Exercise on 11193 USB

Status
Not open for further replies.

blantonl

Founder and CEO
Staff member
Super Moderator
Joined
Dec 9, 2000
Messages
11,372
Location
San Antonio, Whitefish, New Orleans
Sounds like a carrier exercise working on 11193.0 USB this afternoon - stations ID with single letter phonetics.

Anyone know of an official exercise in progress right now?
 

ka3jjz

Wiki Admin Emeritus
Joined
Jul 22, 2002
Messages
25,721
Location
Bowie, Md.
Several in fact - UDXF had some notes about the Eisenhower being in the Caribbean for training, there's Joint Caribbean Lion 2006 going on there as well (Dutch and Belgian Navies), and a NATO exercise (Bold Mercy) in the North Atlantic (Iceland, Greenland) until 10 May.

However, that freq sounds like Dutch Navy - but I'm not sure about that....73s Mike
 

ka3jjz

Wiki Admin Emeritus
Joined
Jul 22, 2002
Messages
25,721
Location
Bowie, Md.
Then 11193 is being used as a discrete - which it probably is, come to think of it. 73s Mike
 

BMT

Member
Joined
Feb 1, 2006
Messages
1,122
Ike

Guys the IKE has been off the coast of FL. for the last week and a half.

BMT
 

ka3jjz

Wiki Admin Emeritus
Joined
Jul 22, 2002
Messages
25,721
Location
Bowie, Md.
Lindsay and all - I did a quick scan of both MilAirCommsChat and Milcom, and it looks like you came up with the only HF reported so far. There has been several logs in Florida by Al Stern on the UHF milair band, and folks should check the Milcom archives to get those freqs if interested.

However, quite a while ago, Rick Baker had posted the following HF ranges for battlegroup exercises, as he's been keeping track of these for quite a while; I don't have the daytime freqs above 10 mhz (I'm usually not at home during the day when these seem to happen, darnit), but here are the nighttime ranges. Using a good software package will make scanning these freq ranges a breeze (Scan320 for the RX320, and if memory serves, RXPlus can also do it...)

3265-3308
4372-4430
4939-4950.3
5305-5437
5685-5727.4
5908-5912 (probably not the best time to search the lowest part of 49 meters...even if it defacto isn't...)
6224-6249.5
6724-6760
6840-6982.5
7986.6-7993.5
8316-8328
9213.5-9283

All freqs in Khz and assume USB.
By the way, the name of the exercise as heard by Al is COMPTUEX (at least that's what he is reporting) 73s Mike

[edit] So far only 11193 noted, tho I haven't scanned the other ranges completely as yet. In this situation, sometimes it's better to have one rx sit on one freq while another freq scans. 11193 is still strong after 01, which is after local sunset here in Maryland - short skip must be good on 11mhz this eve.
 
Last edited:

kb2vxa

Completely Banned for the Greater Good
Banned
Joined
Mar 22, 2005
Messages
6,100
Location
Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.
Hi all,

It's active here as of this writing but much is buried in a high atmospheric noise level.

JJZ, I don't know what you call "short skip" when the band goes long in the evening, WWV is climbing as usual. (?)

Hey, now that's interesting, I just came across something odd on 11.175 while tuning back up to 11.193. I missed the beginning but a powerful station with a mean echo was transmitting groups, each with what sounded like a callsign prefix, a long series of letters and numbers, then "stand by". The final group ended with a garbled callsign (?) and "out".
 

ka3jjz

Wiki Admin Emeritus
Joined
Jul 22, 2002
Messages
25,721
Location
Bowie, Md.
Very likely Andrews Warren. It's the primary control facility for all stations in the HF-GCS network. You likely heard an Emergency Action Message (which, thankfully was no emergency). They're very commonly heard on the HF-GCS network - with many remotes all over the place. We have a pretty complete Wiki page on the network.

73s Mike
 

cisco211

Member
Joined
Jun 18, 2003
Messages
18
Can't anyone confirm if the exercise is still going on? I have traffic on the frequency but it's weak and unreadable. I hope it will come in better, last November I recorded several hours of intercept exercises on 8.335.5 USB they're a lot more interesting than the local PD! =)
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top