0150 UTC Weak/barely audible two way traffic being heard. Cant make out who it is or what they're saying. Maybe one of you up North will have better luck.
4739 KHz
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K9WG
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Probably MARS
Hooligan
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Can you please articulate why you're suggesting that 4739 comms are "probably MARS?"
charlielinn
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Better call Art Bell if it is
K9WG
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MARS (Military Auxiliary Radio System) operates in that area. Very possibly a MARS net or traffic on that frequency. Also possible that military is using that channel.
Hooligan
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Can you provide some specific MARS freqs that are in the vicinity of 4739kHz?
K9WG
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4756 af mars
4625 navy mars
Hooligan
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OK, I don't know how that would make you assume that comms someone else heard on 4739 were "probably MARS" enough to make you post such a statement, but thank you, I have the information I need now.
Token
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In the past I have logged ALE, USB aircraft coms, and Andrews doing test messages. I have heard of EAMs being sent here also, but never heard one for myself on this freq. I don't think I have ever logged MARS there though.
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Hooligan
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Exactly! It is & has been a DOD channel for many decades, with both tactical & strategic air/land/sea comms like a Navy task force surface/air warfare Link-11 voice coordination net, Post Attack Command & Control System, etc. & for the past several years it has been part of the SCOPE Command ALE Network. IMHO there's zero evidence to support the notion that it was ever a MARS freq.
It's great to try to be helpful, but if someone really doesn't have a clue about something, it'd help if they don't make some wild guess about what something "probably" is.
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