[CW] Soviet Russian Radiotelegraph Practice during WWII

[Jude DaShiell]

Book recommendation "Between Silk And Cyanide" By Leo Marx.
On Thu, 22 Oct
2020, n7dc at comcast.net wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:23:56
> From: n7dc at comcast.net
> Reply-To: CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> To: CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>, "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>
> Subject: Re: [CW] Soviet Russian Radiotelegraph Practice during WWII
>
> Not sure if there was something before that brought up this question, but you are mostly right.  Our own intercept ops had lists of foreign freqs/schedule times, so am sure the Russians had the same.  Most ops were assigned specific nets, but a few were general search specialists, who just continually looked around for anything.  We copied a few minute, until the signals could be identified, and then moved on to other targets.  If something new popped up, then it was listed as a "regular target, and assigned to another full time op.  As for US forces, the cw nets stayed within certain parameters, for the given time of day, and would QSY when one freq started giving out.  Lots of guess work as to what they would go to, but always the net control would give out a new frequency, right on the air.  Using one-time-pad crypto, it didnt matter
>  when or if someone else copied it, they couldnt break it.
>
> N7DC at COMCAST.NET
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> > On 10/21/2020 9:50 PM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > DOES ANYONE KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR SUBJECT?
> >
> > Question from the Morsecode.qth.net email list:
> >
> >  If the enemy could find one frequency, what would keep them from
> > finding the other?
> >
> > My answer:
> >
> > Only time, they'd have to find the first frequency then  the second
> > frequency in a matter of minutes.  Both frequencies were kept "secret"
> > with books like code books.  I don't know all the details of this,
> > I'll ask on the CW list if anyone knows more.
> >
> > 73
> > DR
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