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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Glenn Hauser logs November 8-9, 2025 (Wojciech Zaremba)
2. Glenn Hauser logs November 9-10, 2025 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:53:21 +0100
From: Wojciech Zaremba <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 8-9, 2025
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Role of three Polish mathematicians: R??ycki, Zygalski and Rejewski in
breaking Enigma was as usual overlooked.
Please read:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28167071
>
> ** GERMANY [non]. As seen on PBS World Channel via OETA, Nov 8 at
> 2200: ``Breaking Enigma: A World War II Game Changer
> Special | 56m 29s Video has Closed Captions | CC
>
> Narrated by Keith Morrison of "Dateline," the breaking of Germany's
> top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom was one
> of World War II's biggest secrets, alongside the atomic bombs. Some
> historians estimate that deciphering the German military code
> shortened the war by two years and possibly saved 14 million lives.
>
> 11/01/2025 | Expires 01/01/2026 | Rating TV-PG``
>
> I get this play link once I reveal my PBS is OETA:
> https://www.pbs.org/video/breaking-enigma-a-world-war-ii-game-changer-mx5LiA/
>
> You have to set up with ``your`` station. A more detailed description
> at OETA.tv:
>
> ``The breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park
> in the United Kingdom was one of World War II's biggest secrets,
> alongside the construction of the atomic bombs. Some historians
> estimate that deciphering the German military code shortened the war
> by two years and possibly saved 14 million lives. Though the Enigma
> was deemed unbreakable, a British mathematician named Alan Turing
> spearheaded the initiative to achieve the impossible and succeeded
> unbeknownst to the German military. Narrated by Keith Morrison of
> Dateline and filmed on location in England and the United States,
> BREAKING ENIGMA: A WORLD WAR II GAME CHANGER tells this heroic story
> in detail through a combination of interviews with historians,
> veterans and modern scientists.``
>
> A post-script says some of the women codebreakers interviewed died
> just this year 2025. Roger in Germany replies:
>
> ``Thanks for sharing this information. It cannot be used with a German
> IP address, but you can break the geo-blocking via VPN. 1920x1080 ca.
> 1,8 GB
>
> The mention of the "Lorenz-Schl?sselmaschine was also interesting.
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz-Schl%C3%BCsselmaschine
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptanalyse_der_Lorenz-Maschine
>
> The aim was to simplify and automate machine encryption compared to
> the cumbersome Enigma machine, and to achieve significantly higher
> message volumes and transmission speeds than was possible with
> manually operated Morse code. To this end, the Schl?ssel-Zusatz (SZ)
> was developed as an add-on device for a Lorenz teletypewriter. As is
> usual with teletypewriters, the Baudot-Murray code (CCITT-2) with 5
> bits was used for the transmission of 32 characters. The binary
> representation is particularly well suited for the binary addition of
> a pseudo-random key, thereby cryptographically implementing the
> function of a mixer...
>
> Starting in June 1941, the German Wehrmacht began securing its
> telegraph communications between the highest command posts using a
> newly developed encryption machine called Schl?ssel-Zusatz 40 (SZ 40).
> Above the Enigma machine, which continued to be used for tactical
> communication, it served to encrypt strategic communications,
> especially between the Army High Command (OKH), based in W?nsdorf near
> Berlin, and the Army High Commands (AOK) in cities such as Vienna,
> Rome, Paris, Athens, Copenhagen, Oslo, K?nigsberg, Riga, Belgrade,
> Bucharest, and Tunis.
>
> As early as the second half of 1940, British interception stations (Y
> Stations) had noticed German radio telegraph traffic that sounded
> distinctly different from the usual Morse code signals, and initially
> gave it the nicknames ?new music? and ?NoMo? for ?No Morse.? A little
> later, radio transmissions of this type were grouped under the code
> name Fish. Due to a lack of capacity and resources, these messages
> were initially given low priority and could not be deciphered.
>
> ....Presumably for convenience, the second time around he did not
> enter the plain text into the teletypewriter identically to the first
> time, but slightly abbreviated it. Right at the beginning of the
> message, he did not write SPRUCHNUMMER (message number) as he had done
> the first time, but abbreviated the word and wrote only SPRUCHNR. From
> this point on, the two ciphertexts differed significantly, while the
> plaintexts continued almost identically. The Germans did not notice
> this, but for the British it was a ?godsend.? Now they were in
> possession of a so-called depth, i.e., two different ciphertexts based
> on two nearly identical but slightly shifted plaintexts, both of which
> had been encrypted with the same key. (In German technical
> terminology, this case is also referred to as a ?plaintext-plaintext
> compromise.?)
>
> This involuntary ?gift? from the Germans allowed British code breaker
> John Tiltman (1894?1982) at Bletchley Park in England to make the
> decisive first breakthrough in SZ 40. After weeks of manual work, he
> succeeded in determining the two slightly ?phase-shifted? and almost
> identical plaintexts. To do this, he calculated the difference between
> the two intercepted radio messages and tried to insert probable words.
> This enabled him to reconstruct not only the plaintexts, but also a
> 4,000-character section of the ?pseudo-random? key. This ultimately
> led to the exposure of the logical structure of the key supplement.
> The combination of the two errors mentioned above proved fatal for the
> German side, without them knowing or even suspecting it.
>
> OT 2005:
> https://www.elcomsoft.com/help/en/azpr/index.html?page=known_plaintext_attack.html
> roger`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
>
> ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925 AM, Nov 9 at 0221, rock music S9. These say
> it`s Liquid Radio:
> https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,153449.0.html
> An hour earlier, no pirate could I hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
>
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:14:52 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: WOR DXLD <[email protected]>
Cc: Short-Wave Radio Listening <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 9-10, 2025
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CUBA [and non]. 6180, Nov 10 at 0227, S9+30 of dead air, CRI relay
scheduled 0100-0300. The first hour overlaps with RNA; Paul Walker
refers us to this about their own problems:
https://swling.com/blog/2025/11/problems-and-temporary-changes-at-the-shortwave-transmitter-park-near-brasilia/
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11880, Nov 10 at 1857, RHC Spanish, now this one with
windhowling QRM, and only S5/S7; 1902 late wrapping up daily ``11 am``
show = 1600 UT start. 1903 introducing French. 15140 a JBA carrier
only, and no others found into Ft Lauderdale SDR. By 2000, 11880 is
mostly dead air; heard a few notes of theme music, silence or howl.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [non]. 15380, Mon Nov 10 at 1657 open carrier into Ft
Lauderdale SDR, R. Mart? modulation not until 1700.7; from 1657 also
on 13820, 11930 but not 11860. By 1702, 11860 is also on, weakest. I
think they were totally off Sat & Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** GERMANY [non]. ``Role of three Polish mathematicians: R??ycki,
Zygalski and Rejewski in breaking Enigma was as usual overlooked.
Please read:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28167071
Wojciech Zaremba`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MADAGASCAR. 13760, Nov 10 at 0224, S5 direct, ``affair with
sister-in-law`` - oh, it`s MWV now in English to India at 0200-0400.
Love those TE almost-antipodal paths (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1170, Nov 10 at 0702 UT, KOTV Tulsa full ID
also for HD channels mentioning KVOO! FM, that is. Of course the
original 1170 was KVOO, and its NBC channel 2 a great rival of KOTV
with CBS on 6. KVOO-FM is 98.5, ``The Bull``, country format. Seems
FCC LMS no longer provides a Callsign History link, but I think 98.5
used to be something else. Here`s the convoluted history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVOO-FM
With IBOC noise on plus side 1173 from KSL, as KOTV pays them back
with own IBOC noise on 1157. These are the main IBOC patches heard
around here from major stations, besides 1080 KRLD on 1093 & 1067. See
also USA for KSL log (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 5960, Nov 9 at 2323, only signal into UTwente is Chinese,
not VOT in English; something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 385 MCW kHz, Nov 10 at 0718 UT, HO, 50 watt NDB at ``Hossy``
Hot Springs AR. RNA list says exact site is Hempwallace, just SW of
Hot Springs. This time not mixing with UWL (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2320 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
November 9 at 2018 the 2000 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, 1322.996+, VG
S9+5 into UTwente.
NOT confirmed Sunday November 9 at 2100 on WRMI 15770, instead `Echoes
in the Ether`, which seems to be some kind of DX program, also taking
over the 2130 Wavescan slot, as now on the skedgrid for System D.
Confirmed Sunday November 9 at 2330 on WRMI 9455, S9+25/40 into
Georgia SDR, but by 2358 fading to S9/+10 with ACI from 9455.
Confirmed UT Monday November 10 at 0000 on WRMI 9395, JBA into Georgia
SDR, but S9+10 into N9AZZ Illinois SDR.
Also confirmed UT Monday November 10 at 0030 on WRMI 9455, VG direct
and on 7780 JBA direct, but 7780 S7/9+5 into S Texas SDR.?
Also confirmed UT Monday November 10 at 0400 on Area 51 webcast only,
after JL Gotta Go and a string of F-bombs. Next:?
2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast];
1500 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast];
2100 UT Tuesday IRRS SW via AM Italia 1323;
2330 UT Tuesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0130 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160.
As a noncommercial public service program, financial support
appreciated, not necessarily in US funds via PayPal to:
woradio at yahoo.com?
One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser,
P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5072.2 & 5097.8, Nov 10 at 0230, JBA parasitic spur carriers
out of 5085 WTWW which is S9+40/50 direct. Not heard those +/- 12.8
kHz for a while and wondered if fixed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 660, UT Monday Nov 10 at 0240 UT, after C&W music, KTNN ID
for 660 and 101.5 FM - so finally back on air after almost three
weeks, why? Lots of QRM, so may not be totally non-direxional (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 970 kHz, Nov 10 at 0707 UT, ``Red Eye Radio on WDAY``... At
first I thought they said WGAY, but no such 970; nor WMAY Springfield
IL. WDAY Fargo ND is an RER affiliate. 10/10 kW somewhat direxional
but not nulling thisaway. The only nighttime notch is SE protecting
WMAY? if not KQAW Austin MN. WDAY site is certainly in MINNESOTA, east
of the Red River, so doesn`t qualify as an ND station. There was also
a LAH on the plus side of 970 attracting my attention (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** U S A. 1160, UT Monday Nov 10 at 0232, mid-break in `Meet the
Press` from NBC TV. I don`t see how this could be anything but KSL
SLC, but amid lots of stuff on website, no plain old program
schedule!!!! Nor do I see anything about NBC, a network I had never
associated with this station. Ideas? Furthermore, it`s NEWSRADIO
102.7FM, no branding whatsoever as 1160AM - they might as well turn it
off? See also OKLAHOMA KOTV log (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
this report dispatched at 2014 UT November 10
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