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Did you know
that the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi transmitted CW [Morse] on 4960 and
4963 KHz while approaching the Hawaiian islands around 7 December 1941? Did you
know that that this information was Top Secret Codeword information until very
recently? Did you know that the Japanese did NOT maintain radio silence as they
approached Pearl Harbor? And finally did you know that as the Japanese carrier
strike force departed Hittokappu Bay and headed East to attack Pearl they
switched their Tokyo link frequency from 12330 KHz to 16620 KHz.? All this and
lots of other VERY interesting stuff is in the very recently published “Day of
Deceit” by Robert B. Stinnett which “proves” FDR knew of the impending attack
and insured that it happened in order to get America into the war. Great
reading for WW 2 buffs. Also, you can tune to those very frequencies and listen
for a “time warp” and read these messages as sent way back when. Gee, if SWL
hobbyists only had an M-7000 and a Ten-Tec RX-340, who knows what would have
happened!! Thomas B. Roach Listening with
Watkins-Johnson HF-1000 Antenna: Alpha Delta
DX-SWL Sloper QTH: California's
Sierra Nevada mountain foothills |