[MilCom] 22 hour satcom scan

[Frank Cardenas]

Wow, it is amazing to know our government has spent millions of taxpayer's
dollars on a communication system for use by pirates.
>From your report, it looks like they use the system more than our military.
LOL

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 3:26 AM, pdgls <wtulknat at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 22 hours of Conus yielded 21 minutes with only 6 seconds of good clear
> comms
> when Serpent Mobile called Serpent main a couple of times on 258.65.
> Started the recording at 7pm local Thursday and ended at 5pm Friday
> Antenna is a Trivec AV2040-2 Foldable Manpack High-Gain SATCOM Antenna
> Also used a radio shack in-line signal amplifier
> Radio is a Icom IC-R20 with RF gain set to 6, delay at 0 seconds and
> negative delay (that's not what Icom calls it) at 4 seconds.
> Squelch was set to auto.  This seems to cut out much of the secure stuff.
> I guess it thinks it's just noise?
> Only channels locked-out were 256.85 (signal always present), 265.25 (too
> much data transmissions?) and
> 265.55 (carrier often present).
> 258.65 Serpent mobile calling Serpent main, Military secure voice? and
> Pirates
> 262.225 Pirates
> 255.55 Pirates
> 269.65 Military data?
> 267.05 Pirates
> 260.625 Pirates and Military secure voice/data?
> 263.575 Military secure voice?
> 263.825 Military secure voice? and Pirates
> 257.15 Pirates and Military secure voice?
> 260.725 Military secure voice? and Pirates
> 253.85 Pirates
> 262.325 Pirates
> 262.425 Pirates
> 260.475 Military secure voice?
> 252.15 Pirates
> 263.925 Military secure voice?
> Just listen to the first 6 seconds to hear Serpent Mobile.  Continue to
> listen for the rest of the stuff.
> This is not recomended :)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_6wbkK-kkYPaul, near Sacramento California
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