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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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&rsq