mystery frequencies here

[ridgescan]

I'll start with this one I am stumped-can anyone figure out what this is?

 

[brandon]

Sounds military to me. What time did you hear it? Great catch!

 

[ridgescan]

About 0253UTC Brandon. Help me watch that one-I havent heard squat since that radio check-and whoever he was talking to was way out of my range. I checked the military list but nothing there-unless I missed something.

 

[ka3jjz]

2 years ago, this was reported as a USN tracking freq - via the UDXF Yahoo group. What was being tracked I have no idea A dead giveaway is the use of a single word callsign or 2, 3 phonetic letters (3 letter calls are often referred to as trigraphs) as a callsign with net-sounding commands and/or locations. Without knowing what you heard it's not possible to dig further 73 Mike

 

[ridgescan]

Thanks for the info Mike it struck me odd that it is right in the broadcast lane there-I ran into the burble on AM as I was moving towards 9305 to check Egypt's signal. I would never have known of it otherwise talk about luck. What is your take on the frequency location?

 

[SCPD]

IRONMAN is from a P3C up here from Whidbey Island NAS. CHARGER callsign could be reference to a F-18C from CA.

 

[brandon]

Listening again to your recording it reminds me of the time I heard activity on 8191.5 w/ stations Miramar, Two Nine (Twentynine Palms), Icepack and 32 Area (prob. Camp Pendleton) in radio checks. I had the radio on 9336 all day yesterday but nothing was heard.

 

[ridgescan]

I haven't heard anything either which gets my imagination going. I wonder if they will use a random frequency in the broadcast band if they seriously don't want to be tracked by radio just one time for that trip.

 

[DPD1]

Those are pretty generic calls. It sounds like a typical training net to me. Most likely trainees on ships or at ground stations. They might not have even gotten the freq right. Seems like most USN surface HF activity is casual training now days. They don't seem to use it for actual ops all that much.

 

[TheMadScanner]

I agree with Brandon. It sounded like one of the handles was Hard Charger, if that is the case, I'd be willing to bet it was Marine Corps Comms.

Semper Fi!