On 7 Mar 2005 09:16:51 -0800, "RedOctober"
wrote:

BTW thx for the 4741.5 frequency, I guess this is where the guys on
6230 hang out during the night?

My guess would be the other way around - lower freqs at local night
(where the stations in the net are) since the MUF is generally lower
during the hours of local darkness. During local daylight, when the
sun gets to cooking the layers in the atmosphere, the D-Layer starts
absorbing things while the higher frequencies propagate stuff.

And how regular are these USB nets? I only run into them once a year or
so during operations.

Lately, it's seemed like one or two of these a month has been
reported. By that, I mean one or two times a month a group of surface
ships is found to be running one or more nets like this.

In January we had a carrier battle group running three nets at the
same time, on different freqs - a surface warfare control net, an air
defense net, and a LINK-11 coordination net...all of which resulted
from somone in #monitor reporting that they'd heard the LINK-11 data
signal. I went looking for the voice coordination net to go with it,
and found it in an hour or so, then another guy read about it on the
WUN list and found the air defense net, and so on.

Regardless, it is VERY interesting listening.

If you're into UTE monitoring (as I am), heck, yes. Nothing beats
realtime military tactical comms!

73 de John, KC2HMZ, KNY2VS
zIRC #monitor Group