Hurricane Hunter Aircraft

[SCPD]

Does anybody have any reports of NOAA Hurricane Hunter Aircraft activity on HF? Lots of flights being reported.

 

[brandon]

NOAA 49 and NASA 817 have been up on 8918 w/ New York OAC according to reports on HFmonitors.

 

[MtnBiker2005]

FlightAware.com - NOAA Aircraft.
http://flightaware.com/live/fleet/NOA

FlightAware.com - NASA Aircraft.
http://flightaware.com/live/fleet/NASA

Nice flight sky drawing!
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NOAA49/history/20100901/1715Z/KMCF/KMCF

 

[ka3jjz]

8918 is a member of the CAR-A MWARA family. Time to load up the CAR and NAT families...

Oops, I should explain that term - when discussing MWARA frequencies, each grouping is sometimes referred to as a 'family'. And note that it isn't unusual for a frequency to be a member of more than one family.

They've also been known to use the HF-GCS system, or 13927 USB (I think that's the right freq- it's a MARS frequency) if the satellite links aren't working....73 Mike

 

[ka3jjz]

Here is an interesting NOAA link...

NHC Aircraft Reconnaissance

73 Mike

 

[brandon]

I am hearing NOAA 43 up with New York on 8918 as we speak.
Comms are weak out this direction but able to hear both sides.

 

[R1VINCE]

I am hearing NOAA 43 up with New York on 8918 as we speak.
Comms are weak out this direction but able to hear both sides.

brandon,
just out of curiosity, are you on your Wellbrook/SDR setup when you pick this up?

 

[brandon]

Yep I am using the Wellbrook as my primary receive antenna. Here is the audio of New York wkg NOAA 43.
It was still daylight here on the west coast, so their signals were not very strong.

 

[ka3jjz]

Quite; at 9:51 your time, that's nearly 1am on the East Coast, and we're in full darkness. Good catch....73 Mike

 

[MtnBiker2005]

NASA Tracking page for WB57, DC8, GlobalHawk aircraft.
http://grip.nsstc.nasa.gov/current_weather.html
http://grip.nsstc.nasa.gov/schedule.html

Flight Tracking NASA 872 Global Hawk
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA872