[QCWA] QCWA Vic Clark Chapter 91 website updated

[Richard Rucker]

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February 19, 2005: Tour of the National Cryptologic Museum, Ft. Meade, 
MD

"This trip to the museum, which is adjacent to the headquarters of the 
National Security Agency (NSA) at Ft. Meade, MD, was a repeat of a tour 
we made in 2000. At this one, we had lots of new faces in attendance... 
  Preceding the tour, we enjoyed a fine lunch at the Timbuktu Restaurant 
just a few miles away.

" What follows are photos of a few of many items on display and some 
comments to put them in context. Fortunately, the museum has good 
signage so that capturing much of the story can be done by taking 
photos and quoting or paraphrasing those signs.

"1940s - World War II:
"Early radio nets used the Morse code to transmit the characters in a 
message, letter-by-letter. To ensure communications security (COMSEC), 
cipher machines were used to...

"Korean War - 1950-53:
"At the end of WWII, the Korean peninsula was liberated from Japan, and 
by 1948, it had split into two regime...

"USAF C-130 shot down over Armenia during Cold War:
"Chapter 91 member Peter Hurd, N1SS, wrote: "When you chaps arrive at 
the NSA museum, note the C-130 out back...

and so on, for each decade, with the focus on innovations in 
communications security, through the decade of the 1990s.


Dick Rucker, KM4ML
Secretary
QCWA Vic Clark Chapter 91