[MRCG] Fwd: Project WASHTUB comms

[Thomas Murphy]

Tim,

                 There are several articles in the net about Gibraltar plan
and there were plans of a similar nature for Malta and a few other
locations.


 
Tom, W6TOM

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Subject: Re: [MRCG] Fwd: Project WASHTUB comms

Thanks Tom - a pretty interesting plan for Gibraltar...Had not heard about
it....I wonder if the Brits also had a similar plan for Singapore, Hong Kong
etc...

RS-6:  There are probably a few around, but apparently not much interest in
them (except for me!  LOL) since they are CW only...rumor that hundreds were
surplussed by the Army and/or given out to MARS programs on the east coast
in the early 1960's....Most of those are now probably cached in landfills
these days.

Thanks for the link - Tim
N6CC




On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Thomas Murphy <tpmurphy at sonic.net> wrote:

> Interesting radio, I wonder many are still around?? Probably pretty 
> pricey if you find one.
>
> I stumbled across this on the internet, Operation Tracer, guys who 
> would have stayed behind if the Germans had taken Gibraltar in WWII.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tracer
>
>
>
> Tom, W6TOM
>
>
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>
> The RS-6 sets came out in 1951 which fits nicely. Here is some more 
> information including a mention of it's use by 'stay behind' agents in 
> Europe.
> I'm liking the RS-6 as a Washtub radio candidate even more.....
>
> http://cryptomuseum.com/spy/rs6/index.htm
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 9/1/2014 5:47:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
> timsamm at gmail.com writes:
>
> Probably  many of us have heard about the recently declassified 
> Project WASHTUB which  hit the news today.  It was an effort to 
> recruit, equip and train  Alaska residents in the early 1950's to act as
"stay behind agents"
> in the  event the Soviet Union attacked and occupied Alaska during the 
> early days  of the cold  war.
>
> http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/09/01/military-trained-alaskan
> s-as-s
> tay-behind-agents.html?comp=7000023435700&rank=2
>
> Your  mission, should you choose to accept it, is to specify the type 
> of radio  equipment that might be available in the early 1950's to be 
> used in this  effort.  You would design the training program for 
> operators  and assist in specifying communications components for the 
> supply  caches containing this radio equipment.  What radio equipment 
> would be  best suited for this task?
>
> You have as much time as Ivan will  allow...
>
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