[MilCom] JSTARS activity

[Mac McCormick III]

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From: "JohnB" <johnfboynton at yahoo.com>
> 276.075 [I have listed as JSTARS discrete]
> 
> BRIGHAM [possibly E-3 961st AWACS, Kadena AB, Japan]
> STRIKE STAR [possibly E-8C JSTARS BACK END]
> 
> JAVA 17 [not heard]
> SPEAR 75 [not heard]

    This sounds like what I hear down here in SE Georgia
    on a regular basis.  More than likely, these were all simulated
    stations and assets being transmitted by the JSTARS 
    itself.  BRIGHAM is used for the simulated E-3 and JAVA
    and SPEAR are among the regularly used callsigns for
    the simulated fighters.

> I heard no fighter activity and I never heard BRIGHAM
> on any ATC that I monitor.  I have no idea where they
> are.

    There were nowhere!  They were all simulated, figments of
    the JSTARS crew's imagination :-)


Mac McCormick                      "Green Comms Suck"
Savannah, GA
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