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Enigma 2000 Newsletter ENIGMA 2000 NEWSLETTER http://www.enigma2000.org.uk Anti – Terror installation seen in Bow, London For the Olympic Games Tnx contributing Anon Member ISSUE 71 July 2012 http://www.enigma2000.org.uk 1 Editorial, Issue 71 Excellent two months monitoring from our members and others; many thanks for your logs. Thanks to Spectre for his activity charts which appear on the E07/E07a listings as well as in the editorial for XPA/XPA2 Noticeable events through the Morse schedules: M01 – Did a Welsh amateur operator stop an M01 transmission from being sent on & June? M01b – Hans-Friedrich logs a mix-up that results in both Russian speech and CW being sent. M08a – PLdn notes strange anomalies on this station’s transmission carrier. M23- Found again by RNGB: 5440//7437kHz 0701and 1500z [Hrd Tue] try daily, no msg yet just 555(R). Duration is 15m M24 – Experiences technical problems on 17 May, and fails to complete sending a message. M89 – Lots of Op. chat msgs logged by JPL in May – Was an exercise in progress? Also a new call logged – 8UPT DE SAY7 M97 – After sending msg no. SD71 for just over two months, a new msg is logged on 11 June. And now the Voice stations: E06 Sadly the frequency choice for the first and third Thursday 2030z schedule is not, perhaps the best, even for a training net, the BCQRM and heterodyne making the message all but impossible to copy in May. Variable strengths again noted on the early morning weekend schedules at 0030/0130z. On 26th May West1us noted he copied the 0030z message, albeit weakly in Florida. Well done! The weekend of 16/17th June saw the 0030/0130z schedule as NRH with a frequency search made on both days, Saturday by Spectre, Sunday by PLdn, both with no trace. There was a massive solar storm on the morning of 16th but that may not be the cause. Further observations will be needed to see if this regular and strong E06 has indeed gone. If it has, whose recently been nicked? Not a certain 60 year old Dutch Diplomat perchance............... One of two solar burts in the early morning 0356z [above] and 0400z captured by Whit D Reeve, and who has allowed us to use this image – Thanks Whit. 2 E07 May seemed very prominent in E07 transmissions with large group counts, the largest was 136, mostly good strength transmissions. June is continuing with transmissions of messages but with more null msgs to be heard. E07a May and June continued as expected with mainly good strength transmissionsfor the Wednesday/ Thurs/Sat schedules with a poor signals for Saturday 16th June for the 0800/0820/084z sendings. E17z Two logs offered over the life of the May schedule although we suspect others are copying it. This is your Group, please support it by bothering to send your log in – even if it is a repeat. E25/E25a Lots of logs being submitted from Israel where the 50M band sigs seem to be heard and also from Fanis. Some E25a logs offered too. Douglas suggests that Almost all E25a msg ID’s are in sets of 20, whilst almost all E25 msg IDs are in sets of 15. Note the glut of 6MHz logs, this only means that Douglas is only able to copy these stations, 9MHz being out of his time slot. V02a No real UK coverage of the 0700/0800z transmissions that are now either buried in noise or had fallen totally to the vagaries of propagation.. The 0500z M08a transmission is now showing some effects of propagational changes also. Over to our American monitors to send the logs. V13 Opening music identified! The music used at the beginning of the transmission is called 'Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye', roughly translated as 'Blossom Spring River In The Moonlight'. The music is a typical popular Chinese Classical piece, it is commonly well known in China. Logs sent from the Argentine show the activity as well as a trait observed by Daniel [thanks for your work here]. Thanks to Spectre and Ary for their logs too. V16? A big query mark here because you never quite know if we’re being had. Jochen took time to confirm a claimed V16 with the Conet Project [recordings now some years old and taken from recordings of unknown age]. With all this in mind and having read T’s post Ary stated he hadn’t heard before let alone being aware of a full description. T wrote: This morning (May 28, 2012) I heard a Chinese language station that I have not heard before. Around 1408 UTC a carrier came up on 11493 kHz. The frequency was a little odd for a BC station so I parked an RX on it to see what came about. This carrier went on and off several times before stabilizing at about 1412 UTC. Starting about 1414 UTC I heard broken audio on the carrier. The audio sounded like a YL in Chinese language, but the audio was very bad, my assumption was a BC station with problems. About 1415 the audio cleaned up, and it became clear it was a YL repeating the same phrases over and over in Chinese, I started recording about 1415:25. Each cycle in the audio ended with something similar to "oh sie". At 1418:48 the last cycle ended with a different word. The carrier continued with no modulation until 1419:08 when a different sounding YL voice came up in Chinese and started repeating a similar sounding phrase to the first half of the transmission. This message ended at 1427:07, 4 minutes and 59 seconds after it started. It also ended with a different word, as had the first message. Looking at the ECL and listening to audio examples I believe what I heard was V16. Each cycle ending in something like "oh sie", 5 minute transmission (per message). The description in the ECL contains little other than that. The Enigma newsletters since 2000 (the oldest on the web site) say nothing about the station. Neither do any of the Numbers and Oddities newsletters I can get hold of. I am still looking through the old Wunclub newsletters, but so far found nothing there either. Here is a video of my reception this morning, it starts in the first message, includes the gap between the messages, includes the first minute or so of the second message, and then I jump to the last 45 seconds of the transmission. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfiv_v3NzNw The plot thickens as we ask V16or V25? 11323kHz1400z 30/05 AM ends 1414z T! WED 316 de 728 no work/business 316 de 728 no work/business. out 375 de 138 no work/business 375 de 138 no work/business goodbye notes: no work/business - wu shih (sounds like English word 'sure') out - zai hui goodbye - zai jian Courtesy dj Does anyone have a better fit for identifying this transmission? Thanks T, hope you get an answer. Thanks Ary and dj also. Spectre has supplied a breakdown of the Chinese number system, complete with a radio accented figure one ---- Thanks Spectre. 3 Polytones XPA2: Not many observations recorded for May; those that have been monitored seem to be of good strength. we see the return of the Sunday/Tuesday 2100z schedule thanks to RNGB’s attempts. XPA: In May we were down to two known schedules XPAb and XPAe; early morning and late afternoons. I had written at the start of the draft copy of this newsletter “Strangely XPAb still continues with null messages since the October 2011 arrests of the two German spies, as illustrated in the graph, right.All generally of very good strength.” Sadly the transmission ended on 7th June 2012 with: 101 000 08692 00001 00000 10140, all sendings very strong. When you consider that apart from two messages it has sent nothing but a null message since its suspected recipients Heidrun and Andreas A were arrested for espionage on 18thOctober 2011; perhaps we’ve been lucky its lasted this long. The known remaining schedule XPA e has been joined by a Wed & ??? found by RNGB: 11409kHz0600z; 13509kHz0620z; 14609kHz0640z Heard Wednesday Rpt Sun, Mon or Tue. XPA b message count January to 18th October 2011 XPA Message Analysis . Spectre has kindly sent two charts showing the change in full and null messages: Using these two charts compiled by Spectre across 2010 and 2011 one can see a decrease in sendings; to prove the decrease as I write this only XPA e remains. Thanks to all monitors who have sent logs, thoughts and cuttings from the world of espionage. German Branch Report Hello all, Since early June we noticed, that X06 is declining. Our X06 team members tried to find the station on all known frequencies, but with only little success. We know, that X06 isn’t really away, and I’m sure, that it will come back with more transmissions, but now we have more logs in May and only less in June, as you can see below. Anyway, we don’t give up and go on searching. We would appreciate every kind of support in finding X06. We presume, that they change frequencies. As you can see, it appeared on unusual ones in the last weeks we found it. So if you have time to search for X06 and find something, please let us know either via group or via email to our vice-Kopf Peter ([email protected]) or to me ([email protected]).
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