[Lowfer] Tacamo 17.8 kHz

[Clive S Carver]

Hi All

I wonder if the following is related to the TACAMO traffic today.
(Not heard by me in UK as I was busy elsewhere)

73's
Clive
GW4EYO
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From: UDXF at yahoogroups.com [mailto:UDXF at yahoogroups.com] 
On Behalf Of original_token
Sent: 23 January 2011 20:00
To: UDXF at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [UDXF] Re: GHFS, odd callsign and freq combination, Jan 23 2011

  
Turns out this is also active on 8992, but I can not hear it at my location.

So, 8992/11175/15017 kHz USB.

T!
Mohave Desert, California, USA

--- In UDXF at yahoogroups.com, "original_token" <T_O_K_E_N_ at ...> wrote:
>
> Howdy all,
> 
> Monitoring the GHFS with its EAMs and Skykings is not something I do
often, but you can't help but tune across them occasionally.
> 
> This morning there has been much activity since about 1200z, including
some callsigns I had not heard before. Except for the volume of traffic and
a few new callsigns there was really nothing odd about it though. From 1200z
to 1400z I was hearing five or six messages per hour, mostly from the old
standby Andrews.
> 
> My assumption is an exercise of some type is on.
> 
> At about 1830z I heard a long EAM sounding message on 11175 kHz USB, it
was a good bit weaker than I normally hear the system and no "echo" so I
figured it was from a single station instead of the entire network. Checking
the other frequncies revealed it was not being simulcast on any of them, but
it was being simulcast on 15017 kHz USB, 1 kHz off the regular 15016 kHz.
Both frequencies were very weak, and the callsign sounded something like
"Ball Que" but I am not sure exactly what it was. In the #wunclub IRC it had
been reported that a similar callsign was used about an hour earlier on
11175 kHz, but unknown about other frequencies.
> 
> 10 minutes after the end of the above (starting 1900z) a "regular" message
was sent, all frequencies including the normal 15016 kHz and callsign
"Andrews".
> 
> Anyone have any clarification as to what the real callsign of this "Ball
Que" station might be? Or a location?
> 
> As I am typing this (1910z) the station came up again, still on 11175 and
15017. This time I was able to get it on the beam and it is centered on 075
deg from my Mohave Desert location, so not Europe.
> 
> T!
> Mohave Desert, California, USA
>

-----Original Message-----
From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of ToddRoberts2001 at aol.com
Sent: 23 January 2011 19:18
To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Tacamo 17.8 kHz

Signal went to narrow RTTY again at 1900UTC centered around
17.8KHz, then off again about 1908UTC.
 
Don't have any program here that would decode 50Hz shift RTTY.
It would be interesting to actually get a decode of some kind
even if it were just 5-letter code groups.
 
Now back on again with wideband sounding digital signal at 1913UTC.
 
They must be testing different modes this Sunday afternoon. They have 
been testing on again-off again for over 2 hours now.
 
73 - Todd WD4NGG
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