"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message hlink.net...
"Brian" wrote:

Meanwhile, the US had listening posts in Turkey,
Greece, Germany, Korea, Japan...

We didn't need to send OUR traffic via CW, we
needed to copy THEIR message traffic using CW.


And it was all monitored by computers. My father worked at one of those
stations in Turkey in the mid-60's (Karamusel Air Station near Istanbu).
Nobody actually listened to the initial traffic by ear. Instead, computers
listened for key words and recorded conversations that might be interesting
(CW messages were printed). Those messages were then sent back to the states
for screening and evaluation.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/

Computers listening for key words in the mid-60's. Hmmm.

I roomed with a ditty-bopper, he listened to live signals on a real
radio in the 1980's.