[CW] Soviet Russian Radiotelegraph Practice during WWII

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

I'm reading the book now! He's a fabulous writer!  All about the SOE
written by an insider!

I love the beginning. You can preview the book on Amazon.

It's brilliant!

73

DR


On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 07:36 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:

> 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
> > Ex WN5QMX,WA5UKR,ET2US,ET3USA,SV0WPP,VS6DD,N7DC/YV5/G5CTB
> > QSL Bureau, DIRECT, LOTW Preferred, eQSL used but upload at a courtesy
> only, as do not use the system for awards.
> >
> > > 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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