POLISH NAVAL RADIO STATIONS NEAR GDYNIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECURITY INFORMAT;ON
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Poland
Polish Naval Radio Stations near Gdynia
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10 June 1953
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1e The Main Naval Radio Station (Glowna Radio Stacja Marynarki Wojennej) was located
in Gdynia L5430N-18133 . This station communicated with ships at sea,
as well as with inland stations located in Warsaw, Poznan, Krakow, Wroclaw and
other inland stations. The radio station was located on Ulica Washingtona
and Ulica Swieto Janska (the main street). The station had five antennae
masts 25 m. high which were arranged in the Adcock type antenna array.
2. The Naval Coastal Artillery Battalion (Dywizjon Artylerji Nadbrzeznej Marynarki
Wo4ennej), located in Redlowo (suburb southjqf Gdynia),_communicated with a
radio station located on the Hel Peninsula,0437N.l847 /o The Redlowo station did
not communicate with ships at sea, but with tugs which towed targets during
prac6ice maneuvers, giving them the line and direction of fire. Two antenna
masts, each located on a building, were about 351m. apart; 15 m. from
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3. The Redlowo station personnel were trained by receiving and transmitting radio
messages to Helo Business contact with Hel was usually done by voice by the senior
lieutenant in charge. At the Gdynia station voice'call cryptonyms werF.uaed,such as
wyraz (expression), Saturn (Saturn); Jooisz (Jupiter). Cryptonym voice calls
were chap ed every three or four weeks.'
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There were seven communications men assigned. to the Gdynia station;--
one senior lieutenant, who was in charge of the station, five radio-
telegraphists with ratings of senior seamen, and one radio-tele-
graphist with a rating of second class radioman (Mat). These men
maintained a 2k-hour radio watch, two men standing a watch which
was changed. every two hours. Test runs (contact checks) were
made at 0600', 1000, 1400, 1800, 2100, and 2400 hours.
5. The type of radio equipment used in the Naval Coastal Artillery
Battalion station was the RSBF (Radiostacja Samolotowa Bombowa
Porgonnaja) -- a combination receiver-transmitter of Russian origin,
which was portable and weighed about 25 kg.
The radio station located on the tip of the Hel Peninsula /See
paragraph 2 7 was part of the Naval Sapper Battalion (Batal on
Saperow, Mar- jennej). This station also used RSBF radio
25X1A equipment. however, remember any of the call signs.
Two of the cryptonyms used were Neptun (Neptune) and Orion (Orion).
Call signs and voice call cryptonyms were regularly changed every
three oxr four weeks.
7. A radio monitoring station was also located in Redlowo (as was a
non-commissioned officers school for coastal artillery). The
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