[CW] Soviet Russian Radiotelegraph Practice during WWII

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at panix.com
Fri Oct 30 18:06:46 EDT 2020


"Between Silk And Cyanide".
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020, William Harris wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:56:43
> From: William Harris <w7kxb1 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> To: CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [CW] Soviet Russian Radiotelegraph Practice during WWII
>
> Title of book, please.
> de.Bill/w7kxb   .   .
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:54 PM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
>
> > 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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