Heads up, Florida-Georgia for Cruise Missile Test Launch
 

USAF and Navy assets will participate in a Cruise Missile Test Launch
tomorrow. As usual, it will be controlled out of Eglin's CCF. Look for them to
use their usual freqs Tac 1: 254.2, and Tac 2: 234.6. Callsigns will be Widget
48 and O2K, controlled by Eglin's CCF.
The comms today on those freqs were a dress rehearsal for the mission
tomorrow.
Tomorrow's comms should be heard over a wide area and for quite a while;
many practice routes are flown before the "bird" is actually lofted. Typically
the "bird" is lofted from a ship off-shore Florida's east coast, and it travels
across peninsular Florida to a target on Eglin's test range. You will hear the
acft "chasing" the bird and reporting coordinates through its flight, but the
coordinate-positions are passed in coded symbols. There will be lots of comms
(many more than today) because many more chase acft will be involved.
I will post the HF freq to be used tomorrow as soon as I confirm it.

AL STERN Satellite Beach FL (28-11N 80-36W) monitoring
 Patrick AFB (KCOF)  NASA-KSC Shuttle Landing Facility (KX68)
 Avon Park Bombing Range (KAGR)  Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (KXMR)
 JSTARS E-8 Acft Integration Facility, Melbourne IAP (KMLB)
 Worldwide Military HF Communications
 Life Member: Missile, Space and Range Pioneers.
 http://hometown.aol.com/allanstern/m...age/index.html (My Freqs)
 http://hometown.aol.com/scanaddict/index.html (My Equipment)

Allan Stern wrote:

USAF and Navy assets will participate in a Cruise Missile Test Launch

Aren't these launches in the ETR classified?

Art

Art Harris wrote:
Allan Stern wrote:


USAF and Navy assets will participate in a Cruise Missile Test Launch


Aren't these launches in the ETR classified?

Art


Not Missile tests, you'll find them published well in advanced in NOTAMS
(depending on the missile's course). Also all the comms leading up to
a missle test as well as the day of the test are 99.9% in the clear on
the standard Mil freqs....

And when you think about it there really is no reason to classified a
cruise missile test. Plus if I"m flying anywhere near the route of a
missles path during a test I DO NOT WANT IT CLASSIFIED! And the route
of cruise missile tests here in Florida generally take paths through air
space typically used by General Aviation planes....

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com

Allan Stern wrote:

USAF and Navy assets will participate in a Cruise Missile Test Launch

Aren't these launches in the ETR classified?


This launch was not classified, and most of the Cruise Missile Test Launches
are not. There still are some classified launches in the ETR though.
Years back we would set up with cameras, telescopes and radios on the beach
on the day of a classified launch, and it perplexed officials that some of us
were aware of the upcoming secret launch. We had some pretty exciting days here
during the infancy of KSC and the ETR.

AL STERN Satellite Beach FL (28-11N 80-36W) monitoring
 Patrick AFB (KCOF)  NASA-KSC Shuttle Landing Facility (KX68)
 Avon Park Bombing Range (KAGR)  Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (KXMR)
 JSTARS E-8 Acft Integration Facility, Melbourne IAP (KMLB)
 Worldwide Military HF Communications
 Life Member: Missile, Space and Range Pioneers.
 http://hometown.aol.com/allanstern/m...age/index.html (My Freqs)
 http://hometown.aol.com/scanaddict/index.html (My Equipment)