ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 34

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

Morse stations | Voice stations | Oddities | Polytones
German branch | Numbers predictions
E03 & E03a prediction charts | E06 & S06 schedules
Cubans schedules | G06 schedules over a year | E11 schedules over a year
If it had not been for 15 minutes (3/6)
HJH's watch | News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home

Morse stations

Here is a “small” representative sample of the very many CW logs received, giving an indication of station behaviour and range of times / freqs heard.

The presentation layout has been revised, following constructive comments, to make it easier to “speed read”.

Unids

IB has logged a larger number than usual of very short duration / short lived TX’s, mainly under 5 meg, sending only an alpha/numeric ID, whose origin and purpose remain unknown.

(Possibly associated with current Russ Mil exercises and/or training for their upcoming African deployment. Ed)

M01/2 MCW, hand

ID change to “ 463”

M01a (formerly the end of month TX’s)

This TX detail follows “as received”.

There are no known set formats / freqs / times for this variant station.

Fritz N is very lucky to have caught it, well done, we now have a good example to use as a basis for the ID of other possible TX’s.

Previous logs of this station had been “i/p” so we knew some variations of the sign-offs’, this one gives us an intro but no sign-off – can’t win them all !!

…………….19397 19397 19397 04 04 04
111 111 111 56125 56125 56125 03 03 03
(all rptd 3x)
56125 56125 56125 35 35 03 03 = = 61352 61352 38621 38621 72981 72981
= = 35 35 03 03
19397 19397 19397 12 12 04 04 = = 32682 32682 73915 73915 94345 94345
12394 12394 = = 12 12 04 04
no sign-off.

Other freqs
4029, 4887, 5259, 5275, 5736, 7365, 10822

M01b

M01c

M03 ICW, some CW

An interesting start to the new “month/ freqs” where the M03, 09.00z, ID 214 sked came up as an S11a “215/00” – never heard before, mistake or new S11a sked ???

M03c

M08a ICW, cut

Again giving us an entertaining catalogue of errors in addition to the early/late starts.

Some TX’s although having had good stregnth signals have been so garbled as to be unreadable, whether this is an audio feed or Txer problem has not been established,

(See also the included comprehensive charts by MS for daily expected activity.)

Other freqs
3024, 3026, 3245, 3926, 4027, 4173, 4478, 4507, 5761, 6854, 6933, 7480, 7519, 7526, 7554, 7680, 7975, 8009, 8096, 8135, 9062, 9153, 9238, 9323, 9330, 10126, 10235, 10345, 10444, 10446, 10566, 10715, 11156, 11556, 11566, 12119, 12214, 13374, 13419,

M08c still with us.

M10 ICW / MCW, some CW

Other freqs
3522//4485, 3523//4783, 4030//6758, 4485//5945, 4485//6758, 4835//9369, 5027//7605, 5078//7745, 5078//8112, 5078//8190, 5301, 5917//9166, 5945//9166, 5945//9368, 5946//6369, 5946//10125, 7605, 7745//9165, 8143//12226, 8175, 8190//12295, 9156, 9165, 11417, 12226, 13405, 14377, 14445, 14563, 14653 (typo ?)

M11

Rolling 4 week sked, Mon–Fri 09.00z, Wed 08.00z

Where previously gc’s of 5 and lower were logged there has been a radical change as can be seen from the following logs.

M12 ICW, some MCW/ CW, short 0

See also the E2k German Report.

This stations behaviour is quite odd and creating some interesting challenges for our CW team.

There is a suspicion that their TX’er may also be emitting “image freqs” but this has yet to be proved.

Thanks to CX & FN who are specialising in monitoring this station, many more skeds are being identified which is allowing us to build a far more complete picture of the activities and sked structures of this prolific CW player – even though it’s continually changing.

It had long been thought that many skeds were not being heard, too weak, in UK, but could be monitored from other parts of Europe.

The best previous “score” had been 19 skeds a day – this has now risen to over 30, confirming our original thoughts.

As a result of CXs postings many of these skeds are now being monitored in UK, and elsewhere, by the CW team.

Many of the mssgs are in the 100+ gps area while on 26 Apl RNGB caught a 311 gp mssg which caused the whole rpt sked to run late, and the freqs were ID related !!, while Fritz N caught similar situations on both 21st & 26th, and CX on 16th caught a 325 gps.

A further interesting aspect to come to light is the slight, but noticeable, delay between groups 40 / 41 of some messages.

Whether this is as a result of computer generation/ sending, or having another meaning, is currently unknown.

[But it is a regular feature of many Local Broadcast music stations who programme onto HD’s to have periodic “hiccups” while waiting for the HD to “refill the buffer”, even heard it on national radio. Ed ]

Resulting from the increase in M12 monitoring activity other patterns are also more clearly emerging, but still needs much more work, in that on some skeds there appears to be a distinct relationship between various aspects of the 3 sked freqs, but these are not always related to the mssg ID.

These relationships have been known about by E2k for a number of years but the lack of sufficient comprehensive logs made any serious analysis difficult, this situation is now changing.

Other freqs
4938, 5233, 5236, 5368, 5381, 5436, 5734, 5788, 5938, 5944, 6768, 6782, 6817, 6850, 6856, 6872, 6876, 6878, 6883, 6902, 6929 USA, 6934, 7372, 7469, 7483, 7657, 7817, 7849, 8029 USA, 8084, 8088, 8116, 8157, 8169, 8173, 8181, 8183, 9042, 9164, 9239, 9264, 9327, 9338, 9352, 9489, 9934, 9956, 10338, 10343, 10518, 10569, 10598, 10624, 10639, 10711, 11125, 11156, 11427, 11435, 11438, 11445, 11468, 11491, 11566, 12104, 12114, 12123, 12139, 12162, 12189, 12212, 12217, 13382, 13386, 13452, 13456, 13461, 13965, 14372, 14377, 14710, 15476,

** Only reported from USA, other than a single EU log – targeted area ??**

M13 ICW/CW, rare MCW

other freqs
3884, 4496, 4663, 5288, 6383, 6886, 6975, 6992, 7432, 8066, 9946

Has the M13 family ceased ?,

Last logged Mon 13 Mar 04.30z ID 378 by GD.

[The W f’cast on 15 Mar mentioned severe WX in Eastern Europe !!]

[Long time members may remember that M06, or any other of the OLX family, failed to return to air following devastating floods in E Europe. Ed}

Despite intensive monitoring there has been no further logs of any M13 family as at 30 April 2006

M13a

No reports

M13b

M13d

M13e

No reports

M14 MCW / ICW / MCW CC, short 0

M23 ICW

Thanks to J-PL for his continued, almost daily, monitoring which proved essential in FN spotting the “new” ID as it stood out like a sore thumb against the background of “expected” calls. Nice piece of teamwork.

M24 ICW / MCW /MCW CC (high speed version of M14)

M45 MCW hand, slow

M50 MCW

M55

M62

M76

[What a long winded way to operate !, and keeping same freq for all times of TX. We surmise from this that its target area is a comparatively local one. Ed]

M87

No reports

M89 CW, auto & hand

IB reports a busy M89 with noted freqs of 3399, 3846, 4227, 4928, 4983, 5017, 5086, 5278, 5418, 5439, 5504, 5643, 5727, 6667, 7059, 7153//8047, 7416, 7779, 8050, 8321, 8727//10864, 9422, 20589 mainly sending its “round slip” TXs.

CX, Gert, GD, HFD, IB, FN, F-NL, JH, JoA, J-PL, KR, ML, MoK, MS, Plondon, RNGB, Anon2 UK, Anon1 EU, Anon3 EU.

Morse stations | Voice stations | Oddities | Polytones
German branch | Numbers predictions
E03 & E03a prediction charts | E06 & S06 schedules
Cubans schedules | G06 schedules over a year | E11 schedules over a year
If it had not been for 15 minutes (3/6)
HJH's watch | News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home