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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