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

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I saw her a couple of times, as she came down the Red Sea, just off Massawa, Eritrea.  She worked NKA, the Navy commo detachment up at Kagnew Station, 8,500 or so feet up on the plateau, 40 miles from Massawa.  I spent two years 60-62 in Army Security Agency there, and then 67-69 as a civilian just across the road from the Navy site, supporting all sorts of telecoms, including many of our African, and Middle East consulates and embassies,with their communications.    A great place to ham.  Near 24 hour operations on most bands, and very quite, except during two,  2 month rainy seasons , for about two hours a day.  Well, that is until my last year and a half there,when the rains "forgot to fall"  There is nothing like living where the water is turned on to the house one hour a week.  Man, glad to get out of there. 

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> On April 23, 2019 at 9:54 PM George <grmjunior at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>      
>     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 mailto:n1ea at arrl.net > wrote:
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>         > >         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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