Subject: 325.965/359.750 WBFM Footwork & ??? in N. Va. 4/1 At 2137z carrier popped up on 325.965 at S-4. Carrier also present on 359.750 in SSB mode at S-1. At 2137z on the 325 Orderwire heard Happy Day, (probably Primary NAOC), calling Footwork, (Waldorf). Happy Day told Footwork that it was the SHF Operator, and he was not getting any dial tones on his FDMA. Footwork told Happy Day that he would look into it. At 2139z heard phone call on 326.0095USB. At 2158z the 359 carrier was at S-4. At 2200z heard phone call on 326.0082USB. At 2202z heard phone call on 326.0080USB. At 2219z heard phone call on 326.0064USB. At 2220z the 325 carrier dropped, the 359 carrier was still present at S-1 in SSB mode. Earlier today I took my AOR AR8200 to work to monitor AF1's trip to Norfolk, Va. A carrier popped up on 267.615 at 1300z. The carrier dropped at 1644z. No Orderwire traffic was heard. At 1938z a carrier popped back up on 267.615 and dropped at 2016z. Again no Orderwire traffic was heard. I ran a tape for one hour this morning and my wife started a tape at 1920z so I could record the Orderwire traffic if any. I'll let you know if anything is on them. The reception at work on 267 is awful. There is a lot of RF "noise" present and the 8200 has an S reading of 3/4 to 5/8s full scale with no signal present. When the carrier popped up it was full scale but had a lot of hash on it. I could have missed some traffic due to the hash or when I had to leave the office. We'll see. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 305.550/230.650 WBFM Mail Call & Wire Barb in N. Va. 4/5 - 6 At 2310z found WBFM carriers on 305.550 with crickets at S-8 & 230.650 at S-1. Between 2326z and 2340z heard 5 phone calls on 305.5726LSB dealing with SATCOM configurations of the ports for their modem and also the link with Fort Belvoir. At 2345z heard phone call on 305.5994USB, "Apparently they're still working with Belvoir, my boss said he's seen the same pattern before and normally it's an incompatibility with the ports". At 2347z heard phone call on 305.5812LSB, "I'm about 15 mins. out now from your location" "Whenever you're respotted we'll be ready to load bags" We have most of the baggage with them". At 2358z heard phone call on 305.5759USB, "We have some equipment that you may need upon arrival of Nightwatch". "We never had information about Nightwatch arriving". "We do have information that another aircraft is coming in". "Are they going to need any support that you know of?" "If I needed more information on Nightwatch departures and arrivals, what would be a good number to call?" At 2359z heard phone call on 305.5627LSB. At 0003z heard phone call on 305.5890LSB. At 0005z heard phone call on 305.5728LSB, More port talk. At 0009z heard phone call on 305.5759USB, "I'll be on 230.650 and receiving on 305.550" "OK, thanks" Heard both sides of call. At 0016z heard phone call on 305.5891LSB, "The Principal has category 148, number 2 on your list has category 14. 5 has category 14, everybody else does not have ????? as far as I know". At 0028z heard phone call on 305.6054LSB. At 0032z heard phone call on 305.6054LSB, More port talk. "That's right, 29HM" At 0038z heard phone call on 305.5813LSB. At 0040z heard phone call on 305.5813LSB. At 0041z heard phone call on 305.5816LSB. At 0129z on the 305 Orderwire Waldorf gave a couple of "Rogers". At 0200z on the 305 & 230 Orderwires heard Wire Barb (Primary NAOC), and Mail Call (Waldorf). Wire Barb informed Mail Call that they were airborne and headed towards Hackberry. At 0220z on the 305 & 230 Orderwires heard Wire Barb tell Mail Call that it was the SHF operator, he has a good MUX lock. He would like a Down Line Load, he's getting a port 13 & 14 incompatible. At 0224z heard on the 305 Orderwire Mail Call tell Wire Barb that it looks like it's stuck in the activating mode. At 0225z heard Mail Call on the 305 Orderwire tell Wire Barb that he now has a loss of frame. Mail Call asked what configuration they were in. At 0230z heard on the 305 Orderwire Mail Call transition Wire Barb into Hackberry. The carrier then dropped. Came home at 1930z for a couple of minutes and found the 305.550 and 230.650 carriers back. At 1946z heard phone call on 305.5724LSB, "How is your INMARSAT system working?" "Did you ever get that problem straightened out were it doesn't request a secure channel every time?" "That's a bad thing" "That is not stable, on ours we'll hit a star, there's a dialing sequence for us to request VIP from air to ground" "What channel system do you have?" "A 5 channel system?" "You got the Honeywell?" "Has the reliability been pretty good on that?" At 1948z heard phone call on 305.5755USB, "Is there any Air Attache' or DAO there?" "Hello sir this is Major Name, I'm with the E4, right now we're at Andrews and we're going to be leaving to come into there by 7 o'clock 7:30 tomorrow morning." "I understand you probably are swamped with all kinds of requests and airplanes." "The other E4 that came in and left was our sister ship and she's on her way back now". "We're bringing another party in which I'm sure you got a message on but we're due to arrive in the morning about 7:30." "That would be your local time". "As far as I know that has ben sent out, my main, what I'm trying to do is make sure that you are aware of our requirements for servicing and did you have any information for me as far as parking and hotel arrangements and what not". "No sir, we've been on the road here so we, I don't have anything back saying she got it." Well we're going to be leaving the Base OPS here in just a few minutes so the best way to get a hold of us is to call the, let me give you the NAOC number back at Offutt and they will be able to give you a good phone number to be able to contact us on the airplane." "The commercial number at Offutt is 402-294-6293". "Our callsign will be SAM 95" . "OK thanks sir, bye,bye". Had to hit the road, put in tapes to record 2 hours worth of Orderwire traffic. If there's anything good on them I'll let you know. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 326.000/382.350 WBFM Wave Heat & Man Fish in N. Va. 4/7 Took the 8200 to work and got a chance to play. At 1635z heard phone call 326.0338LSB, "This is Capt. Name over at Raytheon, it's 12:30 here in Washington. A question for you, a couple of things, You're on 787? OK never mind. I'm trying to find out about the trip, I'm trying to get a hold of Col. Name, I've got some issues about the SHF not working properly yesterday. Did they ever get that resolved? Tony had called me yesterday before he left on the other bird and said you were having problems with 2702 as well. I assume you couldn't get that resolved because you had bigger problems." The Capt. was then put in touch with a Sgt. "I heard you had some stuff not working to well with the SHF yesterday. Everything?, OK. I understand you were SSMA, you weren't trying FDMA? Oh, did you? Wow, OK. The other issue was Tony had told me before he left, the other bird, that he got FDMA up. I assume he was up with Fort Meade, they were having problems with Ft. Meade, they've been having problems for over a week now. Yeah, that was an interesting thing ????? up with the same GEP. They are both going to be up FDMA then? Oh, OK. I was going to say that would do a dance(?) on the entire network then. Did you ever get FDMA up for a while? Did you ever get the 270..., I'm getting an echo here now. They did something. Did you ever get the 2702 up and operational? Did you try that? I had been working with Name over at the Pentagon yesterday after Tony told me you were having problems with that. They had a mismatch supposedly up at Fort Detrick sending it to Camp Roberts and sent it down to Fort Belvoir. Well, this was earlier yesterday afternoon I'm not sure what time you were trying it. I had a call back by about 3 o'clock that they had found a mismatch at Ft. Detrick. I was under the assumption they were having a problem as well that when they tried calling of course they were getting busy, so I had them troubleshoot it from their end as well. Do you know if they had UHF SATCOM problems also. I guess you guys were using INMARSAT. I thought 125 had INMARSAT. Oh, OK. I can imagine. Yeah, unfortunately you get the opportunity to shine (laughing) and it doesn't work. Yeah, I know, it's ashame that it has to happen at those times, at the least it leaves a bad taste in their mouths, if they had flown with you a couple of times and it's working great and then one time it doesn't work well then you go sh*t happens. So, you heading back this afternoon? Now, the one that went over with Tony that's got INMARSAT, doesn't it? 787? OK. Yeah, Tony had sent me an email telling me that they had FDMA up, that's how I know they had it up. I haven't received any response. I guess they are due over there at midnight. OK, thanks for the information, have a good one, bye." At 1648z heard phone call on 326.0177LSB. At 1718z heard on the 326 Orderwire Wave Heat (Waldorf), calling and telling Man Fish (Primary NAOC), that he has a thousand cycles at zero coming at him. Wave Heat asked Man Fish what kind of trouble he was having. Wave Heat asked if they would answer if he plugged into it. He than asked if he plugs into their circuit and goes off hook with a test circuit would they answer him. "They won't get too upset if I do that will they?" Wave Heat then told Man Fish he was calling in on it now. He didn't hear anything or get any response form "them" so he doesn't know whether they weren't answering or if they didn't hear him. He said he should be coming to him right now, he's hearing background noise. Man Fish should see Wave Heat giving an off hook. At home heard at 1925z on the 326 & 382 Orderwires Wave Heat telling Man Fish that he has all stations up looking for them on their way back. Man Fish told Wave Heat that they are headed straight across, if anything changes he'll let Wave Heat know. At 1925z heard on 326.0392LSB, "All conferees standby" "This is Man Fish with a message of seven groups, standby" repeated twice, then "Message follows, YJ5X3MTKMRTYO36NHNRSL, acknowledge ????? repolling ?????, Air Force, NORAD US SPACECOM, (NORAD needed a repeat of the message because of background noise, there was a loud pulsing sound during the whole conference call) STRATCOM, Nose Cone, (Nose Cone needed a repeat because of background noise), Shack Rat(?), Rose Stem(?), Command Center." Then "All Conferees standby, This is Nightwatch with a message of seven groups, message follows YJ5X3MTKMRTYO3JNHNRSL acknowledge Command Center, NORAD US SPACECOM, (he needed a repeat of the last 13), Box Car, Air Force, SPACECOM Special Activities, (He asked NORAD to pass onto SPACECOM), Shack Rat(?)", He then asked someone to pass it on to Toe Jam, then "Man Fish out". If you notice figure number 15 is different in both messages. the first message it's 6, the second it's J. At 1937z heard phone call on 326.0347USB, YL (tape maybe) with "LG6S4W Standby" numerous times. Then at 1939z an OM came on with "Message follows, LG6S4WAES7CBSAEAEHRKCCDVDVLW6C, I say again", he then repeated the message. Then "This is A acknowledge 5, He then called D, N, G, no replies from any. He repolled 5, He then repolled N, N answered with S, G replied with ??, R replied with U, Y replied with X, W replied with F, J unheard, Q replied with L, 7 replied with 6, He then repolled G and J, no replies. Then "This is A out". At 1945z heard phone call on 326.0314LSB. At 1946z heard phone call on 326.0314LSB, "You'll be back at 1700L?" At 1947z heard phone call on 326.0314LSB. At 1950z on the 326 & 382 Orderwires heard Wave Heat telling Man Fish that it's getting close to transition time. At 1950z heard phone call on 326.0150LSB. At 1951z heard phone call on 326.0394LSB, "Message seven groups please. Yes, go ahead. Got a good copy of seven groups, some people in the conference had a question the way it decoded I think they may have decoded it wrong." At 1953z heard phone call on 326.0150LSB. At 1955z heard phone call on 326.0314LSB. At 1956z heard on the 326 Orderwire Wave Heat telling Man Fish that he needs to transition him. The carrier then dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.615/355.000 WBFM, Wave Heat & AF1 in N. Va. 4/17 At 0350z found WBFM carriers on 267.615 at S-8 & 355.000 at S-2. At 0411z heard phone call on 267.6590LSB, "More then likely nothing healed, probably need maintenance to reseat the card, that would probably be the best thing to do." "Just let them know that it's working now for them." "That's one problem, now how about that LTD?" "Is that looking pretty good still?" "Ken just said by rules it has to be broken when it lands for it to be really written up." "Ha Ha Ha Ha" "Bye" At 0420z heard on the 267 & 355 Orderwires heard AF1(YL OP), inform Wave Heat (Waldorf), that they are on the ground at 0419. At 0425z heard on the 267 Orderwire Wave Heat telling AF1 to give him a second to set up. At 0426z heard on the 267 Orderwire Wave Heat tell AF1 he's ready when AF1 is, the carrier then dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 232.760/357.700 WBFM Stag Hound & ????? in N. Va. 4/19 At 1425z found WBFM carriers on 232.760 at S-8 & 357.700 at S-6. At 1441z heard phone call on 232.8003USB, "I just wanted to find out what your druthers were as far as leaving for the simulator here. Is he standing by, oh OK. Hey Sir, sorry bout that. I was hoping you be in the middle of a flare and your getting ready to touch down, ha ha ha, when you got the page. I forgot you were flying this morning on the local. I just wanted to touch base with you real quick to see if you had any special requests as far as our simulator time there. That's the exact flight tat Col. Name and myself are going on, I think it's like 6:58. That puts us into Denver around 9 pm sir. OK, super, when you coming back Fri. night or Sat. morning? OK, I'll set it up. OK, alright sir sorry to bother, bye." At 1458z heard on the 232 Orderwire Heavy Arm, (Probably Primary NAOC), calling Stag Hound, (Waldorf). Heavy Arm passed along a "flight" for Stag Hound. "Station Boat, he'll be coming up at this station, Ball Foot, he'll be coming up with a 5B minus Nightwatch 1 & 2, RF 3 at 1800z." At 1504z the 232 carrier dropped, the 357 carrier was at S-4, the 357 carrier faded away at 1509z. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 305.550/230.650 WBFM, Leg Brace and Falatia(?) in N. Va. 4/29 At 2030z found WBFM carriers on 305.550 at S-6, with crickets on the Orderwire, and 230.650 at S-2. At 2031z the 230 carrier was in the mud. Leg Brace landed at Andrews(?). At 2033z heard phone call on 305.5725LSB. At 2044z heard phone call on 305.5970LSB, or there abouts, secure comms. At 2048z heard on the 305 and 230 Orderwires Leg Brace, (Primary NAOC), inform Falatia, (Waldorf), that they are headed towards Sign Post. The 230 carrier was at S-8. At 2052z the 230 carrier was at S-9 +50. At 2056z heard phone call on 305.5998USB, or there abouts, secure comms. At 2059z heard phone call on 305.5839USB. At 2110z heard phone call on 305.5839USB, "This is Leg Brace with a Communications Flash Test Call, as your command is called report on the audibility of the conference, STRATCOM, Europe, SOUTHCOM, Pacific, Biography, Space Command Special Activities, US SPACECOM (NORAD US SPACECOM responded :>) ), CENTCOM, ACOM (Atlantic responded), Special OPS, Granville, Road Way(?), TRANSCOM, Command Center." They all responded loud and clear except CENTCOM, Leg Brace repolled CENTCOM. No reply form CENTCOM. Command Center came on and said that CENTCOM is not shown in the conference. Leg Brace asked Command Center if he would like to hold a conference. Command Center said negative, he could not bring them back in. Then, "Leg Brace has all conferees loud and clear except CENTCOM this terminates the conference, Leg Brace out." At 2112z on the 305 and 230 Orderwires heard Leg Brace ask Falatia if he sees him in Sign Post. Falatia told Leg Brace he's just starting to pick him up in Sign Post. Leg Brace said that he'll wait a few more. At 2115z the 230 carrier dropped into the mud. At 2119z heard on the 305 Orderwire Falatia calling Leg Brace. Falatia told Leg Brace that the signal is starting to degrade, he's got a better signal at Sign Post. The 305 carrier then dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>)