RadioBanter - View Single Post - I thought this was the shortwave newsgroup

dave · November 6th 09, 01:21 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:

Just do some "eyeball" filtering of the list. I've been reading the
Vegas logs, stuff like that. Nothing particularly interesting in the
posts lately, but utility or military is more my game. Most of the
"government shortwave" is streamed on the net these days.

I got a copy of "Spycraft." It calls those numbers station OWVL (one
way voice link). The book has a page on the one time pad, how to
decode and encode, etc.. Now what's cool is there is a photo in the
book of a Soviet spy working on his OWVL decoding. The photo was taken
by the KGB, who was spying on the spy.

I highly reccommend the book. Lots of geeky stuff in it since it is
written from the viewpont of the techies in the CIA.

It takes no special skill to receive a 100,000 Watt radio station 3,000
miles away. It is much more fun to get a 200 Watt airplane halfway to
Japan, or a USCG C-130 doing SAR over the Caribbean or something.

Then there's the hams...