[MilCom] Re: [RadioMonitors] from another group

[Duane Mantick]

When you actually look at the HUGE amount of radio spectrum that the military has access to, the "standard known channels" used by one base
are a minute fraction of what they CAN use.  If they don't want people who know
those "standard channels" to hear something, it won't be there.  Add
to that various digtal, spread spectrum and agile frequency-hopping
modes (some of which may themselves be classified) hearing *nothing*
does not surprise me in the least in the context that you mentioned.

"global gamesmanship", which would seem to be what that document was
suggesting, is another matter entirely.  The military might still be
able to contain its *own* communications but can't necessarily do 
diddly squat about communications both military and civilian in another
nation but try and jam them. That in itself is a huge red flag.  Once
you get to that point, hiding that there ARE communications gets more
pointless by the minute but keeping them scrambled/encrypted still 
makes sense.  In any case, the communications and possible jamming
attempts would escalate rapidly.........and I don't think we have seen
any evidence of this being presented.

Duane
WB9OMC



--- On Tue, 6/24/08, KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [MilCom] Re: [RadioMonitors] from another group
> To: milcom at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 10:47 PM
> : Speaking as a radio monitor, I did not hear any unusual
> amounts of UHF
> : or VHF traffic heading to Mt. Weather Friday, nor did
> another local
> : monitor who lives even closer than I do to the facility,
> in fact it
> : was pretty quiet all over around here that day.
> 
> 
> Speaking of such things...
> 
> One night while passing a major weapons storage area in
> Nevada, a large
> bright white light appeared from nowhere in the sky over
> the facility came
> in close and shadowed an air-craft.  Lights came on all
> over the base and
> weapons storage area, stobes, rotating lights, trucks
> scrambling everywhere,
> lights on bunkers, stuff you never knew was there, looked
> like a bloody
> disco...  Nothing on the radio, nothing heard by any of the
> several radio
> monitors in and around the area during the event.
> 
> What and where are the comms when it REALLY hits the fan?
> 
> Kurt
> 
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