11175 USB

[Josh]

WALDO 51 (KC-135R NJ ANG 108W/141ARS Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst NJ) calling for rc, no response from MAINSAIL. 1600Z 22AUG19

WARLOCK 07 (various blimps VSX-1 NAS Patuxent River MD)
calling for rc @ 1700Z 22AUG19
 first time hearing a blimp on HFGCS. If it's a blimp lol.

ANDREWS directs WARLOCK 07 to New York Radio on 11342 1802Z

SKULL 71 (B-52H 2nd BW/20th BS, Barksdale AFB, LA) calling any radio, radio check 1807Z

[Josh]

CHAOS 43 (B-2 509th BW Whiteman AFB MO) calling for rc, gets responses from CHAOS 44 and BLACK EYE
1630Z 25AUG19

[Josh]

Murmansk-BN HF EW Complex
Murmansk-BN has been operationally active from at least 2014 when the 475th Independent EW Centre of the Russian navy set up a complex in the Crimea south of Sevastopol. The system has a primary role of eliminating, or trying to eliminate, High Frequency (HF) broadcasts from NATO forces – in particular the HF Global Communications System of the United States (HFGCS).
HFGCS operates on well known HF frequencies with regular broadcasts of Emergency Action Messages (EAM’s) and other operational messages, phone patches etc. as required. To this date though, I am unaware of any reports that HFGCS has been interfered with by jamming. This in itself isn’t surprising. HF is a difficult thing to jam due to the very nature of using the ionosphere to carry the broadcasts. Throw in multiple frequencies in use at the same time, the same message being broadcast on numerous occasions, propagation and all other things related to HF reception means the message is likely to get through regardless of the attempts made to jam.
https://planesandstuff.wordpress.com/

[Josh]

LYSTERINE called by KEG NAIL for qsy to CHARLIE ECHO window (9031) for discrete. Both show up on 9031 and prepare for hf data training, both were stronger on triple one. 2231Z 23SEP19

Both return to triple one due weak sigs.
Will meet on Z280 (18387.0) 2236Z.
Nil heard 18387, my ZULU list may be out of date.

[Josh]

PURE GOLD requesting SKY TRAIL exit net at this time.
2105Z 27SEP19

[Josh]

SKULL 12 (B-52H 2nd BW/20th BS, Barksdale AFB, LA) calling any radio for rc. 2123Z 30SEP19

[Josh]

BOULEVARD (presumed E6 or E4) checking into net via BACK FEED 0036Z 02OCT19

[Josh]

SKULL 51 (B-52H 2nd BW/20th BS, Barksdale AFB, LA) with rc to MAINSAIL 1929Z 04OCT19 followed by 47 character EAM by MAIL CALL.

[Josh]

SEA BASS calling SHAD RACK @ 0124Z 11OCT19
SHAD RACK is broken and unreadable 

[Teotwaki]

Just now

Ascension (net control?) authentication of two other stations entry into a net

"Bravo Alpha Echo with Tango"
"Kilo Alpha November"

[jasmine]

"Hickam Global, comms check, this is Mystery, over."

[Josh]

Just now

Ascension (net control?) authentication of two other stations entry into a net

"Bravo Alpha Echo with Tango"
"Kilo Alpha November"

When a NIGHTWATCH element checks into "the" net, it's a E4 or E6 passing tokens to the necos (net control station) so as to positively id each other. Both ends have to pass the correct tokens satisfying each other or the net connection is denied. This is usually concurrent with wideband duplex fm multiplex signals on the mil aviation band from the NIGHTWATCH station to the GEP (Ground Entry Point) and vice versa.

You'll know when training is ongoing as a station might blatantly try to get another station to commit or allow an error in authenticating or providing a phone patch or current traffic for station X, or perhaps passing something in the red (unencrypted voice) that should be passed in the green (encrypted voice), however training is often done on discrete freqs that are often close by but not on triple one itself.

Here's a nifty diagram of what's going on;

[Josh]

FERN POT in pp via BARN ROOF to unid GEP control, requesting RF16 (UHF Mux channel) and will meet on orderwire. 2050Z 21OCT19

COLORADO calling for rc, is answered by FLORIDA, both with typical B2 audio artifacts, presumed B2 bombers 2055Z 21OCT19

GEORGIA calling for rc 2200Z with response by MAINSAIL, ground stas or mebbe B2??

And HAWAII with autotuner tones before xmission @ 2243Z.

[Josh]

FERN POT in pp via BARN ROOF to unid GEP control, requesting RF16 (UHF Mux channel) and will meet on orderwire. 2050Z 21OCT19

COLORADO calling for rc, is answered by FLORIDA, both with typical B2 audio artifacts, presumed B2 bombers 2055Z 21OCT19

GEORGIA calling for rc 2200Z with response by MAINSAIL, ground stas or mebbe B2??

And HAWAII with autotuner tones before xmission @ 2243Z.

The above US state named stations were participants of exercise NOBLE SKYWAVE (as opposed to MAJESTIC GROUNDWAVE) involving US mil hf assets.
https://www.ang.af.mil/Media/Article-Display/Article/1701455/airmen-compete-globally-during-exercise-noble-skywave/

This exercise also involves field expediant operations such as making a dipole out of lan line and etc.

[Josh]

RED RIVER (608th Air Operations Center (AOC) Barksdale AFB LA) calling MIGHTEE 11 (B-52H 2nd BW Barksdale AFB LA) for rc, is answered by MAINSAIL. 2124Z 24OCT19

FISH NET yl with 57 char EAM 2131Z