6230 frequency is active at the moment, I've been recording on video
tape for my sound byte collection.. 10 hrs I got atleast .

I would try the 4741 freq but I work overnights so I cannot.

Last year at www.boingboing.net I saw an article about somebody at
NASA developed some sort of new small bent wire antenna.
cuhulin

On 7 Mar 2005 09:14:25 -0800, "RedOctober"
wrote:

I heard one guy mention "ASW ex" Which is probably an Anti Sub Warfare
practice operation. This was on 6230.

I thought the #Monitor group closed up shop and moved to #Wun? I
stopped going after a very childish incident caused a "Split" to two
rooms... very childish.. I have very little time for that kind of
nonsense.

Basically, there was a guy in #monitor who either wouldn't or couldn't
stop subjecting other users in the channel to various types of
ridicule and abuse, so he was booted off the channel. He and some of
his friends decided to go start their own channel where they could be
free to hurl whatever insults they wanted at people. As far as I know,
they're still there. The rest of us are in #monitor and the #monitor
channel on zIRC is linked to the original #monitor on IRCnet as well
as to #monitor on DalNET and StarChat.

Where you are naturally welcome to come join us anytime. :-)

73 de John, KC2HMZ, KNY2VS
zIRC #monitor Group

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

On 7 Mar 2005 09:14:25 -0800, "RedOctober"
wrote:

I heard one guy mention "ASW ex" Which is probably an Anti Sub Warfare
practice operation. This was on 6230.

Have now listened to 6230 for long enough to draw the following
conclusions:

1. The net is being relayed somehow - either on landline or through
other means. This is because station DELTA asked for a repeat of a
transmission from ECHO FOXTROT (the apparent net control) by saying,
"I have a ten-second delay" and also, I have heard feedback noises and
rushing sounds characteristic of technical problems often evident with
such relays (think 8971.0 and the whales back in 1999 or so)

2. This sounds like a LINK-11 voice coordination net to me...multiple
references to the "gator playground", or just "the playground" or "the
gator" (those are dead giveaways), also "SIX CHARLIE BRAVO will assume
the callsign and parameters of HOTEL", and ECHO FOXTROT asking ALPHA
if she had a "good picture".

3. EF is the apparent NCS with A, D, M, L also in the net. Note single
letter callsigns. The other callsigns being heard (like SIX CHARLIE
BRAVO) are calls being used by stations before they have a PU in the
gator, then they assume a single-letter callsign.

73 de John, KC2HMZ, KNY2VS
zIRC #monitor Group