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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~THE KIWI RADIO WEEKLY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
================== Year Two - 1998 ==================
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# 53
VOLUME THIRTEEN - NUMBER THREE
January 18th 1998
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RADIO SAN MARINO INT - The Saga Continues...
It seems that after our comments Re RSMI - HOAX OR NOT ??
there still has NOT been a "Conclusive" answer to this senario.
It is starting to go the way of a soap opera (..tune in again next week
for the next episode...).
On the same situation re New Countries etc, as far as "Pirate"
operations are concerned, do not forget that it was also a "Pirate"
operation that allowed the country of "LIECHTENSTEIN" to be QSLed on SW.
Even tho there has never has been, nor will be any doubts over this
operation does it not fall into the same area as RSMI does in respect to
being able to claim " a new country"??.
My own personal veiwpoint is that if a transmitter - Fixed or Mobile, is
on the soil of any country / territory etc, If a broadcast happens, and
it is heard via the use of Radio receiving equipment, then surely it
must count.
As far as I am concerned the Fact that a station is legal or not does
not even come into this equation. The thing that does is quite simple.
IF A STATION ( legal or not ) BROADCASTS FROM ANY PART OF THE WORLD via
RADIO TRANSMITTING EQUIPMENT ( legal or not ), AND IS HEARD USING RADIO
RECEIVING EQUIPMENT, THEN A "RADIO BROADCAST" HAS HAPPENED.THE SITE OF
THE ORIGINATING TRANSMISSION "MUST" BE THE SITE / COUNTRY OF
TRANSMISSION ORIGIN. So "IF" RSMI broadcast from inside the borders of
The Rep of San Marino, then IT MUST be a "NEW" country. Just because a
station is Unlicensed should not mean that even tho it broadcasts from a
country such as The Rep of San Marino it should be ignored. It was a
broadcast that happened and was heard by many listeners - if you "heard
it" - was it your imagination, or did you hear it ??
Should reality be ignored ??.
( Ye editor )
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Now here are some "Very Interesting" comments received over the past few
days:
PLEASE NOTE: These are "Personal" opinions etc expressed by individuals
/ groups, and should be treated as such, and therefore we "Request" you
NOT to "attack" any other veiwpoints expressed, as we are all permitted
to use the right of "Freedom of Speech" that we mostly enjoy.
Starting with this :
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From: Dan Henderson <dandan2@xxxxxxxxx> / HCDX
Obviously, there is controversy with this approach. The ARRL and other
ham organizations sponsor DXpeditions to rocks in the ocean...just to
get a new country...therefore this is exactly opposite the philosophy
discussed.
Hopefully, if a station, even tho how small, how temporary, is
broadcasting for listening pleasure, the location of the transmitter
should constitute where the station was broadcasting from!! The studio
doesn't matter--take some of the relays by VOA, BBC, etc. Of course,
everyone is entitled to his own opinion...
Controversy is always fun, especiallly in this hobby.
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From: Karel Honzik <khonzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> / HCDX
Let me add a little bit to the discussion on Radio San Marino
International.
Some of us ask: does the station really broadcast from San Marino or
from Germany or from other place?
Some would like to have a new country in their personal list.
Graham J. Barclay asks "to clear up this issue once and for all".
My personal opinion is that San Marino is not a new country for us,
regardless of the fact that Radio San Marino Int. swears ten times that
it really broadcasts from the teritorry of S.M.
Well, maybe it is true, it is not difficult to take a car or a van
with broadcasting equipment and go to San Marino (it is in fact located
"inside" a teritorry of Italy).
But, on the other hand, the people behind RSMI may be too lazy to go
to San Marino, so they simply broadcast from Florence, Milano, Rome
etc...and pretend to broadcast from San Marino. You never know at a
pirate station...
That is why we cannot add San Marino as a new country, although we have
got a very nice certificate declaring that we have really heard a
station from the Republic of San Marino.
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From: Mika M{kel{inen <mtm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> / HCDX
I agree completely with Karel. For what it's worth, the Finnish DX
Association (FDXA) decided already before the controversy that Radio San
Marino Int. doesn't constitute a "station point" for those members who
count verified stations - basically because it is a land-based "hobby"
pirate, no matter which country it broadcasts from.
DXers and DX Associations of course have different criteria on what
stations they listen to and regard as broadcasting stations, but in FDXA
illegal landbased pirates are excluded from official statistics. Their
loggings are nevertheless posted in FDXA publications.
The decision was taken by a committee in charge of counting points, to
which I belong. It will be announced in the upcoming issue of
"Radiomaailma" magazine. The intention is definitely NOT to try to
prohibit listening to such stations - such restrictions would be
pointless
and contrary to the nature of the hobby. Even I listened to their tests
and sent in a reception report, just for the fun of it. However, if you
want to compare DX achievements by counting stations, you have to create
certain common criteria - and RSMI doesn't fill the requirements set by
FDXA.
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The ARRL does not "sponsor" DXpeditions. This is done by individuals
or organizations. All the ARRL does is approve or dis-approve the
operation for DXCC. The ARRL does not approve any operation that does
not have a proper and valid license from whatever country owns the
rock, etc where the operation is from.
What the hell does this have to do with a totally illegal operation
by a bunch of total dorks who need to go out and get a life? Unless
a station has a proper license from the country where the operation
takes place it should count for nothing. If operations of this type
were given no publicity by the DX press they would go away - which
is exactly what should happen.
73/DX
"W.A. Merriman" <merriman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> / HCDX
Al-K 4 G L U
Chincoteague Island, VA
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Hams are usually counting their verified countries by the DXCC list. A
ham_s QSL from a country he does not have an official permission to
transmit from is worthless if you follow DXCC rules.
So your example is not the best argument for counting a pirate QSL for a
new country.
But there are two different questions:
How sure one can be that the Tx is located in San Marino at all?
and: Do you want to add QSLs from official broadcasters, pirate stations
and maybe Utility stations and hams (did I forget something?) to one
total sum of countries?
Of course, it is a hobby. So everybody is free to decide whether he
counts a RSMI-QSL as a new country for himself or not. The same is true
for clubs and their rules for diplomas.
I remember that several years ago, when I wanted to get a diploma for a
certain number of verified countries which had to be counted by the ADDX
country list, I waited until I had two countries more than necessary, as
I for myself did not want to accept the nonsense of dividing both the US
and the USSR into two parts (east - west; the now valid EDXC list counts
"correctly").
BTW: Counting the location of transmitters (which I do) instead of
studios sometimes means having less stations: For example the new
stations on 828 and 1224 kHz from the Netherlands are transmitting from
locations I already got verified by former stations...
73s,
Willi Passmann <dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> / HCDX
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Willi:
You are right, of course. The issue is, though, just what you
mentioned...
I remember a time back in 1970 when the Viet Cong Radio was broadcasting
from Cambodia...Not too hard to hear here in the USA. Verified it via
their Paris office...They mentioned it was in Cambodia...Therefore it
was a valid QSL for Cambodia, even tho there was no "official approval"
for the station, only a tacit one.
The station later moved across the river to S. Vietnam. It then was
considered a proper station to verify for S. Vietnam. The station
surely
did not have the permission of the S. Vietnamese government...but it was
there....
You can come up with many many examples of unique cases...I don't know
if the S. Marino site was used...And I guess we'll never know. It
possibly wasn't..they surely claimed it, tho..and I am one to claim that
the
Government's "OK" doesn't hold water...Just look at the Pirate scene in
the 70's with Caroline and R. Nordsee International...
All it means is that people have their own opinions, and I am surely not
one to try and dictate mine on someone else...But the important thing is
that "people are talking and discussing it"..That, in itself, makes this
discussion all worthwhile.
73's
Dan Henderson <dandan2@xxxxxxxxx> / HCDX
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Lets get real! What does a station operating from International
Waters that belong to no country have to do with a bunch of
dorks who illegally go somewhere and operate a radio station that
they have no license for? This is like comparing apples and oranges
for goodness sakes.
From: "W.A. Merriman" <merriman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>/ HCDX
-----------------------
Al, I really appreciate your comments. Am I correct to assume that
your objection to "pirate broadcasting" has to do with the legality
or is it something else like "wasting time"?
Just trying to understand.
"Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxx>/ HCDX
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Dan Henderson's example of the Vietnamese station is a good one.
There is a distinction to be made between clandestines and pirates.
Remember that the VietCong considered themselves more or less a
different government from the official South Vietnamese government
and, in a sense, had granted themselves a license. They were a
significant and organized guerilla army (not just a few nuts in the
mountains). A similar case would be the El Salvadoran clandestine
stations of the 1980s. They were obviously not licensed by the El
Salvadoran government, but they were the official voices of the
opposition in an extensive and lengthy civil war. The stations were
clearly broadcasting from within El Salvador both because they were
visited many times by reporters and other neutral third parties, and
because the content of some of their broadcasts was too "immediate"
to have originate from anyplace other than the war front, which is
where they were located. Loggings of those stations certainly should
count as El Salvador.
Don Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>/ HCDX
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What about Radio For Peace International... no offical license from the
Costa Rican government. They say they are on UN territory?
Let me throw some more gas on the fire! heheh!
"Ulis R. Fleming" <ulis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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^^ - ANY MORE COMMENTS PLEASE - ^^
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THANKS:
Our thanks go out to Sven in Sweden for the help in getting a copy of
the old Kuy Sakimoto's song " Sukiyaki" - THANKS SVEN.
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= "WANTED" = Scratchs accepted:
We are also on the scrounge for a recording of the "Original" Radio
Broadcast of ORSEN WELLES - WAR OF THE WORLDS from the 1930's.
PLEASE look through your collections etc, and if you have a copy, please
contact us ASAP at <kiwiradio@xxxxxxxxxxx>, as we are trying to put
together a special programme for broadcast on both FM and SW.
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RADIO 510 - Switzerland SCHEDULE:
JANUARY
Eurorock Friday 16.01.98
Radio Waves Sunday 18.01.98
----------- Friday 23.01.98
Radio Joystick Sunday 25.01.98
IMR Friday 30.01.98
FEBRUARY
Radio Breakdown Sunday 01.02.98
Radio Middle East Friday 06.02.98
Transatlantic Radio Sunday 08.02.98
Radio Waves Friday 13.02.98
Radio Marabu Sunday 15.02.98
Radio Flamingo Friday 20.02.98
Radio Wonderful Sunday 22.02,98
Radio Sparks Friday 27.02.98
IMPORTANT!!
You might have noticed that sometimes a station is played ''a few
times'' too many.
This is to do with a system called''RANDOM''!! A station that is played
on Friday/Sunday evening is repeated by ''RANDOM'' - it means the
computer picks up a station that has already been played.Repeats are
free of charge and are played on Sat/Sun's.Thanks to Alfredo at
IRRS,free radio is being heard six hours a week. Please do not email me
with your complaints about this and that!! I am very aware what is going
on.I do my very best to keep Radio 510 International alive, so give me a
break.It's only fun,isn't it??
PICK YOUR FAVOURITE STATION!!
Now it's your turn to be heard.Have a look at our web page:
http://www.radio510.org
and give your votes for the best station of 1997.You might be the lucky
person who wins a nice FM tape!! It only takes a few minutes of your
time to let the stations know how much you have been enjoying their
shows. Also, let us know what you think of our service,if your happy or
not with the programmes etc.. It's always great to hear from YOU. Good
luck!!
STATIONS
It's really a thrill when it comes to new/old stations. EUROROCK is back
with a big bang!! Have a listen to their show this weekend with a very
interesting interview with Björn Quack.
RADIO JOYSTICK makes a comeback in style!! Charlie Prince is a cool DJ
with great shows. Listen to his show and see what free radio is all
about.
RADIO BREAKDOWN has found time to make a show.DJ Chris of Radio
Wonderful & DJ Dr.Yves of IMR have got together again to bring us a very
bright and colourful show. Keep the whisky away from them!!
RADIO MIDDLE EAST is the flavour of the month!! DJ Nathan Morley - ex
Voice of Peace - is ready to hit the airwaves.He can be heard all over
the Middle East with a huge following.He is currently working in Cyprus
for an FM station.If you don't have a QSL from Cyprus, now is your
chance.Nathan is waiting to hear from you.Happy Birthday!!
MORE NEW STATIONS COMING SOON!!
Very soon you will be able to hear brand new stations like:
RADIO-NO-NAME from Germany.
Three DJ's in the studio with some cool sounds make this a very fresh
start in March.
YELLOW SUBMARINE RADIO is a new project which can be heard in April.Lots
of Beatles music and fun.Looking forward to this one!!
SOUTHERN MUSIC RADIO from New Zealand can be heard this summer.Last
heard many years ago via SWRS,David Miller should be in good form and
ready to give us one of his excellent shows.
RECORD RADIO,RADIO STAR CLUB,RADIO FRANCIS DRAKE,RADIO TIC-TAC-TO are
just some of the stations that have show interest in making a
show.Looking forward to hearing from you all during 1998!!
CALLING ALL STATIONS!!
If you are a station, or know someone who has got on, and would like to
be heard all over Europe, then why not try one of our $40 an hour
slots!! We really offer the very best when it comes to power. With a
huge 10KW coming from Milano,Italy,listeners from all over have been
tuning to us for the last five years.We are not out to take your money
- we are non-profit!! - but to put you on air. With a huge audience of
very hungry listeners, you just can't go wrong!! You can contact us at:
info@xxxxxxxxxxxx
If you are in the USA, it would be a thrill for all the listeners here
in Europe to listen to your shows. You have no idea how much it means to
us to bring Europe & the USA together via the airwaves.
Think about it.
Have a great 1998
( via DJ Stevie - Radio 510 Int )
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RADIO FREE LONDON SW:
RADIO FREE LONDON can be heard on 5805kHz
and 6275kHz this Sunday 18th January.
This weeks line-up:
Andy Walker's Free Radio Show
(The return of the FRS starts this weekend with all
the usual archive recordings, plus all the news that is
news in the world of free radio)
Terry Philips
(Free radio's version of the old BBC light programme)
Eric May
(Pop and Indie music with RFL's Mr.Smooth)
Tony Randall
("High Camp" with the funniest programme on pirate radio)
Snail mail:
RFL, Box 99, First Floor Suite, 253 Selhurst Road, London, SE25 6XT
E-mail: <RFLsw@xxxxxxx >
Telephone: 0961 800 894
URL: http://193.63.162.100/gh/sw/rfl.htm
( via AW - RFLSW )
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WREC - USA:
I was unable to get an "acceptable" SWR match on 9335 kHz,so until I put
up a new antenna for 31 meters the testing on that frequency is put on
hold.
However, WREC will be broadcasting this weekend (Jan.17 & 18):
January 17th: starting between 1600-1700 UTC on 6955 USB,switching to
6850 USB (time will be announced during the broadcast on 6955).
January 18th: starting between 1200-1300 UTC on 6850 USB
WREC will be relaying numerous North American pirates (both current &
classic stations),a few Europirates as well as live WREC programming.The
broadcast on Jan.17th on 6850 will last well into the evening hours
,possibly continuos depending on my transmitter!
Please pass the word to your trusted friends in the hobby,thanks! I hope
everyone will get a chance to listen & will enjoy the programming and
relays. Good DX!!
( via PJ Sparx - Owner/Operator of WREC "Radio Free East Coast" )
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WEB SITE UPDATES:
1. My web page has been changed to shorted :
http://www.compulink.gr/users/zliangas
2.The equipment page has been updated with more photos
3. There is now a NEW (mirror) web page in USA at geocities
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/2638
You are kindly invited to see both web pages and advise me if there
are any errors in the page links
( via "Zacharias Liangas" <zliangas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> )
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You may be interested to know that the Anorak Corner Pirate Radio
website has recently been updated, why not take a look, new additions
include newspaper articles and Radio London RSL currently on air in
London
http://www.freezywater.u-net.com
( via Duncan <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> )
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6955 KHz:
Word is that the licensed broadcaster hoping to start using 6955 is
WGTG, a religious station in Georgia. No word yet as to whether the FCC
has granted their request to start testing.
( via a US reader )
( from Ye Editor - it has been noted that a couple of US Free Radio
stations have been looking at 6850 KHz. - Where will our Free Radio
friends go to now ??, any ideas ?? - More if it comes to hand. )
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RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL:( feedback )
>From an Australian Reader comes this comment:
Don't let the bastards tear down RNZ. Get the clubs together and
tell them what a bunch of fools they are. Send email messages and
letters to the minister concerned. The dickheads here are putting out a
paper on the future of Radio Australia in late February.
Very Dicey.
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WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE
--as of January 13, 1998
from Glenn Hauser
On WWCR Nashville,
Thu 2130 9475 [for Dec, Jan, Feb], Sat 0700 5070 AND 3210, Sat 1230
5070, Sun 0730 5070, [Mon 0400 3215 has been suspended],
Tue 1330 15685.
On RFPI Costa Rica: Fri 2000, Sat 0400, 1100, 1800, Sun 0200,
0900, 2300, Mon 0700, Tue 1900, Wed 0300, 1000--on 15050 AM in
1500-2400 period, 7385 2200-1200, 6980-USB 0000-1200, 21465-USB
1200-2400.
On WGTG, Georgia, UT Tue 0500 on 5085-USB. If the tape
arrives before Monday additional unscheduled times may occur,
such as UT Mon 0600 on 5085-USB or on 9400 Sat, Sun daytime. If
the tape does not arrive until Tuesday, backup time is UT Wed at
0600 (Hauser, Jan 13)
CONTINENT OF MEDIA: see below, and please add to DX program listings!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Updated weekly or as needed. Please publicize at least the
WWCR, RFPI and WGTG portion, and delete any outdated times from
your lists. All times and days UT. Subtract 6 hours from UT for
CST. W.O.R. is a listener-supported, public-service program
about communications around the world, especially, but not
limited to, Shortwave Broadcasting. Look for separately
distributed rundowns of topics in each half-hour edition, or on
our website:
http://www.grove.net/~ghauser
also usually in RFPI Weekly Updates, previews by E-mail or
newsgroups. This site also gives complete details of all our
broadcasts on satellite, cable, AM and FM, Internet, in Spanish,
and about our publications, contact info, etc.
*CONTINENT OF MEDIA (COM) is an additional half-hour carried
only by RFPI, produced about once a month and repeated weekly
until a new edition arrive, on a new schedule: Wed 2300 on 15050,
7385, 21465-USB; Thu 0700 on 7385, 6980-USB; and also at
unscheduled times when available, especially immediately after
WORLD OF RADIO on Sat, Tue. It deals primarily with domestic
media developments in North America. The January edition starts
Jan 14
( via Glenn Hauser )
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RADIO MARABU BACK AT THE INTERNET
Please pay attention to the fact, that our homepage is now back at the
internet at the following URL::
http://www.mediaDD/radiomarabu/
The homepage is now available with a new design and up-to-date
information, including also the actual transmission schedule.
Check it out. Your comments are highly appreciated.
Radio Marabu - P.O. Box 1166 - 49187 Belm - Germany
Tel.: 05406/899484 Fax: 05406/899485
E-mail: RadioMarabu@xxxxxxxxxxx
ULR: http://www.mediaDD.de/radiomarabu/
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THE RADIO'S OF DESERT STORM
BY: LTC WILLIAM L. HOWARD
AND DENNIS STARKS
( The following was originaly published
in " The Military Collector Post"
an Email daily magazine devoted to the preservation of
History and The Radio's that made it.)
In August 1990, elements of the Iraqui Army crossed
the border into the neighbouring state of Kuwait and in
a matter of hours over-ran the country. They then turned
their attention to the south and it was feared that they
would attack Saudi Arabia. The Saudi's requested U.S.
aid and with-in hours U.S. military forces were on their
way. President George Bush then managed to form a
coalition with Great Britain, France, West Germany and
many of the other nations in the region. Gen. H. Norman
Schwartzkopf was placed in overall command.
As U.S. troops were about to begin deploying, on the
second day, the Foreign Material Intelligence Battalion
issued a series of booklets to the troops that provided
details of the equipment that they might encounter.
Buletin No.'s 1 and 2 were titled "Equipment Found in
Somalia" and the rest dealt with Soviet Bloc equipment,
known to be in the hands of the Iraqui forces.
The ability to issue these books to the troops was not
an accident, but the results of some careful planning in
the wake of WW II. Korea, Vietnam and other recent
regional conflicts.
Technical intelligence was once the exculsive preserve
of the technical services and each fielded their own
cellurlar teams who reported to their branch on captured
enemy equipment. The most active teams in WW II were
the Ordnance teams and the Signal teams. These were
the people responsible for the many various technical
reports done on enemy weapons and radios that one
finds at gun shows and HAMFESTs.
Disbanded after WW II, they were re-created in haste
for Korea. They arrived late but did some excellent
reporting once in country. Disbanded again after Korea,
they were again re-created for Vietnam but this time with
a difference. Material procurement for the army had
been centralized with the Army Material Command.
Intelligence, once a hit or miss operation had become
a branch of the Army and in the early 1960's the
Defense Intelligence Agency was created to provide
intelligence support to the military services.
By 1963, The Foreign Science and Technology Center,
FSTC for short, was established to make certain that
technical information about foreign eqipment went to
both the intelligence community and to the technical
services.
During the Vietnam era, the in-country technical
intelligence operation was called, The Combined
Material Exploitation Center, CMEC for short.
Composed of Ordnance, Signal, Medical, Engineer,
Chemical and Quartermaster teams and D Co, of the
519th Military Intelligence Battalion. This unit had 5
Field teams that operated out in the various Corps areas
and evacuated captured material to the CMEC in Saigon.
After an in-country analysis, the material was then sent
to the rear for further exploitation by FSTC and others.
When the U.S. departed from Vietnam, most of the teams
were disbanded and D Co along with the rest of the
519th M.I. Bn was returned to Fort Bragg.
By 1975, in the wake of two major mid east wars, D Co
was brought to Aberdeen Proving Ground and began
exploitating the material that had been captured by the
Israeli's and sold to the United States. Many of the
technical reports that were done were issued to the
troops as Technical Intelligence Bulletins and as
operators manuals. Soviet bloc equipment was now
being used by the OPFOR, the more realistic successor
to the old AGGRESSOR program, started in 1948 using
cast off U.S. equipment. During the period from 1975
until 1988, this unit operated out of old WW II wooden
buildings at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
D Company was replaced by the designation of the
203rd Military Intelligence Battalion and by 1988 had
again been re designated as the Foreign Material
Intelligence Battalion and had moved into a new
compound costing 8 and 1/2 million dollars. Complete
with vehicle rebuild shops, a large foreign arms room
and modern electronic test labs, trhis unit was the
Armys technical intelligence battalion and was ready
to deploy anywhere in the world. Operating under the
organization and concepts spelled out in the new
FM 34-54 (which I helped to write) this organization
was ready even before the President decided to send
troops to Saudi Arabia.
Once in Saudia Arabia, the unit established a JCMEC,
the new acrynom for Joint Captured Material Expolitation
Center and had three field teams operating in each
Corps area. The JCMEC also had liasion teams from
other services and countries with-in its sphere of
operation. All the material that was captured passed
through this units view and many exploitation reports
were prepared. Many of the important national
intelligence requirements concerning foreign equipment
were satisfied through the efforts of this unit.
The conflict in the desert, which was first called
Desert Shield became Desert Storm when hostilities
were begun. Two important factors of this war became
apparent to those of us who watched in unfold across
our television screens. The use of SCUD missiles which
were latter day WW II V 2 rockets which were detected
by sophiscated radars and shot down by Patriot Missiles,
themselves latter day German WW II rockets and the
ever increasing sophiscitation of electronic warfare.
>From TV cameras that allowed us to ride the bomb
into the target to the communication equipment that
was used to command the troops on the ground.
My own persnal opinion has been that the U.S. has led
the world in the development of electronic equipment
for the military. Other nations have been catching up
and in some areas may well be ahead of us.
Let us take a brief look at some of the foreign radio
eqipment that was captured during this conflict and has
now begun to show up as surplus and as collectors items.
TAKE IT AWAY, DENNIS STARKS!!
Continued next week...
( via William L Howard )
*******************
73's
Graham J Barclay
KIWI RADIO - NEW ZEALAND
Email: kiwiradio@xxxxxxxxxxx
WWW: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9885
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