[MilCom] Probable NATO Naval Exercise

[GeorgeF.]

At 09:02 PM 4/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>All,
>
>Freq: 05425.0 KHz
>
>For about the last hour (0100-0150 UTC) there has been a joint Link-11
>tracking exercise going on this freq.  The US participants are using single
>letter callsigns, i.e. Mike, Lima, Papa, etc while the foreign particpants
>are using two-letter callsigns, i.e. Bravo Alpha (Scandanavian accent) ,=
 Kilo
>India (German accent), Sierra Charlie (undetermined accent), etc.
>
>There's also been some ALE (good strength) on this freq but it doesn't=
 break
>out with PC-ALE. It looks like this ALE may be being used by the foreign
>participants on this net.


I'm just starting to play with ALE's so please bear with me as I might be=20
wrong. However after listening to 5425 for awhile I couldn't get any PC-ALE=
=20
either. However to me it sounded a bit off freq for ALE.  so I shifted to=20
5423.99 KHz and to the ALE program to give me the following:

[03:44:05][FRQ  5424000][TO ][CGD9           ][TIS][NRUU           ][AL0]=20
BER 19 SN 00
[RX][CH 00][TO  CGD9][TIS NRUU][E]
[RX][CH 00][TO  CGD][TO  CGD][R]
[RX][CH 00][TO  CGD][TO  CGD][R]
[RX][CH 00][TO  CGD][TO  CGD][R]
[RX][CH 00][TO  CGD9][TO  CGD9][R]
[RX][CH 00][TO  CGD][TO  CGD][R]
[RX][CH 00][TO  CGD][TO  CGD][R]
[RX][CH 00][TO  CGD][TO  CGD][R]
[03:43:46][FRQ  5424000][TO ][CGD9           ][TIS][NRUU           ][AL0]=20
BER 23 SN 00 [AMD]=95=95=95
[RX][CH 00][TO  CGD9][TIS NRUU][E]
[RX][CH 00][TO  CGD][TO  CGD][R]
[RX][CH 00][AMD  =95=95=95][E]
[RX][CH 00][TO  NRUR][TO  NRUR][R]
[RX][CH 00][TO  NRU][TO  NRU][R]
[RX][CH 00][TO  NRU][TO  NRU][R]
[RX][CH 00][TO  NRU][TO  NRU][R]
[RX][CH 00][E]


Again I'll admit I don't know much about ALE as Its new to me.  But tonight=
=20
have copied with success some ALE's on 11226 and 9057.

George
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