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От : Don Vally 1:123/160 12 мар 23 14:27:00
К : DENNIS SCOTT 12 мар 23 22:15:08
Тема : CQ CQ CQ
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-=> Quoting Dennis Scott to Don Vally <=-
DS> Re: CQ CQ CQ
DS> By: Don Vally to RON KINNEY on Thu Mar 09 2023 11:35 pm
> I was a morse intercept operator in the Army...
>
> CQ IMI K
>
> Cougar
>
DS> Hello Don,
DS> May I ask, what was "a morse intercept operator"?
Hi Dennis - sure! In the US Army my MOS was 05H which the Army
described as "Performs detection, acquisition and exploitation of
foreign communications employing International Morse Code and simple
printer systems in a tactical or strategic environment." Whew! that
was long winded.
Basically I was trained to intercept morse code being sent by
foreign governments. I sat in a radio shack and searched the bands
for specific morse traffic. I was trained to intercept chinese cut
characters, but ended up copying east bloc traffic.
These messages were always encoded, so unless I copied a cleartext
code word, the job entailed listening to morse in front of a
teletype printer and hitting the keys as I heard the characters.
Always in groups of 5 characters with 5 groups then a spacing and 5
more groups of 5 characters. Of course I would always get the tail
end IMI SK.
I just copied the morse, someone else worked to unencrypt the
messages. Doesn`t sound very exiting right? Training for this was
INTENSE. Took longer than 6 months depending on the trainee, and
there were a lot of drop outs.
When I got out of the service, I tried to find a job sending or
receiving IMC, but the only place that really used it was the
maritime service. That didn`t pan out.
Sorry for the long winded reply...
Cougar
aka Don
... He who dies with the most TAGLINES wins!
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