[R-390] Those R-390's in Turkey

Tue Sep 16 16:00:55 EDT 2014

This email brings back sooo many memories as yes, Sinop was a classified installation in the 50's and 60's. I was a high speed morse code interceptor in the Army Security Agency stationed at Kagnew Station in Asmara Ethiopia in 1964. We, along with Sinop, carried out Cold War missions. You are correct with the CIA Sigint agreements as well. The assignments were highly classified at that time and still classified in a lower category today. I have a R391 and would fill a room of R390/A's if I had the chance!
Rich

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On Sep 15, 2014, at 5:59 PM, Bob Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I suspect it’s now part of Google 
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Sep 15, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Bill Fairbanks <billfairbanks at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> The base at Karamursel and the footprint of the Wullenweber can be seen on
>> Google earth.  Who's running the base now?  I don't know.
>> 
>> Bill
>> Ex  "Radio Research" Op at Tuslog Detachment 4-4 Karamursel and Detachment
>> 27 Out In The Middle of Nowhere Near Ankara Turkey
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-390 [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bob Camp
>> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 3:29 PM
>> To: Clemens Ostergaard
>> Cc: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [R-390] Those R-390's in Turkey
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> .. and I wonder what could possibly be going on today that might involve
>> cleaning out some of those old locations and firing them back up with more
>> modern gear ..
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> On Sep 14, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Clemens Ostergaard <clemenso at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> It is no wonder there are many exemplars of the rx in Turkey. The 
>>> country was front-line during the Cold War, adjacent to the Soviet 
>>> Union's 'underbelly'.
>>> 
>>> Turkey was the first country in Asia that CIA had Sigint-agreements 
>>> with (secret at the time I think). There was for example a base at 
>>> Sinop, by the Black Sea, and later a Wullenweber antenna array at 
>>> Karamursel AB, near Izmir, run by the USAF, from1966 and said to be
>> dismantled in 1977.
>>> There would be banks and banks of R-390A's installed at these and 
>>> other stations in the 50'es and 60'es. Turkish military would inherit 
>>> them, and later, much later,  pass them on to amateurs, DX'ers etc, or 
>>> direct to the junk yard. Since NSA and others were involved in their 
>>> use, it is natural that the BFO micro-dial is found on some of them.
>>> 
>>> Clemens S. Ostergaard
>>> Copenhagen, DENMARK
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