Subject: 325.965/359.750 WBFM 973 & Waldorf in N. Va. 12/7 At 1753z found WBFM carrier on 325.965 at S-4, carrier also present on 359.750 at S-1. At 1806z heard phone call on 326.0100LSB, call to 973. At 1817z heard phone call on 326.0123USB. ????? maintenance. At 1820z heard phone call on 326.0038USB. "Was that a NOTAM, or what happened? Did you tell anybody else yet? I mean did you elevate it beyond us yet? Alright, I'm going to get Base OPS involved and BASH(?) involved, oh I'm not going to tell BASH(?), I'm just going to get the thing down, I know he won't want to take a delay. " At 1823z on 326.0038USB message, "Please hang up and try your call again, if you need assistance dial your operator". At 1826z heard phone call on 326.0092LSB, Andrews CP. "As of right now Base OPS says the work will be done by 1350 and the inspection will be done by 1400 and Major ***** is working on getting it elevated right now, but as of right now it looks like you'll be able to take off as long as your take off is 1400 and after. That's assuming that the inspection gets done and Base OPS is telling me that it should be done". At 1834z the circuits dropped out, only carrier and pilot tone at 15kHz present. Circuits back up at 1835z. At 1836z heard phone call on 326.0091LSB. At 1842z on the 326 Orderwire heard 01 calling 02, 01 told 02 they want to bring up the secure hotline on ch. 3 of their air to air. 01 asked 02 to check ch. 1 also. 01 says ch. 1 should be going to the Commo position, and put the STU III hotline on ch. 3 of the air to air. 01 called 02 and told 02 that 01's Commo was wondering if 02 would be able to do the change over at 55 after. 02 said that they should be if the hotlines work. 01 then called 02 again and said he's not getting any SF on chs. 1 & 2 air to air. At 1849z on the 325 Orderwire heard 01 asking 02 if they got the hotline on ch. 3 for the secure yet. 02 said they haven't got it yet there working, 01 said they want it now. 01 asked if 02 wants to move the hotlines to a different channel, since 1 & 2 aren't working, I'm still not getting SF. At 1850z heard phone call on 326.0034USB. At 1851z heard phone call on 326.0091LSB, Comm. Center, "You just call it over the SATCOM to Steve. What we've been doing, the first hour or so out of Andrews when we have the MUX then we handle it that way, otherwise everything is strictly INMARSAT. Just be kinda weary about them on State OPS on the SATCOM with the VDC(?) cause a lot of times their ???? (Orderwire traffic wiped out call). Just have them break it up in half, that'll work." At 1853z circuits dropped out again, only carrier and pilot tone present, circuits came back up at 1855z. At 1856z on the 325 Orderwire heard 01 ask 02 to have his 7-2 pick up, SHF op? At 1856z on the 325 Orderwire heard 02 calling Waldorf, 02 asked Waldorf to hook his FTC(?) 100s to Camp Roberts and look at the screen, Waldorf says he has a good link with Roberts but his MUX to 02 is still down. Waldorf says he'll try to run a loop back through Roberts. At 1858z on the 325 Orderwire heard 01 calling 02, 01 asked 02 to bring someone onto the airplane, he's waiting outside. 02 says he's got someone headed out to pick him up. 01 asked 02 if they are ready to take the Alert, if they were ready now could they take it. 02 says that's correct. 02 says he believes they have secure working alright, he sees something going out but he doesn't see anything coming from 01. 01 says they are talking on it, is 02 on the right MUX? 02 says probably not, hold on. 02 now sees 01. 01 says that all the hotlines appear to be working now. At 1902z on the 325 Orderwire 02 asked Waldorf if he can see 02's FTC(?) 100 now. Waldorf says he sees it's locked in now. Waldorf says that right after he got off the line with 02 he put a loop back up at Roberts and he locked right in. 02 says he has a bad RT they are working on it now. At 1907z on the 325 Orderwire heard 01 tell Waldorf that in 3 minutes they want to give the 5A to the 02 aircraft. Waldorf asked 01 what RF is that aircraft using, 1 or 3. 01 said he believes 3. Waldorf asked if 01 wants the Bravo left behind or do you want everything going to the other aircraft. 01 said he wants the full 5A sent to RF3. At 1908z on the 325 Orderwire heard 01 tell 02 to make sure his Staff or Sat guys are ready to check their circuits immediately. The last time 01 had to wait ten minutes before they were told they were good. 02 says he bets they can get it done in nine and a half minutes:>) At 1910z on the 325 Orderwire heard 01 call Waldorf and tell him 15 seconds, 01 then counted down from 5 and asked Waldorf to switch the circuits. 01 then called 02 and asked if he got them, 02 said stand by, 01 then called Waldorf and asked if they were changed, Waldorf said oh yeah they're changed. At 1910z on the 359 and 325 Orderwires heard 973 call Waldorf and tell Waldorf they are airborne, Waldorf said he is looking at Green Hill. At 1912z on the 325 Orderwire heard 02 ask Waldorf to confirm all circuits are on RF 3. Waldorf says that all circuits are on RF 3. 01 asked 02 if all his circuits check good, 02 says yes. At 1914z on the 325 Orderwire heard 01 calling 02 and telling him they didn't program the Delta Kilo, so they're checking that now. 01 then told 02 that they accepted the Alert over on 01. The op on 01 then asked the op on 02 if his headsets were over there. 02 said they were, 01 asked 02 if they could make their way over to 01. 02 said he could do that. At 1917z on the 325 Orderwire heard 02 call Waldorf and tell Waldorf he'd like to terminate his link with him, he's on RF 1. Waldorf told 02 let him set up. At 1920z heard phone call on 326.0089LSB. At 1923z heard phone call on 326.0033USB, Senator Lautenberg would like the Secretary to call him to" talk about Israel and Gaza, he's going on the trip with the President. Peter Yost says that would be good because the Sen. is always very helpful to us. " At 1925z heard phone call on 326.0089LSB. At 1931z heard phone call on 326.0033USB. At 1934z heard phone call on 325.9959USB. At 1939z heard phone call on 325.9959USB. At 1941z the carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.615/355.000 WBFM, AF1 & Waldorf in N. Va. 12/8 At 2128z found WBFM carrier on 267.615 at S-8. At 2128z on the Orderwire heard Waldorf calling AF1 a couple of times, no reply. At 2130z heard phone call on 267.6456LSB. At 2131z heard phone call on 267.6454LSB. At 2133z heard phone call on 267.6455LSB, some gentleman transferred to a lady's voice mail to play her messages for her while she was on AF1. At 2139z WBFM carrier at 355.000 at S-8. At 2139z heard phone call on 267.6562USB. " Why don't we at 5:30 kinda end up being in the Map Room? Does that make sense? We can go hang out in the Map Room I think. And then go up stairs, we'll park in the Map Room at 5:30, and then we can head upstairs or whatever, see if they want to do it as soon as they get back. Alright, great." At 2140z heard phone call on 267.6450LSB. At 2142z heard phone call on 267.6474USB. At 2142z heard phone call on 267.6716USB, " I've got a couple of things about tomorrow I want to run by you, about the Security Conference, Name had wanted me to make sure you're OK with the plan which would be I believe we described in the past the President makes a statement before he goes over to Blair House. Well they were scheduling, the NEC(?) was recommending the Blair House steps, but I actually think that's going to be big probably, we're not going to be able to control it Press wise and it's going to be pretty much of a circus. What I think we should just do is do it behind the Oval Office like on the South Lawn like he would do a normal departure statement. I guess we could have either himself or the Economics Team. The members with him? Yeah I guess they would like that if they can convince the members to do it. " At 2145z phone call with Andrews METRO was bleeding through on the above call. At 2148z heard phone call on 267.6468USB. At 2152z carrier on 355.000 was at S-9 +50. At 2154z heard phone call on 267.6463USB, " There's lots of angst about the President's trip if you want to talk peace process it might be interesting. " At 2201z heard phone call 267.6459USB, call to Andrews CP with p/p to AFOC. At 2212z on the Orderwire heard Waldorf say, " Waldorf, alright sir, right. " Then the carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 336.800/397.050 WBFM, NW01 & Waldorf in N. Va. 12/9 At 2035z found WBFM carrier on 336.800 at S-4, lotsa crickets on the Orderwire, NW01. Signal strength fluctuated from S-4 down into the noise. Something must be wrong with one of Waldorf's transmitters or antennas. The last month and a half it was 326.000/325.965 acting up. At 2036z found WBFM carrier on 397.050 at S-7. At 2036z heard phone call on 336.8303LSB. " We just can't make you do two weeks of alert, you know in a row. No I mean back to back like without a break. Sorry, I really am, this was a communications problem I think". At 2039z on the 336 Orderwire heard 03 tell Waldorf they'd like Waldorf to pull their circuit back, they are done with it. Waldorf asked if they wanted to keep the Orderwire up. 03 said no, they are going to terminate. Waldorf asked 03 to count down, 03 counted down from 3 and they were gone. At 2057z heard phone call on 336.8261USB. At 2100z 397.050 was at S-9+50. At 2104z heard phone call on 336.8261USB. At 2108z on 336.0392LSB heard sirens and then "All conferees standby" a couple of times and then "5X4VI7 standby" a couple of times then " Message follows, 5X4VI7JHGKMF43MI3SXX5TF3LDW6WZ" Then "This is V acknowledge F." F unheard. Then another round of "All conferees standby" "5XEWZS standby" "Message follows 5XEWZSQOF6BHCZLGDLKR65CVXIKVVM" Then "This is 2 all conferees in receipt of 5X4VI7 & 5XEWZS acknowledge, F acknowledged with ?, T acknowledged with O, L acknowledged with ?, Y acknowledged with H, C acknowledged with U. Then "This is 2 out". 5X4VI7 was live, 5XEWZS was a tape. At 2126z heard phone call on 336.8151LSB. At 2128z the 336 carrier dropped, 397.050 carrier still present but dipping into the noise, data on 397.059 very clear, data faded out at 2133z. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.610/355.000 WBFM 28000/AF1 & Waldorf in N. Va. 12/12 At 0947z found WBFM carrier on 267.610 at S-8, carrier also present on 355.000at S-1. At 0947z heard Waldorf on the 267 Orderwire calling 28000 and asking him to check his circuits now. At 0950z the 267.610 carrier had drifted down 267.600. At 0953z heard phone call on 267.6394LSB, "Is everything working OK? What time you guys eating breakfast out there? My stomach's growling right now though. That's OK, there's nothing open yet, it's to damn early. Denny's, go to Denny's?" (lots of laughter) "It don't matter they don't serve anybody there. You got anything for my Compadre here? INMARSAT looks good? So far, OK. Why don't you try that full duplex - half duplex combo while you're out there? (starts laughing) Don't let your other buddy try it either. Oh no it just went red, didn't it? Baud internal process failure. I'm sorry I didn't mean to do it. I interrupted the psychic of the aircraft, the psychicy(sp?). Have fun buddy." At 1000z heard data type sounds on the 267 Orderwire, like one hears on 01's Orderwire but at a lower audio level then 01's. At 1001z Waldorf and 28000 switched to a different RF, they popped up on 232.750 at S-8 & 357.700 at S-2. Waldorf told 28000 that the data noise is coming from 01. Waldorf told 28000 that the data noise is still present. At 1029z heard phone call on 232.7974LSB. At 1107z heard phone call on 232.8049LSB,heard both sides of this call "Is everything going alright with preflight?" "Yes sir, ???? preflighted just fine, Alpha's got a little bit of scratchiness on our receive." "OK" "So what we're, the Bravo sounds better voice, we plan to use Alpha for data and Bravo for voice calls." "OK" "We're going outta here on the 23s so we don't have to transmit(?)." "OK, that's great." "I don't know if you heard but we did some testing yesterday". "Yeah" "All that went well." "I've been monitoring it closely, Steve and Ken and I've been talking." "We've also had the operators on the other aircraft come down here yesterday and got them involved so they know what to expect as well." "OK" "We're ready, as ready as we can be." "Great, is Ken ***** around there anywhere?" "Let me check, The Col. is not aboard yet." "Alright when he gets on board have him give me a call at home." At 1113z on the 232 Orderwire heard Waldorf calling 01, Waldorf told 01 he has two cards, one says it's a STU III and the other just has KA3406B. 01 said that basically it's a modified STU III card, that might be it, that one STU III you have. Waldorf said he wanted to see what he has on it. 01 asked Waldorf when he's looking on his STU III card do you see two boards sitting on top of it? Waldorf said yes, 01 said on one of those boards you have two chips, with two numbers on them, one with VFCOM(?), the other with just digits on it. Waldorf said yeah, 01 replied OK one of the numbers, the chips, the small chip should have 9348-008 written across it. Waldorf says that's what he has. 01 said to go ahead and throw that in, it should clear up their problem. Waldorf asked if he needs to shut down, 01 said negative, not on the port(?) side, there should be no need to. At 1118z heard phone call on 232.7974LSB, apparently someone left the plane trashed. At 1119z heard on the 232 Orderwire 01 ask Waldorf to cut the double feed to them, they are strictly RF. Waldorf said OK and then asked 01 to have his SH operator download to him. Heard 01 yell to his SHF operator to download to Waldorf. Waldorf asked if 01 wanted strictly RF, 01 replied yes. Waldorf asked if 01 was moving. 01 said yeah, we'll be taking off, headed towards your station and above shortly. At 1123z on the 232 Orderwire heard 01 tell Waldorf that he did a down line(?) load to Waldorf and it didn't clear up that little fault they have going. Looks like an incompatibility thing going. Waldorf said they're setup for 4.8. 01 said they are getting ready to taxi, he'll call them back once things get stabilized and he can get out of his seat At 1128z heard phone message on 232.7894LSB, "Please hang up and try your call again, if you need assistance dial your operator, thank you". Had to hit the road at 1130z, turned on tape decks for both Orderwires. Tape reveals: At 1137z on the 232 Orderwire 01 called Waldorf and informed them that they are airborne. At 1146z on the 232 Orderwire 01 called Waldorf, 01 told Waldorf he thinks they need to turn the FTC 100s, I hope I got that right Dave:>), on and off and see if that will clear them up. Waldorf told 01 to give him a second to get around in front of it. Waldorf said he was ready, 01 said on his count of 3 and counted to 3. Waldorf told 01 he was back on, 01 said he was also. Waldorf came back on a short while later and said that his still shows a fault, 01 said his shows a fault also. 01 told Waldorf that it wasn't the right card by the looks of it. At 1150z on the 232 Orderwire 01 called Waldorf, 01 asked if Waldorf knew how to check the jumper settings on his cards. Waldorf said yes, 01 asked Waldorf if he thinks they may have an incorrect jumper setting and to please check his cards. At 1151z on the 357 Orderwire AF1 called Waldorf, Waldorf answered on the 232 Orderwire. AF1 told Waldorf they are airborne. At 1154z on the 232 Orderwire 01 called Waldorf, 01 asked Waldorf to transition him. Waldorf counted to 3 and transitioned 01. Waldorf asked if 01 was seeing noise, 01 said copy, Waldorf told 01 he had good AGC in both of them. 01 told Waldorf to stand by. 01 came back and Waldorf told 01 he still had good AGC in Offutt, but it was noising up. 01 said he had bumped his receiver up against some other equipment. Waldorf said Hillsboro looks good now also, he has a good 4 1/2 in there, and a 5 1/2 at Offutt. 01 asked if Waldorf has him in Hillsboro now, Waldorf said that's correct. At around 1205z the 357 carrier started to fade out. At 1210z the 357 carrier was gone. At 1213z Waldorf called AF1 on the 232 Orderwire, Waldorf told AF1 he has a good signal at Greenhill. Waldorf asks if AF1 is ready to transition. Waldorf told him it should be pretty smooth and counted to 3. The carrier then dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 336.800/397.050 WBFM NW01 & Waldorf in N. Va. 12/16 At 0138z found WBFM carrier on 336.800 at S-4, carrier had crickets chirping,(carrier for NW01). At 0140z heard phone call on 336.8309LSB. At 0145z found WBFM carrier on 397.050 at S-2. At 0149z heard Phone call on 336.8552LSB. At 0152z heard phone call on 336.8178USB, "We're not showing any audio from you to Waldorf. So you got an Orderwire with him, I suggest you check back from you and see if he ??? your modem. Cause we show what's going out here, the audio, actually we're looking at the digital side, but we have audio output at the proper levels. We're receiving -40 and it seems weak. So we're not really getting data from you. OK good luck, goodbye. At 0201z on the 336 Orderwire heard Waldorf talking to 01, "For whatever reason I wasn't hearing you call me. I'm not getting anything from you on B. I have data going towards you. And I have data on C, going towards you, nothing from you. That's correct. Baker or Charlie. Standby. OK now I have you on Baker. Roger. Sir I have data in both directions. " At this point I finally heard 01 on the 397 Orderwire, he was slipping in and out of the noise. 01 "We're locked up thanks alot." At 0204z heard phone call on 336.8179USB. At 0210z heard phone call on 336.8179USB. OM giving wx for unknown air field. At 0215z heard phone call on 336.8552LSB, "Yeah, it actually cleared up for a little while. We're always sending you Ks, (or keys ), if your system acknowledges the cancel then we'll start sending stuff. Right now your system's telling ours to wait. Yeah it did clear up for almost a good 10 mins. Got a message coming in, oh now it's coming in garbled again. Hold on let me check for you. Looks like you got about 12. " At 0218z on the 336 Orderwire heard Waldorf tell 01 he's going to put him into Wright Patterson. The carrier then dropped. AF1 should show up in the next hour or 2, that's all for now. 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.615/355.000 WBFM AF1 & Waldorf in N. Va. 12/16 At 0321z found WBFM carrier on 267.615 at S-6. At 0325z started hearing WBFM carrier on 355.000. At 0328z heard phone call on 267.6448LSB. At 0329z on the 267 & 355 Orderwires heard Waldorf and AF1, AF1 asked Waldorf if Waldorf sees AF1 in Waldorf. Waldorf said yes, AF1 said it should get better as he gets closer. Apparently AF1 had Waldorf weak. Waldorf went to high power and AF1 said it's better. Waldorf's signal now at S-9. At 0331z heard phone call on 267.6603LSB, "I don't believe it's wired but it used to be HF5s rx gain for volume control, it's a fixed gain for HF5. They used to wire and go around the back now that pin just goes to an open and needs a fixed ground and it provides a reference back on a different pin. On the data side too right? At 0335z heard phone call on 267.6448LSB. At 0338z heard phone call on 267.6601LSB, a caller was transferred to 2100 from Andrews CP , Andrews Protocol. Apparently someone needed a large vehicle to meet the aircraft, the protocol person was to meet the lady personally at the a/c. At 0340z heard phone call on 267.6634USB. The party was put on hold. The carrier then noised up. At 0341z on the 267 Orderwire Waldorf was apparently talking to 01, the Orderwire was very noisy. Waldorf said he doesn't see 01 at Offutt and he's flying out of Hillsboro. At 0342z on the 267 Orderwire heard Waldorf talking to 01 on a nice clean Orderwire. Waldorf told 01 that he wasn't seeing anything and he switched to radio 2 and he picked him up. At 0346z heard phone call on 267.6597LSB, "Washington just reached out to me they wanted to know what was going on. When I arrived here tonight they said that you guys were going to helo back. " At 0348z heard phone call on 267.6707USB, "I'm going to put it back on UHF, I have no other traffic for you guys. You guys got 228, right? Hopefully I won't have anything else, you have what about 15 mins. left? " At 0349z heard phone call on 267.6595LSB, someone leaving a message for the Press Office. At 0350z heard phone call on 267.6595LSB, Signal Operator 23 calling AF1 and asking for Mr. Lindsey. 23 told Lindsey that he had a Miss Lynn Forrester calling to request to speak to the boss and she said since he's enroute to wait til he gets back and we have call back numbers for her and she said he can call any time if he feels up to it. Tonight or tomorrow. At 0400z heard phone call on 267.6590LSB. At 0401z heard phone call on 267.6544USB. At 0408z on the 267 & 355 Orderwires heard Waldorf and AF1, AF1 told Waldorf he's done for the evening, thanks alot for your help. Waldorf said he was ready on AF1's count, AF1 counted down from 3 and the carriers dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 305.550/230.650 WBFM NW02 & Waldorf in N. Va. 12/21 At 1901z found WBFM carrier on 305.550 at S-8, carrier had loud hum on it. Carrier also present on 230.650 at S-4. At 1902z heard Waldorf on the 305 Orderwire telling unknown, " The modem here would indicate whether you're sending and receiving data and all that." "It's not showing anything right now." At 1904z heard phone call on 305.5757USB, call was very distorted. "Sgt. name will sit right next to ???, alright one of those chairs, the one that's pretty close to the aisle, we're going to have to give that chair up. You can put one comm. guy there and the other will have to go back in the switchboard room. The reason why is because they got the Sr. NCH from each service going along and they flat just don't have any more chairs in the Battle Staff area. It shouldn't affect the way we do anything there. " At 1910z heard phone call on 305.5729LSB. "Offutt Operator, may I help you?" party wanted to reach DSN 858-#### (Andrews). Offutt placed the call but the line was busy. Apparently it's been busy all day. Offutt suggested they can try going through the Washington, D.C. operator. Offutt then dialed up the D.C. operator, a 227 #, for the calling party. The D.C. operator repeated back the 858 # and told the caller that they've been getting busy signals from them all day. The operator told the party that Andrews is not on her switchboard. The Offutt operator was still on the line and asked if the party wanted to ????? (Orderwire traffic wiped out the audio). They tried a different extension and that line was busy also. At 1914z on the 305 Orderwire 01 told Waldorf he wanted to go strictly landline. At 1915z heard phone call on 305.6083USB, "If you go ahead and set your MUX up to show normal configurations by the book, the way the thing was set up last week was port 1 is 75, port 2 is 75, port 3 is 1200, port 4 unused, port 5 is nineteen two, 7 through 14 is 4.82, 15 & 16 is unused. Let's put the ??? on 5 and we'll go from there. I'm trying to figure out how to set my laptop up to run this thing myself. I've never done this with mine so I'm not sure how this will work. We'll have to do it through the FCC 100, or it's not going to tell you anything. I can bring it up on the phone I know that's going to work. I've got to go through the system or it's not going to tell us anything. I know I can plug it here and pull it from the phone. That's not going to solve the problem. The problem is running the 64K bit trunk between you and I, not the trunk itself. Somewhere between you and me whether it's the satellite link or something, it may just be that the comquest needs to be reset at Meade. I can't understand why I can't get port 6 looped. When I put up port 3 I can see that looped. Let's get everything set back the way it's supposed to be so we have a place to start from." At 1922z heard phone call on 305.6054LSB. At 1926z heard phone call on 305.5892LSB. At 1930z heard phone call on 305.5730LSB, "Did you guys want to do data over the STU III or over the SATCOM? STU III, OK hold on while I configure, I'm going to transfer to the STU III." A phone rang the same guy answered and asked if the other party wanted to initiate, scrambled comms. then broke out. At 1945z heard phone call on 305.5760USB, another attempt at an 858 #. At 1947z heard phone call on 305.6057LSB. At 1951z on the 305 Orderwire heard Waldorf calling 02, Waldorf told 02 he sees that 02 has something setup on port 5 again. Waldorf then told 02 that those settings are not what is shown in the book for port 5 for the internet. Waldorf says that he has asynchronous, ?equal rate?, 19.2, 8 bit, 1 stop, CL and negative mark. 02 must've come back and said something, Waldorf replied that that's not what show's on his FCC 100. Waldorf asked if 02 did a downline load to him. Waldorf said it looks like they are not set the same then. Waldorf said he doesn't have a loss of frame, just a fault light on. Waldorf asked if they can do a downline load with a loss of frame. Waldorf said he's going to set up his port 5 the way it says in the book and he'll do a downline load to 02. Waldorf says he doesn't show a loss of frame. Waldorf will call him back once he gets it done. At 1958z on the 305 Orderwire 02 must have asked for a test count over the Orderwire, heard Waldorf giving a test count. At 2001z on the 305 Orderwire heard 01 calling Waldorf and ask what dial functions he has on his FDMA MUX, Waldorf told him 0305 and 0306 are the DDDs. At 2003z heard phone call on 305.5731LSB. At 2005z on the Orderwire heard Waldorf talking with 02, Waldorf told 02 that he's locked up with him and he's setup with what the configurations call for. Waldorf says he has a remote loop up on port 3 that he's going to take down. At 2006z more data comms. on 305.5730LSB. At 2007z on the 305 Orderwire heard Waldorf telling 02 he's watching the modem now and it's singing real nice. Also when 02 sets back up in the morning make sure everything is the way it is now, we have to make sure the clocks are right on the comm. quest(?) and the FCC 100. At 2013z heard phone call on 305.5761USB. Computer configuration type chatter. At 2017z heard phone call on 305.6057LSB, At 2018z heard Waldorf calling 02 on the 305 Orderwire, no reply from 02. At 2021z heard phone call on 305.5762USB, more computer talk. At 2024z heard phone call on 305.6058LSB. At 2027z on the 305 Orderwire heard 973 calling Waldorf, 973 told Waldorf he's sorry for the delay they got slid back for an hour and a half or so. They didn't come out to the jet til just now. 973 says he has good channels. At 2028z found carriers on 325.965 at S-4 and 359.750 at S-1. (973's ?) At 2036z on the 325 Orderwire heard 02 calling 01, no reply. 02 then called Waldorf. Waldorf answered, 02 told Waldorf he just wanted to see if someone could hear him. At 2040z on the 325 Orderwire heard 02 calling Waldorf and passed along his next flight, 02 would like the same RF and will be coming up around 1130z tomorrow. 02 said he'll beg for his circuits at that point. At 2042z on the 325 Orderwire heard Waldorf calling 02, Waldorf asked 02 if he knew where he'd be coming up tomorrow, Belvoir or where he's at now. Waldorf then asked 02 to give him a call on an outside line. At 2044z heard phone call on 305.5732LSB. At 2045z heard phone call on 305.5764USB. At 2046z heard phone call on 305.6086USB, Waldorf discussing configurations with guy on 02. At 2049z heard phone call on 305.5763USB. At 2059z on the 325 Orderwire heard 02 calling Waldorf, 02 asked Waldorf if 01 flew out of coverage. Waldorf said negative, he's out there. 02 asked Waldorf if Waldorf has AGC from 01, Waldorf said they sure do, as far as Waldorf knows he's on the ground. 02 asked what station, Waldorf said Home Base. 01 then came on and asked for 02. 02 then asked if 01 flew, 01 said yeah for a couple of hours. 02 then asked if they gave their check rides. 01 said no that's tomorrow, they're going to Wright Pat. 02 then passed to 01 his flight plan for tomorrow and said he'll beg, borrow and get what ever circuits 01 wants to give up. 01 said that sounds good. 02 said he'll be ready to terminate in a little bit. 01 asked 02 if they are having any problems, 02 said that the middle of the jet is having a hard time making their computers work. At 2100z on the 325 Orderwire heard 02 calling 01, 02 asked 01 to go check his SATS(?), nobody is answering any of the ground lines or the air to grounds. 02 says they have a manual board up right now, 02's switchboard took a sh*t. 01 starts laughing a gives a "Roger". Another voice came on and told them to pick up channel 12. At 2112z on the 325 Orderwire heard 0? calling Waldorf and informing Waldorf that at this time they are going to swing off the MIDLANT satellite and go over to EASTLANT. They'll be going into Belvoir. Waldorf asked if 0? wants to go into Belvoir now. 0? says yes sir. Waldorf asked if 0? has already talked to Belvoir or does he want Waldorf to call. 0? says he talked to the satellite controller and they should be transmitting already the only thing 0? needs to do is check power and see how strong Belvoir is. Waldorf says that there's a patch that needs to be changed at Belvoir. Waldorf says he'll meet him there. At 2113z heard phone call on 305.5734LSB. At 2114z the 305 circuits noised up, and then dropped out, the 325 Orderwire was noisy and the 305 signal was a white noise carrier. At 2115z heard on the 325 Orderwire 01 calling Waldorf and asking if 02 dropped out. Waldorf said yeah. 01 asked if Waldorf can pass the Bravo to 01 if 02 doesn't come back in a couple of minutes. Waldorf says he has them terminated, does 01 want the Bravo back or leave it terminated. 01 wants it back. At 2119z on the 325 Orderwire heard Waldorf calling 02, 02 replied but his audio was very weak, just barely above the hum. Waldorf didn't hear him. At 2124z the 305 carrier was gone when I checked. At 2125z the 325 circuits and carrier dropped. At 2202z carriers back up on 325.965 & 359.750. At 2206z on the 325 Orderwire heard Waldorf calling 973, no answer. At 2215z went to eat dinner, put tapes in the decks to record Orderwire traffic. Tapes reveal: 01 calling Waldorf and saying they can go strictly landline, Waldorf came back and said they have the double feed. Waldorf has them loud and clear, going to drop his transmitter. 01 calling Waldorf and asking Waldorf to check ch.8, 01 has no dial tone. Waldorf came back a short while later and said he can draw dial tone on 8 now. At 2340z heard on the 325/359 Orderwires Waldorf and 973(?) chatting, 973(?) said they're headed north. At 2356z the 325 carrier dropped. It looks like 02 will be coming up tomorrow on 305.550/230.650 at 1130z from Andrews. That's all for now 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: More 305.550/230.650 WBFM NW02 & Waldorf in N. Va. 12/22 At 1026z carriers found on 305.550 at S-8, and 230.650 at S-1. 305 carrier had hum on it. At 1031z heard on the 305 Orderwire Waldorf telling 02 that he'll be gone for a few minutes, he'll be making coffee. At 1043z on the 305 Orderwire heard Waldorf telling 02 that the line between Waldorf and Belvoir is good, they just repaired that. Waldorf doesn't know whether Belvoir has their patch up or not. Waldorf asked if 02 was going to come up at Belvoir, on what, MIDLANT or EASTLANT at Belvoir at this time? Waldorf says he'll put the patch up, call Belvoir and make sure they put the patch up also. You're going FDMA correct? At 1045z on the 305 Orderwire heard 01 calling 02, 01 asked if 02's SHF operator will be bringing DIN up. At 1046z on the 305/359 Orderwires 01 and 02, 01 asked if 02's INMARSAT operator will be doing one more final check with 01's operator. 01 did not get the final check, 02's INMARSAT operator was doing 5 checks with 01, only 4 checked good. 02 told 01 that the checks are done. The carriers are still up at 1100z. Carriers were gone at 2025z, found carrier at 336.800 at S-4 and fluctuating. Crickets on Orderwire indicate this is 01's carrier from Waldorf. No carrier present on 397.050. At 2027z on the 336 Orderwire heard Waldorf asking 01 if he wanted something else on port 9. Carrier dropped at 2031z. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: More 336.800 WBFM NW01 & Waldorf in N. Va. 12/22 At 2112z carrier reappeared on 336.800 at S-4 and fluctuating. No carrier found on 397.050. At 2114z the carrier dropped out. At 2128z the 336.800 carrier was back at S-4 and fluctuating, carrier also present on 397.050 at S-1. At 2128z on the 336 Orderwire heard Waldorf say to 01, "And you're there sir." At 2129z heard phone call on 336.8308LSB. At 2130z on the 336 Orderwire heard Waldorf tell 01, "Let met set up and pull my patches. 6 & 9 are normal." At 2132z heard phone call on 336.8395LSB, an EAM, 22K6YXJMB3U424V4IX5GVTREZNHAL.The EAM was repeated. Then "This is H out." At 2134z the preamble for another EAM was given 22S3ER, at 2037z the full EAM was given 22S3ERV3SLUXKPDCTXFZBWUG7FFEC2. The EAM was repeated. Then "This is T, all in receipt of 22K6GY and 22S3ER acknowledge", Y replied 2, 6 needed the first EAM repeated, U replied F, X replied C, A replied G, R replied W, 5 replied 3, I replied H, D replied O, and B replied Q. Then "All may drop, for 6" 6 was given the 22K6YX EAM. T threw in an extra character for 6 he gave 6 22K6GYX.... 6 then needed a repeat of the center, 24V4IX5G. 6 finally acknowledged and T was out. At 2142z on the 336 Orderwire heard Waldorf tell 01 he has him loud and clear and has a real good signal from 01. At 2144z on the 336/397 Orderwires Waldorf asked if 01 could get a hold of 02. 01 said he can try, what does Waldorf need. Waldorf wanted 02 to come up with their comm. quest set for the book. 01 said he'll try to get through to them. At 2145z heard phone call on 336.8305LSB. At 2147z heard phone call on 336.8395LSB. At 2150z heard phone call on 336.8235LSB. At 2151z heard around 336.8473LSB, scrambled/data/STU III type noise. At 2154z on the 336/397 Orderwires heard Waldorf telling 01 what stations Waldorf sees 01 in, nothing in Wright Pat. Waldorf told 01 they can switch RF channels if 01 wants. They switched to RF 2. At 2155z carriers were now up on 305.550 at S-6, and 230.650at S-8. At 2159z heard on the 305/230 Orderwires, Waldorf asked if 01 was headed towards Wright Pat, 01 said that's correct. Waldorf said that 01's signal now popped back up at Seymour. At 2213z on the 305/230 Orderwires heard 01 ask if Waldorf still sees 01 in Seymour. Waldorf said let him look, Waldorf says he still sees 01 in Seymour. 01 asks how about Signal Mountain, Waldorf says negative. At 2215z on the 305/230 Orderwires Waldorf called 01 and told him he's starting to get a wiggle at Wright Patterson. At 2216z heard phone call on 305.5730LSB. At 2219z on the 305/230 Orderwires heard 01 asking Waldorf what type of signal does Waldorf see at Wright Pat. Waldorf says he has a 4.1 at Wright Pat and a 4.5 at Waldorf. Waldorf said he can take 01 in Wright Pat. 01 said to wait a while. At 2223z heard phone call on 305.5815LSB. At 2225z heard siren sounds on 305.5892LSB and "All conferees standby" 2 times and then the carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>)