[MilCom] List Participation

[Ken]

Hello Jack:

I always enjoy your HF postings to the group.  Unfortunately, I haven't done 
much monitoring on HF for about the last 2 - 3 years.  It seemed as the 
neighborhood got built up with additional homes, the noise level increased, 
including  an intermittent loud buzz sound that is a good s7-s10 on the 
receiver & blocks much of the HF traffic that I use to be able to monitor 
!!!  :(

As far as regional interest in milcom/milair vhf/uhf activities -- it's a 
mixed bag -- For example radio reference wants military loggings placed in 
the respective state list BUT for the most part the general scannerland 
monitoring hobbyists population has very little interest in that 
information -- unless something big happens & than for the most part they 
don't have the equipment capable of monitoring UHF aero or VHF tactical am 
anyways.  As far as the milcom list, here goes I would be interested in 
seeing a MONTHLY SUMMARY detailing active frequencies usage/definition, and 
callsigns (type aircraft/helos) monitored from EVERY geographic area/list 
member and I have made it my goal to support the list with at least a 
monthly summary posting of what I've monitored since January 2004.

My understanding is that some isp/mail services that list participants used, 
for some reason are now being blocked by the qth.net spam software, so this 
may be another part of the reasons for postings being down.

Ken
Springfield MA Monitoring Area
http://westernmass-milcom.blogspot.com/
http://radioscannerland.blogspot.com/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack L. Metcalfe" <jlmetcalfe at hughes.net>
To: <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [MilCom] List Participation


> 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!