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AOR scanners on Cold War Conversation Pod Cast

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AOR scanners on Cold War Conversation Pod Cast

Post by AOR2515 » Mon Oct 28, 2024 1:45 pm

Very entertaining podcast with an ex East German radio reconnaissance operator based near the inner German border during the Cold War, who was tasked with monitoring NATO surface-to-air missile batteries such as Patriots, and Nike Hercules, tracking NATO air traffic in West Europe, and listening to air-to-ground transmissions using AOR scanners.

https://coldwarconversations.com/episode312/

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Post by 22A » Tue Oct 29, 2024 7:43 pm

"and listening to air-to-ground transmissions using AOR scanners."
When serving in 4 sqn's RIC, both at Gut and on deployments we'd receive inflight reports from returning aircrew to which we'd acknowledge. with "Spyglass copied"
The CO stopped that practice and had us just click twice on the mic instead. "Your voice is now on a voice recognition computer in Moscow" he warned.

20 years later as a Civil Servant I had to ring the Russian Embassy in London. They picked up their phone and before speaking I could actually hear the click of a tape recorder going on. If their system worked they'd realise that Spyglass was now working for the Nature Conservancy Council. :D

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Post by 2e1var » Wed Oct 30, 2024 5:00 am

Wonder they heard a thing using an AOR :)
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Post by Tanker Ray » Wed Oct 30, 2024 8:37 am

2e1var wrote:
Wed Oct 30, 2024 5:00 am
Wonder they heard a thing using an AOR :)
Really? Although over 35 years old and of course limited to just 20 channels, my AOR-2002 is still the best receiver I have ever owned and its sensitivity and clarity beats the hand held receivers all round.

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Post by Rick » Wed Oct 30, 2024 9:41 am

AOR was my first scanner, can't remember if it was an AOR1000 or 2000 :thumb:

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Post by Hellicopter44 » Wed Oct 30, 2024 2:45 pm

I agree. The first AOR V/UHF scanner, the 2001, was a huge leap forward from the Eddystone 770U valve receiver I used to use or, even worse, listening to the UHF harmonics on a cheap VHF airband receiver.
The AOR 2001 had excellent sensitivity.

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Post by 2e1var » Wed Oct 30, 2024 4:40 pm

Tanker Ray wrote:
Wed Oct 30, 2024 8:37 am
2e1var wrote:
Wed Oct 30, 2024 5:00 am
Wonder they heard a thing using an AOR :)
Really? Although over 35 years old and of course limited to just 20 channels, my AOR-2002 is still the best receiver I have ever owned and its sensitivity and clarity beats the hand held receivers all round.

TR
Yup, that's half the problem, 20 channels and chronically slow scan/search rate. Even the modern ones aren't great. Really the ones marketed as scanners are entry level comms receivers. I own an AR-8600 and it's great on the bedside table for a bit of HF late at night or scanning a few local channels but a combination of even a base level HF Radio and Uniden scanner will wipe the floor with it.
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Re: AOR scanners on Cold War Conversation Pod Cast

Post by ColoradoRedlands » Wed Oct 30, 2024 6:33 pm

I remember seeing an AOR-2000 built into the cockpit control panel in the left side back seat of the USN EA-6B.

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