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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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