Original ENIGMA group Newsletter transfer page
These newsletters were provided by Simon Mason to danix111 of Priyom.org, danix111 scanned them and made them avalable.
Brief overview.
E.N.I.G.M.A. (European Numbers Information Group And Monitoring Association)
was a group of hobbyist who documented and monitored numbers stations in a more coordinated
and structured manor than had been done in the past. The group was formed in the early 1990's
and stopped publishing newsletters in 1999.
ENIGMA standardized and made popular the current naming / ID convention for
numbers stations, the alpha-numeric IDs by which many numbers stations are known today,
such as E03, V02, S06, etc. You can see them using these designations in their newsletters
by Issue No 7, published in 1995, although Issue No 8 is when these designations become "common"
and the first comprehensive list was published.
In addition to the Newsletters there were also apparently seperate ENIGMA Control lists published.
I do not have those lists, and would appreciate anyone with such list contacting me at T_O_K_E_N_ (at) hotmail.com
The ENIGMA newsletters:
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 2, 1993. Includes review of Simon Masons book about numbers stations, "Secret Signals".
ENIGMA Newsletter No 2
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 5, 1994. Includes a list of numbers station publications of the day. Also a description of the Russian Buzzer.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 5
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 7, 1995. This edition puts forth the ENIGMA station naming convention, roughly as seen today.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 7
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 8, 1995. This edition contains the first ENIGMA Control List, a list of designated numbers stations and their descriptions. E1 to E19, G1 to G19, S1 to S25, V1 to V14, M1 to M41, and various Oddity Statoins are all assigned and described.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 8
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 9, 1995. Discusses the location and breakdowns of the Buzzer, there is nothing new under the sun.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 9
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 10, 1996. Includes member questionnaire results.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 10
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 12, 1997. Updated ENIGMA Control List.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 12
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 13, 1997. Mentions Korean numbers on 6215 kHz, but atributes it to NK.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 13
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 14, 1998. S28 assigned to the Buzzer after a confirmed message.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 14
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 15, 1998. Possibly lumps apparent NK and SK numbers transmissions together with both NK and SK known frequencies in one list.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 15
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 16, 1999. Notes o ealry Buzzer operations.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 16
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 17, 1999. First mention of K-Pop music and Korean numbers, strongly suspect NK and SK transmissions lumped together.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 17
ENIGMA Newsletter Number 18, 2000. This issue announces that ENIGMA will be changing, no longer publishing the Newsletter, and while not disbanded will move on to other interest. This results, eventually, in ENIGMA 200 forming.
ENIGMA Newsletter No 18
>Other related publications of the day.
Secret Signals, The Euronumbers Mystery by Simon Mason. After the hard copy was no longer in print Simon made the document avalable in electronic form.
Secret Signals by Simon Mason