[MilCom] 38.5 AGAIN

[Larry Van Horn, N5FPW]

Hey Duke and all,

We had a major VHF-lo band E-skip opening into multi paths yesterday 
starting about 1800 UTC and running until after 0400 UTC. I will be posting 
some of my results on my personal blog page since most of it is non-mil. 
Looking at my database, ham spots and logs I made from the rest of the 
opening I believe our 38.5 MHz intercept may have been from our northeast. 
PL tone was 151.4 Hz. They said that the weather for today would be cool (48 
degrees) and wet (op apologized to someone on the range). It was one busy 
channel. Anybody in the northeast monitoring a range up there with a 151.4 
Hz PL?

Also had my old friend Fort Hood Range on 30.450 showed up

Other intercepts:
31.450    Range freq (146.2 Hz PL)
34.100    mentioned the Command Post, no PL
34.300    Unknown user/usage
34.840    Several keups of a carrier, but no PL
41.750    Unknown user/usage

This was my first test of working skip with the BCD996T scanner and wow, it 
did a fabulous job. The 996 and a Grove Scantenna was a nice setup. The 
BCD996T is a very impressive radio. That near instaneous PL/DCS decode is 
just super working an opening like this. It really allows you to move around 
more during the opening. The 796 just takes way to long to cycle through a 
decode when you are working a skip opening. Looks like my 796 will be 
relegated to a pure milair function now. Those chain searches will be turned 
into mil sat band chain searches, 225-400 MHz ATC freqs, and selected 
138-144/148-150.8 LMR discretes. I am determined to find all these new hot 
CAP narrowband freqs. ;-)))

Hope the band opens up again today and tomorrow for the ARRL VHF QSO party. 
I will be running EM85. Maybe I will catch a few of you in the test.

73 all and good hunting.

Larry

PS It is 0839 and I just had an SS taxi dispatcher pop up on 35.920 MHz. 
Looks like we are fixing to get started early today. Get those scanner 
loaded up and enjoy the skip opening.

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
ATC (AW)      USN (Ret)
MT Milcom/Help Desk Columnist
Assistant Editor Monitoring Times
Blog Address: http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/
Founding Father Milcom/Fedcom/Trunkcom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duke Rumley" <ai4dr at oldspooksandspies.org>
To: "RadioMonitors" <RadioMonitors at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "MilCom" <MilCom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:58 PM
Subject: [MilCom] 38.5 AGAIN


10JUN06

0053Z - 38.5 MHz - "RANGE CONTROL this is RANGE 23"

Duke
NC
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