[CW] The Russian Trawlers - MSG from IK6IJF Alfredo

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3OV7we4kpo

The Russian Trawlers


Many of us know that Russia trough the history of past century, when
we called her Soviet Union, owned the large fishing fleet of the
planet employed in all seas of the world in all seasons, many of these
trawlers passed to the history as spies ships due to the large antenna
systems observed but until the end of Cold War no images came us of
Russian ship’s radio rooms and many of us, during our past at sea, had
not chance to stay on board a Russian vessel visiting the radio
station; nowadays thanks to internet we can catch some videos and
pictures of these unknown ships and their radio stations. Surfing the
web I found the following YouTube clips recorded, I suppose for
promotional duty, the fishing vessel owned to “Fedor Krainov” Class,
was one of the largest one, ship was built in 1967 and remained in
service since 1998, during the video are showed various aspect of life
on board including some minutes in the radio room where the glory of
USSR R/O’s is well represented by the very fast operator you can see,
if some Russian friends have more information about these ships they
are very welcome and shared on this website. In the clip the radio
room it is showed starting from minute 4:31 but I suggest you to watch
the entire clip, it is a very rare piece of history:


Thanks to R/O Alfredo De Cristofaro, IK6IJF.
https://www.qrz.com/db/ik6ijf