Wonder if they get cable TV on that thing….
I’d love to see their PACE plan.
When all else fails….smoke signals??
Or is Morse code still used?
Thats clearly an american little station that connects with russian rovers on mars
IIRC, one of the asides in Melville Shavelson’s hilarious How to Make a Jewish Movie (about his trials and tribulations when making Cast a Giant Shadow) was the theory espoused by some Israelis that some large aerials were being used to receive “adult” entertainment channels from other countries…
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That would be the most military thing to happen, there would be volunteers for nighttime radio watch all over the unit.
Nah, we quit using Morse decades ago. The last US Army Morse interceptor class was 2015. My MOS 05H/98H Morse Intercept Operator exists no more. We had an incredibly high drop rate and we drank more than any troopies alive but alas, we are no more.
And now I wanna see somebody kit that well festooned li’l track in 1/35 styrene.
Early version of a COPE Cage.
If I remember correctly, you’re the ASA guy. Even the Q Course dropped the Morse Code requirement for 18Es (commo nerds) a long time ago, But back in the day they were required to accurately send and receive at 15 WPM for 3(?) munutes.. Even we weapons guys were required to know it, although we did not have to pass any WPM standard. We also had to memorize 126 trigrams, in case we ever had to decode a one time pad ourselves.
Post ASA, alas. I was INSCUM but my barracks in Germany still had the ASA electric chicken out front.
Oh, and I never learned to send it but I could accurately copy around 70wpm and badly 80wpm. Then I sat a weirdo hybrid voice rack and lost all my Morse proficiency beyond “di-dah is alfa”.
When you say that is sounds like 15 WPM was pretty damned slow, but that’s all they needed for to pass Phase II. I seem to remember one commo guy who was an E-6 by then tossing around the number 60, That boggles the mind, because we sent messages in five letter groups. So that works out to five Morse Code letters per second. No way I’d ever be able to do that. How do you even write that fast?
Wow - I was joking about the Morse code! 
We didn’t. We had these massive electro mechanical keyboards called KSRs, aka mills. Three part carbon paper in the back. The keys were super hard to push but I’m a good typist to this day from that thing. We had three receivers with one in each ear plus a spare and we switched back and forth for hours. I typically had a target in one ear and AFN or the BBC World Service or Radio Moscow in the other. My section worked directly for No Such Agency but the other Morse sections were Sov military, Sov Strategic Rockets, and Warsaw Pact forces. It was the absolute greatest job an 18 year old could have.
I assumed this post related to Op Market Garden. Can’t think why…
I was just answerin’ a question and it all kinda snowballed from there…
No worries mate
