[Premium-Rx] Chirpsounders

[jmcvein at teleport.com]

Y'all
      It seems that Chirpsounder has been replaced by ALE.  
Where, instead of continuously sweeping the whole hf band, the 
practise has evolved into rapidly checking the channels that you 
can/the USAF etc. DO use/work.  In the USAF's use, they are in 
plum positions about 1/2 octave apart and are really HF backup 
channels to UHF or sattelite when out of the CONUS.
     Other US Gov/MIL services have seemed to leave HF radio.
I have heard  (from here) Crapola out of the mil HF band.  I (for a bit)
do wish I were back in Dublin, IE, where I heard US Cabinet 
members on AF1 on a a phone patch to Andrews AFB in plain text
on 11175kHz.

Jim McVein
Guinness is good for you.
So is radio.
Vancouver, WA
jmcvein at teleport.com