, VLB and YHF. It contains some frequencies but little hard info and much rumour" unquote.
(After 19 years 10 out of the 15 mentioned are still with us.)

• Sun 5th Feb between 2000 to 2030hrs FTJ suffered interfrence from BC stations on Freq 7322KHz Radio Iran
  (Readers Letters in English), and Freq 7558KHz Family Radio ( Bible Reading In English)
• 12 Jan 0530hrs on Freq 5170KHz VLB2 on extended call was still active at 0608hrs but fading into back ground noise Possibly commenced 0445hrs, not heard on other known freqs.
• Also on the 15 Feb at 1927hrs on freq 5170KHz VLB2 again on extended call ended at 1952hrs
• 13 Feb at 2215hrs KPA2 & MIW2 swopped over frequencies KPA2 now 5230KHz & MIW2 5339KHz
• At 0015Hrs the 14th, both back on original freqencies (Missed the 2315hrs transmissions on the 13th)
• 20 Feb at 2200hrs on freq 4270 ULX2 ended 2205hrs (Norm PCD) 2230hrs PCD2 Back on frequency.

Contributions

From Alpha Vax FTJ1 Heard on freq 4463KHz ( 2KHz up from normal) first time heard a '1' on an FTJ idler.

NB: A check through my records (Dec 2002 to Present day) would also seem to verify this (E10 Desk)

Also he notes that ULX has commenced messages for the first time in years at the time slot of 2230hrs Group 93 WQHLX on freq's 2743 & 4880KHz. Also noted From Alpha Vax on the 12 Feb on 3840 + 4560KHz at 1700hrs YHF1

(Look out for AV's in depth study of E10 c/signs and current activities these should make interesting reading)

From Jakub Prague CZ Rep For the Above Strings And he adds

All transmissions of these strings ended at 1923Z. All frequencies are now quiet

I am continuously monitoring and recording 5170KHz. This was the strongest E10 station with those messages

At 2000Z there was VLB2 ID sent for about 2 minutes. Seems that E10 stations are back to normal again...

NB: Above also heard and verified by Ian Wraith & Mike of Sussex.

• From Mike L
  07 Feb 5170kHz, 18.58z, E10a VLBA45BK9C34 i/p still going 19.38z
• From Ary Boender
  09 Feb on 5170  kHz at 1903hrs VLB3987Z567
• From Ian Wraith.
  At 0530hrs(z) on Freq 5435 kHz. ART G114 FZZRP replaced with ART1. Also on the 17th of Feb on 4270KHz PCD1

Thanks to all

BMLongfield

E10 Desk Manager

Feb 06

Now onto excellent E10 analysis from AlphaVax:

Hi group, today I will present a first part of further E10 analysis. I checked and searched my message archive, which contains nearly 2000 unique messages logged since november 2002.

I was not surprised that I found much more messages which has the special properties mentioned in the last reports from me.

I will first give some important facts, then the messages with its date logged and the ciphertexts.

As you can see the special message occur in some slots more then once, like ID 2,3 and 4-9 or 11,12 and 14-16.

Most of them are of type 2, only 1 from type 1 currently found. See first report for an explanation of the types of special messages found.

Messages Type 1 ID 10 and Type 2 ID 1 are from the same slot. The most interesting fact are the messages with the ID's 11,12 and 14,15,16.

11,12 belongs to EZI and 14-16 to an ART slot. As one can see the the messages are sent on very different dates. Also according to my logs there were normal messages between the special ones. The main thing is that the first 42 groups are EQUAL, only length is varying.

Look at the messages 2,5,6,7,23,24 !!

Here the first 50 groups are the same !!! This raises very interesting questions what that means.

Note that the message are not sent for a long period, mostly 2-20 days only.

The current messages in my first report are send much longer, even for month.

Now lets proceed with the messages in detail.

Type 2:

Type 1:

As a short thought I think that they have a set of phrases which are encoded by the means of a codebook. Then a function is applied which outputs the key to be added to this groups.

May be this function has a period which is not too high, so these special messages appear from time to time in very different slots.

Lets explain for short what I mean:

Base group from code book:

for example :

This thesis may be hardened through the following observations:

Lets look at the following message snippets:

..................

One may see that the first 2 groups are falling into the scheme. First group belongs to type 1 whilst second group belongs to type 2 !

The others are very different which can mean that they are permuted to heavy, so that we cannot see the base group or the first 2 are phrase groups encrypted as explained above and the others are true random with OTP encrypted.

Lets see an other snipped:

You see that the group GTSYJ which is normally the second in a special message, appears here as the third!

Lets see the third most interesting snippet:

ULX 0200z 19/04/03
19 groups:

*X=10, Y=11

As one can see the groups are for sure related. Many 0's in the key and some 7's! But this time they are taken in a very other order! So the above theory that they are phrase groups from a codebook is stabilized with that samples I think. Also the theory that all groups come from a codebook and permuted by a key which is generated by a mathematical function is a good possibility for a system to be used.

This means that OTP's may not be used only or even not by E10.

If one see the targets according to the low frequencies used, i.e. Lebanon,Jordan, Syria,Iraq, this is not an unusual concern. Its possible that its too dangerous to transport OTP material to the agents in the field there.

So a system similar as the above may be used, an overencrypted codebook.(Superencryptin) Such things were also used in WW2 and very very difficult to break in practice, mostly even impossible to break, according to Kahn's great book "The codebreakers".

This is enough for the first time of this further analysis report of E10. In an update I will include further analysis. I have found some good ideas, which need to be solved by computer programs I have to write. This will take some time, so good luck for waiting on an update of this report with new great observations!

'73s+++

Alpha@E10

[Tnx for sharing Alpha].

E11

The chart that H-FD sent raised a question over the existence of a Tuesday 0800z 7663kHz and a request was made. Whilst there are many who just post all they can receive to Group – or simply just don’t bother and take all the info available – JoA repeatedly devoted 5 mins each Tuesday morning to try to prove its existence. To date this sending has yet to be received.

E11a

On Fri 10/02 GD observed

"E11a again Friday 2030 on 5176 and 2100 on 5082, both 121/25, but different messages, also different to yesterday. Must be something important going on with all these special messages flying about. Not sure if it has been mentioned, but I noted a pause every 10 groups."

E11b

E15

Revised Frequency schedule devised by Manolis Petrakis

And the phonetics used in station idents:

E17

No reports

E17z

E22

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

This station has now been removed from the Control List. It was confirmed by Mike of Sussex [mndbs] as a BC station engineering service.

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].

AF sent his logs:

From FS [Amsterdam]

E25

[From the E25 desk]

• ID’s used with messages so far (new ones are underlined:
  222 275 430 440 555 557 705 708 720 730 780 835 (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.

New revelations

Gert came with this interesting information.

He found the original music used by E25.

“It is from a famous female singer called Oum Kalthoum. The number you hear with E25 is called “Arouh li meen”. It is the exact same music as used in the preamble of E25.”

“What I am interested in is the translation of the title and the text used in that song. I don’t know any arab speaking persons so I hope someone in this group has.”

“Another interesting thing is that I found a song called “Live in Giza” with Oum Kalthoum and Jean-Michel Jarre. Hmm that’s interesting as another numberstation (E09) used the music from Jean-Michel Jarre and is believed to be related in some way to E25. Any info welcome.”

Later PLondon came with the Arab text used in that song and gave the translation. Thanks a lot PLonden.

For 'Arouh li min' I suggest Who/Whom (should) I go to?  ['min' according to my dictionary is the interrogative hence the '?' ending].

Just recently the E25 desk came in contact with a person able to read Arabic. It is a love-song about a girl/woman singing about a man – how beautiful he is and what nice feelings she has about him. Later in the song she sings her heart is broken by that man. She sings about her broken heart while still loving him… Double feelings – where should I go to…

Now to the Arab text:

A complete translation would be much appreciated.

Thanks Gert, PLondon and all for this interesting stuff.

Now onto the logs:

In short

For the period january and february 2006.

In detail

Heard by ML:

1st Jan 06, 12.00z, older & younger OM, 10 x 280 again.
12:00.40z i/p 275
12:03.30z m m m
5410 2431 280 (x 10) last 2x 280 changed to younger voice and continued to end of TX
r r r
--- rpt of msg ---
12:06.25z eom eotx

Heard by Mike on 03/01/2006 tuesday starting 12.00z.

call 275
Usual style call of 275 followed by:
M m m
1410 2431 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 (the last 280 by a different voice)
R r r
Same message repeated, followed by EOM EOT

Heard by ML on 5th Jan,

12:47.00z, i/p 440, younger voice with accentuated pronounciation of 5/6/0
12:49.00z, m m m
6347 5080 3651 3632 4166 6505 4173 3651
r r r
--- rpt of msg ---
12:51.15z, eom eotx carrier down

Heard by TomH on a virtual radio in south Sweden on 7/1/2006 AM (sounds even better in usb with the ICOM 725's DSP, could make out voices in the background) , Mike and Gert (on his own radio) starting 1245 UTC.

Calling "780"
9461 6090 4110 0546 4440 8072 2627 5951 4110
R r r
(message repeated)
EOM EOT (1250 UTC)

From Mike we received this log:

17/01/2006 tuesday
12:37z   557 3 call no message. Big double thump on mic and tx ended.

And a couple of days later Mike heard this one, 23/01/2006 monday

1220z  calling 430 11 no message passed.

Later that day (23/01/2006) E25 came up with a message

1240z  tone up at S+10
1245 call starts: 440 449 440 449 until 1249 when the call changes to just 440.
1250 message starts:
1111 6031 4440 8137 1910 6074 0269 0594 2584 1725 0061 7279 4440
R r r --- rpt of msg ---
EOM and EOT at 1253

Observation: the signal this time was much bigger than the 1220 TX, this was just S7 and suffering from noise.
However this signal peaked at +10db and was in clear AM and very loud. Either a different TX site or beaming towards us?

Log from Fred:

3 Feb 2006,
1203z, ip, ended..2742 6810
12.05z EOM/EOTx

Mike heard E25 on 08/02/2006 wednesday

1202z  calling 275
M m m
8305 5421 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 280
R r r --- rpt of msg ---
End of message end of transmission. Good S9 signal with clear audio.
1209 calling 275 followed by what sounded to be a repeat of the 1202 TX but this was very weak S5 and in the noise.

PLondon came with this log on feb 12 2006:

1214z  1000Hz tone lead in to Music then: OM
555 R24
Message R3
5124 4051 0330 8826 7673 7887 3251 8238 3884 0326 9958 8515 0346 3009 0330
Rebeat R3
--- rpt of msg --- 
End of Message, End of Transmission.

Another log from PLondon, feb 13 2006:

1200z [AM] OM
277 5 repeated until 1210z (fair readable, some noise and slight fade).

And later that day:

1226z 13/02 [AM] OM
Tone intro, then music into
555[R24] and a repeat of Sunday's message:
5124 4051 0330 8826 7673 7887 3251 8238 3884 0326 9958 8516 0346 3009 0330
Ending at 1241z.

ML, DoK, X and PLondon heard E25 as follows on feb 18 2006:

Music 'Arouh li meen' intro at 1227z until voice at 1235z
Then 557  4  until 1239z  Transmissions ended with three dull knocks to the mic.

PLondon heard E25 at 1249z on 22/02/06, calling:

785 25 26 27 29
788 28

Another log from PLondon and DoK, feb 24th 2006, 12.42z:

Different announcer OM  [in AM]:
788 28 31 30  R14 (note 5th sending was definately 785 28 30 31 the pauses between 8th and 9th and 11th and 12th repetitions was longer. At end of sending two very soft knocks on mic heard.
Blank carrier remained until 1249z

Both PLondon and X heard E25 on 25/02 

1239:10z carrier up
1239:40z 1000Hz tone
1242:38z Message '449' repeated.
1246z ends, reasonable strength with fades.

E25 appeared 26/02 with a message, heard by X and PLondon, starting :

1250 Calling 449 R.
12.53 Pause, than calling
785 32 33
788 28 30 31

DoK heard E25 on feb 28 2006:

1229z 28/02
1229z carrier up, S2 to S9, Knockings on mic heard followed by a remark - not understood.
1232z carrier down
1243z Carrier Rises, 1000Hz tone
1244z 705 34 35 708 28 30 21

The above combination of two alternate lines sent ten times

1250:30z Message ends
1250:45z Carrier Drops.

Thanks all for you logs and help (in random order): DoK, PLondon, ML, Mike, Gert, TomH, Fred and X.

G06

G06 continues in 2006 with the first Monday in the month 1900 + 2000 UTC schedule and the twice a month Thursday 1830 UTC and Friday 1930 UTC. There has also been a weekend G06 at 2200 UTC logged in both January and February.

First Monday in the Month 1900 + 2000 UTC Schedule

Thursday 1830 UTC Schedule

Friday 1930 UTC Schedule

Weekend Schedule;-

A G06 had been logged on a Sunday last year on 6-Feb-2005 at 2200z on 4,441 kHz with a full message. A quick check at 2200z on this frequency on Sundays in January this year produced no results , but;-

[Thanks PoSW]

SEE H-FD’s SUGGESTED YEARLY SCHEDULE AT END OF NEWSLETTER ISSUE 32

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

*PoSW’s entry EN32 shows 2125z

Sat – rptd Sunday

^ Read PoSW’s piece above.

Sundays

HFD’s log:

AF’s log:

G22

An interesting numbers aside:

Q: I heard G22 last week on 4442 lsb when I expected it on 4462 usb. There was E10 up on 4461 with a good steady signal and I wondered if that could mix with G22 and cancel out the modulation on 4462, giving me 4442 lsb ??
I believe I came across something similar with XPA when it was broadcast in the 5.9 MHz band, and that also appeared 20 kc lower. Gert tells me that he heard the G22 transmission on 4462 – but it was totally absent in the London area.
If I’m right in my thinking could you explain the mechanics of this and work out the frequency shift?

A: I believe that what has been experienced is the 'Luxembourg Effect' originally reported by Tellegen to the scientific community and then further worked on by Butt, both in 1933.
It is reported in 'The Upper Atmosphere'  Prof SK Mitra [work presented to no less than Sir Edward Appleton in 1947] and I have a copy or two right here.

The theory is that an original weaker signal has the modulation imposed upon it by a stronger station on another frequency. As a result the original weaker station is heard on the frequency of the stronger station. One station must have a wavelength much longer [or shorter] than the other for this to occur.
The full explanation is more detailed than this and the mathematical expression is horrendous but, look it up on the net and I'm sure you'll see the proof of what I state.

[Tnx those involved].

Slavic stations

Chart 23 [Updated and amended Chart 21]!

M10, S10d and S17c              

Compiled by the Slavic Desk

Freqs ± 2kHz

Activity Designations:

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

It will be seen that something has happened!

Towards the end of February the chart together with the introductory write up was sent to the Editor for inclusion in the Newsletter issue 33. Imagine my horror to find that all had not gone to plan or expectation; originally Chart 18 was to be used as the basis for the updated chart, luckily we were able to correct this problem before the newsletter ‘went to press.’ I do not know what the overall effect may be for this year.

The next change should be 1^st May but that may also change, we will of course update as we proceed.

I will be listing all known time schedules, some of which we do not have frequencies for at certain times of the year. They may, of course not be active all through the year.

January/February has been an interesting period with other groups being examined. But first on the 16/10/06 the M10 transmission at 1610z on 4485kHz was held up for 4 minutes whilst another transmission sending five letter groups, including barred letters was is progress.

The alternate week programme is undergoing change and schedules keeping to set weeks of the month. More later when it settles down.

Now onto other things viz a selection of other scheds covered:

This continued in this vein and was monitored for the remainder of period.

In addition to M03 and E11 considerable time has been devoted to another station, details of which I do not wish to disclose for the moment.

[Thanks DoK].

S04

Whilst looking for S04 JoA remarks:

Tnx Fred!

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

PoSW’s analysis leads us in:

Most of the S06 schedules logged last year are still with us in 2006 with the exception of the Tuesday 1850 + 1950  UTC with call "254" which I havn't been able to find so far but which is no doubt out there somewhere!

Tuesday 1630 + 1730 UTC Schedule

Second and Fourth Mondays in the Month 2115 + 2215 UTC Schedule

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

This has proved hard to find in 2006, could not find either sending on 14-January, second Saturday, despite a lot of tuning either side of the frequencies used in January 2005 which were 10,570 + 8,025 kHz. Managed to find the second sending on the fourth Saturday;-

[Tnx PoSW]

RNGB’s log

Gert has sent in a Chart showing S06 and E06 regular schedules with fast endings:

Gert expressly asks that GD and RNGB be credited for this work.

S10d

PoSW writes,

The S10d Czech language station in the first two months of 2006 remains much as in December '05 but we can expect changes in the first week of March. Schedules known to be operating in February include the following;-

And for good measure, another S10d I usually manage to miss, heard on Tuesday 21-February in call-up mode at 1857 UTC, 7,745 kHz with an S9+ signal presumably having started 5 minute before the hour, calling up with "555 555 555   660 660 660  29". Refering to the Slavic Desk's revised chart 17 in E2K27 for the month of February last year the // frequency may well be 9,986 kHz. [Correct!!]

[Tnx PoSW]

S11a

Nil Reported for February but read on:

On Wednesday 1st March JoA wrote, "I wonder as to whether you tuned to 7377kHz for M03 to-day. I found distortion on CW with interference from fast morse or digital on the low side.

Changed to USB and found Slavic numbers being repeated.I've looked at the various Slavic variations, but been unable to identify.

Sounded roughly like: DEVIOKA APULKA PICJORCA CHEETAH NOIS NOIS - repeated. --- Recorded on audio tape.

Transmission ceased @ 0905z I would be interested in your observations."

GD replied, "It was S11a the call was Davoyka Adinka Petyorka cherta Null Null 215/00."

S17c

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

Thanks to AF, DoK, Fred, H-FD and Mikemndbs

The March Freqs until next change are: 5301//8190kHz

S21

S25

V02 Cuban Stations

PoSW writes from British shores on the Cuban Senorita’s emissions!

The V02 Spanish language YL has become very weak in the early part of 2006 with  few of the known schedules being heard with a readable signal. Even those heard in the UK evening time which appeared to be becoming stronger in the late autumn of last year have become weaker. As for the early morning transmissions it is sometimes difficult to tell positively if they are there or not; sometimes the prescence of a very faint heterodyne produced by a carrier on a known V02 frequency can be detected by selecting an SSB mode and swinging the tuning either side but it is often impossible to confirm that it is the Senorita from Cuba.

which, when investigated was an S9+ M12 on 7,849 kHz.

[Tnx PoSW]

MS US suffered from a setback to his monitoring but sent logs as soon as able, for which we thank him. [Hope all goes well for you].

V02a

V02c

Beginning in October 2005, this network changed it's format to that of V02a.

See EN31 Nov 2005, Page 34 – 38 inc for more detail.

V07

AnonUk has sent us a summary of his logs for this year – note the standard progression from Jan to Dec

[Tnx AnonUK]

V13

In message 4573 dated 05/03 Ben Mesander wrote,

"For a while, V13 seemed to have timeshifted into slots where it was not possible to hear it at my QTH. It seems to have resumed at least some skeds that are possible to pick up in the western US. Check around 1100utc-1500utc on:

Note that some of the above freqs are in error, but since it's been so many years since I monitored this station I can't remember the ones that are "real".

[Tnx Ben]

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