Favorite HF Frequency

[ShawnCowden]

Yes I heard him. He said that the world was gonna end on Oct 31st!! And just today he said it was gonna end very soon. Only thing is I dont believe his s**t. The guy kinda scares me. He has a evil like voice. God determines when earth will end

 

[OutPost]

Brother Stair on HF

Yes...he's scary looking. Do a search and look at the various websites and one, or two have his picture. I think he's about 70 years old. His broadcasts worldwide on HF is enough to motivate Muslim Terrorists.

The FCC should shut him down.......

 

[OutPost]

Radio Cuba

Has anyone listened to ARNIE speaking English on HF from Havana Cuba? He's a communist :shock: but provides some good HF technical information. After he's done in the afternoons (around 4pm CST); a lady and man take-over and talk about their version of the news from a communist perspective. The guy I think is an ex-American living in Cuba and the lady is Cuban. I pull them in loud and clear on my DX-160 but can't give you the exact frequency, but it is on in the afternoons (4pm CST) in the frequency range 11.5 to 11.9mhz.

My antenna is a home made 90 foot dipole 45/45 strung between two trees. I'm trying to find my old time favorite U.S. Customs freqs, Slingshot and Rampart and the Omaha aircraft in South Florida. Is anyone receiving these guys??
http://www.dc8.org/store/bertrand/videos.php

 

[elk2370bruce]

Try Voice of Russia and "Jolly Joe"Adamov. He's been doing Moscow Mailbag since the sixty's. Even during the Cold War, and spouting the damndest communist propaganda, there was the light chuckle and pleasant personality. He's still on and worth listening to especially since the politics have changed.

 

[Woody2]

These guys can be a hoot: The "Possum Net" nightly on 3843 lsb in the 80m ham band. Late nighters, may not start until around midnight eastern. Sometimes a little earlier on fri-sat nights. The guys who use this freq. earlier in the evening are NOT them. Gotta show up later. The ring leader is the Head Possum, AE4FB Mikey

 

[ka3jjz]

Re: Radio Cuba

Has anyone listened to ARNIE speaking English on HF from Havana Cuba? He's a communist :shock: but provides some good HF technical information. After he's done in the afternoons (around 4pm CST); a lady and man take-over and talk about their version of the news from a communist perspective. The guy I think is an ex-American living in Cuba and the lady is Cuban. I pull them in loud and clear on my DX-160 but can't give you the exact frequency, but it is on in the afternoons (4pm CST) in the frequency range 11.5 to 11.9mhz.

My antenna is a home made 90 foot dipole 45/45 strung between two trees. I'm trying to find my old time favorite U.S. Customs freqs, Slingshot and Rampart and the Omaha aircraft in South Florida. Is anyone receiving these guys??
http://www.dc8.org/store/bertrand/videos.php

You are of course referring to Arnie Coro, CO2KK. He's a very well known ham as well as Radio Habana personality. The committee that runs the Winterfest in Pa. every year has been trying to get him to come over to address the conference, but the blasted State Department has been blocking his visa. They will, of course, try again in 2005, I'm certain.
By the way, he used to run 10 meter AM a year or two ago when the cycle still supported it; he's probaby moved down the bands a bit. I've never had the pleasure, but I understand he's quite amiable and likes to chat....
Oh and about the Customs stuff; keep an eye on the Milcom and the Worldwide Utility News lists over on qth.net. They've had regular reports of Customs stuff; not all in the clear, of course, and they use ALE quite regularly.
These freqs are also used by Panther (DEA) and Coast Guard, among others; don't expect to hear just 1 agency....numerous reports of activity here lately...
5732
7527
8912 (also used by HFDL stations; lots of other digital stuff here that can't be decoded by the usual line of equipment....)
10242
11494
13907
15867
18594
20890
25350
ALE can be copied with free soundcard software....more in another message...73s Mike

 

[OutPost]

Very good......

Those are the freqs I remember. Unfortunately I cannot select the freq and wait. My DX-160 has the old rotory dial, but hope to get an FRG 7700 from Santa.

What about "ATLAS" on 16.000mhz, or was it 18.000mhz? That was the net for DEA ops in Colombia for the "SHARK" units.

 

[ka3jjz]

Very good......

Those are the freqs I remember. Unfortunately I cannot select the freq and wait. My DX-160 has the old rotory dial, but hope to get an FRG 7700 from Santa.

What about "ATLAS" on 16.000mhz, or was it 18.000mhz? That was the net for DEA ops in Colombia for the "SHARK" units.

Don't think those were quite the freqs; but I haven't seen those callsigns in a while. Not that they couldn't be used again... keep your eyes on the mailing lists I mentioned earlier. Come to think of it, I did see an 'Atlas' report recently...
I remember the DX160 very well indeed. Takes me back about 20+ years; actually I remember their older cousins, the DX150A and DX150B. These were, for those that don't know, tunable HF receivers (analog tuning) made by what was then known as Realistic during the 70's/80s time period.
You can add 7808 to the list; caught the tail end of an ALE sounding, and my records show this as an old Panther(DEA) frequency. Never know when some of these old freqs come back to life. 73s for now...Mike

 

[GlacierClipper]

Listening to 6746 and 6813

Using a Radio Shack DX 394. I enjoy the aviation communications on HF.

 

[OutPost]

I've added 7808 to my list for freqs to watch when I get a digital receiver. Looking for these freqs now on my DX-160 is like doing massages

Twisting and narrowing down to a signal requires some fast and precise work when intermittent comm is received. I've fallen asleep with my fingers wrapped around the tuning knob, and most of the time requires keeping both hands on the knobs :shock:

"Atlas," "Rampart," and "Slingshot" were the best comm I have ever intercepted on HF. I've stood behind the "Slingshot" controller at Miami Center (ARTCC) and I have flown directly over "Rampart" on the eastern coast of Andros Island in the Bahamas.

"Rampart" would tag a target in the heart of the Bahamas with a "Romeo 4" and the "4" meaning it was the 4th target tagged for the day. "Rampart" would direct the nearest U.S. Customs Citation jet, i.e.(Omaha 54) towards the target and would pull-up to the target from the rear, about 50 feet below the smuggler's airplane. The tail number would be called in and if there was a "hit" on the identification tail number, and "no flight plan in the system" hence forth, "Lima 100" on 165.235mhz would activate all available Customs aircraft and helicopter(s) for the intercept when "Slingshot" took over the "Romeo" target on their radar, maybe about 60 miles from Miami.

Customs' Kingairs and a helicopter, or two would launch from Homestead Airforce base, south of Miami.

The action on HF and VHF was exciting as the chase unfolded over Florida. Those were the days.....

 

[ka3jjz]

I've added 7808 to my list for freqs to watch when I get a digital receiver. Looking for these freqs now on my DX-160 is like doing massages

Twisting and narrowing down to a signal requires some fast and precise work when intermittent comm is received. I've fallen asleep with my fingers wrapped around the tuning knob, and most of the time requires keeping both hands on the knobs :shock:

"Atlas," "Rampart," and "Slingshot" were the best comm I have ever intercepted on HF. I've stood behind the "Slingshot" controller at Miami Center (ARTCC) and I have flown directly over "Rampart" on the eastern coast of Andros Island in the Bahamas.

"Rampart" would tag a target in the heart of the Bahamas with a "Romeo 4" and the "4" meaning it was the 4th target tagged for the day. "Rampart" would direct the nearest U.S. Customs Citation jet, i.e.(Omaha 54) towards the target and would pull-up to the target from the rear, about 50 feet below the smuggler's airplane. The tail number would be called in and if there was a "hit" on the identification tail number, and "no flight plan in the system" hence forth, "Lima 100" on 165.235mhz would activate all available Customs aircraft and helicopter(s) for the intercept when "Slingshot" took over the "Romeo" target on their radar, maybe about 60 miles from Miami.

Customs' Kingairs and a helicopter, or two would launch from Homestead Airforce base, south of Miami.

The action on HF and VHF was exciting as the chase unfolded over Florida. Those were the days.....

Much of the radio gear (antennas, ect) at Homestead was basically destroyed by Hurricane Andrew a dozen or so years ago; if you see freq lists mentioning this site, you know they are at least this old...

Anyhow, re the DX15x series; one trick that would get you by is the use of a crystal calibrator (anyone remember those??) and the bandspread analog scale. You would listen for the tones produced by the calibrator and mark them on a chart using the analog scale on one side, the frequency on the other. You would then have a sliding scale that would put you at least reasonably close to the freq you want. The more points plotted, the more accurate the chart.
Many folks - myself included - built these calibrators from kits and tuned our receivers that way all those years ago. Sure brings back memories.

73s Mike