11175 USB 1349Z: Skull 11 clg MudBug for radio check.
21985 USB 0303Z: Canforce 0611 wkg San Francisco Radio with position report RESEE at 0303, FL250, estimates SYSTA at 0409, BRIUN next and requesting FL270.
21985 USB 0326Z: Hercules 04 reporting to San Francisco Radio – departed Wake Island off at 0320 and climbing to FL240.
21925 USB 0311Z: Japan Air 407 clg San Francisco Radio for voice and selcal check on CDGH. Self ID as JA866J – a Boeing 787-9 from Narita to Frankfurt.
21925 USB 0316Z: Japan Air 43 wkg San Francisco Radio for selcal check on DREG. Self ID as JA732J. Boeing 777-300ER from Tokyo Haneda to London Heathrow.
21925 USB 0330Z: Lufthansa 715 clg San Francisco Radio for selcal check. Self ID as D-AIXK. Airbus A350-900 from Tokyo Haneda to Munich.
21925 USB 0344Z: San Francisco Radio wkg All Nippon 211. Boeing 777-300ER from Tokyo Haneda to London Heathrow.
21925 USB 0440Z: Swiss 161 wkg San Francisco Radio. Boeing 777-300ER from Tokyo Narita to Zurich.
21964 USB 2003Z: N449BY calling New York Radio for radio check. Super King Air 200 on a test flight out of the Beech Factory Airport in Kansas.
8870 USB 1056Z: Reach 5E1 with San Francisco. Boeing C-17A Globemaster III en route from Anderson AFB to Hickam AFB. Selcal check on EQLP and gave tail number 5140.
8942 USB 1332Z: Red Cap 5110 wkg Singapore Radio with position reporting LUSMO at 1333, FL370, estimates TERIX at 1355. Selcal check on DMAK. Airbus A320 operated by AirAsia en route from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu Malaysia.
8942 USB 1343Z: Myair 8304 wkg Singapore Radio with position report GULIB at 1343, FL340, TERIX at 1356 and LUSMO next. Airbus A320 operated by MyAirline en route from from Miri to Kuala Lumpur.
11282 USB 0015Z: Slam 78 clg San Francisco and advising they are CPDLC attempting connection KZAK. Requested selcal checks on EQLS – self identified their tail number as 5142. Boeing C-17A Globemaster III en route from March ARB to Hickam AFB.
11282 USB 0111Z: Reach 709 w/ check in to San Francisco Radio.
11282 USB 0237Z: Aussie 488 answering selcal – possibly from prior test with Polar 703 – San Francisco informs Aussie 488 they have the same selcal code as another aircraft.
11494 USB 0001Z: A40 and TSC in ALE followed by voice comms from Troy 192 clg Service Center for phone patch to Arizona X-ray 2000. Troy 192 informs party they have a subject who started a fire and requests permission to transport subject with the aircraft due to the fire spreading.
5760 USB 0213: NNA9DB calling NCA9TC in ALE. Also noted soundings from 9SLNLA.
11282 USB 1805Z: Reach 784 w/ voice check to San Francisco – reports FL380, CPDLC established and selcal check for JPCD.
11282 USB 2331Z: JA002G wkg San Francisco with position report ETECO at 2329, FL450, estimates EDSEL at 0020 and EDTOO next. Gulfstream IV operated by the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau.
11282 USB 2359: Convoy 3590 with San Francisco Radio reporting KANUA at 2357, FL270, estimates KYLLE at 0054 and BOXER next.
11384 USB 0818Z: Tokyo Radio wkg Reach 169 with their clearance from ATC to FL290.
11384 USB 0906Z: Sumo 02 calling Tokyo Radio with request to deviate 20 left of course.
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.
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Quick note: 3/16 logs were done with an SDRplay RSPduo that I just picked up. So far so good, and I am really liking the diversity mode feature to help with some of my local RFI issues 🙂
6816.5 USB 0212Z: MARS net with AAR9WF taking check-ins from 9KV, 9CT and 9CM.
9310 USB 0511Z: Continuous playing loop of the “State Anthem of the Russian Federation” by Гимн России. This is said to be a Russian military channel marker or beacon. I logged similar activity the other morning on 3/10 with a repeating loop of “The Red Army Is the Strongest” by Alexandrov Ensemble. At that time, it was believed to be coming from the far east of Russia due to the time of day and strong signal here in California. However, this time around, I feel like the signal could be coming from another part of Russia based on propagation favoring Europe. The station faded quickly after 0530Z, which would make sense propagation-wise due to sunrise in that part of the world.
13215 USB 0114Z: Lajes (barely heard) calling Andrews.
8843 USB 2051Z: Hoku 50 clg San Francisco Radio – told to come up 11282 for radio check.
8843 USB 2205Z: Dreamline 24 clg San Francisco reporting 130 miles east of DINTY and looking for selcal check. Dassault Falcon 900 operated by Dreamline Aviation en route from Van Nuys to Kahului Hawaii.
8843 USB 2217Z: Air Transport 3524 wkg San Francisco Radio with position report FICKY at 2213, FL320, estimates FOOTS at 2230 and FLITY next. Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767-300 en route from San Bernardino to Honolulu.
10460 USB 1404Z: Unid OM in Russian language talking to unheard station.
11309 USB 1410Z: Makassar Info attempting comms with Philippine 209 for flight info – stations have trouble understanding each other as signal was quite muffled. Philippine 209 gives a position report for AMN at 1410Z, FL370, estimates BUTPA at 1449 and ADKUL next. Airbus A330 en route from Manila to Melbourne.
11309 USB 1418Z: Makassar Info attempting to contact Qantas 20 and eventually is heard asking Philippine 209 to attempt relay contact with Qantas 20 to obtain their estimate for AMBON.
11309 USB 1420Z: Makassar Info calling Qantas 128 for radio check and requesting estimate for TIRAM. Qantas 128 was barely audible. Estimates position TIRAN 1434 and TOREX at 1512. Asked to report again over TIRAM and maintain FL350 and remain on 11309 for comms. Airbus A330 en route from Hong Kong to Sydney.