On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:55:17 -0400, dxAce wrote:



Howard wrote:

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:43:29 -0400, dxAce wrote:



HankG wrote:

I started monitoring 11.175 at 14:50z and heard a message of 217 characters,
(the longest message I've ever heard--previous longest was about 120). This
message was heard on this frequency only. During the repeat message, Offutt
came up with other message traffic. This message was heard on 5
frequencies. This is unusual. I had never heard two different EAMs go out
on 11.175 at the same time. I have heard the same message slightly delayed
(receiving 2 stations). After their first message, Offutt came up with a
Sky King call.

Back to the first: shortly after, a message of 48 characters was heard,
after which the party signed off. He had ID'd himself as 'bee bread'. He
then said, "Bee Bread standing by for traffic". No response.

Both Bee Bread and Offutt have continued to rebroadcast those 2 messages
over and over. I have heard messages repeated but not like this.

After Bee Bread's signoff, he stood by for traffic. After a pause I heard
him say, 5 Romeo Alpha, I have you Lima Charlie. Short pause, then signoff.
Must be working duplex as nothng was heard from 5RA.

16:25z, Offutt broadcast a Sky King call.

developing....

Nothing terribly unusual about that traffic at all.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I don't know if it's unusual as I am not often home at this time to
listen so there goes my 'baseline' for comparison. I too am not
accustomed to hearing 'standing by for traffic' but just consider it
a bonus as it's something different from what I normally hear.
Perhaps due to the duration of the message they are just ensuring
that anyone who had traffic during the message knows to come forward
with it.

On the other hand, it could be a call to arms in support of a US
invasion of Canada 8-}

That may very well be. It is certainly a day for high traffic on 'Triple 1' though,
but I've noticed the same in the past.

And most times when there is a high degree of traffic you just scratch your head
and wonder what is going on. In most instances there is nothing to correlate it to.

But, who knows.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Agreed, hard to correlate especially being that we don't know the
actual content of the messages. One thing that comes to mind however
is previous discussion on this group (not recent) that an indicator of
something noteworthy happening is the lack of activity on the HF
system due to truly sensitive information is via secure satellite
link. In any case, there is a lot to listen to today.