Some Pacific activity — Cobra Main requesting a comm check on 260.525.
Tags: APAC
258.450 PAC: Warfighter 76 requesting comms check in the clear.
Tags: APAC
It’s been a few months, but finally logged Operation Deep Freeze activity on satcom again. Here is some traffic between Ice 28 and Deep Freeze Ops on 261.725.
Tags: APAC, Operation Deep Freeze
8193 USB 0206: Tango Charlie passing tfc to Bravo November reporting his unit bearing 111 range 7000 yards.
8193 USB 0226: Tango Charlie with multiple reports to Bravo November.
8193 USB 0343: Tango Charlie continuing reports to Bravo November — intermittent contact bearing 095 range 53 nautical miles on course 326, speed 15 knots. Still unable to copy anything from Bravo November.
11282 USB 1932: Skier 81 wkg San Francisco with position report. San Francisco asked for their selcal but Skier 81 reports negative selcal equipped.
13221 USB 2324: Commsta Kodiak calling Coast Guard 1714 on ALE. Coast Guard 1714 reports position of 61-37N 149-09W, course and speed variable, altitude 1500 feet.
17115 USB 0136: Males in Tagalog language.
17925 USB 0130: All Nippon 9 wkg another station in Japanese via phone patch from San Francisco ARINC.
13200 USB 0017: Raider 25 wkg Mainsail for phone patch to 17th OWS. Raider 25 requesting weather for PAED.
13300 USB 0007: San Francisco wkg Yankee 81 (not heard) with ATC clearance.
13300 USB 0009: San Francisco wkg Convoy 3081 with new primary 21985 and 17904 secondary.
13300 USB 0011: San Francisco wkg Petro 61 with ATC clearance to block FL180 to FL190.
13300 USB 0014: San Francisco wkg Fist 21 with ATC clearance to FL370.
13315 USB 0112: Johannesburg Oceanic attempting contact Springbok 223. Airbus A340 from São Paulo to Johannesburg. Also heard Johannesburg calling Springbok 224 shortly after.
13327 USB 0016: Aircraft reporting positions in Spanish. Could be from Iberia 3327 and Iberia 3337. Appeared to be giving position report to unheard station. (possibly Iberia Airlines LDOC)
4149 USB 0501: WBO3345 calling WPE Jacksonville for radio check. They have negative contact and he signs off.
4267 USB 0502: Unid males with fishing related chit chat.
11175 USB 2127: C-130 “BH 628” requesting a HF radio check. Andrews answers back and reports lima charlie.
11220 USB 0312: Shark 67 in phone patch with Smasher Ops via Offutt.
11282 USB 2100: Raider 25 wkg San Francisco for radio and selcal check on CJPS.
11282 USB 2124: Reach 529 requesting selcal check on DRAJ from San Francisco.
251.850 CONUS: Aircraft Maintenance performing radio checks. Station had a terrible feedback squeal during their transmissions.
Tags: CONUS
4571 USB 0305: Unid OMs with informal sounding conversation. Probably fishermen.
4753.5 USB 0223: US Navy MARS stations NNN0ANF and NNN0ZKQ with QSO about digipeaters and packet radio.
5432.1 USB 0457: Aircraft 830 conducting HF ops check with Aircraft 833 and both reported loud and clear. Later came up attempting checks on HF2 radio but was a no-go.
5699 USB 0741: ANDVT
11175 USB 0313: Romeo Delta 593 clg Mainsail.
11342 USB 0317: Alaska 840 with San Francisco for Medlink phone patch in regards to female passenger that passed out and was on oxygen.
11175 USB 2020: Tin Keg (sound like) with EAM message FYBUUQ.
11220 USB 2215: Andrews Maintenance conducting test counts.
11342 USB 2209: United 635 in phone patch with United Dispatch via San Francisco Radio. Dispatcher informed flight about sigmet for severe turbulence at 142W extending to 152W from FL270 to FL340.
11382 AM 2158: All India Radio broadcast showing up in 11 MHz aeronautical band. Transmission was drifting downwards slowly. I first logged it on 11383 and it made it down to around 11381 before signing off.
13927 USB 2031: Reach 533 requesting phone patch from MARS station 3NT. Reach 533 informs MARS operator they were over Mountain Home AFB in Idaho.
17946 USB 2230: Trek 30 wkg San Francisco.
18795 USB 0925: Golf, Corvette, Mike and Delta in USN air defense net — Activity related to USS Theodore Roosevelt COMPTUEX off Florida.
260.725 CONUS: Fear 31 clg Fear 33 and Red River on the CONR-2 net.
Tags: CONUS