[MilCom] Fw: [AMFMTVDX] SPOOKY AM & FM EXPERIMENTS LICENSED IN OK, NM

[Jeramy A. Ross]

Hello all,

   This may be of interest to a few of you.  Seems that USSOCOM is
going to be running experiments via AM/FM and possibly HF stations
located in OK and NM.  See message below.

73's
Jeramy / W5XTL

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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:24:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser 
Subject: [AMFMTVDX] SPOOKY AM & FM EXPERIMENTS LICENSED IN OK, NM


The FCC has licensed some more experimental operations on the MW
broadcast band. Digging deep into FCC info, I find Psyop mentioned in
connexion with this, altho the licensee is the Multi-Spectral
Laboratory in Ponca City of Oklahoma State University whose main field
seems to be sensing. This is part of a 27 megadollar Navy contract, on
behalf of the US Special Operations Command, Charleston SC. The
authorization expires July 1, 2009. 

The consultant making the filings is Dr. Wayne G. Walker, who also
happens to be CEO of Republic Aerospace Corp., Duncan OK.

There are two locations: Chilocco, Oklahoma, which is right at the
Kansas border north of Ponca City, on an abandoned water tower at an
Indian school; and Flying H, New Mexico, which is in the back country
SW of Roswell. 

Both mobile (suspect aeronautical) and fixed are authorized. The same
callsign applies to both locations, WE2XFZ. Like last year`s tone tests
from Virginia on 1610, 1020 and 590 kHz, each of these has three
frequencies at the bottom, middle and top of the band, and ditto FM:

Chilocco, OK: 540, 830, 1680 kHz, 92.3, 99.1, 107.5 MHz  
Flying H, NM: 530, 950, 1680 kHz, 88.3, 97.7, 107.3 MHz

They are using a 2.5 and a 10 kW AM transmitter and 1 kW on FM, 5 kW
ERP. They also mistakenly give ERPs for the MW frequencies.

Tests will consist of 1 kHz tones or audio for 5-10 minutes. The
equipment is capable of transmitting the callsign.

A later filing is for shortwave frequencies too, with 1 kW on USB, LSB,
AME, also from the same two locations, but different callsign, WE2XEV,
on 4015, 4085, 12115, 12185, 22015, 22085, 26115, 26185. NTIA has
accepted these, but two more frequencies have not yet been accepted,
12415 and 12485.

Much more detail from my research into this appears in DX Listening
Digests 7-082 and 7-084, under OKLAHOMA [and non]:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld7082.txt
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld7084.txt

Of course, any successful monitoring of this will be of great interest. 
73, Glenn Hauser, Enid, July 18, 2007


       
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