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20th Feb 2020, 10:24 pm | #1 |
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Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
A lovely find!
Thought this may be of interest. Soviet Shortwave Spy Radio Unearthed in Western Germany https://www.livescience.com/soviet-s...d-germany.html |
21st Feb 2020, 9:13 am | #2 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
Morning Greenstar.
Thanks for the post I have enjoyed reading it. Kevin. |
21st Feb 2020, 9:30 am | #3 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
Indeed it was very interesting - but difficult to read because of the irritating rapidly animated advertising on either side of the pane that followed where you were trying to read.
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21st Feb 2020, 12:42 pm | #4 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
What a fascinating story! I imagine a forum member, if part of the team, would have whipped up a rudimentary battery pack on the forest floor and given it a whirl.
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21st Feb 2020, 1:55 pm | #5 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
Yeah that page brought my browser to a crawl with the advertisements but it was worth it. That reminds me of a similar find of a buried data / cypher terminal (I think) from a few years ago. I think that was discussed here too.
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21st Feb 2020, 2:30 pm | #6 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
I got this yesterday and I should have put it on here.Most interesting story.SARN do come up with some gems from time to time and worth the daily free email.
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21st Feb 2020, 4:49 pm | #7 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
It came up asking me to remove my ad blocker and I told it No but to my surprise it let me read the article without any problems.
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21st Feb 2020, 5:59 pm | #8 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
Fascinating... I always wonder how the 'left-behind' agents were expected to identify the locations of their [radios/hand-grenades/firearms] when they needed to access them a few decades later.
Even when you openly 'plant' a cache of stuff, with loads of photographs and ceremony, working out just where it is 30+ years later can be problematic - see - https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/n...e-buried-1994/ |
21st Feb 2020, 6:44 pm | #9 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
I love this sort of story, a combination of "what the other side were up to" and historical change. It would be interesting to know more about the device, e.g. if it did anything as sophisticated as ROM-type encryption and that sort of thing.
As regards the apparent inrush of air when opened, perhaps that was a knock-on of battery deterioration and depletion of oxygen in that decay process- depending on the way that seals are arranged, they may be better at retaining pressure deficiency rather than excess pressure, or vice-versa. Yes, it would have been tempting to power it and have a play, but with the possibility of a knock on the door by folk who are "proficient" at getting others to talk.... |
21st Feb 2020, 7:24 pm | #10 | |
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21st Feb 2020, 7:34 pm | #11 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
What adverts? One popped up and I cancelled it. No more shown. You need an Ad Blocker!
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21st Feb 2020, 8:50 pm | #12 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
I think if I dug a hole and found a radio like that I would be tempted not to declare it! To me a 1990's radio is cutting edge.
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21st Feb 2020, 8:55 pm | #13 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
Chances are there are more still to be found?
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22nd Feb 2020, 12:20 am | #14 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
A radio used by Gordon Lonsdale's Ruislip spy ring wasn't found until the 1970s.
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26th Feb 2020, 12:03 pm | #15 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
I've heard suggestions that there may be other undiscovered caches buried in the UK and Western Europe, and that that some of these may be booby trapped - see :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_(explosive_trap) Take care...
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26th Feb 2020, 1:27 pm | #16 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
very interesting!
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26th Feb 2020, 3:45 pm | #17 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
If you do power it up, watch out for Nigel Havers/Warren Clarke look-alikes turning up on your doorstep - and as for the delectable Joanna Kanska ... well, she can call & interrogate me any time she likes
Guy
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26th Feb 2020, 10:51 pm | #18 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
I remember reading in the papers as a kid (sometime mid/late '70s) of a "spy" radio being found buried in the countryside that was in sealed, waterproof wrapping and in excellent condition, and upon examination had been pronounced to be of no later than early '60s manufacture- maybe this was it. I also recall reading in the late '70s how someone had chanced upon mysterious apparatus in a bleak part of Northern Canada that included several oil-drum-size batteries- searching this memory some 40 years on revealed that it was Weather Station Kurt.
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1st Mar 2020, 8:10 am | #19 |
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Re: Archaeologists find Soviet spy radio
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/midwales...00/8596940.stm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt The weather station is on show in Canada. I understand that it was probably of little use to the Germans as the frequency they had chosen was jammed by a station already using the channel. Cheers Roger |