[MilCom] Fwd: [MilRadioComms] CBP is testing new UAV at Cape Canaveral

[AllanStern at aol.com]

I have figured out what I have been listening  to for the past week, and 
all day long today over Cape Canaveral.
     The US Customs & Border Patrol aircraft  that I have been hearing at 
Cape Canaveral AFS are engaged in test flights  of the unmanned aerial 
vehicles (UAVs) that the US Coast Guard and CBP will be  using.
     These are maritime versions of the Predator-B  drones that CBP has 
been using to monitor the nation's northern and  southern borders since 2005. 
This maritime version of the drones is named  "Guardian."
     Right now "Omaha 58" (UH-60A #86-24558) is up  with "Omaha 12" and 
"Omaha 13."  They have comms with "Guardian CDO" via  136.375.  "CDO" could be 
Customs Drone Ops, as that describes the function  I am hearing.
     At one point Omaha 58 asked Guardian CDO to come  up on Blue 3, and 
they came up on 350.025 MHz. Then they tried 165.2375  MHz.  But they returned 
to 136.375 and have pretty much stuck with that  freq.
     Omaha 58 is preparing to recover the drone now.  

AL STERN  Satellite Beach  FL
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