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

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.

E06

RNGB found: Weds at 1500/1600z on 13435/11427kHz with ‘924’ 624 115 69006 etc

• 5186kHz 2030z 16/01 16/03 891 734 33 49497.. 0 0 0 0 0 2041z

Message contents:

49497 49967 97488 91081 63295 53401 76048 94456 56438 62326
97529 37643 32424 50637 41424 97667 55332 62630 45162 05082
29694 98792 95282 34482 14298 61168 30881 52008 83999 08237
27911 60545 93306

[FredNL]

RNGB’s E06 Log for March:

PoSW provides detail to schedule and intercepts:

Sunday 1830 + 1930 UTC Schedule, always has call "690";-

First + Third Wednesday in the Month Schedule;-

First + Third Fridays in the Month Schedule;-

Other E06;-

[Tnx PoSW]

RNGB April Logs [credit to others appended]

E07

Before we move onto others logs PoSW shares his logs and analysis of the station:

The usual E07 schedules continue as we move into spring with all the usual well documented problems of low modulation making for difficult copy; but in March two new E07 schedules were noted, on Tuesdays at 1900 UTC and on Thursdays, also at 1900 UTC. These were of a much more businesslike nature than the long standing transmissions with much better modulation than your average E07 and transmitted in lower sideband suppressed mode, not noted before with this one having up until now always used conventional AM with both sidebands.

Sunday + Wednesday 1800 UTC Schedule

Monday + Wednesday 2100 UTC Schedule

Thursday 2110 UTC Schedule

Two new E07 skeds noted in March;-

Tuesday Schedule

This schedule seems to have vanished in April, forgot to listen for it on the 4th and could find no sign of it on the 11th

New Thursday Schedule

Peter sums up E07 with,

“The long established E07 schedules are around as expected and are following the same frequency schedules as in previous years with the exception of the Monday + Wednesday starting at 2000z, 9 PM BST which does not use the same frequencies as in 2005 and has to be searched for at the start of each new month, sometimes a difficult task due to the low mod., still a feature of many E07 transmissions. The two new E07s first noted in March, Tuesdays at 7 PM UK time and a different one on Thursdays also at 7 PM - both did the hour shift with the start of summer so they still showed up at the same clock time - seem to have gone although the Thursday schedule was logged in the first week of April on the same frequencies as in March.”

[Thanks Peter].

RNGB’s E07 Log for March:

We acknowledge input from AF and mndbs also

E10 Desk for Mar 06

Frequencies (USB) and C/S Heard

Comments & Reported Net Activities for Feb/Mar 06.

NB:

• On the 24th & 25th of Feb we had SYN2 & VLB2 on extended call throughout that period and on the 27th this changed to the long strings VLB (39 numbers & letters) and SYN (29). MIW2 has been on ext call since the 01 march and is still active at this moment on freq 5230KHz. It might be worth monitoring to see if a simular pattern evolves
• 05 Mar at 2030hrs Reference to MIW2 above, this station has changed its call as I believed it might and is at this moment transmitting as MIWA9B10C9 on 5230KHz. (Later heard at 2100hrs by Ary B, still in progress)
  Back to normal as MIW2 at the 2315hrs transmission
• 06 Mar from 1505hrs to 2000hrs MIWA10B11C10 was recorded by :- Mike L, Tom H, Ary B, Manolis Crete and Jochen S. I missed this but at 2021hrs when I next tuned in, it was transmitting as MIW2 again. I lost contact at 2150hrs as it faded into the background noise. It might be worth noting that the two MIW strings as underlined would appear to follow on from each other. A quick glance through my own records (Years 02 to 06) showed this could be a first time, though on April the 14th 2002 I recorded MIWTMX1504 and VLBTMX1504 both transmitting at the same time on own frequencies.

Special Strings Heard During Feb/Mar 06

Was it a Fake?, Was it for Real?, Had E10 gone mad? No it was the Goodnight String, its all you want it to be.

But for sure it bought out some healthy comment.

Logs From J Chircop for 11 Feb to 7 Mar 06 All Frequencies USB

11 Feb 06

14 Feb 06

16 Feb 06

26 Feb 06

02 Mar 06

04 Mar 06

07 Mar 06

Thanks for your logs JC, you will see I took the Liberty of pruning out the E10, USB and the S5 and added the G in front of the group number. This makes it easier to read and should you want to copy the format for your future logs, it would mean less typing for you. (E10 Desk)

*Denotes number of times message repeated within the above log.

E10 Desk April 06

Frequencies (USB) and C/S as Heard

Special Strings Heard During April 06

Comments & Reported Net Activities During April 06.

• 02 April, 1945hrs on 5175KHz VLB2 and 4648KHz SYN2
  on extended calls signal weak in strong static noise.
  Ongoing 2022hrs.Ended 2054hrs.(E10 Desk)
• 03 April at 1350hrs on 14000khz
  Mike L reports hearing SYN2 and on the 4th at 1448hrs VLB2 on the same freq.
• 04 April at 2303hrs on freqs 5435 kHz and 3415 kHz
  ART1 Transmission ended at 2307hrs C/S only. (E10 Desk)
• 09 April at 1900hrs
  JSR and ULX2 competing on the same freq (not given). ULX2 ended then JSR completed a G19 Message (HTJSX) which its been sending since 04Feb06. (Credit to Micheal Ford)
• 11 April at 1801 to 1805hrs on freq 14000 kHz
  ULX1 (Credit Mike L)
• 20 April at 2232hrs on freq 5170
  VLB2 and SYN2 on freq 4648KHz both on extended calls. Possibly commenced at 2145hrs. Ended at 2253hrs (E10 Desk)
• 23 April at 0010hrs on freq 5170 kHz
  VLB6 c/s only. Still ongoing at 0230hrs. (And so to bed) (E10 Desk)
• 24 April at 2124hrs on freq on 3640 and 4648 kHz
  SYN6 (Credit J Hruska)
• 24 April.
  As I have noted before when one or two stations go on an extended call namely VLB2 / SYN2 / MIW2 / KPA etc one might expect a change of call at some stage later, ending up with a special string. As you can see from the log above, this did infact happen once again. The MIW and KPA Strings were also logged by Fritz Nusser 1845hrs, Ary B at 1850hrs and Jakub Hruska at 1911hrs, and I'm sure by many others also. ( E10 Desk)
• 25 April at 0030hrs on freq 4648 kHz
  SYN6, still ongoing at 0200hrs.(E10 Desk)
• 25 April
  KPA and MIW long strings as above (Credit to Ary B and Mike L)

Many thanks to all for the use of your reports.

©BMLongfield E10 Desk Manager April 06

[Tnx Bob]

E11

Before we go into the logs H-FD kindly pointed out some errors that crept in concerning the Friday 1200z 8544kHz transmissions last time. The time was inadvertently stated as 0830z. The affected logs should read:

E11 Chart by H-FD is at the end of the NL [Tnx H-FD].

E11a

Nil Reports

E11b

E15

Revised Frequency schedule devised by Manolis Petrakis

And the phonetics used in station idents:

From ML:

Saturday 22April, 14000kHz, E15, hard work pulling it out of the noise, but with careful use of BW & Pband.

Confirms the 25 Mar log for a 14.00z Sat TX.

Note that this caught with a temporary "experimental" Z antenna, well two L's head to head so to speak. Antenna selector is out of circuit, knackered, so unable to check with the permanent antennae for any improvement.

1. 13:58.00z, odd tones & "foghorn" sound - got my interest!
2. 14:03.20z i/p FYP with P sounding more like PETA
3. 14:04.40z lost into noise, no further copy.

E17

E17z

Nil Reports

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]

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].

©AnonUK23050

Week 2 was M04
Not heard since September 2000

E25

From the E25 desk

ID’s used with messages so far (new ones are underlined):
222 275 440 555 720 730 780 835 (arabic counting) and 906

ID’s used with control messages so far (new ones are underlined):
200 209 220 227 270 272 276 277 377 422 430 440 442 449 477 557 705 708 745 784 785 788 830 837 875 877 905 909

Transmission times: any time between 11.00 and 15.00 UTC (and possible earlier). Likes 12.30 and 12.45. More transmissions on one day possible.

Only one frequency known: 9450 kHz, mode AM.

So far there seem 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

After the discovery of the song used by E25 and the Arabic text of that song a couple of readers came with a translation of the Arabic text published in Newsletter 33:

This one is from JMM:

To who's place do I go ?
and I say oh my Lord
It's you who are my joy and it's you too who are my sorrow
----
A word from you, a look from you, a touch from you heat my heart
and, during love nights... love got me..
------
Un mot de toi, un regard de toi, un touchet de toi me chauffe le coeur
et pendant les nuits d'amour.. l'amour m'a eu..
To who's place do I go ?
---
To who's place do I go ?
Your being far away is very long/painful... I will live after you with
memories of you
with tears at my eyes, I think of you..
-------
To who's place do I go ?
In this life, I have no other love than you
My mind in the clouds/fog, my separation (from you) is hurting/wounding
Oh you, light of my eyes,
(Source of) my tears,
In the fire of my body, I think of you

And this one is from ACy:

TRANSLATION

* To whom I should go asking for help,
And asking for my rights back from you
Because you are my joy, my pain and everything to me

* To whom I should go
A word and eye sight both shared, with luck gathered our two hearts, also love was involved
Beneath good nights, I fall in love with you. Meeting you was joy and I always wanted to see you
But after I fell in love with you and you became all I need, you started to turn your back to me and
To be hard on me
I wished that happiness will continue but that never happened
Your love made my life like hell, and the day far from you would pass like years

* To whom I should go...
Your absence was so long, I live after you in pain and agony
Between past that is not helping me to forget what I lost
I spend all nights remember and cry, always try to hide my tears from people
those who may see me and make fun of me
I don’t know how long I can take what you did to me and how long I’d be able to face
those people who know about us
* To whom I should go

Very nice guys, and thanks a lot for the translations!

In short

March logs:

April logs:

The logs in detail

• Log from FredNL:
  Sat march 4th : 1245z calling 788 28 30 31. This sounds like the 'YL/OM' voice
• From FredNL:
  Sun march 5th :1246z 442 4 785 28 30 31 EOT 1252z
• From FredNL:
  Mon march 6th: 1244z 785 39 40 EOT 1249z. Carrier with 1kHz tone at 1241
• From FredNL:
  Sun march 12th: 1245z 9450 442 4 449 5 EOT ca. 1252z. Short 1kHz tone at 1243z
• From Mike:
  Tuesday march 14th : 12:05z  call 275 then 5831 6421 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 280 280.
• From Mndbs, march 14th.
  1209z carrier
  1213z tone
  1216z intro music
  1223z slowly turns off music and starts calling "830 17" loudly about 20 times 1227z OM stopped, "3." stopped ".7" stopped, then back to "830 17" for about 12 times (recording available) 1229z carrier down.
  The announcer was the 2nd OM. Strong signal as usual, here in Crete.
• From ML, march 16th :
  12.00z clg 275 - then answered the door, missed mssg.
• From Mndbs, march 18th:
  1245z E25 calling 785 41 42.
• From Mike:
  March 21st, 11:20 UTC unfortunately buried under broadcast station on 9450!
  Does this suggest that E25 is on air earlier than most of our reports but just not audible to us?
  Good possible Mike. Just park your receiver and wait. See also NL 26: it may possibly transmit between 11.00 and 15.00z. Also a log in NL6 (sept 2001): 9450kHz at 0935Z 09/08/2001. OM totally unreadable.
  So, might even start at any moment of the day…
• From FredNL:
  Sat march 18th: 1246z 785 41 42 EOT 1250z
  Carrier up 1240z, 1kHz tone up 1242z
• Heard by FredNL and DoK:
  Sun march 19th : 1204z 275 2344 9421 280(x8) Repeatx3 (msg rptd) EOM/EOTx 1207z
• From FredNL:
  Mon march 20:
  1159z 275 3344 9401 280x8 Repeatx3 (msg rptd) EOM/EOTx 1205z
  Carrier up 1145z,1kHz tone at 1150z, change of OM voice in 275-call at 1202z
  And a little later:
  1244z 2nd E25 today: just 449 called for 5 mins, ended 1249z
• Heard by DoK march 20:
  11.48z calling 449 [R25] and a little later:
  12.44z 449 [R18]
  Pause
  449 [R9]
• DoK heard E25 march 22:
  12.00z 275 [R44]
  Message [R3]
  2233 0512 280…
  Repeat [R3]
  2233 0521 280…
  Eom eot.
  This message was repeated march 23 and 24.
• Heard by Mndbs and DoK. 24/03/2006 Friday
  1200z Calling 275 AM S7
  Message
  2233 0512 then 280 called ten times
  Repeat
  2233 0521 then 280 called ten times
  So the second set was changed slightly!
• From ML:
  24 Mar
  9450Khz, S9 carrier 10.20-30z, no tfc.
  S4 carrier up 11.46-59z, weak R Prague under.
  11:59.10z into repeat of Thurs 23rd 11.59z TX.
• From ML:
  Sat 25 Mar, 13:42.30z Music/singer up.
  13:48.00z "227 1" x 20, older OM, read very slowly.
  13:51.40z ended, no sign-off.
• Heard by ML, DoK and PLondon:
  Sun march 26,
  11.59z   "275" x 43 (speeded up from No 24)
  12.03z message [R3]
  2415 1521 240 (x 11)
  repeat obliterated by "machine gun" QRM which stopped at end of TX, ending not heard. OM older voice.
• DoK reported this one: march 27th:
  11.58z 275 message [R3] 1422 5070 4410 1241 8354 2947 4410 Repeat [R3] – rpt of msg – eom eot.
• And another on the next day, march 28th:
  12.00z 275 message [R3] 2415 1521 280… Repeat [R3] – rpt of message – eom eot.
• Manolis from Crete
  March 29th: 9450 kHz AM:
  1202 UTC Arab music different than the usual (the one with the YL).
  1204 UTC Carrier down, then up again, with better signal strength.
  1209 UTC "830 21", repeated many times.
  1212 UTC Stopped.
  1214 UTC The same music again.
  1221 UTC OM calling "830 21" again, until 1228 UTC, end of transmission.
• Manolis from Crete
  March 29th:
  9450 kHz AM:
  1240 UTC (E25) Very strong carrier and tone.
  1244 UTC OM started calling numbers with a very low audio level, then leveling up to "785 45 46" till 1248 UTC.
• Manolis from Crete and DoK heard this one: march 31,
  1239 UTC Strong carrier + tone.
  1244 UTC E25 OM "788 47"
  1248 UTC OM knocks on the mic three times, then again "788 47".
  1251 UTC One knock again and carrier down a few seconds later.
  
• Saturday 1 April 2006
  1239 UTC Strong carrier with a tone.
  1244 UTC E25 OM repeating "785 47", knocked the microphone 3 times and ceased at 1249 UTC.
  Manolis from Crete reported.
• DoK reports, april 10th:
  12.00z 275 message [R3] 9045 2541 4901 6246 7409 7927 2042 6757 1141 2943 7742 5809 6902 4901
  Repeat [R3]
  - repeat of message-
  Eom eot.
• From DoK, april 11th:
  12.34z 555 msg[R3] 1245 4101 2421 4734 4101 Repeat [R3] – rpt of mssg – eom eot.
• April 12th, from DoK:
  11.59z 275 message [R3] 437. … Rest of message not copied.
• April 13, heard by DoK and Manolis from Crete:
  9450kHz, E25, older OM, sig improved towards end.
  11.58z "275" R
  12.02z m m m 8373 3501 280(x10), r r r
  12:04.40z eom eotx
  Some of the "0's" in 280 were sounding very much like "zulu"
• DoK heard E25 on april 16th:
  12.39z 745 49
  708 48 52
  705 41
  708 44 40
  705 49
• Heard by Manolis from Crete:
  March 22:
  E25 9450 kHz AM 1219z-1224z "830 27" QRM from a RTTY TX a few kHz below.
• April 23:
  1200z 275(R) Msg(R3)280(R8)Rebeat(R3)Msg(R3)280(R9)EOM EOT at 1207z]
  XJT obliterated sending 1202 to 1204z. Rest QSB msg text part received only - -2-  - -52-
  PLondon
• From FredNL
  April 25:
  12.04z very weak, calling 240(?) a few times, then strong QRM (jamming?)

We received a study from FredNL.

E25 - A short study of the 275-messages with 280-repeats

After logging another E25 275-message today (Monday 20 March) with just the two 4- figure groups and a number of ‘280’s repeated, and having my rig mostly monitoring one particular frequency the whole afternoon anyway, I spent some time doing the following study regarding the odd format of “ 4f 4f 280(Rptx?)”:

Facts we have so far

“275-280” Messages Logged in E2K NLs (+ 3 from my March log)
Since the “275-280”-messages appeared 4 months ago, 15 such msgs logged:

What can be found in this

Referring to previous E25 analysis presented in the E2K NL regarding the non-randomness of certain E25 number groups, the two 4-figure groups in these “275- 280” messages are also clearly non-random. Several algorithms have been applied, with no success so far, but as more data are gathered pattern(s) might appear.

The varying number of repeats of 280 might also be non-random and carry some information by itself. Then again, the number of 280-repeats might carry no significance at all!

Another point, much more concrete: tx weekdays for the logged “275- 280” msgs turns out to have been:

This might be interesting, ref the E15 schedule and the possible tx site(s) of E25! Let us expand from “275- 280” msgs to include ALL E25 messages for a period. Let us look at e.g. May –05 to today, Mid March –06:

Friday TXs, All Types of Messages Included, May –05 to March -06:

From May –05 to March –06, E25 logs show a total of 95 msgs. Of these, 10 were on Fridays. This would be just slightly below an average distribution.

But

After the new “275-280” format appeared 4 months ago, a total of 44 msgs have been logged in all acc to E2K NLs, but only 2 of these tx’s were on Fridays, and none of these 2 were “275-280” format (On 18 Nov 222 msg & 03 Feb unknown id, but a reg msg, no 280-rpts). This could indicate that E25 has changed policy regarding Friday tx’s, and strongly reduced them.

Proof-reading this small “study”, I realise that this effort leaves more questions than answers – as such studies tend to end up! I guess it just reflects the intrigue surrounding E25!

Of course, as always, these statistics might also just be a reflection of our listening patterns, propagation conditions, etc.

Thanks Fred! [Tnx E25 Desk]!

G06

[G06 schedules across one year, via H-FD at end of NL]

Logs

TUESDAY:

FRIDAY:

Excellent analysis from PoSW:

First Monday in the Month 1900 + 2000 UTC Schedule call always "308";-

Thursday 1830 UTC Schedule;-

Friday 1930 UTC Schedule

Friday 1930 UTC Schedule, always used to be the same DK/GC and 5F message as on the preceeding Thursday at 1830z but with a different call but has often not been the case in recent months and was not so in March;-

Weekend Schedule;-

The G06 YL had been heard several times in Jan and Feb on Saturdays at 2200 UTC in the region of 4,441 kHz, probably alternate weeks, repeated on the following day if "full message". Not found on this frequency in March but was logged once higher up;-

[Tnx Peter].

G22

SLAVIC STATIONS

Chart 24
M10, S10d and S17c from 15^th May, 2005
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.

Chart 24 shown above is almost identical to Chart 23, however the following additions and alterations:

Wednesday/Thursday 1700z 5917kHz is the // to 9166kHz; Monday/Tuesday 2200z is now 3522//4485kHz; Monday/Tuesday 2200z 5945kHz, no //; Tuesday/Wednesday 1855z 13405//15785kHz (15785 is a new frequency).

The 2200z changes, brought to my attention by RNGB, and the 1855z frequency, brought to my attention by PoSW, my thanks to you both.

The rotational change returned to normal on the 1^st May, therefore Chart 24 is the updated version of Chart 20.

However, expect some changes. The next Chart 25 will include changes that have already come to light. The new // for S17c is 4485kHz and found by Fritz Nusser, well done Fritz!

A new schedule on Thursday/Friday 1000z on 15785//18303kHz. The 1100z schedule remains as stated but on 18303kHz only repeated at 1440z and 1530z.

The schedules shewn with no frequencies assigned are still believed to be active an a concerted effort would be appreciated to assist with their discovery.

73 Derek – DoK – Slavic Desk

[Tnx Derek].

S04

No reports this time.

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

See end of this Newsletter for the updated “S06 Regular skeds ending slow”

Report from RNGB:

S06 (slow ending) log for March

S06 (slow) is much clearer now that the old ‘Babooshka’ has been changed for a nice Young Lady who’s pronunciation is very good. Frequencies have changed to the March/April/Sept/Oct set, and are all as expected.

Most will keep to original times but a few will move 1 hour early.

There would appear to be at least two different transmitters in use. Some of the higher frequency skeds (like Weds 0700 ID 729 and 0840 ID 328) use AM mode with lots of amplifier hum, and most of the lower frequency skeds have the lower sideband well suppressed.

The Weds sked for ID 475 is unusual in that it keeps same frequency all year. It is thought that it does repeat 10 minutes later, but the frequency has never been found. (Probably buried under a strong broadcast station). This sked is expected tp move one hour early in Maystarting at 0730.

S06 (fast ending)

Most skeds will repeat at same time the following day when there is a message.

There are a few exceptions of course.

A strange one is the ID 480 which has popped up on several occasions this month and does not seem to have a repeat. All the messages have been different (look at last entry for 29th March) Different message on same day!)

It likes frequencies 8130 and 9225 and also likes Mondays and Wednesdays. Times are around 0830/0900 and 1200/1300.

May change ID next month? Another peculiarity is that the frequency is not tuned up and keyed ready for the transmission – it just pops up without warning. So just because you don’t hear any carrier wave on these frequencies does not mean that it won’t be there!

On Thursday the 9th it came up on 9225 kHz at 0939 with a message and just ended before the start of S06 (slow) sked on the same frequency with ID 895. I wonder if the transmissions were co-ordinated? It would have been interesting if S06 (fast) had run into S06 (slow)

The Saturday afternoon sked of ID 724 on 15840/13890 was on a very high pair of frequencies for the time of year and I only heard 15840 very weak on the 4th Saturday, and not audible on the 2nd.

Another interesting one is ID 126 which has not had any 8s or 9s in the message body. I recognised that this may be a simple binary code sending 3 bits (making 8 numbers; 0 to 7) from my days of studying radar theory.

This is how aircraft mode 3/A radar transponders work and they send 3 bits x 4 to make 64 codes and then they combine that with another box of 64 codes giving a total of 4096.

000 = 0; 001 = 1; 010 = 2; 011 = 3; 100 = 4; 101 = 5; 110 = 6; 111 = 7

Of course it may be, as Paul suggested, that the cryptographer just had an aversion to 8s and 9s

[Tnx RNGB].

PoSW’s logs:

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

Second and Fourth Saturday 1605 UTC Schedule, moved to 1600 UTC in April;-

Saturday 1930 UTC, Schedule;- appeared to be a weekly S06 in March - but turned out not to be so;-

Tuesday 1630 + 1730 UTC Schedule;-

Second + Fourth Monday Schedule

See end of this Newsletter for the updated “S06 Regular skeds ending slow”

S10d

Before we move onto the logs PoSW’s analysis of this station and his logs:

As expected, and as in previous years, there were several frequency changes with many of the regular weekly S10d schedules in the first week of March, in general moving higher. And also as expected, S10d remains on  UTC with the start of summertime which means transmissions appear one hour later clock time. Always with two frequencies in //, often one strong and one much weaker and often wide variations in signal strength from week to week for some reason.

Weekly schedules include the following;-

Non Weekly Schedules;-

These schedules which do not appear weekly are more easy to miss than those which show up on the same day of each week, also these have somewhat unusual start-up times which makes them more likely to be overlooked. However, the following have been logged in recent weeks;-

[Tnx PoSW]

Jakub from Prague, Czech Republic sends in:

Reports also received from FredNL, mndbs and MalcF

S11a

S11b

[GD and DoK]

77777 77777 68593 77563 95623 12838 52731 94987 13820 38636
45563 25695 55303 85259 91991 63052 66672 85073 81297 11996
80790 88282 03532 95657 79072 53003 85616 92050 9890 71362
95233 07887 77777 77777

Some of the 4 and 5 might not be correct as 4 is Chetyorka and 5 is Petyorka, any corrections welcomed.

S17c

The S17c Freqs until next change are: 5301//8190kHz [nos courtesy of AF, FredNL, H-FD, DoK, mndbs and PLondon]

Note 26/03 sending did not sent the 5f grp, just the usual preamble etc ending at 1257z

Note some strange numbers in April’s intercepts.

Now 4485//6758kHz

S21

S25

No reports.

V02 Cuban Stations

This station has now achieved world notoriety after being heard in Australia , details later.

PoSW reports his monitoring of the Spanish Lady before we move on the Mark Slaten’s comprehensive logging from the US and his schedule charts which can be seen at the end of the Newsletter.

Signals from the Senorita from Havana heard in the UK morning time have become slightly stronger as we proceed through the spring with rapidly increasing hours of daylight.

Thanks Peter, now on to Marks excellent logs:

March: MS US

April: MS US

Writing from his US QTH MSUS wrote in his 19/04 report,

“Note:  Signals are getting weaker during daylight hours at this QTH. –19/04 report.”

V02a was also heard by EW in Southern Australia, on 22/04, who writes,

“I have quite a weak signal on 13566 kHz, lady reading Spanish five letter groups. The time is 1319 UTC and it has been going since 1300 UTC.”

Thanks EW.

Others sendings were offered by RNGB:

Who noted,

“These logs don’t appear from our colleagues across the pond. Presumably ‘cos they are tucked away in bed!”

[Who wouldn’t be at 0300 local time]?

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]

We have received two unsubstantiated reports concerning this station – worth keeping an eye on if it’s within your capabilities.

V24

Nil reports this time.

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