[Scan-DC] Hurricane Isabel

Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:59:49 -0400

> Hurricane hunters?
 > 14.325 MHz
>yup

Nope!!

Sorry, but 14.325 kHz is the ham hurricane net and the HH aircraft do
not operate on this net. Since Miami Monitor was done away with several
years ago after Andrew destroyed their HF antennas and meteo data (i.e.
vortex, dropsonde etc) are passed as data on the UHF milsatcom links, we
haven't seen near the activity from the HH folks on HF. But your best
bet these days is to monitor the USAF phone patch frequencies. Friday as
the first HH entered Isabel, they were on 13927 kHz USB running phone
patch traffic to the Weather Channel (live interview from the eye of the
storm). We have seen these folks carrying the bulk of the phone patch
traffic for the HH aircraft these days. Keep an eye on the frequencies
below for hurricane hunter aircraft phone patch traffic.

From my military/government frequency/callsign list in the WUN monthly
newsletter:

Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS)
======================================
You will also find a considerable amount of military aircraft voice
traffic (official and unofficial) on the U.S. Air Force Military
Affiliate Radio System (MARS) phone patch network frequencies: The
primary frequencies are 13927.0 and 20992.0 kHz. These are fun and
interesting frequencies to monitor. The complete list with designators
are: (mode is USB)

Freq Designator
4557.0 RK
7633.5 ACJ
13927.0 ACB (Primary)
14606.0 ACF
20992.5 ACZ
MARS conducts a phone patch admin net on Sundays at 1600 UTC on 13977.0
kHz (ACC).

And for those interested from our ARRL SEC -- official NC Section HF net
frequencies are as follows: 
3573 kHz -- Carolinas Net (CW) -- 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm 
3695 kHz -- Carolinas Slow Net (CW) -- 8:00 pm 
3923 kHz -- North Carolina Evening Net (LSB) -- 6:30 pm 
3923 kHz -- Tar Heel Emergency Net (LSB) -- 7:30 pm plus whenever
activated 
3927 kHz -- North Carolina Morning Net (LSB) -- 7:45 am 
7232 kHz -- Tar Heel Emergency Net (LSB) -- whenever activated 

In addition to our official ARRL nets, an independent net, the Coastal
Carolina Emergency Net (3907 kHz LSB) -- 7:00 pm is willing to handle
Health and Welfare traffic. Be aware that most inbound Health and
Welfare traffic is very difficult to deliver. 

73 all and batten down the hatches, 

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
ATC (AW)      USN (Ret)
Brasstown, North Carolina
Monitoring Times Magazine Assistant Editor
MT Milcom/Fed File Columnist/WUN Mil/Gov Columnist
Grove Enterprises Technical Support Department
Telephone: V-828-837-9200/F-828-837-2216/800-438-8155

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:54 AM
To: Randy Benn; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Hurricane Isabel

yup

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Benn" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 08:25
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Hurricane Isabel

: Hurricane hunters?
: 
: > 14.325 MHz
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