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Old March 15th 09, 08:16 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Telamon Telamon is offline
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Default Russia may base bombers in cuba

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dxAce wrote:

Monitoring opportunities?

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/art...1&aid=29691183
(via SmokeyKat, MilCom list)

That photo sure brings back memories. I remember those boys buzzing
us from time to time just above the deck and a few hundred feet away.
We'd wave at each other!

Later, I remember monitoring them as they transited along the east
coast USA, sending position reports in Russian Morse. At the time
there was an article in either PopCom or Monitoring Times giving
details on how to decode those posit reports.


I guess boredom set in after hundreds of hours flying and they got to do
something exciting. That had to be quite a sight with a bomber that
close. How fast do you think they were traveling when they flew by you?

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Telamon
Ventura, California