Re: [Spooks] To All Spooks Members - Your help needed to find X06 - Mazielka
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Wow, that's a lot of frequencies to monitor. I am not familiar with X06. But I'm willing to give it a go from the USA. Although no specific times are mentioned at the website, are there any times when it's more likely to hear X06? Does it just appear at random times or have they started at times like on the hour or at 15 minutes past the hour, etc? Are any of those frequencies more likely to be active than others? Has it been heard recently? Also, does the 4/5 minutes length mean 4 to 5 minutes or four fifths of a minute? 73, Zack On 3/13/11, Peter pe...@bmsona.co.uk wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list X06 Logging Week 21st to 28th March 2011 The Enigma2000 X06 Team are looking to Spooks members for some help in a concentrated Logging Week for 7 days commencing Monday 21st March 2011. We hope that you will join us in trying to track down more of these elusive signals, both those on known and unknown frequencies. A little background may help. The Enigma2000 designator for the Mazielka series is X06. Mazielka is thought to be a selcall system used by the Russian MFA to alert out-stations, in advance, of forthcoming messages to be sent out in Crowd 36 or similar. Up to 95% of these signals are sent out at random times on up to 350 different frequencies. The signals take the form of a repeated series of 6 tones (at 840, 870, 900, 930, 970, and 1015 Herz) sent in under 2 seconds and in any sequence, producing 720 variants. The signals are usually transmitted in AM but are, generally easier to spot in USB. Each transmission usually last 4/5 minutes Apart from the 720 variants, there are other Mazielka tone combinations of simple 2, 3, 4 and 5 tones which you may hear and, of course, the frequency list covers only those frequencies where we have already logged transmissions. You can also expect to find Mazielka signals all the way from around 4 MHz up to 25 MHz but their random nature makes them difficult to pinpoint Identifying a Mazielka signal is simply a matter of reading the tones in order. For example 840 Hz (lowest tones) is designated as 1, 870 Hz as 2, 900 Hz as 3, 930 Hz as 4, 970 Hz as 5, and 1015 Hz (the highest) as 6. Chris Smolinski has kindly provided a Wiki page at http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/X06 http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/X06 and this provides information you will need such as a typical example of the Mazielka tone sequence 164532, at http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/File:164532.mp3 http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/File:164532.mp3 and a spectral image at http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/File:164532.jpg http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/File:164532.jpg Also on the Wiki page is a list of the currently known frequencies. X06 signals are widely heard in Europe and the Mediterranean area and also regularly reach Argentina and occasionally the United States and Australia. If you could spend some time in the Logging Week or indeed at any time, searching for these signals we would be grateful for your help. Please post any logs to either p mailto:pe...@bmsona.co.uk e...@bmsona.co.uk or mailto:jochen.schup...@gmx.de jochen.schup...@gmx.de Please include date, time logged, frequency, tone sequence (if possible), your location and a short sound file. It would also be useful in terms of the whole exercise if you could estimate roughly how much time you spent on the project. Many thanks for your help and good luck with your logging!! __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Spooks] To All Spooks Members - Your help needed to find X06 - Mazielka
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Thanks Zack, that you want to be a part of our great logging community, which increases from day to day. Yes, there are freqs, which are more used by X06, for example 16025 or 14871 kHz (156234 scale). There are no fixed times, but mostly you have luck (at least here in Europe) between 0800 and 1200 UTC. But we look especially for members of other time zones, when Europeans are sleeping - or working. We don't have many loggers from out of Europe, but there are some. With 4/5 mins we mean 4 or 5 mins. Usually the times X06 is sending are random times, but there are cases, when X06 began on the hour more frequently. 73 Jochen, the X06 Teamkopf, glad to have more loggers for the week __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Spooks] To All Spooks Members - Your help needed to find X06 -Mazielka
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hi Zack and many thanks for the response. To answer your questions first: The frequency list is taken from our database and covers all the frequencies X06 has been known to use in the past few years. These are ideal for entering into a scanner which will rotate through these frequencies in 1 or two minutes. There are no specific times, and this is the great difficulty - the signals largely appear at random but we notice an upsurge when there is a major event such as the Georgia troubles in October 2007 and August 2008, the Anna Chapman case in July 2010, the Moscow Airport terrorist attack in Jan 2011 and of course the terrible events in Japan last week. There are usually signals to be found between 07:00 and 11:00 on weekdays. This table is taken from the database between 1st - 12th March this year and were all logged either in UK or Scandinavia 01 Mar 2011 Tue 9450.00 09:05:0009:15:0000:10:00 165423 02 Mar 2011 Wed 10731.0016:14:0616:14:36 00:00:30314265 02 Mar 2011 Wed 14650.0013:56:2013:57:27 00:01:07215346 02 Mar 2011 Wed 14871.0015:46:0015:53:02 00:07:02156234 04 Mar 2011 Fri 14570.0009:37:0109:40:01 00:03:00324615 04 Mar 2011 Fri 12215.0010:00:3810:05:10 00:04:32361245 04 Mar 2011 Fri 16117.0012:56:1613:08:39 00:12:23463125 04 Mar 2011 Fri 14871.0013:36:4113:38:12 00:01:31156234 10 Mar 2011 Thu 7988.00 08:52:0008:54:0000:02:00 561243 10 Mar 2011 Thu 11411.0010:08:0010:10:00 00:02:00164532 11 Mar 2011 Fri 9320.00 08:27:0009:11:0000:44:00 X06a 11 Mar 2011 Fri 14863.0008:44:0008:47:00 00:03:00615243 11 Mar 2011 Fri 10653.0008:58:3909:00:44 00:02:05356412 11 Mar 2011 Fri 14871.0013:10:5213:15:14 00:04:22156234 11 Mar 2011 Fri 14871.0014:09:2414:14:02 00:04:38156234 11 Mar 2011 Fri 12118.0017:04:0117:10:30 00:06:29164253 12 Mar 2011 Sat 16276.0012:12:5512:13:10 00:00:15314265 12 Mar 2011 Sat 11525.0012:18:2812:18:43 00:00:15156234 12 Mar 2011 Sat 16276.0014:31:4814:32:27 00:00:39314265 All times are UTC and across the whole database an average transmission lasts between 4 and 5 minutes. Hope this helps but as we have mentioned these are difficult signals to track but we hope that with your help and others in this group, we will add to our knowledge of Mazielka I am copying this mail to the leader of the X06Team, Jochen, who will, I am sure, add to the above. Best wishes and don't hesitate to ask if we can help. Regards, Peter __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Spooks] To All Spooks Members - Your help needed to find X06 -Mazielka
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hi again Zack, By pure coincidence one of our loggers just put up this log: 13 Mar 2011 Sun 16060.0011:22:00 261453 This is a frequency that we haven't seen used before and it's only the second time this tone sequence has been heard. The world is your oyster! Best wishes, Peter __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Spooks] To All Spooks Members - Your help needed to find X06 -Mazielka
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Thanks for the info! That time period is mostly night time here and a lot of the frequencies are below the MUF at that time (which has been around 10 MHz lately). I'll give a listen but I'm doubtful I'll hear much above 10 MHz. Possibly at other times of the day. We'll see! Zack 2011/3/13 Peter pe...@bmsona.co.uk: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Hi Zack and many thanks for the response. To answer your questions first: The frequency list is taken from our database and covers all the frequencies X06 has been known to use in the past few years. These are ideal for entering into a scanner which will rotate through these frequencies in 1 or two minutes. There are no specific times, and this is the great difficulty - the signals largely appear at random but we notice an upsurge when there is a major event such as the Georgia troubles in October 2007 and August 2008, the Anna Chapman case in July 2010, the Moscow Airport terrorist attack in Jan 2011 and of course the terrible events in Japan last week. There are usually signals to be found between 07:00 and 11:00 on weekdays. This table is taken from the database between 1st - 12th March this year and were all logged either in UK or Scandinavia 01 Mar 2011 Tue 9450.00 09:05:00 09:15:00 00:10:00 165423 02 Mar 2011 Wed 10731.00 16:14:06 16:14:36 00:00:30 314265 02 Mar 2011 Wed 14650.00 13:56:20 13:57:27 00:01:07 215346 02 Mar 2011 Wed 14871.00 15:46:00 15:53:02 00:07:02 156234 04 Mar 2011 Fri 14570.00 09:37:01 09:40:01 00:03:00 324615 04 Mar 2011 Fri 12215.00 10:00:38 10:05:10 00:04:32 361245 04 Mar 2011 Fri 16117.00 12:56:16 13:08:39 00:12:23 463125 04 Mar 2011 Fri 14871.00 13:36:41 13:38:12 00:01:31 156234 10 Mar 2011 Thu 7988.00 08:52:00 08:54:00 00:02:00 561243 10 Mar 2011 Thu 11411.00 10:08:00 10:10:00 00:02:00 164532 11 Mar 2011 Fri 9320.00 08:27:00 09:11:00 00:44:00 X06a 11 Mar 2011 Fri 14863.00 08:44:00 08:47:00 00:03:00 615243 11 Mar 2011 Fri 10653.00 08:58:39 09:00:44 00:02:05 356412 11 Mar 2011 Fri 14871.00 13:10:52 13:15:14 00:04:22 156234 11 Mar 2011 Fri 14871.00 14:09:24 14:14:02 00:04:38 156234 11 Mar 2011 Fri 12118.00 17:04:01 17:10:30 00:06:29 164253 12 Mar 2011 Sat 16276.00 12:12:55 12:13:10 00:00:15 314265 12 Mar 2011 Sat 11525.00 12:18:28 12:18:43 00:00:15 156234 12 Mar 2011 Sat 16276.00 14:31:48 14:32:27 00:00:39 314265 All times are UTC and across the whole database an average transmission lasts between 4 and 5 minutes. Hope this helps but as we have mentioned these are difficult signals to track but we hope that with your help and others in this group, we will add to our knowledge of Mazielka I am copying this mail to the leader of the X06Team, Jochen, who will, I am sure, add to the above. Best wishes and don't hesitate to ask if we can help. Regards, Peter __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
