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General Radio Discussion / August Eclipse

« on: June 16, 2017, 1504 UTC »

August 21, 2017 is the day to be listening or recording vlf thru lower hf for unusual propagation. An eclipse can do funny things to propa.

http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm

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Utility / Re: Above 6600LSB what kind of French stations? 15 Jun '17

« on: June 16, 2017, 1435 UTC »

Perhaps your Francophone stations will be French pirate HAMs.

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Utility / Re: 11175 very busy

« on: June 16, 2017, 1427 UTC »

"You'll also find 11180 is often used for ALE sounding transmissions."

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NIPR/SIPR HF ALE Network Frequency List

SIPR (Secure Internet Protocol Router) Network Frequencies
(USB/ALE): 3113.0 5702.0 5902.0 6715.0 8968.0 9044.0 11181.0 15091.0 17976.0 27870.0 kHz.

SIPR Gateway/Frequency Matrix/
ADWSPR Andrews AFB, Maryland 3113.0 5702.0 6715.0 8968.0 9044.0 11181.0 17976.0 27870.0

AEDSPR Elmendorf AFB, Alaska 6715.0 17976.0

CROSPR Croughton AB, United Kingdom 5702.0 5902.0 6715.0 8968.0 11181.0 15091.0 17976.0 27870.0

GUASPR Andersen AB, Guam 5702.0 8968.0 11181.0 15091.0

HAWSPR Ascension Island 5702.0 6715.0 8968.0 11181.0 15091.0 17976.0 27870.0

HIKSPR Hickam AFB, Hawaii 5702.0 5902.0 6715.0 8968.0 15091.0

ICZSPR Sigonella AB, Sicily, Italy 5702.0 6715.0 8968.0 11181.0 15091.0 17976.0

JDGSPR Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean 5702.0 6715.0 8968.0 9044.0 11181.0 27870.0

JNRSPR Salinas, Puerto Rico 3113.0 5902.0 6715.0 8968.0 11181.0 15091.0 17976.0

JTYSPR Yokota AB, Japan 15091.0

MCCSPR McClellan, California 5702.0 5902.0 6715.0 8968.0 11181.0

OFFSPR Offutt AFB, Nebraska 3113.0 5702.0 5902.0 6715.0 8968.0 11181.0 15091.0 17976.0

PLASPR Lajes AB, Azores 5702.0 6715.0 8968.0 11181.0 15091.0



NIPR (Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router) Network Frequencies
(USB/ALE): 3068.0 4745.0 5684.0 8965.0 10600.0 10830.0 11199.0 13242.0 17973.0 20631.0 kHz.

NIPR Gateway/Frequency Matrix
ADWNPR Andrews AFB, Maryland 3068.0 4745.0 5684.0 8965.0 11199.0 13242.0 17973.0 20631.0

CRONPR Croughton AB, United Kingdom 3068.0 4745.0 8965.0 17973.0

HIKNPR Hickam AFB, Hawaii 8965.0

ICZNPR Sigonella NS, Sicily, Italy 4745.0 5684.0 8965.0 13242.0 17973.0 20631.0

JNRNPR Salinas, Puerto Rico 8965.0

MCCNPR McClellan, California 4745.0 5684.0 8965.0 13242.0 17973.0

OFFNPR Offutt AFB, Nebraska 5684.0 8965.0 11199.0 13242.0 17973.0 20631.0

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VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Re: UHF mil air

« on: June 15, 2017, 1815 UTC »

Neacp/tacamo/glass flight burning mux on 337.3MHz 1807Z 15Jun17.


AWACS logged via ALE on 11.181MHz;
[13:50:55 UTC] [FRQ 0 Hz ][NORMAL MODE][TWS][MOBD01DAT][TWS][MOBD01DAT][TWS][
[13:50:58 UTC] MOBD01DAT][TWS][MOBD01DAT][TWS][MOBD01DAT][TWS][MOBD01DAT][EOM
[13:51:02 UTC] ]


[13:57:50 UTC] [FRQ 0 Hz ][NORMAL MODE][TWS][MOBD01DAT][TWS][MOBD01DAT][TWS][
[13:57:54 UTC] MOBD01DAT][TWS][MOBD01DAT][TWS][MOBD01DAT][TWS][MOBD01DAT][EOM
[13:57:57 UTC] ]

[14:02:47 UTC] [FRQ 0 Hz ][NORMAL MODE][TWS][MOBD01DAT][TWS][MOBD01DAT][TWS][
[14:02:51 UTC] MOBD01DAT][EOM]

[14:08:48 UTC] [FRQ 0 Hz ][NORMAL MODE][TWS][MOB][EOM]

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Utility / Re: 11175 very busy

« on: June 15, 2017, 1318 UTC »

USB, it's a hfgcs channel, day primary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Global_Communications_System

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Huh? / Re: Electronics Lab Fail

« on: June 14, 2017, 2220 UTC »

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Huh? / Re: san Francisco marks 50 years since legendary Summer of Love

« on: June 14, 2017, 1632 UTC »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQspxK1PWs#t=2.645419

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Outgoing FCC enforcement​ guy talks enforcement

« on: June 14, 2017, 1626 UTC »

Lol the local lectric sent out a flyer for free led bulbs mailed to your door, so I bit and tried them out. These things made enough hash to stop my scanner on just about every band. I had 3 of them going in a ceiling light and they made full quieting repeater sigs about half hash. Back in went the cfls, they don't make any noise unless you have the radio right next to them.

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VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Re: UHF mil air

« on: June 14, 2017, 1602 UTC »

Air to Air Refueling/training on 343.25MHz 1530Z 14Jun17, my guess is track 455/315 near TN/KY border.

SENTRY 51 (E-3B 964th AACS/ 552nd ACW Tinker AFB, OK) with HAPPY 06 (HAPPY KC-135R 126th ARW/108ARS, IL ANG Scott AFB/Mid-America IL) and others. IDs are tentative due to old ears and low signal strengths at times as well as pilots and gas passers swallowing their mics.


51; 06 Level off at 200 and we'll call overrun and overtake you.

06; 51 will you do some s turns to slow down for us.

(51 has mistaken 06 for another ac in the area)

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Equipment / Re: Low Band Antennae

« on: June 14, 2017, 1536 UTC »

See that's kinda what I was thinking, use a cb whip and be done with it.
A beam as boombox mentions would be nice but more cost and work than I want, just have to find a cheap 1/4w. A beam would open and close the band but I want something simple and omni, the opposite of a beam. Used to have a Francis Antenna model Wheeler Dealer, a fibreglass 1/4w stick that had 3 quarter waves fed in phase bundled inside the fibreglass, same diameter as a standard cb whip, had grossly increased lower angle of radiation over a 1/4w stick in the same mounting point. We mounted the a standard stainless whip and set the fs meter to full scale a few wavelengths away, then mounted the wheeler, the wheeler resulted in a few times more low angle rf power at the same distance and rf power out, blew us away. Sadly they don't make it anymore.

http://www.cbtricks.com/ant_manuals/francis/cb_28/ad/index.htm

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VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Re: UHF mil air

« on: June 14, 2017, 0003 UTC »

Air to Air Refueling/training on 336.100MHz 2300Z 13Jun17

Tail number(?) 0194 aka 61 tells RINO 50 there will be 3 different people in the seat, so apparently 3 different pilots in the same AC will be contacting the tanker for AAR training, or maybe I got it wrong and there will be 3 different  "gas passer" boom operators in training. Mentions meeting up near Pocket City. Also other AC training as well.

61; 50, 61
Tanker RINO 50; 61 clear to contact
61; contact
Tanker RINO 50; contact and up 4 please
61; up 4
Tanker RINO 50; up 4 please
61; up

Tanker RINO 50; tanker's coming right

Tanker RINO 50; did you punch off or did I do that?
61; I did it for retry

61; wait one, changing seats

Raven; 50, Raven, clear to contact?
Tanker RINO 50;clear to contact


Boom op asks 61 about a certain pilot, is told the pilot was killed by a stoned driver who hit him when he was changing a tire on the highway. OU has a scholarship or something in his name.

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Equipment / Low Band Antennae

« on: June 13, 2017, 1719 UTC »

What do you guys use for low band? Say 25 to 88MHz? Also apparently the eskip is rolling from the midwest to Montana to south of Mehico right now.

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VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Re: UHF mil air

« on: June 13, 2017, 1711 UTC »

Neacp/tacamo/glass flight burning mux on 338.95MHz 1700Z 13Jun17.
Possibly Bacon 22 (E-4B #73-1676 55WG/1ACCS Offutt AFB NE) per adsb.

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Huh? / Re: san Francisco marks 50 years since legendary Summer of Love

« on: June 13, 2017, 1658 UTC »

They (hippies) wish they could love but they're full of shit
Frank Zappa

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Outgoing FCC enforcement​ guy talks enforcement

« on: June 13, 2017, 1643 UTC »

What about enforcing the Part 15 rules for the crappy electronics that are polluting the RF spectrum?

If they stop by my place, they can find a bunch of different things interfering across VLF-HF. Then we can go for a short drive to find a whole pile more.  Its super easy... if they want to enforce the emissions from the electronics junk. Maybe they don't want to.

This would hit China and thusly wall street in the hip pocket.