[MilCom] Monitor Project - What Fleet Broadcast Freqs Do You Hear?

[Jack L. Metcalfe]

At 12:00 PM 12/15/2006, Larry Van Horn, N5FPW wrote:
>Here is my local ist
>UFO November                 250.350 MHz    Strong here
>UFO Oscar/Fleet Alpha     250.450 MHz    Nothing here
>UFO Papa/Fleet Bravo      250.550 MHz    Very strong here
>UFO Quebec/Fleet Charlie 250.650 MHz    Weak here
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 From my location (N 37 34.758 & W 84 36.121 +/- 18 feet)

250.350 Strongest signal @ Azimuth 235 degrees & Altitude 44 degrees
250.450 Nothing heard
250.550 Confusing...settled on Azimuth 135 degrees & Altitude 25 
degrees, but got one period of strong signals @ Azimuth 217 degrees
250.650 Best signal @ Azimuth 210 degrees & Altitude 38 degrees

Used a 260 MHz Yagi on a photo tripod feeding a pre-amp & 
AOR8200.  SSB & CW gave quicker & easier to see signal peaks compared 
to NFM or FM.  Also, Altitude changes (except as I neared 0 degrees & 
90 degrees made less difference to signal strength than Azimuth changes.

BTW, with a Icom IC-R8500 & slightly amplified Diamond D-130J 
discone, I can only make out 250.350 & 250.550 and both are fairly weak.

Directional format: Azimuth 0 degrees = North, 180 degrees = South, 
etc.  Altitude 0 degrees = local horizon, 90 degrees = directly overhead
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Jack L. Metcalfe
Stanford, KY
jlmetcalfe at hughes.net
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