[MilCom] WAS KC-45 Bases; now F-117

[Duane Mantick]

Well, I like Jack's reply as being right on the mark.
While my comments about the communications side of it
were fairly minimal, they WERE there.

Aside from that, a point - perhaps it never occurred
to some people that the more that we know about "our
quarry", so to speak, the more likely we are to find
out WHEN and WHERE to listen, don't'cha think?

Or another way of looking at it - if we don't know
diddly squat about the aircraft and don't share what
we DO know (and feel comfortable with) then why are we
bothering to listen?  That's like watching a pro
sports game on the TV and knowing nothing about the
sport.............

Do we go to airshows just to be so mentally tied up in
our scanners that we *miss* the show in front of us? 
To me, being able to hear the performers falls under
the "value added" department.

As for "routine" listening, and the reporting on it
here, just what *IS* the point of the whole excercise?
Should I really believe that most of the folks here
who listen and report (or lurk, for that matter) are
totally clueless about the rest of the picture, like
the pilots, aircraft, operational matters, etc., OR is
it just remotely possible that monitors of military
communications just might like to know MORE beyond
what comes out of the speaker?

Duane
WB9OMC

--- "Jack L. Metcalfe" <jlmetcalfe at hughes.net> wrote:

> At 10:38 AM 3/11/2008, you wrote:
> >Excuse me gentlemen, what does this have to do with
> military radio 
> >communications?  You guys can have all the opinions
> you want, but it 
> >is just a opinion.  Wait for the facts and please
> take this 
> >private.  This is not meant to start a war, just my
> opinion.
> >Greg
> 
> ---
> What does this have to do with military radio
> communications?  Did 
> you actually read the post?  Wait, I'll interpret it
> and it's 
> actually quite simple.  The F-117s are due to be
> taken out of service 
> in April, so you won't be able to hear (military
> radio 
> communications) them any more.  F-22s are said to be
> the F-117s 
> replacements, so you might start hearing (military
> radio 
> communications) them instead of the F-117s.  Duane
> thinks (comments 
> snipped to get to the point) F-22s as replacements
> for F-117s just 
> doesn't add up & suggests listening (military radio
> communications) 
> for possibly something entirely different.  If that
> doesn't pertain 
> to military radio communications, I'll eat my MILCOM
> hat....even 
> though I don't have one.  Better than that, maybe
> Larry Van Horn can 
> chime in here, after all, MILCOM is his baby.  If
> Larry says it's off 
> topic and all we should be posting are control tower
> frequencies from 
> Alaska, then I promise to go away forever....
> ---
> 
> >Duane Mantick wrote:
> >>--- "Jack L. Metcalfe" <jlmetcalfe at hughes.net>
> wrote:
> >><snip>
> >>
> >>>Change of subject, catch your F-117s while you
> can. The remaining 
> >>>F-117s will be placed into "recallable" storage
> at
> >>>Holloman AFB next month.  Of the original 59
> F-117s, 7 were 
> >>>destroyed (one in combat) 10 were retired in FY
> 2007 & the remainder will go
> >>>this FY.  Holloman may be flying the F-22 as a
> replacement.
> >>>-------------------
> >>>Jack L. Metcalfe
> >>>Stanford, KY
> >>>jlmetcalfe at hughes.net
> >>>-------------------
> ---
> Comment edited:
> 
> >>Jack - replacing the F-117 with F-22 is unlikely -
> so
> >>far as I can tell, the F-22's original F/A
> designation
> >>
> >>indication, at least of training missions....but,
> I
> >>did speculate that good refuelled range may have
> been
> >>a design characteristic.  Listening for "the
> unusual"
> >>in odd places might be of value......
> >>Duane
> 
> 
>
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