{"id":41073,"date":"2019-12-05T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T12:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41073"},"modified":"2019-12-05T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T12:20:18","slug":"the-spy-dramatizes-careless-use-of-covert-qrp-hf-cw-transmissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-spy-dramatizes-careless-use-of-covert-qrp-hf-cw-transmissions\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Spy” dramatizes careless use of covert QRP HF CW transmissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ed, who writes:<\/p>\n

The new 6-part Netflix series ‘The Spy’ about the Mossad agent Eli Cohen (played by Sacha Baron Cohen) who infiltrated Syrian military intelligence from 1962-1965 dramatizes his careless use of QRP HF CW transmissions in Damascus, which were DF’d to track him down.<\/p>\n

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SWLing Post readers might find the series interesting, especially segments depicting Mossad’s use of covert QRP HF CW transmissions.<\/p>\n

Radio-savvy viewers will find unintended humor in the use of a transistor AM radio circuit board, tiny batteries, and no antenna(!) to send CW messages from Damascus to Israel–and in the comical depiction of a Soviet\/Syrian radio HF DF van. You’d think a TV series with star power could’ve found a willing ham or film crew member to lend some basic technical expertise.<\/p>\n

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