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Yup, I have some of the old surplus manuals on that procedure somewhere.. But when I obtained them, I wasn't about to publish on SPECWAR guys.. they get kinda fussy about that.. ;) On 3/17/14, Charles Bennett <benne...@me.com> wrote: > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from > this list > > I've been lurking on the list for awhile but haven't really had anything to > contribute. > > In the mid 70s I was, occasionally, what you guys refer to as a numbers > station. Not the kind that operates for months or years but the kind that > pops up, runs for a week or two, and then stops. I was working with 10th > special forces in bad toelz Germany sending encrypted messages to teams In > the field. 5 letter code groups, broadcast at particular times. Sometimes > it would be the same transmission for a day, sometimes it would change > often. I was at a remote station with a secure teletype and the messages > would arrive pre encrypted so I did not know the contents. I would then > rebroadcast them in morse. > > Sometimes I would work the receiving end using high speed tape recorders. > The teams would send encoded messages using a gra~71 encoder so even though > it was morse code it was sent as a very high speed burst. We would record > that then slow the tapes way down on playback and create hard copies of the > messages. Again we never saw the unencrypted messages when we were > receiving, just the 5 letter code groups. > > Just that you all might like that bit of trivia. > > Best > > Chuck > WB8CEE > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Mar 17, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Gian Romani <romanig...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from >> this list >> >> Thank you Todd! >> ciao >> >> >> 2014-03-17 19:51 GMT+01:00 Todd Dokey <justcallmebu...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from >>> this list >>> >>> Dividing numbers into 4 or 5 number groups is done for the same reason >>> phone numbers get split up into groups -so you can remember the >>> string. >>> >>> Its a cognitive science thing. >>> >>> -- >>> Semper Reluctor >>> >>> "Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice." >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Spooks mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Spooks mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- Semper Reluctor "Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice." ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
