I listened on the freq early this morning and nothing was going on, the same this evening,
though at 2250 or so there were a few times when someone keyed up a transmitter as though
testing it a few times (CW), and that was it. So... perhaps the little excersise is over.
They'll be back though. They always are.

RedOctober90 wrote:

Hey N8KDV thanks for the info, it's always handy to know.

But... what exactly is the purpose of this net? The first time I heard
the Navy on HF was during the USS Enterprise Strike group tests a few
months back.

I hear it again tonight, the tactical callsigns and the numbers.

N8KDV wrote in message ...
US Navy

Joe Guthart wrote:

I am now picking up at around S9 in Jacksonville, FL (2316 utc) ...
definitely not amateurs ... strange!

Joe
KG4YJS - Drake R8B

"RedOctober90" wrote in message
om...
Hello

I was tuning through the bands and came across a net on 3266usb around
0200z. 11/17/03 (UTC) What I was hearing was a net control and several
rather weak stations in the background. Mostly phonetics and numbers
were spoken, rarely actual words except for when the net control
sounded like he was helping someone troubleshoot a satellite or
something like this. Other words were "Roger" and "standy"

The callsigns were like "Mike Echo Whiskey"... it wasn't a MARS net.
I've on occasion run into similar nets as these were it's all
phonetics and numbers. And apparently this area of the band has been
known to be used by the US Government.

It continued well after 0400z when I tuned out for bed.


Any ideas?


73