Where have all the EAM's gone

[nickcarr]

Originally Posted by nickcarr

You may catch some activity every now and then but it has been fairly dead around these parts for the past few months.

Hey it worked! 4724khz @ 0830z has an EAM from Andrews AFB!

Conditions are very good tonight. Andrews is S9+40 right now at 0130 PDT

[nickcarr]

Andrews AFB is busy tonight. Another EAM at 0900z.

[AxelsHumanDad]

06/29/09, 13:30z, female voice from Andrews simulcasting 11175 & 8992. booming in northern Wisconsin.

[ampulman]

Originally Posted by psr600md

yep last night at 10pm cdt they started back up,and with tacamo's too.but all day sat nil.kinda weird.

What exactly (I know what it stands for) is a TACAMO, and how would I recognize one?

Thanks.

Amp

[lanbergld]

I logged an EAM on 8992 just after midnight, 0408 UTC. Pretty good copy in Richmond. What I copied was 4A4AOLL4MJPK3...some more... and then a sign-out that sounded like "Skystep" (?), 3x repeated.

Also, around 5533 kHz I copied something weird I don't recall hearing before. It sounded to me like a scrambled voice transmission -- like a human voice played backwards & chopped into pieces. I don't know exactly what that was. Every 10 seconds or so it would be interrupted by a pair of ring tones. It seemed to be in LSB (pitch got higher as fine tune increased in Hz).


Larry Lanberg

Richmond VA

DX-440 with MFJ preselector
Big old ugly homemade loop antenna

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31915276@N03/

[ridgescan]

Andrews is knocking out a LONG one right now as I type-6 minutes so far and counting!

[ridgescan]

....still going on! Female sounds like she's 12 longest transmission I have heard yet. EDIT ended at 6:56. She started up again at 7:00 and is ending at ???? still going on at 7:17. Something's going on for sure.

[pathalogical]

Seems to be quite a bit of traffic based on these several posts, not listening at the moment though. I usually get stuff on 11175 and 8992, which I caught the tail end of the other day. Some time ago I heard a callsign BREWSTER, probably had nothing to do with beer !

I wonder if they're keeping a closer eye on Iran ??????

EDIT - ...or North Korea...???

[nickcarr]

Yeah and the Honduras issue now too.

EDIT: Just saw this online:

U.S. Air Force Test Fires Missile From California Base
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews

[psr600md]

Originally Posted by ridgescan

He may be out this way?

He is base Nick-would base be out in the field too? I got that noise in the vid too

there TACAMO's and NECAP's as they are up today,with there EAM's on 311.0 uhf too.

[psr600md]

Originally Posted by lanbergld

I logged an EAM on 8992 just after midnight, 0408 UTC. Pretty good copy in Richmond. What I copied was 4A4AOLL4MJPK3...some more... and then a sign-out that sounded like "Skystep" (?), 3x repeated.

Also, around 5533 kHz I copied something weird I don't recall hearing before. It sounded to me like a scrambled voice transmission -- like a human voice played backwards & chopped into pieces. I don't know exactly what that was. Every 10 seconds or so it would be interrupted by a pair of ring tones. It seemed to be in LSB (pitch got higher as fine tune increased in Hz).


Larry Lanberg

Richmond VA

DX-440 with MFJ preselector
Big old ugly homemade loop antenna

Flickr: radio10's Photostream

might be the CE freq that the tacamo's keep going to for air to air.

[psr600md]

Originally Posted by ampulman

What exactly (I know what it stands for) is a TACAMO, and how would I recognize one?

Thanks.

Amp

TACAMO's took over from the usaf ec135 LOOKING GLASS planes,there E6 navy planes.if you have a uhf 225-400 radio try 230.9 or 374.55 thats there mux center freqs

[ka3jjz]

The Honduras situation - with just over 600 mil folks in that country - may also be playing a small role here. Perhaps not as major as Iran or NK, but worth watching. 73 Mike

[lanbergld]

Originally Posted by psr600md

might be the CE freq that the tacamo's keep going to for air to air.

Thanks for the tip psr600md. I'm going to crank-up ol Bessie here in a little while & see if I get it tonight. I do a lot of night time utility listening, and that's the first thing really grabbing my curiosity in well over a year.


Larry Lanberg

Richmond VA

[pathalogical]

Here is some highly detailed info on EAM Procedures. Should be a quick read-through ! lol

http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/reading_room/120.pdf

ka3jjz,

600 million people in Honduras ??? Wiki says just under 7,500,000
Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[psr600md]

Originally Posted by pathalogical

Here is some highly detailed info on EAM Procedures. Should be a quick read-through ! lol

http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/reading_room/120.pdf

ka3jjz,

600 million people in Honduras ??? Wiki says just under 7,500,000
Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

lol 1.7mil are here in the us lol

[psr600md]

Originally Posted by psr600md

lol 1.7mil are here in the us lol

lol lots a mhm blanks pages!

[cpuerror]

I don't see what the point is of declassifying something if all you release are blank pages.

[AxelsHumanDad]

Originally Posted by ridgescan

....still going on! Female sounds like she's 12 longest transmission I have heard yet. EDIT ended at 6:56. She started up again at 7:00 and is ending at ???? still going on at 7:17. Something's going on for sure.

she's simulcasting 11175, 8992, 6739 05:00z. absolutely banging in here tonight.
male voice on 11175 & 8992 05:05z. noisy signal, "this completes message of five zero characters." can't make his location in the noise. 8992 has some weird digital pulse noise in there.

[elzebub]

4724 on now, it said 125 character message follows, never heard one that long before. Edit- They just signed off, completing 125 character message, male voice signed off saying "This is Falcon Net, waiting for inbound traffic", no one responded.