Subject: 232.760/357.700 WBFM AF1 & Score Card in N. Va. 8/3 At 2150z started picking up carrier on 357.700 in SSB mode at S-1. At 2155z a WBFM carrier popped up on 232.760 at S-8. At 2155z heard on the 232 Orderwire Score Card, (Waldorf), calling AF1 and telling him he was starting to lose him right quick there. Signal was not strong enough on 357 to hear AF1. At 2156z heard on the 232 Orderwire Score Card telling AF1 that he'll take a look at it and get right back to him. At 2158z heard phone call on 232.8162LSB, "The stuff about the AG thing, did you get a lot of questions? ha ha ha, I'm delighted to hear that. I don't think we got much, I certainly didn't. I hope that's the case cause this is one of those protracted things where guidance is still like name wants Podesta to see it at 605. That was from the VP's people. I don't know, I haven't talked to him, maybe I'll give him a ring. O.K., thanks, bye." At 2205z the WBFM carrier on 357.700 was at S-5. At 2205z heard on the 232 & 357 Orderwires, Score Card calling AF1. AF1 answered. Score Card told AF1 that checking that ch. 6 off the RF link he's showing the pilot levels hot there and swinging a little bit. What he's going to have to do is test it once AF1 is down so Score Card can do an RF loop on the system to see if it's in the system or in AF1's MUX. AF1 said that is kind of what he'd like to know if he needs to have his maintenance guys work on it. AF1 says that his board is clear now how long does Score Card need. Score Card says that he's going to have to loop his whole system back on himself, so he's going to have to drop everything. When AF1 get's on the ground could he give Score Card a few minutes to run that. Score Card says that he knows what he could do, he could swing AF1 over to the other system, that will let Score Card check the radio but not the MUX. AF1 says that it's pretty quiet now, if it only takes a few minutes they could drop and come back with Score Card. Score Card says that he'd like to try switching the radios first to see if that makes a difference. If that doesn't make a difference he'll try doing something with the MUX. At 2208z heard on the 232 Orderwire Score coming on and saying that he's ready to switch if AF1 is. No reply from AF1. At 2209z heard on the 232 Orderwire Score Card calling AF1, no reply. At 2212z heard phone call on 232.8029USB, "We got it from Scheduling Staff. I'll wait to hear, because this is going to be a real quick turn around if it's going to be at the Reflecting Pool, trust me. At this point he's going to have to come in to the South Grounds. There's no confusion on our part, we were told this morning by Airlift OPS, we got a call from the Ushers Office saying "Hey, how come you guys elected not to use the South Grounds" and of course our response was "You've got to be fu*king kidding we've been trying to use that for two weeks and they said "Well we're going to call the Scheduling Staff and we're going to call the Military and make this happen for the South Grounds cause we need to use it for the President." And then all of a sudden we got a call from name from Airlift Operations who said definitively it's going to be the South Grounds. We'd adjust real quick because we've got the shift here we'd already send them down. We'll just see you when you get back." At 2214z the 357 carrier was at S-9. At 2215z heard on the 232 Orderwire Score Card calling AF1, no reply. At 2216z heard phone call on 232.8155LSB, "Hey Sir, what's our status? O.K. so you guys are coming onto the South Grounds. O.K. I'm out here at the Reflecting Pool, I can go away? Hey Sir, you know what? You're gonna be a 2 damn Star in about a month or so. You're gonna be a damn 2 Star in about a month. Cause you're my hero. We're out of here, I'm getting these people out of here. I'm going on back to the place sir, O.K.? We got a vehicle out at Andrews waiting also. O.K. you mean how many vehicles we normally put at ????, we didn't send any vehicles to Anancostia. (Starts talking to another guy), Hey name what's up?, we're out here at the Reflecting Pool. Now what about that vehicle we got at Andrews? O.K., but everything else is good to go? O.K. partner I'll see you when you get in. Now what's the status Brother? Motorcade ??????, you guys are coming to the South Grounds. I'm at the Reflecting Pool. Out" At 2223z heard phone call on 232.8020USB. At 2224z heard phone call on 232.7907LSB. At 2226z heard phone call on 232.8018USB. At 2230z heard on the 232 & 357 Orderwires, AF1 calling Score Card. AF1 told Score Card that they are in the blocks at Andrews and have landlines connected does Score Card want to try something with ch. 6 before he terminates? Score Card says that he'd like to change transmitters to see if that makes a difference, he can do that right now if AF1 wants. AF1 says go ahead. Score Card told AF1 to check and see what AF1 has now. AF1 told Score Card that it's somewhat noisy. Score Card said that once AF1 is down he'll run a RF loop and check on the MUX and see what the noise level is on the RF loop. What he could then do is leave a note and call over to AF1's shop tomorrow and let them know whether or not, AF1 broke in and asked if it will take only a few minutes, Score Card said yes. AF1 said why don't they go ahead and drop down and Score Card can call back on one of AF1's landline numbers. Score Card said "Roger that", AF1 gave Score Card two numbers 301-967-7290 or 7291, they'll ring the aircraft direct. Score Card said that he's got it. AF1 said that they can go ahead and terminate now, then AF1 dropped his transmitter. Score Card dropped his a few seconds later. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 325.965/359.750 WBFM 973 & Newspaper in N. Va. 8/5 At 1305z found WBFM carrier on 325.965 at S-6, no crickets, and 359.750 at S-1 in SSB mode. At 1322z heard on the 325 Orderwire Newspaper, (Waldorf), calling 973. Signal was to weak on 359.750 WBFM to hear 973, Newspaper told 973 to let Newspaper "set this thing up to do a graceful shutdown then". Newspaper told 973 that he takes it that 973 will not be coming up anymore today. Newspaper told 973 that he'll shut down on the count of 3. Newspaper counted to 3 and the carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.610-232.710-336.810 WBFM Fruitful & 29000/AF1 in N. Va. 8/6 At work at 1200z found WBFM carrier on 267.610. At 1207z heard on the 267 Orderwire Fruitful, (Waldorf), calling 29000. Apparently no reply. At 1212z heard on the 267 Orderwire Fruitful calling AF1 again, no reply. At 1218z heard on the 267 Orderwire Fruitful calling 29000, no reply. At 1228z heard on the 267 Orderwire Fruitful calling 29000, this time 29000 answered. Fruitful told 29000 that there were some complaints about noise this morning, Fruitful was going to put 29000 in a different rack, he called several times but didn't get any answer. Fruitful can try to put 29000 in a different rack right now. Apparently 29000 said yes, there was a short drop of the carrier and then Fruitful came on and told 29000 that it's done, 29000 is on the other rack. Could 29000 tell Fruitful if the noise clears up if not Fruitful will persue it some other way. Fruitful was listening to some of that stuff this morning and it didin't seem that bad, but events happen. At 1229z heard on the 267 Orderwire Fruitful answering 29000 and saying that it could well be, let him get around to the other side of the counter. I heard Fruitful ask 29000 if he "wants to try...." "yeah that's what I was thinking". Apparently 29000 suggested a different RF. Fruitful said "let me get set up here, O.K., counting 1, 2" The carrier dropped. At 1230z found Fruitful on 232.710. Fruitful told 29000 that it doesn't sound any different on his end. At 1232z heard on the 232 Orderwire Fruitful with "29000 this is Fruitful, Roger ch. 4 pinout". At 1233z heard on the 232 Orderwire Fruitful telling 29000 that ch. 4 is pinned out. This time he was chatting with a YL. Previously he was chatting with an OM. Mam as opposed to Sir. At 1324z heard on the 232 Orderwire Salesman,(Primary NAOC), calling Fruitful. Salesman told Fruitful that it was the SHF (OP) and he wanted the 19.2 MUX to go to Camp Roberts instead of Fort Belvoir. Fruitful said sure, what services does Salesman want on it., the services he has on it now? Salesman said yes, they are just moving to a different station. (Sounds like the Primary is out west somewhere now:>) ) Fruitful asked if he wants all the other services to go or just the MUX first. Salesman said just the MUX first. Fruitful said he'll put it over there. At 1327z heard on the 232 Orderwire Fruitful telling 29000 that he's almost ready, he almost made a big mistake, he'll be right back. He told 29000 that he'll wait for their count. At 1331z heard on the 232 Orderwire Fruitful telling Salesman that it looks like it's running clean. Salesman said that he checked the 4 dial tones and they sound good, he's going to send Fruitful a T triple C. Fruitful said to let him see if he has the T triple C hooked up on that. At 1331z heard on the 232 Orderwire Fruitful calling 29000. Fruitful told 29000 that he's ready, on 3? Fruitful counted to 3 and the carrier dropped. At 1335z a carrier popped up on 336.810. Fruitful told 29000 that there's a little bit of noise on the Orderwire, nothing objectable. They will try this for a while. At 1336z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fruitful calling Salesman. Fruitful told Salesman that he sent a T triple C message. Salesman said he got, he'll send Fruitful one. At 1338z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fruitful calling Salesman. Fruitful told Salesman that on Salesman's T triple C message Fruitful saw something come in go out to the World and come back to him but he never got any message at Waldorf. Salesman said he'll try another one. At 1339z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fruitful telling Salesman he received Salesman's T triple C message. At 1440z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fruitful asking "Station calling Fruitful?" , no reply. Maybe Fruitful was on the wrong network? At 1448z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fruitful calling AF1. Fruitful thanked AF1. Maybe AF1 passing along airborne message? At 1507z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fruitful calling AF1. Fruitful told AF1 "not at this time, I don't see you anywhere except where I have you. I'll look around to see where I can find you. I'll let you know when I see something". At 1512z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fruitful calling AF1. Fruitful told AF1 he has a signal on her at one of the stations. He's going to put her over there. The carrier then dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 336.820/397.050 WBFM Waldorf & AF1 in N. Va. 8/8 At 2325z starting picking up carrier on 397.050 at S-1 in SSB mode, Thanks to Jack Metcalfe for the tip:>) At 2331z a WBFM carrier popped up on 336.820 at S-8. At 2331z heard on the 336 Orderwire Waldorf say "Roger, thank you sir" to AF1. No callword heard for Waldorf. AF1 not heard on 397.050 WBFM, signal not strong enough. At 2339z heard phone call on 336.8486LSB, Gal repeating back exit from Beltway for Andrews AFB. At 2341z heard phone call on 336.8485LSB, Guy on ground, at a Bar in DuPont Circle, on phone talking to some gal, in the bar, after a guy on the plane told him something. I could swear the guy says something along the lines of "You know what?, he said Dorothy or Hillary, but probably Clinton, is the way he put it. (the gal starts laughing), and he's right on the money. Right on the money, cause he knew I wasn't going to be out doing Hillary of course." He then started chatting with the guy on the plane. The guy on the plane told the chap on the ground about some meeting he had and the guy on the ground was flipping out. Telling the guy on the plane it makes it worth while going out on a Sunday. He also asked the guy on the plane if they'll be meeting with their lawyers tomorrow. (Same old stuff for friends of BIll) At 2345z the 397.050 WBFM carrier was at S-4. At 2346z heard phone call on 336.8642LSB. One of the questions asked "What time you leaving tomorrow?" Bill hitting the road again? At 2348z heard phone call on 336.8478LSB. At 2352z the 397 carrier was at S-8. At 2353z the 397 carrier was at S-9 +20. At 2354z heard phone call on 336.8633LSB. At 2354z the 397 carrier was at S-9 + 50. At 2356z heard phone call on 336.8499USB. At 2357z heard phone call on 336.8546LSB, heard both sides of call. Guy told gal they are about to land pick him up at 8:40 on 17th St. between the Corcaran(sp?), and the OEOB. At 0003z heard phone call on 336.8541LSB,heard both sides of this call, gal telling guy on plane that she can't get to where she needs to be at Andrews to pick him up. Chap telling her to go down to the end of the runway, we just landed. She says the guy at the gate told her where to go. The guy says that she should be able to see the plane taxiing on the runway. She says she can't see the runway. The guy says to ask someone on the street for directions. The gal says she sees an Army plane out there. The gall tells the kids in her car that "He's landing guys" The guy asks her if he sees the plane she says no, she asks the kids if they see it. The guy said they are coming down the runway. She hangs up on him. I guess that this call and the previous call where to cell phone in cars with the "hands free" feature, which enabled me to hear both sides. At 0004z heard phone call on 336.8490USB, call to SAM Command. AF1 passed along arrival info to SAM Command and AFOC. At 0005z heard on the 336 Orderwire, Waldorf telling AF1 to go ahead. (didn't hear AF1 on 397 Orderwire). Waldorf told AF1 to give him a call when he's ready to terminate. At 0009z heard on the 397 & 336 Orderwires AF1 saying "Air Force 1 on the Orderwire", rats, no call to Waldorf's callword. Waldorf answered and AF1 told Waldorf they were ready to terminate when Waldorf is ready. Waldorf said that he'll terminate on 3 and look for AF1 tomorrow. Waldorf counted to 3 and the carriers dropped. So Bill is traveling tomorrow. When I find out I'll let those in the path know. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 325.965/359.750 WBFM Fire Hose & 27000 in N. Va. 8/9 At 1332z found WBFM carriers on 325.965 at S-6 & 359.750 at S-4. At 1333z heard phone call on 325.9979USB. At 1334z the 359 carrier was at S-1. At 1420z starting hearing crickets bleeding through onto the 325 Orderwire. At 1442z noticed on the 325 carrier that the MUX circuits were gone, only the carrier and pilot tone were up. At 1516z heard on the 325 Orderwire Fire Hose, (Waldorf), calling 27000, no reply. At 1520z noticed that the MUX circuits had returned. At 1524z the 359 carrier was fluctuating from S-0 to S-2. A/C moving at Andrews? At 1534z the 359 carrier was at S-4. At 1535z heard on the 325 Orderwire Bank Loan, (Primary NAOC), calling Fire Hose. No reply. At 1536z heard on the 325 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose again. This time Fire Hose answered. Bank Loan told Fire Hose that it looks like he has a good MUX lock with him. Fire Hose said "Everything's green here too, that's a scary thought". Bank Loan said that went pretty fast. Fire Hose asked if Bank Loan wanted some dial tones. Bank Loan said, well yeah. Fire Hose said that he has a bunch there, he'll give Bank Loan all of them. Fire Hose asked what channels are they going to use, "7 through all of them?, how you got me configured" Bank Loan said he turned off his port 15 & 16 because they were programmed for 9.6. Bank Loan says he has 7 through 14 available. Fire Hose says he'll give him the dial tones on them then. At 1540z heard on the 325 Orderwire Fire Hose telling Bank Loan his channel configuration. Fire Hose said that he has on port 7 through 11 DDDs, starting at 301-638-0304 on up and on ports 12, 13, & 14 will have Bank Loan's DSNs, 851-3931 on up. Bank Loan asked Fire Hose if there were any data lines for ports 1 through 6. Fire Hose said T triple C should be cut in, let him put an address in for it. He'll give Bank Loan any data lines he wants on any of the rest. Bank Loan said he's not sure if he has the Alpha 2 set up on port 2, he'll ask his operators to see who they want to bring up for port 3. Fire Hose said port 3 should have an AUTODIN on it now, its naturally got an AUTODIN on it but he doesn't see anything happening to it. Bank Loan said that should be Andrews, Fire Hose said right, but he doesn't see anything coming in on it, there's normally data coming in on it. Fire Hose said oh yeah that's the one that actually goes up to Hancock. It used to be Andrews now it's Hancock, and that's wired to port 3. Let Fire Hose put an address on the T triple C and he'll send Bank Loan a message on it. At 1547z heard on the 325 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan asked Fire Hose to resend another message on the T triple C, Bank Loan was not configured at the time. Fire Hose said that he never got a chance to send one, he's had 3 interruptions. He'll be there shortly to send Bank Loan a message. At 1548z heard on the 325 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan told Fire Hose that he checked the channels and they check 5 by. Fire Hose said "Super". Bank Loan asked about the digital side, if they could get 1200, the Hancock. Fire Hose said that it's on there now. Bank Loan asked if they had the Alpha 2 on port 2. Fire Hose asked what they called it, the circuit that goes on port 2, the teletype? Bank Loan said the MWTTY. Fire Hose said he'll get that on there. At 1553z the 359 carrier was at S-8. At 1553z heard on the 325 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan asked if Fire Hose copied his last message. Fire Hose said he hears it ringing, he hasn't had a chance to go read it yet. He has Bank Loan's teletype on port 2, but he doesn't see any data coming from the distant end. On the 24LN, he doesn't see anything coming from the distant end. Bank Loan said that's not a problem right now. Fire Hose will go read Bank Loan's message and get right back to him. At 1554z the 359 carrier was at S-9 + 20. At 1600z heard on the 325 Orderwire Fire Hose calling 27000, no reply. At 1608z heard on the 359 & 325 Orderwires 27000 calling Waldorf, 27000 told Waldorf they were in the blocks and thanked Waldorf for their support. Waldorf said to let him set up for a graceful shutdown. Waldorf said he was ready on 27000's count, Waldorf said goodbye and the carriers dropped. Log of AF1's trip to Atlanta will be out Wed. evening. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 336.815/397.050 WBFM AF1 & Fire Hose in N. Va. 8/9 At 1630z WBFM carriers popped up on 336.815 at S-8 and 397.050 at S-1. At 1630z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose calling 29000, no reply, Fire Hose called again. No reply. At 1632z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose calling 29000, apparently 29000 answered, Fire Hose said, "You've got the Alpha at this time." At 1637z heard phone call on 336.8623LSB. At 1650z heard phone call on 336.8729USB, Seating arrangements for the press. At 1709z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan, (Primary NAOC), calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan passed along that they were airborne. At 1714z heard phone call on 336.8554USB. At 1744z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan told Fire Hose that they stopped their FDMA stuff over at Ft. Meade, could they get their 19.2 circuits through Camp Roberts, actually all of their circuits through Camp Roberts. Fire Hose said O.K. At 1752z heard phone call on 336.8598LSB, "The President come's back on Sept. the 16th late at night and then he has the 17th all off. It just doesn't seem like according to scheduling it's going to work. They're going to regret but he hasn't sent a letter yet, you want me to stop it or ....... O.K. He's going to New Zealand" (Billy going down under?) At 1752z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose calling Bank Loan. Fire Hose told Bank Loan that they are up through Roberts. Bank Loan told Fire Hose to go ahead and transition him. Fire Hose said to where. Bank Loan said that he's sorry, he thought that Fire Hose was getting ready to transition him, what was Fire Hose saying again? Fire Hose said that Bank Loan should be up on the 29HW at this time. Bank Loan said that he understands. At 1801z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. No reply. At 1802z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan asked if they already had hit ?????, couldn't get callword. Fire Hose said that they are already in there. At 1804z heard phone call on 336.8595LSB. At 1808z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Fire Hose asked Bank Loan where are they going?, he doesn't see Bank Loan at the next station yet. Bank Loan said that they are heading over to Neon Lamp. Fire Hose said that that's where he's looking for him at. He told Bank Loan that he's going to fire up another station to make sure that nothing is wrong with that radio. Bank Loan said that he'll find out real quick where they are headed. At 1810z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Fire Hose told Bank Loan that he sees him. Let him figure out what to do with him. Fire Hose transitioned Bank Loan into Neon Lamp. Fire Hose said that it did not pick Bank Loan up, Fire Hose had to reinitialize the radio. At 1812z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose, Bank Loan told Fire Hose that it's the SHF. Could Fire Hose check Bank Loan's settings where he's connected too? He should be going to Camp roberts on his 19.2 MUX. Fire Hose said he knows, he was looking at the way the patches were up, he was in there changing when he heard fade on this thing and he dropped some on the floor, they were wrong and he's putting them up now, he'll be back with Bank Loan in a few seconds. Bank Loan said the only thing different was he had Ft. Detrick AFC going to Camp Roberts for the 1200 baud circuit, before he went down, they had a long haul going to them. Fire Hose said they can do something like that too, what was up there was not going to work. At 1812z heard phone call on 336.8594LSB, "If he said yes, Secretary Slater is coming, and there are no other members or notables you should be aware of" At 1813z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan told Fire Hose that the circuits check 5 by. At 1813z heard phone call on 336.8594LSB, "It's the same speech as last night but they put a note on that that said we were getting sort of a final acknowledgement, last night we didn't have any of them, and we, it's only acknowledgements and then at the very last line instead of saying Commander reads the Citation it says Lt. Col. reads the Citation. I think in the third paragraph there are two todays in the version that went to the President, the word today was in there twice, we crossed out the second one. Those are the only changes, the only concern was that the number of acknowledgements bumps one of the lines to the second page, but it didn't effect the last line on the second page, so the whole speech still flows the same, but they just asked me to bring a whole new copy. It's the same speech, they're the only differences." At 1814z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose calling Bank Loan SHF. Fire Hose told SHF that he has all of the data circuits going over to Roberts including the AUTODIN that's normally coming into Fire Hose but he doesn't see any service coming in on Bank Loan's multiplexer. Are the guys over there aware that they are changing? Bank Loan said that they should stay up all the time, he'll give them a call. Bank Loan asked Fire Hose for a port loop on the 1200 baud circuit from Ft. Detrick back to Bank Loan. Fire Hose said sure. At 1815z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose said that it should be up now. Fire Hose sees a 10 10 pattern on it and he sees Bank Loan running against himself. Bank Loan said that it him, so he's going all the way out and back. At 1816z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose telling Bank Loan that that portion must be good since it's coming from Roberts. At 1836z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan told Fire Hose that they are unable to access his circuits. Fire Hose asked on the 5A. Bank Loan said yeah , it's too weak and he can't access it at all, they show that they are there but for some reason they are just not dropping. Fire Hose said to hang on. At 1837z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose telling Bank Loan to try then now. At 1838z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose asking Bank Loan what are they doing?, are the circuits working or not? Bank Loan said that he's checking now. At 1838z heard phone call on 336.8593LSB. At 1838z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan telling Fire Hose that they have them now. Fire Hose told Bank Loan that he changed RTs to him but he doesn't know why that should make a difference. He was gonna maybe change RF channels. Bank Loan says everything is fine now. At 1847z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan told Fire Hose that they just landed at Neon Lamp. At 1850z heard phone call on 336.8700USB. At 1851z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose telling AF1 "Roger Air Force 1". Maybe AF1 telling Fire Hose that they were airborne. At 1852z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan asked for a double feed on spot 3. Fire Hose gave Bank Loan the double feed. At 1852z heard phone call on 336.8674LSB. At 1855z the 397 carrier was at S -9 +40. At 1856z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan told Fire Hose that he's land line, he just wanted to check circuits At 1858z heard phone call on 336.8432LSB. At 1859z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan told Fire Hose that circuits check 5 by, also he'd like to terminate the RF side. Fire Hose said that he's loud and clear, strictly land line, 1859. At 1900z heard phone call on 336.8546USB. At 1908z heard phone call 336.8432LSB. At 1910z heard phone call on 336.8593LSB. At 1913z heard phone call on 336.8627USB, YL: "Is this Guantanamo Bay?, is this Guantanamo Bay?, I'm sorry" At 1914z heard phone call on 336.8675LSB, "AF1?, on my end I have YL name, Hi mam, you're connected to AF1,one moment please" YL: "Name?, sorry to bother you, but we received an urgent message from a Mr. name, he's the black farmers I guess, They are calling because they are planning a demonstration tomorrow in Washington, D.C. with 1500 farmers at the Dept. of Agriculture and the Secretary had agreed to meet with them at some point but he just let them know, his office just let them know that he is not going to meet with them. So they are saying that maybe they can bring the demonstration over to the White House. O.K., (a long pause), It was busy let me try one more time. (Heard phone ringing, then) Hello name?, it's dialing. (Then I heard), "National Black farmers Association, may I help you?" AF1: "Hello" NBFA: "Yes" AF1: "Is name there" NBFA: "This is name, can I help you?" AF1: "This is name from the White House" NBFA: "Yes name, how you doing sir?" AF1: "I'm doing fine, where's your dad?" NBFA: "He's looking to get in touch, hold on one second please" (The YL came back on while they were on hold and told the guy on AF1 that they are looking for someone with some juice), NBFA: "Hello name" AF1: "Yeah" NBFA: "Name, how you doing?, thanks for calling back, look the Secretary promised to meet with us tomorrow we got about 1500 people coming up there and now he's telling us, name who's his assistant called back and said that he's going to be in New York, he's not going to be meeting with us." AF1: "What do you want me to do?......unheard..... NBFA: "It was two weeks and he had agreed to meet, now they are calling back and saying something about he's going to be in New York and he's not going to be there and we got all these people coming up there, about 1500, flying in and all this kinda stuff" AF1 low audio, NBFA: "He didn't have anybody, he said he could meet with these other people but the problem is we're meeting with them all the time and a damn thing haven't been getting done. We still got people getting foreclosure notices and cases haven't been settled, Name done gave the statute of limitations money to white people and black people hadn't gotten anything out of it, this stuff is just as bad as it ever was" AF1, low audio. NBFA: "Name talked with him and they agreed to meet with him" AF1: "He didn't agree to meet with 1500 people" NBFA: "No, no, just name and about 5 other people is all he wanted in the meeting, we had some Congressmen from Virginia coming up, Name and all of those and name had talked to Sen. Robb's office to have people from there over there to this meeting and I think Albert Wynn is going to be there and some other people had agreed to come to the meeting with the Secretary, now they are saying today that he's got to go to New York because they are having a drought up there well damn.... AF1 very weak, NBFA: "Yeah well name, damn what we're saying is we agree the drought is an issue but it's a damn drought with these black people who are still getting sold out, we had a farmers land got sold out of inventory, and I mean you know, we've been three years trying to get some action and it's the same stuff, name is not settling any cases within the Dept. man, the Administrative process, all the money we fought for on the Hill she's been giving to white women man that's not right, statute of limitations and all that money Congress proposed white folks have benefitted.......tape flip......AF1 low audio, NBFA: "Let me tell you,that's exactly what I'm saying, exactly what she did, she set up this statute of limitations, back log process where they would hurry up and process these complaints when she set it up the consent decree first came in and she said well you can't nothing, we can't do nothing for black folks until consent decree is set up, once they got it so we could opt out and the consent decree was straight so the black folks could go through it she shut the damn process down, she shut it down she shut the damn thing down, so now she let all the white women go through they got paid without investigation the burden of proof was real low" AF1, low audio, NBFA: " That is the ??????? for God on my children's grave on that one there, I can tell you that for a fact" AF1, low audio", NBFA: "Because people inside the Dept. were telling us how all these white women were getting all this money, 2 and 3 hundred thousand dollars through this back log process and when we talked to her then she said well I'm going to shut the process down now so you can't get processed through the back log". AF1, low audio, NBFA: "The buses and the people are up here now, caught planes in and the people and the cameras and everybody gonna be in the street in the morning at ten o'clock and the Secretary's not gonna be there, so I mean you know what's going to happen when the media's asking us about meeting with the Secretary?, we're going to say basically he canceled the meeting to go help some white farmers, we're not important." AF1, low audio. Carrier dropped:>( At 2015z WBFM carriers popped up on 336.815 at S-8 and 397.050 at S-1. Carriers for 28000. At 2020z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan asked for some dial tones on ports 7, 8, & 9 going to Camp Roberts, that MUX 19.2. Fire Hose said stand by. At 2020z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose telling Bank Loan he has 4 dial tones, one DDD on 10. 7, 8, & 9 have his AUTOVONs. Bank Loan said he'll check them. At 2027z heard on the 336 Orderwire Bank Loan calling Fire Hose. Bank Loan's SHF asked for a download to his MUX. Fire Hose said to stand by. At 2029z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fire Hose telling Bank Loan that he just did a downline load to him. At 2043z the 397 carrier was at S-8. At 2054z 28000 was transitioned, probably into Seymour Johnson. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 325.965/359.750 WBFM Uncle Sam & ??????? in N. Va. 8/13 At 2217z found WBFM carrier on 359.750 at S-4. At 2219z heard phone call on 359.7989USB, "You gonna be able to meet us before the ramp freeze? There's one at 2230". At 2224z heard phone call on 359.799USB. At 2226z the 359 carrier was at S-9 +10. At 2226z a WBFM carrier popped up on 325.965 at S-5. At 2240z heard on the 325 Orderwire Waldorf saying: "Go ahead, go ahead, Roger sir I'll be watching for your signal to drop". I was eating dinner during this so I only heard Waldorf. At 2241z heard on the 325 Orderwire Newscast, (NAOC), calling Ozzie, (NAOC), Newscast asked Ozzie if they got the message that they were going to go ahead and let the couplers be changed. Ozzie said that that's in the works now. At 2245z heard on the 325 Orderwire One Punch, (Another NAOC?), calling Uncle Sam, (Waldorf). One Punch asked Uncle Sam if he could "put a loop up on his 2702 at the Tech Control, at let's see we're going through Belvoir with that?" Uncle Sam said roger. One Punch asked for the loop to be put up through Uncle Sam to Detrick. Uncle Sam said he has already run one from Uncle Sam to Belvoir and it looked good. Let him put Detrick up. One Punch said he'll get set up for that. At 2246z heard on the 325 Orderwire Uncle Sam telling One Punch that the loop back is up. At 2247z heard on the 325 Orderwire Newscast calling Ozzie. Newscast asked Ozzie if he has a secure ???? and an MRC? Ozzie said negative. At 2250z heard on the 325 Orderwire Ozzie calling Newscast. Ozzie told Newscast he does have an MRC but does not have a secure KET(?). At 2251z heard on the 325 Orderwire Newscast calling Ozzie. Newscast asked if Ozzie needed any tapes. Ozzie said yes, he believes he only has 2 down there. At 2252z heard on the 325 Orderwire "Hey Chris, can I get a ground line buddy?" At 2256z heard on the 325 Orderwire Ozzie calling Uncle Sam. Ozzie asked for a loop on Detrick, Port 6. Uncle Sam told Ozzie the loop is up. Ozzie said he does not see it, he's sending a ten ten down the line now. Uncle Sam said he doesn't see anything coming in, let him look around on different slots. At 2257z the carriers dropped. It seems that maybe the a/c was at the FEMA GEP before being transitioned into Waldorf due to the signal strength at this location before the 325 carrier came up. It also appears that Ozzie is getting ready to become the Primary NAOC if he isn't already. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 336.820/397.050 WBFM Moon Glow & 29000/AF1 in N. Va. 8/16 At 1102z WBFM carriers popped up on 336.820 at S-9 and 397.050 at S-1. At 1102z heard on the 336 Orderwire Moon Glow, (Waldorf), telling 29000 that he has him loud and clear, also 1A is up to him at this time. Waldorf had to spell his call to 29000. At 1105z heard phone call on 336.8603LSB, Heard both sides of call, between plane and Waldorf. 29K: "Hey Bud, what's going on" Waldorf: "Not much" 29K: "How's this channel sound, this is the one I've had problems with before" Waldorf: "you've got a little bit of, I mean it sounds O.K., I hear a little noise in the background" 29K: "Yeah, we're taxiing right now maybe that's why, it sounds about the same as the others" Waldorf: "It sounds like a good channel" 29K: "let me call you on one of the others" Waldorf: "O.K." 29K: "I'll call you right back" This is channel 6, they were having problems with this on 8/3. At 1107z heard phone call on 336.8603LSB, Both sides of call again ?: "Go ahead" 29K: "O.K. I'm getting an error up here and it says "other error" but here's the code that's with it, 002037CC36000, got it? ?: "Got it" 29K: "See if you can look that up and tell me what it is, it just says other error" ?: "O.K., will do" 29K: "I'll call you back in a little bit" At 1110z heard on the 336 Orderwire Fast Ball, (Probably the Primary NAOC), calling Moon Glow. Fast Ball asked Moon Glow if Moon Glow updated the T triple C tapes. Moon Glow said "that's correct", Fast Ball asked "you have?" Moon Glow said "that's correct". Fast Ball said he'll look again to make sure, because he's running open. Moon Glow said he can pull it again, they were having the same problem yesterday. At 1111z heard on the 336 Orderwire Moon Glow calling Fast Ball. Moon Glow told Fast Ball he didn't pull them yet, he's sorry Fast Ball is right, he's got it open but he hasn't pulled them. He'll go ahead and pull them now. At 1142z heard phone call on 336.8628LSB. At 1145z noticed that the 336.820 carrier had drifted down to 336.815. Had to hit the road at 1215z for a Dental appointment. Ran a couple of tape decks. Only traffic heard was after 1300z. Heard on the 336 Orderwire Moon Glow telling 29000 to go ahead. Moon Glow then told 29000 to stand by. Moon Glow then came back and told 29000 he was ready on 29000's count, the carrier then dropped. When I got out to my car after the Dental appointment I noticed that the carrier was gone on 336.815. Carriers were present on 232.710 and 357.700. At 1350z heard on the 232 Orderwire Moon Glow calling AF1, no reply and the 232 carrier dropped. Looks like Bill was running late again. Andrews ATIS at 0955z was calling for an Air Terminal Ramp Freeze at 1230z. Bill is to give a speech at a VFW Convention in K.C., Mo. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 232.765/357.700 WBFM AF1 & Moon Glow in N. Va. 8/16 Andrews ATIS reports an Air Terminal Ramp Freeze scheduled for 1930z. At 1924z started picking up carrier on 357.700 in SSB mode at S-1. At 1939z WBFM carrier popped up on 232.765 at S-9. At 1939z heard on the 232 Orderwire Moon Glow talking to AF1, AF1's signal too weak in WBFM mode to copy. Moon Glow told AF1 that AF1 is in Moon Glow's station now. At 1940z heard phone call on 232.8080LSB, "...on ALE I've got no clue what this thing is doing. Well at first you guys were, every time I'd call you, aahhhhh wait a minute, O.K. name you're going to try to reload the software I guess one more time or whoever's sitting there. Cause you guys were originally coming up as AF8 every time that we talked. I would get the message and it would say from AF8, well you guys are supposed to be AF9. And now when I try to call you as AF9 I get failures, when I try to call anybody I get a failure so the radio faults have cleared but the failure is on every channel, so I don't know. O.K. because just a minute ago you came up as AF9 and then now just a second ago he came up as TD. O.K., well that's working. O.K., but I'm still getting, oh here comes an incoming call, and now it says call failed. Yeah, MS answering AF8, MS call failed, now I'm listening again. And now when I try to reach out to you guys it goes calling and then failed and then listening. No it just said MS answering AF8, and that's call failed AF8. Are you guys getting any LQAs from me? I just got an LQA from ADW, hey who is this 280053? O.K. cause I'm getting an LQA from them. Well they tried calling me a little bit ago and when I was going to answer it it terminated. Well let me try calling them, O.K. found initiated as AF8, MS founding AF8, Command Routed, calling ADW, now it should come back as, it's been coming back and saying call failed.(Another voice now) Specifically ?????? it up to Andrews or to Offutt, find out which channels you were getting good LQAs on, anything above thirty you should be able to link up on and then if it's still failing on those same channels then you might have a problem but it should be linking up on one of those channels. (Original guy now) O.K., I just got a link with ADW on channel 21, but yet I'm not able to link with you guys, unless you initiate the call. O.K. sounds good thanks. Bye brother." Let me speculate. MS = Mystic Star, ADW = Andrews, AF9 = 29000, AF8 = 28000, TD = Guys name. At 1954z heard phone call on 232.7945USB, Recorded message: "Direct connection to travelers currently in flight your call is being routed to the aircraft, (cut)." Live voice: "Two Eight Thousand?, O.K., I'm sending to you now, looks like we got it, good. O.K., that's great, alright Dude. I was sitting here spasing out, I couldn't figure out what it was. I figured I did something when I shut it down, when I enabled the silence for refueling I figured I did something then. O.K., thanks Dude, roger that." At 1956z heard phone call on 232.8074LSB. At 1958z the 357.700 WBFM carrier was at S-9 +40. At 2005z heard on the 232 Orderwire Fast Ball calling Moon Glow. Fast Ball told Moon Glow that he's bringing up his 25D4 circuit, could Moon Glow give him a loop at Detrick Port 3 so he can check it out? Moon Glow said Roger At 2008z the 357 carrier was at S-1 to S-2, AF1 on the ground at Andrews. At 2008z heard on the 232 Orderwire Moon Glow called Fast Ball. Moon Glow told Fast Ball that he has the loop back up on Port 3 Detrick. Fast Ball kept saying " Go ahead Flight Deck". Fast Ball then came on and called Moon Glow and told him that he doesn't see the loop. Fast Ball said let's figure this out. 29JL, is that what you know it as? Moon Glow said O.K. Port 3. Fast Ball said that he was running through McClellan with that, through Roberts and McClellan, but it should be on Detrick's Port 3. Moon Glow told Fast Ball to let him see what's going on. At 2012z heard on the 232 Orderwire Fast Ball's SHF operator calling Moon Glow. SHF told Moon Glow that he has Belvoir restarting their RT on that he'll call Moon Glow back when that's finished. SHF says that he doesn't suppose that Belvoir's Tech Control could have messed up the patching. Moon Glow says that he's not sure, he's having trouble getting a loop back from Detrick, he sees an indication loop backs going up but he's not seeing the same thing coming back that's going out to them. SHF said he'll call him 1 800. At 2015z heard on the 232 Orderwire Moon Glow talking to AF1, Moon Glow told AF1 that he's getting set up at this time. Moon Glow said he was ready, counted to 3 and the carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 232.760/357.700 WBFM 29000 & Rentacar in N. Va. 8/30 At 1753z found WBFM carrier on 357.700 at S-1. At 1754z WBFM carrier popped up on 232.760 at S-9. At 1834z noticed that the 357.700 carrier was now at S-8, a/c airborne. At 1836z heard on the 357 Orderwire 29000 calling Rentacar, Rentacar responded on the 232 Orderwire. 29000 told Rentacar that she had a wheels up at 1834z. Rentacar asked if 29000 would need anymore stations. 29000 told Rentacar that she's not sure where they are headed, she thinks that they will be in a local pattern for a while, she's not sure if they are headed up North or South. Could Rentacar keep them up on a speaker? They are scheduled to fly for 3 hours. At 1845z heard on the 232 Orderwire Reprimand, (NAOC,Primary?), calling Rentacar. Reprimand told Rentacar that he's going to key up one of his transmitters and for Rentacar to ignore it for now, Reprimand is doing some troubleshooting. Rentacar said, thanks for letting him know. At 1950z the MUX on the 232 carrier dropped, sometime earlier the 357 carrier was gone, didn't note time. At 2115z the 357 carrier was at S-5. I had been out for a while, monitored the 232 Orderwire on an AOR 8200. At 2159z heard phone call on 232.7899LSB. At 2203z heard on the 232 Orderwire, Rentacar responding to 29000, told her "O.K. mam" At 2206z heard phone call on 232.7899LSB. At 2212z heard on the 232 Orderwire, Rentacar responding to 29000, the carrier then dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>)