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OWVL DDR Stasi 32620
Operating instructions
- this page is a stub
This page holds some guidelines for operating the
32620 speech/morse generator, that was used
during the Cold War
behind the Iron Curtain for the
Numbers Stations of the Eastern Bloc
and its allies.
For a more complete (but partially incorrect) description of the operation,
please refer to the original German manual of 1985 [A].
The device was initially developed for the East-German
Stasi, but has an English user interface to
accomodate non-German users like Cuba and Poland.
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Key
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Description
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Alternative
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0/NO
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Zero
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NO
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1/YES
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One
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YES
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2/·
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Two
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Dot (morse) 1
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3/—
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Three
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Dash (morse) 1
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4-9
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Number
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:
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Attention (German: Achtung)
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/
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Separator (German: Trennung)
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+
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End of speech transmission
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=
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Address separator in morse code telegram
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?
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End of morse transmission
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200 ms relay
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SPC
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Space
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RES
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Reset (puts device in startup situation)
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STA/STP
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Start/stop playback of telegram
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→
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Forward
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Skip setting
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←
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Backward
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Skip setting
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MODE
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Set mode of operation
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INP
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Input of telegram
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OUT
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Output from a given point 2
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CLR
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Clear (message)
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EX
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Execute (in combination with CLR, OUT or RES
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Only when in Morse Dot/Dash mode.
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Only when the message is entered via tape and is correctly
formatted.
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Clear memory and select default settings
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Before entering a new message, it is recommended to clear the
memory contents. This is also necessary when the memory contents
have been corrupted, which will be the case when the device has
been switched off for an extended period of time. In this situation
it is also recommended to select the default mode of operation.
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Select manual input and speech playback
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The procedure below describes how a message can be entered manually,
and how the numbers can be delivered as a spoken message.
In this mode, the message format is free, as long as the first character
is a number. Messages may contain the numbers 0-9, but also the space
character (SPC), Achtung (:) and Trennung (/). The message
must be terminated with a (+) character.
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The following error messages can be reported on the display:
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- This is not a function key
- Keyboard error, press key again
- Messager buffer in use and not sent, cannot overwrite
- Function key not allowed, use (0-9), (:), (/), (+), (?) SPC or (=)
- Only YES or NO allowed (when setting MODE, also → and ← allowed)
- Morse telegram must start with (:), or invalid key for dot-dash input
- Deleting a used not-sent message
- Illegal address, use ← or → only
- Transmission speed can only be set with (0-9)
- Incorrectly formatted message (+ or ? missing), or empty buffer
- Error when reading tape (illegal character)
- No tape
- Clear buffer (CLR) must be confirmed with EX (or use ← to cancel)
- Memory full
- Speech module not present
- Manually entered messages cannot be started with OUT, only with STA/STP
- Can only repeat messages from the same originator
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Document from BStU archives [2], kindly supplied by Detlev Vreisleben [1].
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Full name: Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes
der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik
(DDR) —
Federal Commissioner for the Records of the
State Security Service
of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) —
officially abbreviated to BStU.
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Document from BStU archives [2], kindly supplied by Detlev Vreisleben [1].
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