[Spooks] FIRST QUESTION ON NS

[Todd Dokey]

I mostly threw that in, such that folks could see the general idea of
how it works.

Of course there are variable IF ranges!

On 1/24/14, Beaumont, Paul <p.beaumont at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Concerning equipment for the mid-fifties the Wikipedia piece is inaccurate.
> The IFs of the time were more likely to be in the 465/475kHz ranges with
> some sets using 1500/1600kHz too. Some Russian equipment employed
> frequencies in the 300kHz ranges.
>
> The radio receiver that Gordon Lonsdale used was the Bush Imperial Receiver
> which had an IF of 475kHz.
>
> RAFTER was also employed against possible Russian equipment operating in the
> midband VHF frequencies to intercept the MI5 watcher service [P Band 75 to
> 104MHz].
> It was discovered that the Russian Embassy was employing its own version of
> RAFTER.
>
> Paul
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> Sent: 24 January 2014 19:37
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> Subject: Re: [Spooks] FIRST QUESTION ON NS
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> Been having gmail issues this morning...
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> Lets try again..
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> Nice summary:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_RAFTER
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