[CW] The Russian Trawlers - MSG from IK6IJF Alfredo

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

Alfredo said: "including some minutes in the radio room where the glory of USSR
R/O’s is well represented by the very fsast operator you can see,"

He gives the Russian R/O's his praise and they are pretty good, I'd match
our Navy and Merchant operators against them any day.

I posted his message because I thought some might be interested in the
equipment of a Soviet ship.  I found the equipment to be second rate.

But I have to admit the radio officer could rattle off some fast Morse.

When I was at sea, I'd make a short and fast call to a USA ship on 500 kHz
just to show the Russians we had good operators too.

I agree with your comments on how they could get in the way and were a pain
sometimes.

73

David N1EA

On Nov 1, 2017 23:52, "Radio KØHB" <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> DR,
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>
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> In 20-some years of work as a Navy Radioman, I called these ships a lot of
> things, but I never called them glorious.
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>
>
> 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"™
>
>
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> *From: *D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net>
> *Sent: *Thursday, November 2, 2017 2:20 AM
> *To: *CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject: *[CW] The Russian Trawlers - MSG from IK6IJF Alfredo
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3OV7we4kpo
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> The Russian Trawlers
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> 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
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> trawlers passed to the history as spies ships due to the large antenna
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> 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
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> not chance to stay on board a Russian vessel visiting the radio
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> station; nowadays thanks to internet we can catch some videos and
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> pictures of these unknown ships and their radio stations. Surfing the
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> web I found the following YouTube clips recorded, I suppose for
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> promotional duty, the fishing vessel owned to “Fedor Krainov” Class,
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> was one of the largest one, ship was built in 1967 and remained in
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> service since 1998, during the video are showed various aspect of life
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> 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
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> 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:
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> Thanks to R/O Alfredo De Cristofaro, IK6IJF.
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> https://www.qrz.com/db/ik6ijf
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