[CW] How was message routing done? More on the Pueblo.

[George]

Painful to see the page on the USS Pueblo.  The CTs were from Kamiseya, which was also the Receiver site (NRS) for NAVCOMSTA JAPAN (NDT), where I served as a Radioman.  After its capture, the Navy then flew unarmed (so as not to be “provocative”) EC-121s (modified Super Constellations) in International Airspace, the U.S. having learned nothing about how the North Koreans operated, so they shot one down, killing many of our  Kamiseya CT friends.  I remember receiving the messages (ORESTES, below) as our ships picked up the deceased sailors and their aircraft from the Sea of Japan.  After that intelligence-collecting flights were escorted by fighter planes.

KW-7’s (ORESTES) were used for point-to-point encrypted teletype and used a block of multiple 4 (?) twisted wire plugs which had to be inserted in specific orientation, changed daily.  Broadcast transmissions as mentioned required crypto gear with punched cards, and had to be synchronized to about 0.10 second with WWV time signals.  All used encryption complexities that your current iPhone could break in a second or two.

George N0GM

> On Apr 23, 2019, at 7:58 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> The home page is here:
> 
> http://jproc.ca/
> 
> He has some nice photos of PUEBLO in her new dock in North Korea.
> http://jproc.ca/pueblo/index.html
> 
> 73
> 
> DR
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