[MilCom] Loggings/Reports Techniques, etc.

[Ken]

Well, I've been asked to stop "irritating" folks on the list.

However the bottom line to getting some of you irritiated is that I'm 
looking to try to motivate list lurkers (the vast majority -- we've probably 
got two dozen folks who post loggings on a regular basis) to start posting 
some information about what they hear as a price to the extensive reseach 
time required to produce what I've posted in the past.

Granted this logging/reporting is going to very greatly among hobbyist. 
There's time constraints involved in monitoring but it isn't an impossible 
task to contribute.  During my short commute to/from work normally I can 
normally snag 1 or 2 milcom aero related transmissions.  At home there's 
certain days/times that more operational training will be conducted so 
getting to know those times results in a compressed monitoring period but 
more logging activity. This is probably the case for most of you on this 
list.

As far as equipment goes, in many cases the ARTCC comms are in the normal 
VHF Aero band.  Granted having equipment that will allow AM mode 138-144 mhz 
and Military Aero UHF monitoring will greatly expand your potential 
logging/reporting.  BUT I'd venture that 50% of my traffic monitored is on 
normal VHF ATC freqs.

However, I think that at least a once of month aero logs posting simply of 
Callsigns Monitored (aircraft type if known) & frequencies active (perhaps a 
description of the frequencies) as well as your general geogrpahic area of 
monitoring is not too much to ask.

There's also the other aspect of Base Support Land Mobile Radio Sytems. 
Many bases will be required to at the very least upgrade there equipment to 
a better bandwidth tolerance while others will actually purchase new 
equipment , Digital P25 or analog and perhaps go to a trunking system, but 
this isn't always the case since at KCEF they went from a completely simplex 
radio system to a P25 conventional repeater systems for most nets with some 
simplex frequencies (over 15 new frequencies).   This is by far the most 
under reported activity on the list.

Anyways, my research will continue and I will ponder for awhile on whether I 
going to post this information one more time publically to this list.

Sincerely & the Best of Holiday Greetings!!!

Ken
Springfield MA Monitoring Area