SIGNAL COMMUNICATION TRAINING CENTER IN NOVE MESTO NAD VAHOM

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 16, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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/T 3C) si^rs11 nmiunication training center
The fol owi nadinfor_:iat 1 on on t"-:e N E DIESTO nad VAHO"; P 49,
1. Subordination ; Ministry of National Defense,
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Location: Barracks about 1 mile west of the railroad S'ta_
~~an Yie signal center's equipment depot, designated
''SS 4" ("Spo j ovaci Sklad") and run by Capt Sttifan KERN.,
i ialf-?mile south of the railroad station,
was located about'l
a. Course for s i m al reserve officer candidates
Twelve-month training courses, which were to be extended
to eighteen-month courses after 1 :starch 1950. Reserve
officer candidates were enrolled at the school after
completing a five-month basic training with troop units.
The last twelve-month course had about three hundred
trainees. A course for about 7b0 signal reserve officers
(of the 1917 thru 1921 classes) was conducted from 1 !,lay
to 30 August 194). Lt Col Josef HAJEK was in charge of
the officer and officer candidate courses. Staff Capt
Jaroslav CHARVAT was his deputy.
Courses for specialists.
Courses for telephone, teletypeeand radio mechanics were
conducted for EM and NCOs of units of all branches of
service. A course normally lasted nine months. There were,
however, also abbreviated courses of three months' dura-
tion. 1st Lt 1\arel MURIN was in charge of the spedalists'
training.
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c. Short si:rnal-coara:nunicaatton c^ua?acs for officers of si^;nal
re,?i:aonts, SNB and customs police personnel. The courses
Varied in length between three and nine months.. 4P r?::I3" and
customs police personnel were frequently recalled after a
short tine. Staff Cant Jan VYSTBCIL was in char-7o of these
courses. Carat PYCIIA v. rs his deputy. Lt Col DURt NA, ila j DE's ELI,
and Staff Copt Y.urt :W!i KOVIC were instructors.
ds Courses for officers of the Var Academy
3h-:o?-or three-v;eek courses, the last one oein7 held about five
months ao. the stuconts of the course included four Polish
officers.
e. Research group consistiner of Lt Col (enpr) Vratisiav :11SAR
(chief), Sub` t L islav BARTU ;deputy chief', 1 NCO and 12 Eta
The research Troup drafted technical manuals for si :final re i-
rments. lt.s principal work was the translation of fordi,gn
publications on si;rnal-co:;vnur:ications.
5. Headquarters co-n any : 120 :nen. Replacements were furnishes: by
,h~ e 2i Si tie , whose 7th, 8th and 9th Cos
were located in TUT:C. Sv.; AflTI N (Q, 50/c 09).
6. Officers : -The staff of instructors of the tT:rain ?.ri-,r centF-r in--
clude a.Eiout 50 re??ul,~r of'.: icer Besides the riboveraentioned
offices, these were identified:
Lt Col ]'rant i s ek ME.-ft"
Lt Col hud of f NECLSANY
,Sts Antonin VIZNER
::Fa BfZAi
}.pa, j NET;EC .
Soviet Col TSAY"MOV, previously attached to the trainin; cen.-
ter, had been recalled. iii s successor was expected to arrive
soon.
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7. Si'ma l ec uipment - he equipment of the trainin' center included:
One "Sieaens" carrier frequency set ?t i 154t (fifteen channels)
One "Siemens" carrier frequency set "::= rK8" (elghr, channels)
One "L-' ;-7-;.lichal" radio set
One "T a-~2-Elster" decimeter set
One 1.5--6, lone;-wave trans%itter operating on a 1,700
:peter band
One short-wave transmitter operat :n~ on a 20-.rieter band
for communication with PRAGUE, B13=S0 (P 50/11 40) sync
I3TATISLItVA (P 49/X '9)
One teletynev:riter for coxamunicalk; Inn with '1'?:ENCi.' (f-- 11
14- 8i, fro..i there co: nection with BFATISLAVA and. ZILI1sA
8. '1'rairrin.: Si ..n~a1 co:.:::,,unication preetices of the training cen-
ter were held in the area of CITE. i0V LAL (east-southeast of
PL1JSOVCE, Q. 49,/C 72). A trt;i.*,in:; ca-rap with the covcr??adesirru-
Lion "Janosik" was located in that area.
The repor6onfirras and supplements previous information. The
carrier frequency sets and decimeter sets are types which were
used in the 3or aan Armed Yorces.
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