[MRCA] MRCA Agent Code Practice

[Stewart Beckley]

Hi Dale,

No copy out here in the Pacific, as 80M is only good for NVIS to the 
other islands during the day, as we often use it on the Hawaii Afternoon 
Net as backup to 40M when the latter goes long.

But I do remember, a long time ago (well, at least 15 years) in a land 
far away (from my current QTH) a similar exercise when Pete (WB2JWU) and 
I set up a GRC-9 and a vertical and sent intel back to you in 5-letter 
groups about a plaque located at some damn dam site. Great fun! As Brown 
would say, Real Radio!  Glad at least for MRCA to keep in touch and to 
keep those memories alive. And glad to remember that there's one TBW-5 
and one BC-611 in good hands, and alive and well!

73 es Aloha,

Bud, WA2AUI/KH6


On 2/8/2017 6:17 PM, 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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