I spent part of the holiday weekend down at Badin Lake. I didnt get to monitor as much as I would have liked, but there was a 2 hour period on Sunday afternoon where there was quite a bit of traffic on 43.00 and 154.5275. I have both programmed into my 396XT along with the rest of the mystery frequencies.
43.00 was all encrypted except for a few analog transmissions with a 151.4 tone. What I could make out (and it was scratchy and weak) was "Charlie 1 to the TOC, in the clear, over". There was an encrypted response followed by whoever it was saying they had lost fill in 2 radios and asking if any other assets on the op had something, sounded like he said canteen. I may not have it right because I am not set up for low band with that portable and I was barely pulling it in.
154.5275 $167 was active over the whole time 43.00 was active, but all encrypted. I only got one ID (9002131) which I thought was odd. It abruptly stopped and I heard nothing the rest of the trip.
@spacellamaman did you have any luck wherever you were?
awww man, prior to reading your post i thought i had had good luck, i really dunno now.
that is really some good stuff to have caught, by content and location adding further narrowing-down data.
So based on when both freqs were rx'd, once again their seems to be some association between them? am i right remembering you having previously noted, specifically those two, being active at the same times on more than one occasion so far, correct?
did they say "T-O-C" one letter at a time or as a spoken word, sounding
like "tock" as in tic-tock? just curious. either way it certainly makes me
question my receiving set-ups at home, as Badin Lake is getting fairly
close now.
My July 4th weekend project was, no surprise, overly ambitious, and
scanning was only done late at night of the 3rd and 4th, with hiking(more
like forced marching) in between, the amount of scanning activities was far
less than i had hoped and certainly not done at productive times. by late
afternoon on the 5th i was completely spent and dead asleep.
due to the late hours, where radio traffic was unlikely, or so i thought,
on the mystery freqs, i ended up chasing a different ghost :
just based on how this has played out, i really think this is a far distant, stationary, always on station, so to speak. the most recent incident of ten minutes involved the signal fading in and out like you might experience with a distant AM broadcast DX. Full strength, clear, then working...
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what kind of receiving set up were you using, aside from the 396?
vehicle mounted antenna etc or handheld with what-kind of antenna? on the west side of Badin lake i presume? i
am trying to figure out if there is something i need to change in my set-
ups. or maybe i need to just go down to Badin Lake. Thanks for the
update, that is really cool.
