[MRCA] MRCA Agent Code Practice

[w8au at sssnet.com]

Dale:  Hope it doesn't appear too much like "codes and ciphers" or 
anything disguised
which are not allowed in ham radio.  ;-)

Perry    w8au



At 11:17 PM 2/8/2017, Radio Station KW1I wrote:

>To:  MRCA Clandestine Agents
>
>Tomorrow evening, February 9, 2017 at 1710 EST and 2140 EST in the 
>vicinity of 3570 kHz there will be a short agent message 
>transmission. 53 five letter groups will contain a plain text 
>message beginning and ending with a group made up of five "V" 
>characters. The message will be sent twice. The message will be 
>preceded by QST QST QST MRCA Code Practice DE KW1I sent three times. 
>The CW is machine generated and is less than 10 WPM. The total 
>transmission time is ten minutes. The signal should be able to be 
>heard in most of the Northeast. This is an opportunity to go through 
>the motions of receiving a clandestine message sent to agents by an 
>espionage communications center. If it is a little faster than your 
>code speed, record it and play it back several times so you can 
>decode it all.  After receiving the message reassemble the message 
>from the groups. If conditions are good, try receiving the message 
>on a small agent set with a compromise antenna.
>
>Feedback on this exercise is invited. All responses should be 
>emailed to the MRCA Reflector which is constantly monitored by the 
>MRCA Clandestine Communications Center.
>
>Notice of additional broadcast of this message and follow-on 
>messages will also be via the MRCA Reflector.
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