ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 36

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

Voice stations | Polytones
German branch | Numbers predictions | Note from DanielE2Kde
E03 & E03a prediction charts | E06 & S06 schedules | E11 schedules over a year
Cubans schedules | G06 schedules over a year
If it had not been for 15 minutes (5/6) | Plonker's progress | Numerals
News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home

Report from E2K’s German Branch

Hallo liebe Freunde und Kollegen der deutschen Branche von E2K (Hello dear friends and colleagues of E2K’s German Branch)

This report – and perhaps the whole newsletter - will be quite different to the others. In July, we had our long expected inofficial German ENIGMA meeting, where we also talked about the newsletter, as the following revue will show.

ENIGMA meeting

It was on July 22nd in Marburg. We were 3 people: HFD, FrankE2Kde, Berlin and JörgE2Kde, Mannheim; unfortunately AlphaE2Kde, Erfurt, couldn’t come, because he had another important date. It was a nice meeting, and first we exchanged our experiences and asked each other, which numbers stations the others prefer to monitor. Then we talked also about the E2K issues, and the German friends made suggestions to make them better and more attractive. All 3 people were unsatisfied, that many stations now are logged twice or three times in the whole newsletter. Many stations are now logged for example in the German report and also in a special section in the newsletter (e. g. E10 in the German report and in the E10 section). Also it was expressed, that the logs often are TOO detailed and less in scheduled form. The suggestion was, that everyone, who wants to report about a station log, should write it directly to the responsible officer (V2a/M8a to Mark S., Slavic stations to DoK via Plondon, X06 to Kopf etc.). These officers would insert these logs in their reports. For July/August, I did this consequently, so that you will only find logs of the family 1C: X06 Mazielka in this report, but all of them, including such ones from people outside the group, which are sent to me by others, especially Plondon (tnx for that, Paul). In this newsletter issue, some “double-logs” ar still in, cause this procedure is new to the others, but let’s try it for the near and further future. Also we should turn back to the logging format of ENIGMA families; that was also a suggestion by the Germans.

During our meeting, I created also the idea of an online radio station from and for numbers hobbyists world-wide; such a station would be a “world primary”. The German friends were not really convinced, that this would be such a good idea, but I also talked with Plondon about this – we also created a name for this station (which of course only exists in mind so far): “WNS International, the world of numbers stations”. I know, such plans need long time to be realized, but it’s possible, when there are some idealists and people, who want the same thing. What do you think about it?

We couldn’t fix a date for the next, the official German ENIGMA meeting yet, but we think, the earliest possibility would be in 2007. Anyway, if there is planned more, we would invite also leading “foreign” hobbyfriends to be with us in Germany.

X06 Mazielka logs section

* This first known X06 3x2 tone set came twice on the day: 0651-52 and 0702-03, exactly on the neighburing freq of XPA’s 3^rd morning sked; very strong and strange.

Possibly X06 related specials on August 14^th (detailed)

On that Monday, there happened some strange and special, but highest interesting things on 12100 kHz. Between 0900 and 0923 UTC there was the long high pitched tone, which comes as intro of Russian network voice stations like E06, E07, G06 or S06 and was the space tone of former XPH; the signal was a very strong S9. Exactly one hour later, between 1000 and 1023 UTC, there was a lower pitched tone, which exactly was the tone “ 1” of the X06 scales and went as long as normal X06 6 tones, interrupted by short breaks, which also exactly had the same length as in normal X06 transmissions. The signal was first S9, but went into weak S4 nearly at 1009. At 1018, there was a heavy disturbance by a deep buzzing tone for nearly 20 seconds, till it went off, but “ 1” was still there – till 1023.

The higher pitched tone, which I mentioned at first, came again on August 23^rd (heard in progress between 0705 and 0706 UTC – missed the end).

I am relatively sure, that this appearance is related to X06. Perhaps anyone can remember special X06 transmissions in the 80s, which also ended with the high pitched tone (space tone XPH). Also it’s interesting, that this appearance comes in the days, when the X06 3x2 tone variants come very frequently.

The work will go on. I look forward to any reaction to this report, especially according to the changes of the logs section and the idea of the online radio.

Till next time I say “Auf Wiedersehen” and “Good-bye”

Jochen Schäfer, “Kopf” of the German Branch – E2Kde

[Tnx Jochen]

Voice stations | Polytones
German branch | Numbers predictions | Note from DanielE2Kde
E03 & E03a prediction charts | E06 & S06 schedules | E11 schedules over a year
Cubans schedules | G06 schedules over a year
If it had not been for 15 minutes (5/6) | Plonker's progress | Numerals
News Items | Web sites | Contribution deadlines
Index | E2K NL Home