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-=> Quoting Dennis Scott to Don Vally <=-

 DS> Re: CQ CQ CQ
 DS> By: Don Vally to RON KINNEY on Thu Mar 09 2023 11:35 pm
 
 > I was a morse intercept operator in the Army...
 > 
 > CQ IMI K
 > 
 > Cougar
 > 
 DS> Hello Don, 

 DS> May I ask, what was "a morse intercept operator"?

Hi Dennis - sure!  In the US Army my MOS was 05H which the Army
described as "Performs detection, acquisition and exploitation of
foreign communications employing International Morse Code and simple
printer systems in a tactical or strategic environment."  Whew! that
was long winded.

Basically I was trained to intercept morse code being sent by
foreign governments.  I sat in a radio shack and searched the bands
for specific morse traffic.  I was trained to intercept chinese cut
characters, but ended up copying east bloc traffic. 

These messages were always encoded, so unless I copied a cleartext
code word, the job entailed listening to morse in front of a
teletype printer and hitting the keys as I heard the characters.
Always in groups of 5 characters with 5 groups then a spacing and 5
more groups of 5 characters.  Of course I would always get the tail
end IMI SK.

I just copied the morse, someone else worked to unencrypt the 
messages.  Doesn't sound very exiting right?  Training for this was
INTENSE. Took longer than 6 months depending on the trainee, and
there were a lot of drop outs.

When I got out of the service, I tried to find a job sending or
receiving IMC, but the only place that really used it was the
maritime service. That didn't pan out.

Sorry for the long winded reply...

Cougar
aka Don


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