During recent visits to Newport News, I've found the Sunrise Ace, Prime Ace and I think the Triumph Ace using 457.55 [107.2] onboard in repeater mode. American split with input on 467.775. In addition I heard traffic on 457.600 [107.2] that I think was simplex and possibly internal to the engineering team on the Sunrise Ace.
Talk was very professional in all cases, native-sounding English and no proper names used. Everyone that I heard ID'ed by title.
Having seen some different combinations reported, I'm thinking that this may represent a recent upgrade. I generally don't catch a lot of repeater action with freighters--at least not much that I can localize to a particular ship.
73/Allen (N4JRI)
Talk was very professional in all cases, native-sounding English and no proper names used. Everyone that I heard ID'ed by title.
Having seen some different combinations reported, I'm thinking that this may represent a recent upgrade. I generally don't catch a lot of repeater action with freighters--at least not much that I can localize to a particular ship.
73/Allen (N4JRI)