The signals company was reinforced by certainly experienced personnel from the fixed signals intercept stations. There was no central training of signals intercept operators. The battalion, therefore, instructed recruits during their training for the special tasks that needed to be undertaken. From the newly trained personnel, a second signals company was created in early 1940. Later a signals school for the battalion was established in Premstätten for the training for replacements. Radio operators allotted to the battalion received signals and cryptography training at the unit.IF-186 p. 34 The battalion covered the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia until the invasion, Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece and Turkey. All these monitoring operations under the aegis of Luftflotte 4 were handled by an intercept company in Constanța. The main points of the observation focused on events that could ensure the success of military operations.
