Re: article in the latest ROA - QSO

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On 04/28/2017 01:02 PM, J V Field wrote :
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> Dear Dr Postranecky,
>
>     Thank you for the information about the useful diary. Please pass
> this email on to the list if you think it is of general interest. I am
> offering leads rather than answers.
>
>     I think the station at St Erith is mentioned by Harold Kenworthy in
> his 'Brief History of the "Y" Service' (1957) now in the National
> Archives (Kew), TNA HW 3/81. But Kenworthy is very uneven in the level
> of detail he supplies. As listening stations were widely spaced across
> Britain, I imagine they were used, among other things, for triangulation
> to find the locations of the sources of intercepted messages. So some
> details of connection with Bletchley Palk are probably in the SIXTA
> report, which (as far as I know) is still classified.
>
>     Kenworthy's writings are dealt with briefly in the edition of the
> /General Report on Tunny/ of which I was one of the editors (/Breaking
> Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park �/, J A Reeds, W Diffie and J V
> Field (eds), Wiley, 2015).
>
> Yours sincerely,
> J. V. Field


> From: Martin Postranecky <m.postranecky-pJrKddK8Xz/[email protected]
> <mailto:m.postranecky-pJrKddK8Xz/[email protected]>>
> Subject: [BPARK] article in the latest ROA - QSO
> Date: 28 April 2017 11:28:47 BST
> To: BLETCHLEYPARK-0lvw86wZMd/[email protected] <mailto:BLETCHLEYPARK-0lvw86wZMd/[email protected]>
>
> I have been told that in the latest issue of the Radio Officers
> Association ( ROA ) newsletter QSO ( Vol. 17 No. 1 / March 2017 ),
> there is a very interesting article called "The Code Book - Part One"
> by Tony Selman.
>
> This is based on a diary, called 'The Code Book', of Hugh (?)
> Griffiths - who was a member of the Radio Security Service
> ( MI6 / RSS ) before WW2. He was transferred to the Royal
> Signals "Special Communication Unit" SCU3  in 1943.
>
> He worked at the ( ex-GPO ) listening station at St. Erth,
> monitoring German and other foreign code messages for B.P.
>
> His diary lists various special ( non-standard ) 'Q' codes,
> stations monitored, 'Y' stations links to B.P.,and other details.
>
> The diary was sent to ROA's Tony Selman by his son Mike Griffiths.
>
> I've tried to find more details of this QSA article on ROA website
> http://www.radioofficers.com/, but nothing there as far as I can see...
>
> Anyway, if anybody on this list is a ROA member and receives the QSO,
> it would be interesting to find out more. I wonder whether there is
> something in the B.P. archives ?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin Postranecky