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Subject: Re: LF: Russian ALPHA qrt ?
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Walter,

You are no doubt right about the reason for
Alpha etc qrt, I know one Russian captain...
Four Alpha stations were on and off during the
first four months of 2000, including Revda.
The official USSR name for Alpha is RSDN-20
where D stands for long-range (dalnoye).
 
Russians place Mars-75 system in its own
category "sinteziruyemim" and my old friend
suggested that Decca also is a "synthesized"
system, I always thought Decca belongs to
"cw hyperbolic" category, What say?
Loran is a "(im)pulse hyperbolic" system.
In Mars all the other frequencies are said
to be "synthesized" from the main frequency.
The Russian language is not very easy...
73 de Vaiski


At 21:48 12.6.2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Markus,
>
>The Alpha operators probably haven't paid their electricity bill.
>There were three Russian high-ups at a conference I went to
>recently who had some say in operating that system and they
>said that when it came to a choice between paying their salaries
>and paying the electricity guess which won! Also said they
>were having some problems keeping Chaika on the air for the
>same reason.
>
>Walter G3JKV.

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