[MilCom] Help with ID Please

[Jack L. Metcalfe]

At 12:15 PM 3/13/2008, Ed Langworthy wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I had a scanner searching UHF milair and it kept locking up on
>255.550 but I couldn't make out the comms until I switched to
>NFM mode.  Then I could hear the comms fine but it is some
>people talking in a foreign language.  Sounds like Spanish.
>
>I thought I may be getting some kind of shortwave interference
>on the scanner so I tried that freq on four different scanners and 
>it is received on ALL of them which rules out a scanner specific image.
>
>Does anyone know who may be using 255.550 NFM with
>Spanish sounding accents??  Could it possibly be a ship off the
>coast of Maine?  I will try to get some voice on an mp3 to help with an ID.
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Probably SATCOM transmission.
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Jack L. Metcalfe
Stanford, KY
jlmetcalfe at hughes.net
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