[CW] The Russian Trawlers - MSG from IK6IJF Alfredo

[Radio KØHB]

DR,

In 20-some years of work as a Navy Radioman, I called these ships a lot of things, but I never called them glorious.

They did their “fishing” outside of our Navy bases, gathering intelligence including the arrivals and departures of our ships.  They came “fishing” in out Navy operations, risking our ships by placing their plodding slow ships in the middle of fast moving task forces to “fish” signal intelligence on our radios, cryptos, radars, ECM techniques, and sonars.  When our ships sailed out of “friendly” port calls in places like Napoli, Palermo, and La Spezia, these tattletales were standing on station ready to shadow and impede our operations like some sort of malignant seagoing hyenas.

Some civilian mariners may call that “glory”…..   I call it “tattletale” and a palpable threat to the safety of my country, my Navy, and my Shipmates.  I expect that these AGI’s (some still sail) are high on certain target lists.

73, de Hans, KØHB
Ex Master Chief Radioman, US Navy
Now "Just a boy and his radio"™

From: D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 2:20 AM
To: CW Reflector
Subject: [CW] The Russian Trawlers - MSG from IK6IJF Alfredo

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
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