[Scan-DC] HF-GCS Question RE: Callsign

[Larry Van Horn, N5FPW]

> heard a callsign FASTBALL or FAST BALL. Who uses this?

It is one of the daily changing tactical callsign used by Command and
Control assets of our US military. By their nature, these calls mask the
true identity of the asset using them. In other words, it is classified and
by design, you and I will never know for sure what unit we are listening to.
This is just one call word of thousands in a classified document that these
units draw on randomly.

73 de Larry

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
ATC (AW)      USN (Ret)
MT Milcom/Help Desk Columnist
Assistant Editor Monitoring Times
Blog Address: http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/
Founding Father Milcom/Fedcom/Trunkcom
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From: "jay dehm" <dehmmy.qth at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 8:59 AM
Subject: [Scan-DC] HF-GCS Question RE: Callsign


>I heard a callsign FASTBALL or FAST BALL. Who uses this? I can't seem
> to find it. And take it easy.. I'm new to mil HF...
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