[CW] CW lives

[DANNY DOUGLAS]

We stopped using that back in the 70s, and the last I knew were in Vietnam. 
Thats when we had doggie doo, etc. that "felt" the footfalls of VC in the 
jungle, and transmitted QTH info, and even number of feet passing by.
Danny Douglas
N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB
All 2 years or more (except Novice). Short stints at:  DA/PA/SU/HZ/7X/DU
CR9/7Y/KH7/5A/GW/GM/F
Pls QSL direct, buro, or LOTW preferred,
I Do not use, but as a courtesy do upload to eQSL for those who do.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>; "Chris Victor" 
<c.victor at comcast.net>; "Jan Tarsala" <Jan.A.Tarsala at jpl.nasa.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 3:13 AM
Subject: [CW] CW lives


A couple of snippets from Washington Post article about recently busted
alleged Russian spies.

> But for the most part, they contacted each other the old-fashioned
> way, through furtive exchanges in city parks, or with bags of cash
> hidden along country roads, and even by radio with Morse code.

> But the FBI must have been clapping its collective hands when it
> discovered the primitive radio techniques the Russians were using:
> high speed "burst transmissions.” The Cold War-era technique requires
> the sending party to record a coded Morse code message on a tape, then
> shoot it through the air in a millisecond.
>
> They were easy picking for the FBI, once it knew where to listen: Bugs
> in the defendants’ residences picked up “the irregular electronic
> clicking sounds associated with the receipt of coded radio
> transmissions,” its affidavit states.

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