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POTUS travels to SC and NC tomorrow...

Week ahead finally released by Harris...

On Wednesday, October 2, the Vice President will travel to Georgia to survey the impacts of Hurricane Helene. Then, she will return to Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, October 3, the Vice President will travel to Wisconsin for a campaign event. Then, she will travel to Detroit, MI.

On Friday, October 4, the Vice President will be in Michigan for campaign events in Detroit and Flint before returning to Washington, D.C.
 
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This Barksdale B-52 paint job should be a hit everywhere it goes.

OT Popular Ham radio related repeater in North Carolina doing Hurricane work on Broadcastify.
Gets busy during daytime I hear.
 
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POTUS schedule for trip to NC tomorrow...

11:40 AM THE PRESIDENT departs the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews South Grounds
12:00 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to Joint Base Andrews
12:10 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Joint Base Andrews en route to Greenville, South Carolina
1:20 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to Greenville, South Carolina Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport
1:45 PM THE PRESIDENT receives an aerial tour of impacted areas
3:00 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Greenville, South Carolina en route to Raleigh, North Carolina Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport
3:45 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh-Durham International Airport

6:55 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Raleigh, North Carolina en route to Joint Base Andrews Raleigh-Durham International Airport
7:45 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to Joint Base Andrews
7:55 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Joint Base Andrews en route to the White House
8:15 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to the White House South Grounds
 

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Posted on another list by a long time HF monitor

0415z 02 Oct 2024

0000z 01 Oct 2024 - New Fiscal Year.

2052z STRATEGY (HFGCS) broadcast the 30 character EAM C6GII6. New prefix.
2130z STRATEGY broadcast C6IGII6 restoral repeat.
2200z Nothing heard.

2328z DRUG 63 (sounds like; good levels on east coast) called MAINSAIL and raised ANDREWS and requested "Latest message traffic for training" and repeated the request when ANDREWS requested a repeat. At 2329z ANDREWS stated "I have no EAM (garbled but maybe "in queue") at this time." DRUG 63 then closed the session.

2345z STRATEGY broadcast the 30 character EAM P5W5AO. Another new prefix.

0000z 02 Oct 2024.

0007z PERFORATE broadcast to MAINSAIL with their daily new UTC day communications test count, a daily practice of many decades. No DTMF tones noted at the end of the broadcast (which is sometimes normal.) Said to be the daily changing callword for the US STRATCOM command post. (It gets very interesting later.)

0022z XYLOPHONE (newday HFGCS) broadcast 30-character C6NQUQ.
0026z XYLOPHONE (weaker; unheard on west coast SDR; perhaps from ANDREWS site?) began a new transmission of C6NQUQ but cut out during preamble with no "disregard."

0027z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30 character EAM C6T5EZ.
0033z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30 character EAM C6HP6R.
0046z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30 character EAM P57VGT.
0057z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30 character EAM C6UQ5B.

0108z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30-character EAM C6PYNW.
0149z XYLOPHONE broadcast the 30 character EAM C6DR36.

0204z PERFORATE (good levels) broadcast to ALL STATIONS the 0149z C6DR36. The transmission ended with their usually common DTMF fones.

It is an understatement to say that PERFORATE's transmission is highly unusual. I've heard one other instance of this station broadcasting HF "traffic" and that was in the latter part of 1999 (Y2K) when they fired up a very powerful local evening "voice of coom" transmission of a 30 character 888800 connectivity string. Those 888800 strings were common on the HF ZULU frequency nets during 1999, and I've always assumed they were part of Y2K testing leading up to 2000. And it was highly unusual 25 years ago to hear such a HF transmission from that station. Are there examples over the past 25 years of other instances of such HF traffic?

And to top it off.

0354z (after two disregarded attempts at 0350z and 0352z) XYLOPHONE; FJUY4J; 22-character string (a character count rarity.)
FJUY4JGWQEZ3VGGV7LL7FK
 

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DAILY GUIDANCE FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2024

At 1:05 PM ET, the Vice President will depart Washington, DC en route to Augusta, GA.
At 2:30 PM ET, the Vice President will arrive in Augusta, GA. This arrival will be at Augusta Regional Airport.

At 6:15 PM ET, the Vice President will depart Augusta, GA en route to Washington, DC.
At 7:35 PM ET, the Vice President will arrive in Washington, DC.
 

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1000- Looks like one of the PA ANG KC-135s (#58-0117) is heading out to W107.

1015- Flt of DC ANG F-16s off ADW. Working ZDC Sea Isle (285.4)>ZNY Ship Bottom (307.275)>ZDC Atlantic City (281.45)>Giantkiller (255.0). A2A is 238.175.

1030- Maybe some MD ANG A-10Cs up somewhere. Hearing A2A on 228.1
 
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See CAP up over Western NC for potus I assume.
Tanker WIDE-01 two tankers and Sentry-25 E-3 for radar coverage.
Nothing on WIDE01 in acars headed west now, other Tanker was ROMA62 in acars now showing WIDE02, think it is a little early for CAP though.

Sentry25 seems to be moving southwest away from area, but I wouldn't be surprised if E-3 would be on standby due to limited communications in the area.
 
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1056L- Ron, hearing RAVEN 11 flight coming up through NJ. First on ZDC 363.0, then ZNY 290.2, now on ZNY 282.3, self ID'ed as 2 A-10's. Looking to meet up with their tanker over Concord, then direct Portland. Then a single A-10 just checked in AXEMAN 11, same route.
1112L- Hearing RAVEN flt A/A 139.6 (am)
1122L- Hearing weak A/A 140.7 (am), haven't heard this one in a while. Just heard DEVIL 01 & 02 callsigns. Guess they still use these VHF freqs.
 
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1056L- Ron, hearing RAVEN 11 flight coming up through NJ. First on ZDC 363.0, then ZNY 290.2, now on ZNY 282.3, self ID'ed as 2 A-10's. Looking to meet up with their tanker over Concord, then direct Portland. Then a single A-10 just checked in AXEMAN 11, same route.
1112L- Hearing RAVEN flt A/A 139.6 (am)
1122L- Hearing weak A/A 140.7 (am), haven't heard this one in a while. Just heard DEVIL 01 & 02 callsigns. Guess they still use these VHF freqs.
Tech,

So, the 228.1 was probably them. It's usually used for CAS training. They must've decided to use it as an A2A on the trip up.
 
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1056L- Ron, hearing RAVEN 11 flight coming up through NJ. First on ZDC 363.0, then ZNY 290.2, now on ZNY 282.3, self ID'ed as 2 A-10's. Looking to meet up with their tanker over Concord, then direct Portland. Then a single A-10 just checked in AXEMAN 11, same route.
1112L- Hearing RAVEN flt A/A 139.6 (am)
1122L- Hearing weak A/A 140.7 (am), haven't heard this one in a while. Just heard DEVIL 01 & 02 callsigns. Guess they still use these VHF freqs.
Checking tape the A-10's all wanted direct Robbinsville RBV at FL-190 "we don't care about the turbulence"
Ar 1145 local had a Wardog-11 flight also seemed to be heading up that way.
 
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