[AGCW] Johnny Cash als Funker

[Roland "Ron"Guenther]

Hallo
Lothar und Felix,
sehr interessant...leider habe ich J.C. nie live erleben können....
Felix , Du glückliche...im wahrsten Sinne...
hier heute morgen minus 18C....es ist saukalt.....
naja, shack ist warm...
I enjoy ham radio...
73 es cwfe Ron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lothar Grahle" <dl1dxl at gmx.de>
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Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 7:02 PM
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Nahezu der gleiche Text kam im genannten Film aus dem Mund von Cash. Schön,
dass man es hier nachlesen kann.
Im Jahr 2000 konnte ich J.C. in einem Livekonzert in Dresden erleben -
unvergesslich!

In der Dresdner Gegend haben wir heute "nur" -14 grd, gestern waren es -15
grd  ;-)

Also auf in die Antarktis zum Aufwärmen.

73
Lothar, DL1DXL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Felix Riess" <dl5xl at agcw.de>
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Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [AGCW] Johnny Cash als Funker


Hallo in die Runde!

> Gestern Abend kam auf Arte ein Film über das legendäre Konzert von Johnny
> Cash im Knast "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison". Im Film sagte Cash, dass er
> in
> den 50ern bei der Armee als Abhörfunker tätig war und dass er cw-Zeichen
> problemlos bis 35 WpM aufnehmen konnte.

Der im Jahr 2000 erschienenen CD "American III: Solitary Man" von Johnny
Cash
lag eine zweite Silberscheibe mit einem ausführlichen Interview bei, das er
der "Columbia Records Radio Hour" gegeben hat. In diesem Gespräch berichtet
Cash auch kurz von seiner Zeit als Funker bei der Armee:

"I had my basic training in San Antonio in Lackland Air Force Base in 1950,
went to Keesler Air Force Base to a radio school. From the beginning, I
wanted to be in radio some way. Well, I had a high aptitude for Morse Code,
and it was during the cold war, so they sent me back to Brooks air force
base
to Texas to study Russian code, and I learned. I had several months of
Russian in the form of Morse Code there at Brooks Air Force Base until I was
a high speed intercept operator. I could copy Russian Morse Code at 35 wpm.
So I had my choice of (...) Alaska, or Germany. Guess which one I chose. I
went to Deutschland! And I stayed there so long, I felt like a citizen. I
stayed there and worked in Air Force security service as a high speed
intercept operator, then as the chief of operations for three years, until I
was discharged. They tried to get me to stay in the air force, and I said
no.
I am going out and sing on the radio."

"But that's ancient history now. They don't use Morse Code anymore."

"In 1952 or 1953, I was sitting at my typewriter with the headphones on in
Southern Germany, copying a morse code broadcast by radio TASS out of
Moscow.
The first broadcast of this news I copied on my typewriter came over that
Joseph Stalin was dead, and I copied that, the death of Stalin. Then,
another
time - I got a commendation from Washington for this - I picked up a high
speed radio operator sending signals that he was on a plane, and he gave the
call letters of that plane, and he was leaving Moscow, going to Smolensk.
And
we knew how long the flight was from Moscow to Smolensk - you know, from the
military planes that we copied all the time. But this guy was cutting the
time by two thirds, and he was sending at about 40 or 45 wpm. And I managed
to copy him, and then we took it to crypto analysis and broke it down. It
was
the first flight of the first Russian jet bomber to take off. I copied that
flight. That was immediately sent to Washington, I got a letter of
commendation back for finding that. You know, the signal was scrambled, but
I
found the signal and unscrambled it, and I could read it, and I copied it."

Vielen Dank auch an Ron, DL5CL, für den interessanten Link!

73 aus der Antarktis,

Felix, DP1POL (DL5XL).

PS: Hier ist es zur Zeit mit -4°C vermutlich wärmer als in vielen Teilen
Deutschlands.

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