[MilCom] List Participation

[Jack L. Metcalfe]

>---- Original Message ----- From: "Milair" <aerocom at xs4all.nl>
>To: <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 9:27 PM
>Subject: [MilCom] ZESTY 81 flight
>
>
>Don't want to start a "flame-war" this Memeorial Day weekend, but
>what happened to our original list ??? Come on guys/gals, we should
>be able to do much better !!
>
>We can share logs, movements, pre-sets, frequency cards, air-to-air
>frequencies and much more here on this list, but please get involved.
>At the moment I think this list is really going down, only 20-25 or
>so regular posters are keeping this list alive. I consider myself one
>of these posters, but this could really be my last post. Sorry.
>
>Sad wishes from the Netherlands,
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The main problem is that this sort of list (I'm talking about VHF & 
UHF postings) is only really relevant on a local or at
best regional level.  I'm never going to hear anything beyond 300 
miles or so, depending on the altitude of the aircraft, so
what somebody is hearing daily in Seattle, for instance, is totally 
meaningless to me.  Posting air/air frequencies might
be helpful if say a west coast aircraft is heading east, but those 
type of transient comms aren't what most people are
wanting to hear, in my opinion.

HF Milcom logs are probably more relevant to this list, since they 
have a better chance of being heard over long distances,
but there are very few that post that sort of info here and they 
don't seem to generate much interest.  I even had somebody
criticize me once for posting Canadian Military ground station comms 
here, because they weren't aircraft!
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Jack L. Metcalfe
Stanford, KY
jlmetcalfe at hughes.net
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