Radio Flashcards

1
Q

What do the green and red lights on the red phone indicate?

A

(Cipher) Green is secured/encrypted

(Plain) Red is unsecured/unencrypted

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2
Q

What is Momsen’s voice call sign and when is it used?

A

Lucky Swede, when talking on an insecure net

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3
Q

What does TPI stand for?

A

Two Person Integrity

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4
Q

What is TPI (Two Person Integrity)

A

A system set in place that makes sure not one person has access to encrypted material

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5
Q

What does KMI stand for?

A

Key Management Infrastructure

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6
Q

What does the EKMS-1E provide us with?

A

The minimum policies for handling, safeguarding, issuing, and disposal of COMSEC

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7
Q

What are 4 ways to dispose classified material?

A
  1. Shredding
  2. Mulching (pulping)
  3. Burning
  4. Chemical Disintegration
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8
Q

What are the 3 categories of emergency destruction?

A
  1. Keying material
  2. COMSEC Documents
  3. COMSEC Equipment
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9
Q

What is compromise?

A

A disclosure of data or information to unauthorized personnel

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10
Q

What is a COMSEC incident?

A

Any uninvestigated or unevaluated occurrence that has the potential to jeopardize the security of COMSEC material

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11
Q

What are the 4 classifications?

A
  1. Top Secret
  2. Secret
  3. Confidential
  4. Unclassified
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12
Q

What are the 5 precedences of messages?

A
  1. Critic
  2. Flash
  3. Immediate
  4. Priority
  5. Routine
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13
Q

How much time do we have to process each message?

A
Critic - 3 minutes
Flash - 10 minutes
Immediate -  30 minutes
Priority - 3 hours
Routine - 6 hours
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14
Q

What is minimize?

A

A condition imposed to reduce message traffic

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15
Q

Who decides when and how to minimize?

A

TYCOM (Local)

Joint Chiefs of Staff (Global)

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16
Q

Whose permission do we need to send out message traffic during minimize?

A

CO

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17
Q

What is EEFI?

A

Essential
Elements of
Friendly
Information

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18
Q

When you hear Beadwindow on an unsecured circuit, what does it mean?

A

Brings attention to all operators that (EEFI) has been spilled

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19
Q

When you have been given Beadwindow what is your only response?

A

“Roger out”

20
Q

What are the 7 types of EEFI?

A
  1. Position
  2. Capabilities
  3. Operations
  4. EW
  5. Personnel
  6. COMSEC
  7. Inappropriate transmissions
21
Q

What is Gingerbread?

A

Code word for a suspected intruder on the circuit

22
Q

What is the frequency spectrum used by the Navy for comms?

A
VLF > 3-30kHz
LF > 30-300kHz
MF > 300kHz-3Mhz
HF > 3-30Mhz
VHF > 30-300Mhz
UHF > 300Mhz-3Ghz
SHF > 3-30Ghz
EHF > 30-300Ghz

“Very Loud Music Has Very Unusual Side Effects”

23
Q

What is the associated equipment for the following frequency ranges?

MF
HF
VHF
UHF
SHF
EHF
A

MF - HFRG (High Frequency Radio Group)
HF - HFRG “ “
VHF - Sincgars
UHF - SRC-58 LOS | Mini DAMA/MD-1324 SATCOM
SHF - ‘NMT’- WSC-9
EHF - ‘NMT’- “ “

24
Q

What are the capabilities of the following frequencies?

VHF
HF
UHF
SHF
EHF
A

VHF - LOS voice communications. Portable Comms
HF - Over-The-Horizon or Beyond LOS, Voice Comms up to 2000nm
UHF - LOS and satellite communications. Anti-jam in have-quick mode
SHF - Satellite comms
EHF - Satellite comms, anti-jam, anti-detect, nuclear survivable

25
Q

How many HF transmitters do we have?

A

(9 total)
8- Broadband
1- Narrowband (Link 11)

26
Q

How many HF receivers do we have?

A

(18 total)
17- Broadband
1- Narrowband (Link 11)

Receiver has 9 letters x2

27
Q

How many HF antennas do we have?

A
(5 total)
1 - Fan wires = Transmit only
(Upper yardarm to O-5)
1 - Twin whip = Transmit only
(Mid ships platform)
1- Narrowband whip = Transmit/receive
(Mid ships opposite of twin whips)
1- Aft whip = Receive only 
(Aft VLS next to sight TV)
1- Mast clamp= Receive only
28
Q

How many RT-1747 Transceivers do we have & what are they used for?

A
(22 total)
16- UHF LOS
2- VHF LOS
2- HAVE QUICK (HQ)
2- UHF SATCOM
29
Q

Where are the two UHF LOS antennas located?

A

Upper yard arm outside edges (Stove Pipes)

3-1/3-5

30
Q

Where are the two (AS-1735) HAVEQUICK antennas located?

A

Lower yard arm outside the edges (Tie Fighters)
(3-3/3-4)
Tie Fighters are QUICK

31
Q

Where are the VHF (AS-2809) antennas located?

A

(2) Lower port/upper stbd yardarms 4ft Dipoles

(1) Sincgars lower port yardarm

32
Q

What antenna group do we use for UHF SATCOM?

A

OE-82C Trashcans (3-10A)

33
Q

What antennas are used for fleet broadcast?

A

AS-2815 / Eggbeaters (4) (1-1A)

34
Q

What are the 3 ways Momsen receives message traffic while underway?

A
  1. C2OIX - IP only
  2. CUDIXS - UHF SATCOM, Top Secret Traffic
  3. Broadcast - Receive only
35
Q

What does CUDIXS stand for?

A

CUDIXS

Common
User
Digital
Information
Exchange 
System
36
Q

What does DAMA stand for?

A

Demand
Assigned
Multiple
Access

37
Q

What is the frequency for international distress (IAD)?

A

121.5 Mhz

121 countries calling for help

38
Q

What is the frequency for military air distress (MAD)?

A

243 MHz

243 is a large number for an army

39
Q

How many SHF antennas does Momsen have & where are they located?

A

2, on the O-5 level / dark grey ones (FWD STBD/AFT PORT)

40
Q

How many EHF antennas does Momsen have & where are they located?

A

2, on the O-5 level / light grey ones (FWD PORT/AFT STBD)

41
Q

What does POTS stand for and what frequency does it use?

A

Plain
Old
Telephone
System, SHF

42
Q

What applications does NIAPS provide?

A

SKED, eSOMS, Web-ATIS

43
Q

What applications does NTCSS provide?

A

RADM, RSUPPLY, OMMS-NG

44
Q

How many datacenter does NIPR and SIPR have? What are their locations?

A

NIPR - 1 Radio

SIPR - 2 Sonar and SNAP

45
Q

Why does SIPR have one more datacenter?

A

For redundancy

46
Q

What is CENTRIXS (Secret Releasable)?

A

Three separate enclaves that provide chat and translator services with Korea, Japan. and CMFP