DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter

Nice work and superbly chronicled. I hope in 60 years someone will find my work and similarly finish all the documentation I never got around to writing today.

Is there a reason why they&#x27;re so vague about which country it was found in?<p>It&#x27;s repeatedly described in the article as &quot;a West-European country&quot;, and that it was &quot;close to the border of The Netherlands.&quot; That seems to suggest either Belgium or Germany. Is it just to make the location harder for others to find, or because borders are in dispute or have shifted since it was buried?<p>(Probably unrelated, but I see on Google Maps a forest &amp; bog 20km from the Netherlands border, where the German border appears to be split in two by a Belgian railway line running through it.)

Thanks for sharing, cryptomuseum.com on itself is quite interesting.<p>A question though: how is humidity handled in modern electronics? Is there any sacrificial used on mainboards, or is there any design pattern used on PCBs in general to achieve the same effect?

Interesting that the Stasi chose to hide it in a car battery shell <i>and</i> bury it, ensuring that anyone who stumbled across it would be suspicious.

Makes you think about what they&#x27;ve got nowadays. You can finds lots of recordings of Numbers Stations uploaded by amateurs on Youtube. Also look at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spynumbers.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spynumbers.com&#x2F;</a>

Heh, the title made me think that someone made a radio transmitter using DDR2, the memory.

Did they try sending? Maybe the Lincolnshire poacher would reply?

&quot;The one shown here, was found in 2018 in a forgotten cache in a West European country. Based on the manufacturing codes on some of the components, it was probably manufactured in 1962. &quot;<p>&quot;forgotten&quot; it was not - KGB does not forget! just deemed useless to both sides and not worth the extraction risk later on.<p>also, i wonder if one of Putin&#x27;s buddies used these back in the days when he was stationed in East Germany in the 80&#x27;s.