question about the 240 MHz range

[brandon]

Has anyone logged voice traffic on the 24x.xxx MHz satcom freqs. I have scanned on occasion but never heard anything other than data.

 

[clawhammer]

240 MHZ range

Hi Brandon, I have logged a few voice traffic the last few days. I had Car01 in comms with Bigfoot. and yesterday I had Eight Seven Alpha in comms with another unit but couldn't make it out. today I had Mike11 calling Sergent01 but no joy. I have been hearing alot of ANDVT and those pesky pirates. I listen to the Fleetsat at 99 west and the Conus at 105 west I use a 10 turn helix to listen to Satcom and a Radio Shack Pro-2045 scanner, does an excellent job in recieving the sats.

Allen in Florida

 

[brandon]

Excellent report! Were these logged on 240-250 MHz range? If so I'll have to start scanning down there!

 

[clawhammer]

240 MHZ range

This was on 260.625 and 262.425 Lot of encryption on these two freq but you get lucky once in a while. when I'm away from the computer I use my sagebrush recall recorder to record any traffic. then I will load it into my audio editing software and can zoom into the audio and see where the encryption is and the clear traffic voice is at and just listen to that part. makes it alot easier and don't have to listen to hours of noise.

 

[brandon]

Right on! That is the same way I analyze recordings too. Makes it easy to spot voice comms using the audio editor

 

[blantonl]

I've caught a lot of SSB pirates on the AF Satcom transponders (243-244 Mhz) and the Leasat transponders (248-250). Since those transponders are only 5 Khz wide, they don't support FM voice traffic, but pirate SSB is pretty common.

Fire up your favorite SDR and watch each of the transponders for comms.

 

[brandon]

Lindsay thanks for the input on this. I'll definitely keep watch of these. Got another preamp on the way so I can use my other antenna with the FunCube. Should be fun