US military units “Sunrise 2” and “Sunrise Actual” on Iridium voice.
Caught a few more tactical comms from these units. Sounds like they may be up on HF as well, so I will be keeping an ear out for them.
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Tags: iridium
USAF VIP SATCOM from Aircraft 99-0004 (Boeing C-32A) to Aircraft 01-0015 (Boeing C-40B)
Tags: inmarsat
I’ve been hearing quite a bit of Spanish language traffic on 258.650. These comms sound more formal in nature and appear to be using callsigns, therefore I don’t think these are typical run-of-the-mill satcom pirates. Activity has been noted on multiple days and on several other frequencies. 258.650 is where most of the comms have been noted, but I’ve logged some radio checks on other frequencies including 253.850, 261.775 and 262.225 (with occasional test counts both Spanish and American accented English).
New York Radio testing satcom voice with FedEx 8 – a Boeing 777-F (N843FD) en route from Memphis to Dubai.
Tags: inmarsat
263.925 was active with “B-52 Maintenance” conducting satcom ops checks.
Tags: CONUS
Spirit 789 noted on 262.125 calling “Ops” for plain voice radio check.
Tags: CONUS
New York Radio in comms with Turkish 801 on Inmarsat voice about attempting comms on HF and their request for weather deviation. New York gave their HF freqs of 17946 primary, 13306 for secondary. Turkish 801 was en-route from Istanbul to Bogota Colombia. Aircraft is a Boeing 777-300 registration TC-JJN.
Tags: inmarsat
Jeddah in comms with Saudia 020 asking them to come up on 13339 primary and gave 8968 as secondary. Operator also did a selcal check on AFJL – which is a Boeing 777-300 (HZ-AK34) operated by Saudia Arabian Airlines between New York and Jeddah.
Tags: inmarsat
Satcom voice traffic from San Francisco taking a position report from New Zealand 28 – who was at 18N 120W. Gave HF frequency assignments of 8843 and 5574. The flight is a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (ZK-NZQ) en-route from Auckland to Houston.
Tags: inmarsat
Satcom with Edmonton Center talking with Qatari 7P regarding HF assignment for Gander. 8891 primary, 4675 secondary. The flight is an Airbus A350-1000 (A7-ANJ) en-route from Doha to Los Angeles.
Tags: inmarsat