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Loggings => Utility => Topic started by: AbnersFarm on October 09, 2022, 0321 UTC

Title: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: AbnersFarm on October 09, 2022, 0321 UTC
Nothing copied for some time now.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: Token on October 09, 2022, 1353 UTC
Nothing copied for some time now.

Define "some time"?  3 hours before your post they were running 6 to 10 per hour.  There were a couple after 0000z, but before that was moderate / heavy traffic for a couple of hours.  The newbs on several forums were freaking out with statements like "I have never heard them this often" etc.  Of course the traffic level was not unprecedented, but it was fairly active for a while.

T!
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on October 09, 2022, 2322 UTC
I wonder how may get excited when I don't post to the HFGCS Force Directional Message (FDM) and Emergency Action Message (EAM) Log?

P.S. I have had my suspicions for some time now that the folks at HFGCS monitor the HFGCS Force Directional Message (FDM) and Emergency Action Message (EAM) Log.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: shadypyro on October 10, 2022, 2106 UTC
Not I know of, I don’t often listen to them just once in a blue moon and I wouldn’t be surprised if they move the EAMS to a secure encrypted channel
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: Josh on October 10, 2022, 2324 UTC
The upcoming exercise will be a hoot.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: jjohnstn on October 12, 2022, 0404 UTC
Interesting, came here to post something similar. I monitor 4724 KHz in the evenings, nothing heard on 8992 or 11175 during the day but my monitoring is spotty. Had thought they might have moved freqs - or decreased tempo ahead of.....?
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on October 13, 2022, 0051 UTC
HFGCS is not going anywhere. As a matter of fact, it is getting an upgrade.

Collins Aerospace Gets $177M Air Force Comms System Support Contract (August 30, 2022)
https://www.govconwire.com/2022/08/collins-aerospace-gets-177m-usaf-hf-global-communications-system-support-idiq/ (https://www.govconwire.com/2022/08/collins-aerospace-gets-177m-usaf-hf-global-communications-system-support-idiq/)
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: AbnersFarm on October 13, 2022, 0508 UTC
Do not tell me  to " Define Sometime." Who the hell do you think you are.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: Token on October 13, 2022, 1734 UTC
Do not tell me  to " Define Sometime." Who the hell do you think you are.

Errr...what?

You said "nothing copied for some time now".  I asked you to define what you meant by "some time".  Note I was asking a question, thus the question mark at the end ("Define some time?"), I was not telling you to do anything.  "Some time" is a little bit undefined, did you mean you had not heard anything in the last hour or so, did you mean you had not heard anything in the last day or so, or were you talking you had not heard anything in weeks?

As for who I think I am, I thought I was a person trying to help you find an answer to your question.

T!
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: AbnersFarm on October 14, 2022, 0530 UTC
From my qth up here by the U.P. of Michigan border south into North Eastern Wisconsin in the deep woods HF 4724 ect. has been zero copy of EAM"s.  Has been for days. Token, Didnt mean to sound arrogent. Apoligies if needed. Take care.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: Token on October 14, 2022, 1207 UTC
From my qth up here by the U.P. of Michigan border south into North Eastern Wisconsin in the deep woods HF 4724 ect. has been zero copy of EAM"s.  Has been for days. Token, Didnt mean to sound arrogent. Apoligies if needed. Take care.

Sometimes, in  a text communications, it can be difficult to judge the other persons intent.  No problem.

Lets keep in mind that I seldom monitor HF-GCS for its own sake, but I monitor other stuff near there (in frequency) and so often I catch HF-GCS traffic even when I am not looking for it.  Call mine a casual, or accidental, observation.  I typically do not log them, but I see / hear them and often accidentally record them when grabbing a chunk of spectrum for something else.

There have been EAMs each day for the past several days.  Yesterday there was at least 6, maybe 10, the day before there was 5 or 6, the day before that there were many.  To the best of my knowledge they were mostly sent on all 4 frequencies, 4724, 8992, 11175, and 15016.  I know that some of them, at least, were on 4724, since I specifically saw that frequency used.

I have noticed that propagation, for me here in the Mojave Desert, appears to have been less favorable for 4724 recently.  Normally that freq is one I can count on, but recently that has been less good than other frequencies.  I am assuming it is propagation, but I suppose it could be a change in the source on 4724.

So it looks to me like there has been plenty of traffic, not heavy, but has been present.  If you have not been hearing it I wonder if it is because of propagation, or possibly hardware issues on their end.

T!
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: AbnersFarm on October 15, 2022, 0609 UTC
apologize since 2012. On my end. Token. Thanks.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: AbnersFarm on November 28, 2022, 0543 UTC
As of 11- 27-2022 no voice comms in weeks. Upper midwest.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on November 28, 2022, 0547 UTC
The period of 24 to 27 November 2022 was quieter than usual but still plenty of traffic. Just have a look at my running log:

HFGCS Force Directional Message (FDM) and Emergency Action Message (EAM) Log (https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,93518.0.html)
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: AbnersFarm on November 28, 2022, 0554 UTC
Not even long hall anymore.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: AbnersFarm on November 28, 2022, 0606 UTC
The 11175. No comms on my end. Along time now. End of story.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: AbnersFarm on November 28, 2022, 0611 UTC
Sittting on 4.724 usb and again no practise eam comms. No joy.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: AbnersFarm on November 28, 2022, 0616 UTC
something aint right here. zero comms. trust no posts.
Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: autovon on November 28, 2022, 2156 UTC
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Title: Re: Have the EAM's gone MIA?
Post by: myteaquinn on November 29, 2022, 0024 UTC
Just read the last post on this topic and tuned to 4724 USB where an EAM was being broadcast.

At 0022 29 NOV 2022. Distorted callsign at the end. Also hearing another EAM very weak after the first one.