Week 10: Connecting via Ionosphere

These few days we've learnt a new antenna and radio type which is capable of sending and receiving signals which are being send to and received from the earth ionosphere. Instead of sending signals to a point directly, this is a way to use the ionosphere. The main advantages of the "new" type is the (vey longer) distance. This new radio works on High Frequency while we have been working on the past in the Very High Frequency area. New radio gives new antennas, therefore we've installed them on different cars and ground. Happily, the communication always worked nicely ;-) In the end of the week we have taken a look how the radio devices are set up in some tanks. Short week, short entry ;) see you next weekend!

9th week: Learning new devices ...

After having passed this week I've already done the half of the entire recruitment. We've got new leaders, new higher-grade fuckers and we've not done anything interesting but learning new (radio) devices and played with them a bit. This week was as interesting as the others: Boring like hell! On the monday, our class teacher has shown us a telephone which can be easily added to a phone line by using adapter (you don't need to cut the phone line). This technique allows you to create a (ie) 12 kilometre phone line and you can just "plug in" this special phone. The signal is (fm) analog and therefore unencrypted. Another phone we got know is the old army phone:



In order to call someone you need to turn the red (see on the picture) crank. If the ring bells on the other side, you can start talking. In the end of this week we had a radio practice. We were gone to the field and built an antenna, connected it to our radio devices (incl. replaying stations) and talked to other radio stations. The aim of this practice was primary to put the theory into practice (rules of speaking and all that radio stuff)! Bye...

7th & 8th week: start of the technical recruitment

In the 7th week, we've started to get know our nice teacher and finally started to learn how some of the radio devices work, after all (in the 8th week) we've build the antenna stations. Because the 8th week was so short I decided to put the weeks 7 & 8 together. On the first few days we've learned all the materials, tools and devices we have to work with. We've learnt something about the cars (where we have to install the radio stations incl. antenna). Besides this, we needed to attend a lot of theory stuff about the military radio network and it's security (in sense of installing cables and not about cryptography). The last days we've played with following radio device (SE-235, found on google):


The first picture shows the radio device itself and the second shows the radio dev installed in a special "bag". On this pic you can see as well the micro telephone and a collapsible radio antenna. This is the portable version (radio soldiers wear it) where there do exist some portable version for cars, tanks, and other mobile military things, too. These devices can work digital and analog. The analog modus will be used only for testing purpose, because it's not encrypted. The other modus (digital) is for the real operation, for example at war. What kind of crypto-algo the military use is unknown, but a frequency hopping is used to provide another security layer.

Such a radio device installed on a military automobile looks like:

Others automobiles are (without installed antenna and not the full list of automobiles):

Above the "Puch" and below the "Duro":

The antennas are not only installed on cars. There are antenna-sets, where you can install them to whatever place you'd like to. The height of the antenna varies, too. In these weeks, we've also learnt how to install relay-stations.

About the military cadre, we have now 3 guys who are a bit higher-grade than we are and they let us feel this clearly. It's normal they do nothing but standing next to you and saying what to do or shouting at you and throwing around with swear words. The theory changed, the bastards are the same. Per default you're an asshole in this association but they need you. They love to pick a victim (more or less randomly) and just always shoot at it whenever they feel to do it. If you're a weak person then you will have a problem with it definately. But in the end, not the victims are the poor but the higher-grade guys with the character level of a kindergarten.

Have fun, see you later!