[Lowfer] 15.1 kHz VLF

[jrusgrove at comcast.net]

The signal level remains remarkably steady day ... and now night.

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dexter McIntyre W4DEX" <dexter.mc at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp;UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] 15.1 kHz VLF


> ToddRoberts2001 at aol.com wrote:
>> If the signal has been  on all day then it is likely not airborne but land 
>> based, but who
>> really  knows how long the airborne signal could be maintained with mid-air 
>>  refueling?
>>   
> A long time.  I recall a CincLant exercise during the 70 where my 
> station provided continuous UHF uplink circuits for over 48 hours.  The 
> plane flew a circular pattern several hundred miles off the East 
> Coast.   I  know it was the same plane, not an airborne hot switchover 
> which can be done.  I know this because the voice of the radio officer 
> over the order wire circuit was the same the whole exercise.  Air 
> refueling was often done for the airborne command post planes.
> 
> Dex
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