We, at the LPWS have often been accused of being jammers, but this is far from the truth. An analogy of what occurs could be the following:- You stand on a river bridge calmly throwing stones into the water, a few anglers a mile or so away hear russian woman name generator and pack up and walk down to the area of the river beneath the bridge and set up their rods. They then complain that you are disturbing the fish! The same is true for repeaters, there’s no one on it until there is a break in the music, then everyone has come along to shout and swear or just key the mike, usually you can leave this repeater for minutes at a time and they will amuse themselves in the mistaken idea that they are jamming out your music.

Whilst they are doing this, you can have a go on another frequency and start the whole process off again elsewhere. This can be likened this to a circus act where the plate spinner keeps the plates going by tweaking the bamboo rods they are on, just as they are about to fall, a quick spin and they are back up to speed. When it comes to jamming though, we are quite plainly second division when compared to the world masters, the former Soviet Union! Our friends in former Soviet Republics have quite kindly emailed the following material, for which we are most grateful! This article deals with events which occurred in the Soviet Union after World War II.

The Iron Curtain had been lowered. The peoples trapped in the Soviet Union were not to get any kind of information from abroad. The Communists were able to prevent people from moving through the Iron Curtain. But radio waves did not succumb to their regulations and penetrated the Curtain.

Communists have always been frightened by radio receivers and photo cameras. If the taking of photos was always feared and forbidden, then the situation with listening to the radio was a bit different. In 1940-1941 it was forbidden, and radio receivers were confiscated. A special network of radio transmitters was constructed all over the Soviet Union for this very purpose. Jamming was done in the whole spectrum of broadcasting wavelengths, from long waves to short waves 13th meter. Just recently, a traveller from Germany told me how their short waves used to be full of the clutter from Russian jamming transmitters.

But now their airwaves are clean. One means of preventing the listening of foreign broadcasts was to limit the number of short wave bands that radio receivers could pick up. Radio receivers manufactured in the Soviet Union lacked part of the shortwave spectrum. They could not pick up the short waves used for transmitting during the day.

16-49m, then Soviet radio receivers could pick up only shortwave bands 25-49m. The following article gives a picture of how radio broadcasts were jammed in Estonia during the Soviet era. A similar system functioned throughout the USSR. This story gets its start from the fact that, in 1955, I graduated from the Tallinn Electromechanical Technical School, as a radio specialist. I was lucky to get a job in Tallinn, at the Estonian SSR Radio Centre, which was part of the Ministry of Communications. I was assigned, along with a schoolmate, to Radio Centre site nr.

Before the War, during independence, this had been the Ranna Radio Station. The number 65 indicated that it was a secret broadcasting station, with the task of jamming foreign radio broadcasts. There were four such broadcasting stations in Estonia: nr. I no longer remember their code numbers. Of the Sitsi broadcasting station, only the main building still exists. In the course of that month, the KGB checked out our suitability for special assignments, as that kind of work was called in those days.

Soviet crimes, and we were finally allowed to start working. The jamming process itself was the following. The jamming of the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, etc. The whole process was much more complicated. The headquarters was of course in Moscow.

The radio bureau was actually a monitoring centre, where the VOA and other broadcasts were listened to round the clock. The Tallinn radio bureau was located at 12 Kreutzwaldi Street, on the III floor of the Ministry of Communications building. On every table there was a large Russian Krot type shortwave receiver equipped with a sensitive panoramic oscillograph. At every receiver sat a female Russian operator, wearing headphones. There was also one medium- and long wave receiver, which was used only occasionally. These were nothing more than broadcasting stations which contained various transmitters.