Subject: WBFM Orderwire Comms. in N. Va. 12/1 About a half hour worth of Orderwire comms. for 27000 were on a tape when I got home. Comms. took place between 0000z & 2015z. Tape reveals: Decurrent, Waldorf, calling 27000. No reply. Decurrent calling Judicate, NAOC, and telling him that on his ch.4 coming from Judicate at the current time he has a conversation. Judicate says he's pretty much done working with that "tonight", he's going to come in "tomorrow" at noon and work with the base guys to try and figure out where on the base it might be troughed. Decurrent said that it was clear enough that he could distinguish the whole conversation. Judicate said he was sure that it was, he said that it's like his transmit of ch. 7, which is what Decurrent is usually hearing, no actually Decurrent is hearing the receive of ch. 7 being retransmitted out on what should be ch. 4. Decurrent said it's definitely tied up somewhere, he just thought he would pass it along to Judicate. Judicate said he appreciates it, there's not much more he can do, it's not between the jet and the block, but he has to get with the guys tomorrow. Decurrent said they can pick this up, it's on ticket 991174. Decurrent calling Judicate and informing Judicate that his STAT(?)(he's definitely not saying SAT) link went down. Judicate says roger that. Decurrent talking with 27000. Getting ready to terminate. Decurrent said he'll drop when 27000 drops. The carrier then dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 336.815/397.050 WBFM AF1 & Piece Work in N. Va. 12/2 At 2301z a WBFM carrier popped up on 336.815 at S-8. Carrier also present in SSB mode at S-1 on 397.050. At 2301z heard on the 336 Orderwire Piece Work, Waldorf, calling AF1 a few times. No reply. At 2302z heard phone call on 336.8517LSB, chap listening to his voice mail. At 2306z heard phone call on 336.8675LSB, Fella in Philly passing along good wx report. At 2308z heard on the 336 Orderwire Piece Work calling AF1 a few times, no reply. At 2323z heard phone call on 336.8576USB, caller patched through from White House to plane. Talked about Motorcade. At 2331z heard on the 336 Orderwire Piece Work calling AF1, no reply. 336 carrier dropped at 2334z. AF1's signal never got above S-2 in FMN mode. Flew well north of here into Philly from Seattle. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 336.815, 305.550/230.650 WBFM Orderwire Traffic in N. Va., 12/3 On 12/3 around 0200z noticed WBFM carriers up on 338.815 at S-9, 305.550 at S-9 with crickets, and 230.650 at S-6 and fluctuating. The last two freqs. were for the Primary NAOC. Had to hit the sack, recorded Orderwire comms. Tape reveals: From 336.815 Orderwire: Attrition, (Waldorf), calling 28000, no reply. 28000 was on the ground at Andrews, back up for AF1. Pin Stock, (Primary NAOC), calling Attrition, Attrition answers and tells Pin Stock that Pin Stock was getting a little noisy. Attrition transitioned Pin Stock into Parkside. Attrition calling 28000 and telling 28000 that he lost him there for a little bit. Attrition told 28000 that if 28000 couldn't reach him and it got noisy Attrition would terminate 28000. Attrition said he also has another user up and he has to be able to talk to him. Pin Stock calling Attrition and telling Attrition that his circuits check fivers. Attrition called 28000, no reply, and then Pin Stock. Pin Stock answered and Attrition asked Pin Stock if he called. Pin Stock said yes, he was letting Attrition know his circuits checked 5 by. Pin Stock called by Attrition. Attrition told Pin Stock he can take him into his station at any time. Pin Stock said he was ready. Attrition then transitioned Pin Stock into Attrition, Waldorf. Pin Stock said he's taking some hits, he'll check to see if they clear. Attrition came on and asked Pin Stock if they cleared. Pin Stock said to stand by, they're still checking. Pin Stock calling Attrition, and telling Attrition that the circuits check 5 by. Pin Stock calling Attrition and asking Attrition if there are Wideband cables at his station. Attrition said they have 7 circuits, it's not Wideband, it's Narrowband, Pin Stock gets individual channels sent out to him. Pin Stock calling Attrition and telling Attrition that they are going to try to set up Dispersal Patching. Attrition asked "the ground lines?" Pin Stock said yeah, if Attrition could put ch. 8 over when he gets a chance. Attrition said to let him get back there, he'll pick Pin Stock up in the back room. Attrition came on and asked Pin Stock which slot he wants 8 on, he has 2787, 27E2, 27E3, E4, E5, E6, & E7. Attrition said normally 8 comes up on E7. Pin Stock asked if that was the last one in the set. Attrition said yes. Pin Stock said they can put that one on there. Attrition said he should be able to see it on there. Pin Stock said he'll check it out. Pin Stock called Attrition and said he's not seeing any SF coming from that channel. He wants to make sure he's on the right page, what's the circuit number that's coming over. Attrition said to wait, he's thinks it's 27E7, let him check. Pin Stock said they don't have any CCSD that comes to him like that, they don't have anything written down. Attrition said as far as he knows it hasn't changed when they moved it over on the T1 that goes over there. He still shows them listed the same way, of course they may not actually exist that way. It's the only way they can identify the channels. They can take it as Trunk 1 through 7, make it Trunk 7 coming to you. Pin Stock said that would make sense, that would make it easier to talk like that, he can't find CCSDs like that in his book there. Attrition said that's part of the problem, when they moved this stuff onto the T pipes like that you don't have an actual circuit anymore it's a trunk group and you just have to figure out how you're going to number the trunk group. Pin Stock said roger, let him take a look real quick. Attrition called 28000, Attrition told 28000 he's getting ready to drop him and leave the transmitter up for AF1. Attrition told 28000 he's ready on 28000's count. The carrier dropped shortly there after. The scanner then locked up on 305.550, the Orderwire for Pin Stock. Attrition calling AF1, AF1 answered and said he was burning towards Attrition and ready for circuits. Attrition said he should have them. Pin Stock called Attrition and said if Pin Stock can't locate that he can put a thousand cycles on the trunk he wants it on and Attrition will find it and send it to him or Attrition can put a thousand cycles on it and Pin Stock can look for it that way. Attrition replying to Pin Stock. Attrition said if it's reversed it's going to be out at that end there, it can't be reversed at Attrition. Attrition will go in the back and put a tone on it on Attrition's transmit side and Pin Stock can tell Attrition where it shows up. Attrition then came on shortly thereafter and told Pin Stock he should have tone coming at him at a neg 10. Attrition replying to Pin Stock and saying "you say it's coming up on the wrong port?" He then told Pin Stock that it's like he has the pair flipped over. Attrition calling Pin Stock and telling him he should have that on 1, but if Pin Stock is going to put that on 1 where's he going to put his ADMIN if he's going to put that on the ground line? Attrition said that the way they normally set this up and at most of the stations where they have this type of set up the Orderwire is the first channel and the rest of them go from there, it goes 2 through whatever, which ever ones you want up from there. Attrition said Pin Stock can put it anyplace he wants. Attrition was just letting Pin Stock know how they normally do it. Attrition telling Pin Stock that "that's probably true, there's been a lot of changes that have been made lately as far as how these things are trunked and how they get to where they are going." Attrition said it's been a good while ago, but it seems like paper never catches up. He then told Pin Stock that when they are working on "these" he thinks that the best way to do this, if Pin Stock is going to write this up in some manner, is to refer to these as trunks because if you refer to these as ports then if you ever run an SSMA or FDMA at the same time you'll confuse somebody. Yeah, just say Trunk 1 from me to you, Trunk 2 from me to you, that way we won't confuse it with the ports on the SSMA applications." AF1 calling Attrition and informing Attrition he's on the ground, home station, they can set up for termination. Attrition said he was ready on AF1's count. AF1 thanked Attrition for his help, he'll see him next time, he then counted down from 3 and was gone. Attrition replying to Pin Stock and telling Pin Stock circuit 3 is on Trunk 2. Attrition calling Pin Stock and asking if Pin Stock is aware that they only have 7 circuits at Andrews. Attrition said that normally they would have circuits 3 through 8 and the Orderwire. Attrition responding to Pin Stock, Attrition said Pin Stock had him put that on Trunk 1. Attrition said he'll set that up, right now Pin Stock is still ADMIN on the RF side. Attrition said not normally, normally they just go one or the other, what Attrition could do is put it up on the Land Line side and Pin Stock can try to talk to him on that and Attrition can terminate the RF link just to see if Attrition can copy Pin Stock, if he doesn't he'll come back up on the RF side. Attrition telling Pin Stock he's setting up to do the Orderwire, can Pin Stock give Attrition a count on the Orderwire. Attrition then told Pin Stock he's still coming in on the RF side. Doesn't Pin Stock have to swing a patch on his end? Attrition calling Pin Stock and saying that he's looking at some old notes on the way these things used to be set up, could Pin Stock put a thousand cycles on the one that Pin Stock thinks he has the Orderwire on for the Ground Lines. Attrition said he doesn't see it on any of them. Attrition said he does have SF received on Trunk 6 from Pin Stock. Pin Stock must have that one double fed or something because he just heard someone talking on it or they've got some pairs crossed up. Does Pin Stock have any of his circuits swung over onto Trunk 6 yet? Attrition says he has Pin Stock's tone coming up on the Orderwire on the RF side. Did Pin Stock ever get a good check on his channel 3? Attrition asked Pin Stock to send a tone on what Pin Stock thinks is his Trunk 1. Attrition said that's the one they think they have a tone on but they don't. Attrition said that Pin Stock is coming in on the RF side. Attrition asked Pin Stock to move his tone to Trunk 5. Attrition said he doesn't see that either, he still sees the SF on Trunk 6. Attrition asked Pin Stock if there was any way for Pin Stock to loop this towards Attrition at the Hard Stand, short the pairs or something? Attrition said he can't understand why he's getting SF from Pin Stock on that one port, port 6. Attrition said he has a good SF level coming in, oop, now they just went off hook on it. It's like Pin Stock has some pairs crossed up. Attrition responding to Pin Stock. Attrition told Pin Stock he currently has tone going to Pin Stock on Trunk 1 and he's looking for tone from Pin Stock on Trunk 1. Attrition asked Pin Stock to go down on each of his channels on all 7 Trunks and Attrition will see if he picks it up someplace. Attrition asked Pin Stock to turn his tone off. Attrition said that's coming up on Trunk 6, the one he was getting the SF on earlier. Attrition asked Pin Stock what kind of level Pin Stock was sending. Attrition asked if Pin Stock wanted to put it back on there. Attrition asked if it was up yet, he doesn't see it. Attrition asked Pin Stock to put it on one of the Trunks and he'll look for it. Attrition said that Pin Stock was kind of on Trunk 7, he says kind of because the tone is there, but it's way down. Attrition asked Pin Stock what's between where pin Stock is and where he hooks up at. Attrition asked if that was the last point where Pin Stock could put the tone on. Attrition said it looks like there are some pairs crossed up or they are split, in other words Pin Stock has a transmit and receive that don't go together. Attrition said he's going to put tone on what should be 7, let Attrition know if he sees it. Attrition said Ground Line Trunk 7. Attrition said if Pin Stock does not see it there check Trunk 2. Attrition asked Pin Stock instead of looking at your receive look on your transmit side. Attrition asked Pin Stock which one he just poked into. Attrition asked Pin Stock if there was any way for him to get a test set up where Pin Stock hooks his cable up and look at the pairs there. Attrition says he has a real bad ground hum on Trunk 5 that wasn't there before, he has real low level SF or something on 3, and he has ground hum or something on 1. Attrition says he's going to walk down each of his transmits to Pin Stock and give Pin Stock a chance to look at each of his receive and transmit jacks, check all 14 jacks. Attrition says he has tone on one of the Trunks now. Attrition said "O.K., that you see on Trunk 5." Attrition said he's going to break the tone, did Pin Stock lose it? Attrition said if "you go by the old set up, way back when, that used to be Trunk 3 and you used to put your channel 4 on there, way back when. It should be the number one channel slot on the T1 coming between you and me right now. Attrition asked what kind of level Pin Stock was seeing. Attrition said "that" was long because he was sending about a neg. 5, it's about 10dB long. Attrition asked Pin Stock to loop it. Attrition sees it and "it's hotter then a firecracker", it's way hot, it's almost 20dB hot. For Attrition to get a zero back he has to put in a minus 25. Attrition asked if Pin Stock was seeing it at a neg. 15. Attrition said they're going to have to get the Tech Control folks on this. Attrition doesn't know if there is anyone in at this time of night. Attrition said that Pin Stock can pull the loop. Attrition asked if Pin Stock said that looks like Trunk 3 or 5, which one? Attrition said that Pin Stock hasn't pulled the loop down yet. Attrition said he's sorry, he has a dial set up on his transmit side, he was looking at his minus 25, he forgot he had it switched in. When Pin Stock had his loop up Attrition could see his tone. Attrition asked Pin Stock to send a tone. Attrition said he sees it, what level is Pin Stock sending. Attrition is receiving a minus 14. Attrition said that would make Pin Stock's receive direction about 35 dB hot. Now Attrition sees a plus 5, what did Pin Stock just do. Attrition said "Oh, we don't want to do that." Attrition said what happens is once Pin Stock gets up above a plus 3 you send a hot level on a digital facility and what will happen is you'll clip it and what they'll get is a warble tone, the tone level won't go up any higher on Pin Stock's test set, it'll look like they are receiving lower level then they actually are and then the only way they can tell what they have is by reducing the level they are transmitting down to where they are getting a consistent reading off of their receive test set. Right now Attrition sees Pin Stock at a plus 5 dot 9. Pin Stock is warbling so they are over driving it. Attrition asked Pin Stock to reduce it 10dB. Attrition said now it checks, with Pin Stock sending a neg. 10 Attrition is seeing a neg. 24, when Pin Stock sends a zero Attrition gets a neg. 14. When Pin Stock was sending a plus 10 Attrition was not getting it consistent, and it's got a buzz or something riding with it. It's not a clean tone. Attrition said that if they figured out that that was Trunk 3 let's try see to what they got on Trunk 4. Attrition said that the level is going to have to be straightened out before they try it though. Attrition said that the Tech Control has amps on these things and sometimes they have a heavy turnover of folks over there and sometimes they try to align them up and do it wrong. Attrition is going to go ahead and put a tone on Trunk 4, let Attrition know if Pin Stock sees it. Attrition asked if Pin Stock saw that at a neg. 25. What Trunk does Pin Stock show that on. Attrition asked Pin Stock to put tone on towards Attrition. Attrition asked Pin Stock if he was getting it at a minus 25. Attrition asked Pin Stock what's he getting now. Attrition said that's O.K. towards Pin Stock. Attrition asked for a tone back, he had to readjust his transmit tone levels from when he was adjusting it for the first channel. Attrition then came on a short while later and shouted "alright, we've got one that tests good!", he had Pin Stock at three tenths. Attrition asked Pin Stock what circuit he'd like to put there. Attrition asked Pin Stock to take his tone off of there, he then set up to put channel 5 on the Trunk. Apparently Pin Stock didn't see the circuit, Attrition told Pin Stock he plugged into the wrong jack, Pin Stock should have it now. Attrition then went to test port 5. Attrition then put tone on it and asked Pin Stock to let him know what he sees. Apparently Pin Stock said a neg. 9, Attrition said he's sending a neg. 10. Attrition asked Pin Stock to send tone his way. Attrition said he's got a neg dot 2. Attrition asked what circuit Pin Stock wants on this Trunk. Attrition then said "ahh 6, you want me to set that up now?" Attrition then suggested they go to 6. He then sent tone to Pin stock. Attrition said he sees Pin Stock's tone at a neg. dot 6. Attrition said that is good, normally that would be your channel 7, is that what you want there? Attrition then suggested they try the next one, he sent tone to Pin Stock and said that it should be Trunk 7. Attrition has a real loud ground hum from Pin Stock, he's got a buzz and no tone. Attrition replied to Pin Stock and said that's where they normally put their Orderwire. Attrition has tone on the next one and he sees Pin Stock's tone coming to Attrition. Attrition asked if Pin Stock was on the next one. Attrition then said "ahh, it looks like you've got two tied together, because I'm getting your tone that you've got right now, you've got your tone on Trunk 7 right? it's showing up on Trunk 1" Attrition replied to Pin Stock saying it depends how they number them it used to be in the old set up it was where you put your channel three and the next one is where you put your channel 8, so when I sent you tone and you saw it I was sending it on the analogged Trunk. Attrition then told Pin Stock that it's not that new it's been this way for quite some time, but they've always gone by the old CCSDs and the channel assignments between here and there, I'd have to go back and look at them at the DSX1 to see actually how they are, but the way you originally had this laid out your tone is coming to me on what used to be the slot that your 303 rode. Attrition asked Pin Stock which one he thinks he has it on. Attrition asked Pin Stock if he sees any tones coming to him. Attrition told Pin Stock that they are on the same Trunk, he then told Pin Stock that he has one Trunk after his channel 7 circuit that's bad and they then went to the next one. Attrition told Pin Stock that they are currently on the next channel over. Attrition asked if the one that should be channel 3 is that the one Pin Stock is sending tone on? Attrition said O.K., they are both on the same one, he has Pin Stock at a neg. dot 1. Attrition said that's good, does Pin Stock want to put his channel 3 on there? Attrition said that it's up. Attrition said they'll go to the last Trunk now. Attrition put tone on it for Pin Stock, he then told Pin Stock he doesn't see Pin Stock's tone at all. Attrition told Pin Stock to put it on any available slot. He then told Pin Stock he's getting something but it's not Pin Stock's tone. It's Pin Stock's tone but it has a lot of stuff riding with it, it's a minus 47 and it's coming through at a 2939, 2832, it's like somebody's moving some cables or something I was getting some crackling or something on there and then it stopped, your tone is not getting here, it's not usable anyway. Attrition can hear Pin Stock breaking it. Attrition told Pin Stock this would be more then a dirty jack. Attrition told Pin Stock he doesn't have the mixed tone anymore, it's like it's wide open. Attrition asked Pin Stock if he still sees Attrition's tone. Attrition suggested they move back to what would be Pin Stock's Trunk 7, where the Orderwire should be. Attrition told Pin Stock he has tone going to Pin Stock on that one. Attrition asked if Pin Stock has tone on there also, he sees what might be tone from Pin Stock but it's mixing with something else, there's a real loud buzz on it. Attrition said that it needs to be looked at, they can try calling Tech Control but there may not be anyone in there now, he'd like them to take a look at it. Attrition knows that there are no cable people out there at this time. Attrition told Pin Stock that currently he has 3 of the Ground Line channels that do not work, what would be to Pin Stock as either Trunk 1 or 2, should be Trunk 2 where Pin Stock's 308 or channel 8 would normally ride. The one where channel 4 would ride and the one where the Orderwire would normally ride. The one where channel 4 would be is real hot, he means really hot somewhere, the other 2 have noise and hum and what not on them so they're not useable. What Attrition's going to do is he has a ticket he's going to refer to the Tech Control people to take a look at it and see what they see on them. It may not happen until tomorrow. Attrition told pin Stock he doesn't think that there's a lot that Pin Stock can do, what Attrition will try to do is call the Tech Control to see if there is anybody in there and he'll get back to Pin Stock after that. Attrition called Pin Stock and asked if Pin Stock has a tone on any of the Trunks coming towards Attrition. Attrition then said "Trunk 7?", he then told Pin Stock they don't leave them that way either, that's the only way he figured out what they were talking about this evening, they go by the old CCSDs is what they actually use. Attrition asked Pin Stock if it was the one where his Orderwire would normally go. Attrition asked for Pin Stock to pull the tone off. Attrition says he has the Tech Control folks working with him. Attrition asked Pin Stock if everything was down, Attrition then said "O.K., he's telling me he's not putting that tone on there. I'm not putting it on there, so where is it coming from? He's got to be doing it" Attrition then said "I've got good 653, he's got to be doing it." Attrition then told Pin Stock he'll get back to him. Different OP at Attrition called Pin Stock numerous times. No reply, must be after midnight. Another different OP at Attrition replying to Pin Stock saying that someone must have picked it up. Attrition has it patched up if Pin Stock would like to try to place a call to "him", (someone other then Attrition). Later on Attrition called Pin Stock and asked if they want to try to make a couple of calls on it. Attrition replying to Pin Stock saying that "they" really didn't find anything, they went through different points testing and didn't find anything, he doesn't know what to tell Pin Stock, dirty jack whatever, but it seemed like before all they had to do was reset the switch and it would clear, so it's one of those things that no matter where you go it clears. Attrition hopes it stays that way. Attrition replying to Pin Stock, asking Pin Stock which jack. Attrition said they may have got the other guy, he hasn't talked to anybody. Attrition told Pin Stock he understands, they'll meet them. (someone visiting Waldorf?) Attrition calling Pin Stock and telling him that he'll call Belvoir, he doesn't like doing Down Lines to Belvoir because sometimes when it goes down it won't come back up. Attrition says he'll do a Down Line Load to Pin Stock on their MUX or Pin Stock can do one to Attrition, but he'll call Belvoir to find out why they are taking so many hits on the Primary MUX, that one doesn't normally hit up like that. Attrition will get back to pin Stock in a minute. Attrition calling Pin Stock and informing him that they have problems at the SAT Terminal that they are trying to get resolved and they'll call Attrition as soon as they get their stuff back up. Attrition replying to Pin Stock and passing along a ticket #, 991218. Attrition calling Pin Stock and asking if Pin Stock has heard anything form the cable people or Job Control on the Trunks that were down last night, as far as lining up with him for testing. Attrition told Pin Stock that the Trunks they had trouble on last night, the one MUX 4 would normally work on, the Orderwire, and MUX 8 were in trouble last night, they were supposed to be working on them, fixing them today. Has Pin Stock had any contact with anybody from Job Control on those Trunks? Attrition replying to Pin Stock asking "On the Ground Line?" He then said what he'd like to do is find out whether they fixed them or not, that's what he's trying to determine. What Attrition and Pin Stock can do is run tones on the 3 channels real quick and if they aren't fixed Attrition will call over and find out what's going on because they were supposed to have fixed them today. Attrition told Pin Stock he'll pick him up in the back by his test panel. Attrition asked if Pin Stock was going to put it on his MUX 8 slot. Attrition said he'll put it to him on the same slot. Attrition said he has a neg. 10 going to Pin Stock, does he see it. Attrition says they have it wide open because he doesn't see Pin Stock's either. Attrition said to go to the one that Pin Stock's Orderwire would normally be on. Attrition told Pin Stock he sees Pin Stock's tone at a neg. six six, he says it's a little long his way, but it should work. Attrition says that he's got a neg. 6 coming from Pin Stock and Pin Stock says he's sending a zero? Attrition asked Pin Stock to put it back on there, he then said he doesn't see Pin Stock now. Attrition asked if Pin Stock was up on the Orderwire channel, it's worse then he thought it was, it's a neg. 12, is Pin Stock sending a zero? Attrition had his test set on Bridge, that's why he wanted to look at it again. Attrition then suggested they go to the one channel 4 would normally be on. Attrition told Pin Stock that that one is still extremely hot. Attrition asked Pin Stock to drop his tone about 20dB. Attrition said he didn't see it change, it just changed then. Attrition asked what level Pin Stock has it on now. Attrition asked Pin Stock to bring it up to a neg. 15. He then asked for a neg. 10. Attrition said that's strange, he originally had a plus 5.4 with warbling which means that it was being over driven and now it's not doing that. Attrition asked for a zero again from Pin Stock. Now Attrition is showing it 14dB long, before it was hot. Could Pin Stock take the tone off and put it back on again. Attrition said that it's now a plus 5 with a warble. Attrition said that the jacks Pin Stock has there, he either has a dirty jack or a dirty cord. Attrition said he now has a plus 5 dot 8. It's coming in fairly consistent at a 5 dot 8, could Pin Stock drop his level 10dB, instead of zero give him a minus 10. Attrition didn't see it change. Attrition said that thing is about 20dB hot. With a loop up when he puts a neg. 25 he gets a zero back. A phone was heard ringing in the background, Attrition said he'll get back to Pin Stock. When he came back he told Pin Stock "evidently they haven't fixed any of these, the Orderwire channel improved some because last night it was real noisy, tonight it's not, but the level is about 12dB long coming this way and Pin Stock saw it good going his way, he had a neg. 10 on it. Attrition asked Pin Stock to go back to the Orderwire channel. Attrition asked Pin Stock if he was sending a neg. 10. Attrition is seeing a neg. 22. What is Pin Stock seeing, Attrition is sending a neg. 10. Attrition said O.K. a neg. 25, so it's long towards you and it's long towards me. Attrition is going to call back over "there" and see what they're doing because they haven't really fixed any of them. Attrition said he'll get back to Pin Stock after he talks to "those folks". Attrition asked Pin Stock if he's having any more problems with his link. Attrition was looking at it after testing the Land Lines and it's been real quiet so Attrition assumes that whatever problems they had at Belvoir they've got straightened out. He'll call in a little while to see if he can get some result of what they did. Attrition telling Pin Stock the 25D4 is the 1 dot 2. Attrition asked if Pin Stock talked to (Camp) Roberts yet. Attrition asked if Pin Stock wanted him to configure it at this time. Attrition told Pin Stock he talked to the folks up at Belvoir and they are having power problems, they have everything reset and it should smooth out within the hour. Attrition has the one patch on the 1 dot 2 moved over to Roberts, which other ones does Pin Stock want to move. Attrition replying to Pin Stock and asking if he wants the 2702 moved over, he'll move it over, he doesn't have it patched yet so he'll go ahead and do that. Attrition told Pin Stock he has the 29HS up through Roberts and also the 29HQ which is the 2702. Attrition told Pin Stock he has a loop up on that at (Fort) Detrick. He doesn't see anything on it in either direction. It's not getting to Attrition from Roberts. Attrition says he'll call out there and check with them. Attrition asked Pin Stock if he's going to put a 29HR up through Roberts. That's all of the Orderwire comms. from 12/3. Later on next week Orderwire comms. between Waldorf and the NAOC for 12/4 - 6. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 305.550/230.650 WBFM Orderwire Traffic Waldorf & Primary NAOC in N. Va. 12/4 - 6 More comms. off the tapes: June Day, (Waldorf), calling Tommy Gun, (Primary NAOC), June Day told Tommy Gun that he just talked to a new someone out there and a new person had set the RT up and he didn't do it right and they reconfigured it, it'll be about 5 minutes or so before it comes back up. June Day asked if Tommy Gun still had the 10 10 on or whatever Tommy Gun had on there. Apparently Tommy Gun told June Day he had a signal on there, June Day said he still doesn't see it. June Day did verify that he has a good loop all the way up to (Fort) Detrick. June Day said he still has a problem though, he's got to call up there and find out what they got. June Day called Tommy Gun and said he should see his signal coming back to himself. June Day said he'll restore the loop and see if it will run. June Day told Tommy Gun he should be running straight away now. June Day said he sees data from Tommy Gun and nothing back from "them". June Day then told Tommy Gun that he sees that and he sees something coming back, now he sees it running. June Day said he sees his KIV(?) locked up so the triple C should be O.K., they can run a message on there if they want. June Day told Tommy Gun that he sees something coming back towards Tommy Gun, but he doesn't know what it is. It could be data or something, does Tommy Gun want June Day to loop that so he can take a look at it. June Day looped it for Tommy Gun, he told Tommy Gun he should see it coming back. June Day told Tommy Gun that that should work alright once they get the other end hooked up. June Day said there is something on there, he still doesn't know what it is. June Day told Tommy Gun that he moved the DDDs and DSNs that Tommy Gun had over to the same ports Tommy Gun had them on so Tommy Gun should be good to go there, so everything should be up. June Day told Tommy Gun that they had a little problem out there getting the RT up, they had to reset it a couple of times, at one point June Day had the wrong patch up also. June Day told Tommy Gun that the link between June Day and (Fort) Belvoir had quieted down, he's not taking any hits on the primary link anymore. June Day asked if Tommy Gun was still on EASTPAC. June Day calling Tommy Gun, June Day said he's going to advise Tommy Gun about a condition at June Day. June Day told Tommy Gun between station Lancelot and Jewel Box there is a T1 that is down, it's part of the Ring Service on Tommy Gun's circuits, right now as long as Tommy Gun is where he's at it won't effect anything unless they start looping stuff and doing that kind of thing out in the Network, June Day just talked to MCI they've got a major outage out that way and they are trying to get it restored. Hopefully they won't do anything that will interfere with anything Tommy Gun has. If Tommy Gun starts having problems let June Day know. June Day calling Tommy Gun, June Day said he was just looking over some stuff, can Tommy Gun check channel 8 and see if he has that. June Day replying to Tommy Gun, saying "...they want Status Car, what were the others? I'm trying to find Emanation. O.K. I know what they are. They are not supposed to use that station. There was a letter that came out the other day that they had been and they weren't supposed too. So when I look on this sheet that's why it's not on here. That's where they are going to start out, I'll let them know when they come up. That Network is not supposed to use that station at all. And he's coming into my station? O.K." June Day replying to Tommy Gun, he told Tommy Gun that he has all the stations turned on all the way up to where he's at. If they call back tell them I am looking. "You're telling me the one south of there I can turn off? right, thank you." June Day calling Fox Hound, (TACAMO LANT?), no reply. Fox Hound called June Day, June Day answered and told Fox Hound it's going to take a few minutes to get Fox Hound's circuits up. June Day has to run a plan on his system, right now Fox Hound is up on Tommy Gun's Network and June Day will have Fox Hound split over to his in a few minutes. June Day told Fox Hound that he is in June Day, that's where his system is up at. Fox Hound said fantastic, they are going to be in the area for a little bit and he appreciates getting a couple of channels, he'll be patient. Heard Fox Hound pop up and say "Flight Com be advised we have link." June Day calling Party Fox(???), no reply. June Day calling Party Fox again, still no reply. Wheat Patch, (Waldorf's call for 12/5), replying to Primary NAOC. "roger" Home Spun, (Waldorf's call for 12/6), calling Golf Club, (Primary NAOC's call for 12/6), a couple of times, no reply. Home Spun replying to Golf Club, Home Spun said he'll check on it and see what he can bring up for him. Home Spun told Golf Club he has a link up on his link and he saw a loop go up on it, did Golf Club just put one up? The port loop up on 3. It dropped again. It goes up and then comes down. He can't get a lock on his KIV either, so he'll have to check into that also. Can Golf Club check and see what services he has. Home Spun said that "they" put Golf Club up on, instead of WESTLANT for some reason, he said something about EASTLANT, so after Home Spun told "them" WESTLANT all of a sudden his link came up. Does Golf Club see anything on his 2702? Home Spun said he sees Golf Club off hook, but he doesn't see anything coming back the other way. Home Spun told Golf Club "...it's either that or there are 2 patches that have to be put up at Belvoir and they may not have put the second one up, I'll go ahead and call and verify that that's up while you go ahead and call the Switch." Home Spun called Golf Club and said he just talked to Belvoir and they said both patches are up. Home Spun asked if Golf Club called the Switch yet, if not Home Spun will call them. Home Spun told Golf Club if Golf Club doesn't get any results let Home Spun know and he'll go back to Belvoir and see what they got, or Home Spun can throw a loop up to Golf Club at Belvoir if Golf Club wants and see if he sees that, that will tell them if it's getting that far. Home Spun told Golf Club that Home Spun sees it O.K., Golf Club sees it O.K., Home Spun is going to loop it to Golf Club at Detrick that way Golf Club will have it run all the way up there. Home Spun said all they have to do is wait for the other end to reset the thing for Golf Club. Home Spun called Golf Club and told Golf Club that he had to change the port address on his hub, he'll try to send Golf Club something. Home Spun came back on a little while later and told Golf Club that it doesn't like something. Home Spun told Golf Club that the link itself is not hitting, so Home Spun doesn't think a Downline Load is going to make a difference. Home Spun told Golf Club he can try it if he likes, but Home Spun is not getting any hits on the link. Home Spun then told Golf Club that it keeps dropping off, Golf Club can go ahead and try a Downline Load. Home Spun told Golf Club that he's still getting hits on his KIV and Golf Club's loop dropped again. Home Spun told Golf Club he's going to try to give Golf Club a local loop on port 3, he asked Golf Club if port 3 is the one he's looping. Home Spun asked if Golf Club sees the loop. Home Spun said "Alright, let's see if it'll stay there." Home Spun called Golf Club and said he has a lock now, but he had to patch one of his KIVs out, also he just sent Golf Club a message, let Home Spun know if he gets it. Home Spun called Golf Club and asked if Golf Club got the messages from Home Spun, on SHF. Apparently not, Home Spun told Golf Club he never got Golf Club's either. Home Spun said he shows a good link with Golf Club, but he doesn't seem to be connected. Home Spun told Golf Club he sees something from Golf Club, but nothing from the distant end. Home Spun said it seems to him that they had this problem before Golf Club moved, before Golf Club went over to the other SATCOM. Home Spun said he thinks that it automatically "autroutes" when it wants to. Home Spun said he'll wait till he hears something back from Golf Club. Home Spun told Golf Club he doesn't see anything from Golf Club now, but it looks like they're off hook on the other end. Apparently Home Spun gave a loop to Golf Club, he told Golf Club that he should see himself coming back. Home Spun asked if it was taking hits. Home Spun said that Golf Club could put a Bird Set on there for a few minutes and watch it to see if it's running clean. Home Spun said he currently sees nothing either direction, flat line both ways. Home Spun said he sees a little blurp, something coming across like noise every once in a while. Home Spun said he can see disturbances in the pattern on the scope every once in a while. Home Spun said he'll give Golf Club a hard loop at Home Spun to see if it's between Home Spun and Golf Club or between Home Spun and Detrick. Home Spun asked Golf Club to watch it for a bit. Home Spun said it looks like it's still there. Home Spun asked if Golf Club was still taking hits. Home Spun said he's now going to give Golf Club a local loop up at Belvoir. Home Spun said he doesn't know if Golf Club has one up or not, it shows that Home Spun doesn't have one available. Home Spun said he knows what it is, never mind. Home Spun said Golf Club should be looking at a local loop now, just between Golf Club and the SAT folks, actually to their FCC 100, on the backside of their equipment there. Home Spun said that puts it in Belvoir, or in the satellite link. Home Spun said he'll go ahead and call up there to see if he can get them to look at this "thing" someplace. Home Spun called Golf Club and told Golf Club to advise SHF that the SAT folks are going to give him a loop on the backside of their RT. Which would be on the Tech Control side of their RT and see what that looks like, he should see that come up in a few minutes. Home Spun called Golf Club a few minutes later and asked if Golf Club sees the loop on there now. Home Spun called Golf Club and told Golf Club that Golf Club's whole link is down now. Home Spun then said to him, "Oh, O.K., you already knew about that then." Home Spun told Golf Club "They're going to put one up at the SAT terminal, but behind their RT in other words on the FCC 100 side of their RT, they're putting a loop up, a hard loop up towards you, so you're going down through their RT and back out to you." Home Spun replied to Golf Club and said that he can call them and ask them what they got, but they said they were going to loop it, so I would think you'd get back what you were sending. Home Spun called Golf Club and told Golf Club that the loop is down and he sees data going both ways and it looks like the same pattern, it looks like there is still a loop somewhere. Home Spun replied to Golf Club and asked if Golf Club was satisfied with it now. Home Spun said that he has everything normalled that he knows about. Home Spun told Golf Club "that's" down now, because I see your pattern coming in here now and going out of here, I wouldn't see it if they still had that up. Home Spun said he had a flat line while "they" had that up, so they've got "that" normal. Home Spun said he doesn't know where the loops are coming form. Home Spun told Golf Club to stand by, let him check something. Home Spun said he sees it drop off in one direction, so it's not a loop. Home Spun sees a pattern from Golf Club and a flat line from "them" so that would be an off hook, wouldn't it? Home Spun told Golf Club that he usually doesn't go that far, he "just has on "here" that it's an RT. Home Spun told Golf Club that it looks like everything is up now. Home Spun said that the patches might be causing Golf Club to be having problems though, Home Spun thinks they are going to have to take them down one at a time or take them all down so Golf Club can be fully back on the RF. Home Spun said whatever circuits Golf Club had on Land Line. Home Spun called Golf Club from the "back" and told Golf Club that he was ready. Home Spun then told Golf Club that 3 was down, 5 is down, 6 is down, 7 is down. Home Spun told Golf Club that the 2702 is looped at Detrick. Home Spun said he's monitoring, it looks like the same thing coming in is going out, he's got a remote loop up at Detrick. Home Spun came on a while later and told Golf Club that the loop is down. Home Spun told Golf Club that he'll bring all the stations up, he wants to let Golf Club know that down at station Valorous they don't have any ground lines available. Home Spun told Golf Club he's looking. The MUX dropped at 1406z, the carrier dropped at 1413z. That's all from the Orderwire tapes. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have a log out from 12/6 when Golf Club came back to Andrews to pick some folks up. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 305.550/230.650 Golf Club & Home Spun in N. Va. 12/6 At 1555z came into the Shack and found WBFM carrier up on 305.550 at S-9 with crickets, and 230.650 at S-5. At 1600z heard on the 305 & 230 Orderwires Home Spun, (Waldorf), and Golf Club, (Primary NAOC). Golf Club told Home Spun that they were back on the ground at Home Spun, (Andrews). Home Spun said roger, he transitioned Golf Club because he started to fade out, he knows Golf Club is "here", because he's looking real strong. Golf Club asked if Home Spun had a time for the transition. Home Spun said 1526. Golf Club told Home Spun they are only going to be on the ground a short while, they are picking up a few folks, they should be there in 10 minutes. After that they'll be flying "direct line to Keg Nail." At 1601z heard phone call on 305.5912LSB, "This is Golf Club with a message of 4 groups standby. Message follows, H2PXEUJ6JGJP. Acknowledge NORAD." NORAD replied "loud and clear." Air Force was called next and replied "Air Force", Command Center was called next, Command Center replied with "Command Center loud and clear", STRATCOM was next and replied with "STRATCOM Acknowledges", Decurrent was called next and replied with "Negative can you repeat" Golf Club said "copy", he then called Vagabond, Vagabond replied with "Vagabond", next called was Quencher, Quencher replied with "Quencher", Blue Grass was next and replied with "Blue Grass", SPACECOM Special Activities was called next, he replied with "Special Activities". Then "All conferees may drop except for Decurrent, Decurrent are you ready to copy." Decurrent said yes. Golf Club then repeated the message and asked how Decurrent copied. Decurrent replied he copies all. "Golf Club out." At 1612z heard phone call on 305.6072USB, A conference call that lasted for about a half hour. Some of the participants were (Fort) Belvoir, STRATCOM, SOUTHCOM, Pacific, ACOM, CENTCOM, 5092, SPACECOM, Peterson, Offutt. At 1623z heard on the 305 & 230 Orderwires Golf Club and Home Spun. Golf Club called Home Spun and informed him they are airborne again and headed west. At 1649z heard phone call on 305.5752LSB. At 1651z heard on the 305 & 230 Orderwires Golf Club calling Home Spun and asking how Home Spun sees him in station Fire Bug. Home Spun said he doesn't see him there at all, he saw him coming up at Bow Legged for a little bit and then it faded back out, he had about a 2 and then it went away, he has a 5 1/2 at Home Spun, it's still like Golf Club is real close. Golf Club said he has good AGC so they'll still hang out "here" a little bit. At 1653z heard on the 305 & 230 Orderwires Home Spun calling Golf Club and passing along that he does see Golf Club at Fire Bug, the signal came up pretty good, it's not as strong as here though. Golf Club said O.K., they'll stay put for a few more minutes. Golf Club said Home Spun scared him, Golf Club was looking at his INS(?) and they are only 160 miles out. At 1656z heard on the 305 Orderwire Home Spun telling Golf Club that he's in Fire Bug. I heard Golf Club reply on the 305 Orderwire telling Home Spun that he has him loud and clear. The carrier then dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 336.820/397.050 WBFM AF1 & Newcomer in N. Va. 12/12 At 0525z started picking up a carrier on 397.050 in SSB mode. At 0537z had a WBFM carrier at S-2 on 397.050. At 0546z heard phone call on 397.0915USB, gal arranging to have cabs meet travelers at the Southwest gate as opposed to meeting at Andrews, need cabs for Va. & Md. At 0549z WBFM carrier popped up on 336.820 at S-9. At 0552z heard phone call on 336.8593USB. At 0552z the 397 carrier was at S-9. At 0553z heard phone call on 336.8592USB. At 0555z heard phone call on 336.8590USB, call to Secret Service. At 0557z heard phone call on 336.8510USB. At 0559z heard phone call on 336.8669LSB, ALE talk, "I think that's gonna be a good fix for it, other then that I think you just had two little hiccups on the switch and that's all he's had also. We went out there very quick at the very end, he was having a problem, he was having a lot of errors on the ALE radio, it wasn't tuning on about half of the frequencies, it'll be in the band pass filter, the pre selector, we weren't sure what it was at first, we could put a little jumper in there and just bypass it completely and so it worked fine. The trouble with parts, getting parts, you've got a good possibility of putting another bad part in there. At the same time they've changed so many parts in that thing it's hard to say, the problem actually at looking at some of the notes the problem actually changed three times. It was on it's third different problem just before we left, but that problem appeared to be an easy fix. What circuit are you on right now? You sound good, it's just your audio level keeps dropping way down every once in a while. Maybe you're just tired. It could be you fading in and out, ha ha ha." At 0600z the 397 carrier dropped to S-1, AF1 landed at Andrews. At 0602z heard phone call on 336.8585USB. At 0607z heard on the 336 Orderwire Newcomer, Waldorf, responding to AF1, AF1 was unheard on the 397 Orderwire, a couple of "roger sir"s and a "yes sir". At 0609z the 336 carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: WBFM Orderwire Comms. in N. Va., 12/18 From the tape machine: As soon as the tape started running, Rekindle, (Waldorf), "45". Harmonic, (NAOC), "That was 991245?" Rekindle replied roger that. Harmonic said he was kind of looking at another problem, his channel 8 is kind of intermittent on breaking dial tone, it'll work maybe 2 times out of 5 or 6. Rekindle said he can take a look at it and see what he gets. Rekindle said there has been some really strange things going on tonight, he's been working on some SAT Loops for "stuff that's coming up" and the number he's been talking to the folks on all night long he can no longer dial it, it's telling him he can't dial it from there. Rekindle calling 27000 numerous times, no reply. Harmonic calling Rekindle, Harmonic says he was checking out that 80, and it's almost like it doesn't want to recognize the first couple of digits he dials before it actually takes it. Rekindle said it looks like it might be some kind of interference problem, because it's an intermittent thing and it's not consistent. Rekindle asked Harmonic if he's still taking hits on 12. Harmonic said he doesn't believe so, all the other circuits seem fine, as soon as you get dial tone on them you hit a number and can break it. Eight's the only one that seems to be acting up. Rekindle asked what kind of level Harmonic has leaving on 8. Harmonic told Rekindle that he may have a problem with that, he goes off hook and has a neg. 51. Rekindle asked Harmonic what kind of level does he have coming into him. Harmonic said about a neg. 16. Rekindle said that's a little warm. He'll look at a new test point and get back to Harmonic. Harmonic called Rekindle, it was Harmonic's SHF Operator, he passed along to Rekindle that he's having problems with circuit 2700, does Rekindle have a ticket number for that. Rekindle said he'll check. Rekindle said he doesn't have anything on 2700. Harmonic said he doesn't have any user connectivity on that circuit, can Rekindle check with (Fort) Belvoir and make sure they patched Harmonic up to port 2 on their MUX and did not leave Harmonic on port 6. Rekindle asked if Harmonic was going through (Camp) Roberts now. Harmonic said to standby, he just got on shift. Harmonic came back and asked for a loop on (Fort) Detrick's port 5, to see if he can get a loopback back to him. Rekindle said roger, let him see what "they have over here." Rekindle asked if Harmonic sees the loop. Harmonic said yes, he's synced up on the loop, fivers. He's looked at his users instrument on his scope going out and his instrument is working correctly so he's thinking there's a problem at the Pentagon Switch. Rekindle asked if it has to be reset. Harmonic said probably, usually what he'll do is have his user go out front and have the Red Switch verify that they see them off the hook, they have the capability to do that, but they probably have to reset their instrument. Rekindle said roger, he'll take the loop down. Harmonic said he'll put the user's equipment back on line. Rekindle called Harmonic and said he doesn't see anything on his scope on port 2, where the 2700 is. Harmonic said there's nothing on line right now, he can have his user go off hook real quick if Rekindle wants to see it. Rekindle said he doesn't see anything, no flat line, nothing. Harmonic said to standby, he's trying to get his user to go off hook. Harmonic said he's off hook, Rekindle should see something coming towards Rekindle from Harmonic. After a while Harmonic came on and asked Rekindle if he sees it. Rekindle said no, it may not be that, they're checking something else. Harmonic said it should be coming into Rekindle on port 2. Rekindle said roger, but he doesn't see anything on port 2. It may be the scope, they are checking and will get back to Harmonic. Rekindle came back on and said he does have a signal from Harmonic, "it looks like a.... we're not sure what that is, but there is nothing coming back towards you." Harmonic said that's a STU trying to go secure with another STU, he doesn't think they are going through the Pentagon Switch. Rekindle said he may not be getting that far. Did Harmonic see the loop when Rekindle put it up before. Harmonic said yeah, he saw the loop from Detrick fivers, it synced right up. Rekindle said he'll call and have them reset it then, no he'll call Detrick first and see what they have. Harmonic said alright, when Rekindle gets a ticket number let Harmonic know so he can put it in his log. Harmonic said he'd help more but he's having problems with his phones. Rekindle said it's no problem, he's supposed to do this. He then gave Harmonic a ticket number 991247. Rekindle responding to 27000, telling him he has him loud and clear. He told 27000 to let him get set up. He then told 27000 to have a nice Christmas also, he counted to 3 and the carrier dropped. Another carrier popped up later on: Rekindle telling Syndrome that he's in Rekindle now. Heard Syndrome asking Rekindle if he said that he was in Rekindle. Rekindle said that's right. Rekindle calling Detent(?), Rekindle told Detent that if he needs a time when he was transitioned into Windfall it was 1804z, right in the middle of changing satellites. Rekindle just about lost Detent so he went ahead and transitioned . Harmonic calling Rekindle and asking how Rekindle copies Harmonic at Door Plate. Rekindle said he has him loud and clear, wait his signal is about a three and a half, he has Harmonic stronger at Readiness. He hasn't transitioned yet. Harmonic said he's starting to lose Rekindle where he's at. Rekindle asked if Harmonic wanted Rekindle to transition. Harmonic said to standby, he just switched to upper. He told Rekindle that if he looks real good to go ahead and transition. Rekindle said that Harmonic is now in Door Plate, it sounds better. Harmonic called Rekindle, Harmonic asked if they were transitioned into Door Plate. Rekindle said yes. Harmonic told Rekindle that the circuits check good. Harmonic called Rekindle and asked how Rekindle saw Harmonic. Rekindle said he's getting about a 4 for AGC, it's not real strong and he doesn't have Harmonic any better at any other station. Harmonic called Rekindle and said he'd like to coordinate a freq. change, he'd like to change to RF 1. He needs to wait a while because he has some calls up. He asked Rekindle how Rekindle sees Harmonic in Windfall. Rekindle said he has a good signal there, he's set up to transition and change RF freqs. at the same time if Harmonic would like, if not he could transition Harmonic onto the same freq. Harmonic said to go ahead and transition, but to stay on the same freq. Rekindle said to stand by while he changes things around. Rekindle came on and told Harmonic he's ready for transition, he transitioned Harmonic into Windfall. Harmonic said they'll maintain the current freq. set up, the other station had interference by a different "ground agency." Rekindle replying to unheard, (Detent?). Harmonic called Rekindle and said he'd like to change to RF 1. Rekindle said he'll set up. Rekindle came back and said he was ready. Harmonic counted down from 3 and Rekindle switched RFs. After the switch they had each other loud and clear. Harmonic talking with unheard, told unheard that he'll check. Harmonic then called Grown, unheard, and told Grown "that's a copy on your circuit request." Rekindle replying to Grown and told him that he did notice that it was down. Rekindle came on later and told Grown that it looks like he's losing Grown, he's getting a very weak signal. Rekindle came back and told Grown that it sounds a lot better now. Rekindle has Grown loud and clear, signal strength is about a 3, Rekindle normally sees Grown a little higher where he's at, Grown was down to about a 1 and a half and it was very noisy. Harmonic called Rekindle and asked for a double feed at Windfall, he's sitting at the spot. Rekindle gave Harmonic a double feed. Harmonic then came on a short while later and told Rekindle that he's on Ground Lines at this time Rekindle can drop the RF side. Rekindle came on and told Harmonic that he's Ground Line only. Harmonic called Rekindle and asked if Grown was down. Rekindle said no, they are still up, they still have their circuits. Rekindle told Harmonic that they did take their FDMA down so Harmonic has his DSNs back. Rekindle replying to Grown, he asked if Grown has a time when they want to come up again, he said he knows on the FDMA, but he figured that Grown would like to come up on the RF link first. A short while later Rekindle terminated the RF carrier for Grown. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: WBFM Orderwire Comms. Ripe & Sing Song in N. Va. , 12/20 Found about 5 hrs. of Orderwire comms. on tape. Comms. happened sometime between 0500z - 1300z. From the tape: Sing Song, (Waldorf), replying to Ripe, (NAOC). Sing Song calling Mangrove, (Probably Primary NAOC), Sing Song told Mangrove that he has Ripe up and they are requesting the 5B. Mangrove told Sing Song to standby. Mangrove came back and told Sing Song that he'd like to make sure that Sing Song gives Ripe channel 4. Sing Song said that's right, he was just checking to make sure that was still up. Mangrove said to give Ripe 1, 4, 9 & 10. Sing Song replied to Ripe and told Ripe that he's trying to set it up right now. Sing Song called Ripe and told him that he should have everything except for channel 2. Sing Song replying to Ripe and said that channel 4 will be Ripe's channel 2 of their regular circuits, Ripe will have 1 of 5B, 9 & 10 of the 5B, and they'll have 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 of the Combat Ciders. Sing Song replying to Ripe, Sing Song asked if it was 6 that Ripe doesn't see at all. Sing Song said he'll check them. Sing Song came back and told Ripe he'd like to switch to another RF because all of the SFs in Sing Song are way off, coming from Ripe. Sing Song replied to Ripe and said that the SF is really off at the high end, from channel 6 on straight through the SFs are all over the place and are way low. Sing Song is checking them off of the MUX to make sure and it is coming right off his MUX. Sing Song called Mangrove and said he'd like to change RFs because he's having trouble with their MUX with Ripe. Mangrove told Sing Song to standby. Mangrove asked if they needed to go to a different RF or does Ripe need to go to a different RF. Sing Song said that it's Ripe that needs to go to a different RF. Sing Song asked if Mangrove was on RF 1, Mangrove said yes, Sing Song asked if 3 or 4 would be good. Mangrove said it sounds good to him. Mangrove said that 4 would be fine, Sing Song said that sounds good, they've had good luck with that one at Sing Song. Sing Song called Ripe and asked if Ripe wanted to roll to RF 4. Sing Song told Ripe to let him know when Ripe's ready and they'll do it on a count, if it doesn't work they'll come back to RF 5. A short while later Sing Song replied to Ripe and told Ripe that if it doesn't work they'll come back, on Sing Song's count they switched to RF 4. Heard Sing Song calling Ripe and telling Ripe that he has him loud and clear. He'll go into the back room and check the SFs. Sing Song told Ripe that Ripe should have one of the Ciders on channel 2, that would be channel 4 of the Ciders is on channel 2. Sing Song called Ripe and said that the SFs look much better, are Ripe's circuits working any better? Sing Song repeated back Ripe's problems, constant call on 1 and nothing on 6. Sing Song called Ripe and said that they both look good, channel 6 looked a little flaky and he reseated the cards and everything is looking fine now. Channel 1 Sing Song is pulling dial tone on it, he sees good SF from Ripe. Sing Song asked Ripe to go off hook on channel 1. Sing Song said he sees dial tone going back to Ripe, he asked Ripe to try it again. He told Ripe there's dial tone. Sing Song asked Ripe to go off hook on channel 6 and he'll look at that one. Sing Song sees it go off hook, Ripe went back on hook real quick and he didn't see any dial tone. Sing Song replied to Ripe and said that it could have just been some jacks at Sing Song, he doesn't know. Sing Song replied to Ripe and said "you have a constant call on channel 6?" "channel 1." Sing Song said it shows good SF going to Ripe. It's a 19 at a 20, so it's a little hot, it's a dB hotter. Sing Song said he'll look to see if he has it going into the MUX, just so he's not lying to Ripe. Sing Song said he has it good going into the MUX, he sees it going out of the MUX. Sing Song replied to Ripe and said he "can do it here, but when you go out of my area you won't have it, I can patch it straight across to my MUX, oomm, ooomm, O.K., O.K., like I said I can give it to you here, but when you go out of our area you'll lose it. What I can do is patch straight to my MUX, I don't have any other capabilities. Roger." Sing Song replied to Ripe and said to let him call to make sure that "they" took the loop down, did Ripe call already? Sing Song said he hasn't loaded anything on "this", he'll start loading it now. Sing Song called Ripe and said that he's on day 20, is that what Ripe is on? Sing Song called Mangrove and told Mangrove to tell his SHF Operator that the dial tones and stuff he's going to lose those, Sing Song will probably put up what he has left when he gets done with Ripe. Ripe is coming up right now, also have the SHF Operator to update his T triple C. Mangrove came back on and said that he's the SHF guy, he understands the first thing and he will update his T triple C. Sing Song came back laughing saying he's been waiting a long time to say that, because they are always calling Sing Song and he forgets it. Mangrove said "you got me." Mangrove called Sing Song and asked if it was Ripe that was up. Sing Song said that's correct, they are coming up FDMA. Mangrove called Ripe and Sing Song answered with "this is Ripe, go ahead sir", Mangrove told Sing Song that it's SHF, did "you guys get my last T triple C transmission?" Sing Song/Ripe answered no, it doesn't look like it's locked up. Sing Song/Ripe came back and said that it's locked up now, try it now. Mangrove came back and called Sing Song. Mangrove asked if Sing Song had Ripe programmed up into Sing Song's T triple C service. Sing Song said no, they aren't up yet. Mangrove asked if Sing Song could send a test message on Mangrove's T triple C. Sing Song said he can. Sing Song replied to Ripe and said he still shows a fault on his MUX though. Sing Song said he check to see if "they" still have a loop on there, let him put his Bird on there, just for a second. Sing Song asked if Ripe was coming up in (Fort) Meade. Sing Song then said "coming up at Belvoir, O.K., that's the problem, hold on." Sing Song called Ripe and said his was locked up now, is Ripe's locked up. Sing Song said he has Ripe's dial tones up now, he hasn't swapped anything else over yet. Sing Song replied to Ripe and told Ripe that all of his dial tones are patched up. Sing Song replied to Ripe and told Ripe that he'll check them. Sing Song told Ripe that he's going to pull the service down and stick his Bird on there just to make sure they don't have it in a loop, in a Satty loop. Everything looks right on his MUX, all of the dial tones are patched up right, all of the ports are opted right. Sing Song said he can Download to Ripe and see what happens. Sing Song came back a while later and said that maybe it was his fault because he threatened it very badly. Sing Song said it was going to be a number 8 right in the front. Sing Song asked Ripe if Ripe wanted to establish one of Ripe's channels as an Orderwire when Sing Song loses Ripe, one of Ripe's dial tones. Apparently Ripe said no, Sing Song said "they don't need an Orderwire?, O.K." Sing Song replied to Ripe and asked which one. Sing Song said that he'll go ahead and patch it up there then, he's sorry, there it is. Sing Song replied to Ripe and said he'll check, Sing Song said that he's locked up. Sing Song asked if Ripe was having problems, Sing Song said his was not hitting, he heard the T triple C hit a couple of times. Sing Song asked if "they" put it back in loop. Sing Song replied to Ripe and said that he'll call "them." Sing Song called Ripe and said that "they" seem to think that it was in a loop, how does it look now, they took it down. Sing Song replying to Ripe, Sing Song said, "so you're not going to be using Butternut?, ooohhh, wait a minute, let me see which one it is here, you're not going to be using Noon Tide?, let me ask you this, I asked your SHF Operator if he wanted to put the Orderwire up on one of the channels, once I lose you on the UHF here. Roger sir, I'll just get the circuits up and if he needs me he can call me on one of the lines." Sing Song called Ripe and asked for the SHF Operator. Sing Song told the SHF Operator "I have the 29JK up for your AUTODIN, did you want, I see you have the NMCC, is that what you wanted, on port 2? aahh, is this Ripe? Oh you did, port 2? I show it on. I show it 75. Port 2, O.K., so it's up to Hancock. Oh, I'm sorry, let me see where it goes, port 2, port 2, aahhh, port 2 for NMCC is now going to aahhh, hold on." Sing Song then came back and replied with a couple of "rogers" to Ripe. Sing Song replied to Ripe and said he has a good read with Ripe on T triple C. Sing Song said he got a couple of them (messages), he only got to respond to one, evidently someone else responded to the other one. That's all from the tape, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: WBFM Orderwire Comms. in N. Va. 12/21 - 22 At 1055z WBFM carriers popped up on 325.965 at S-9 and 359.750 at S-1. Recorded from the 325 Orderwire: Humorous, (Waldorf), calling 27000 and telling 27000 he reads him loud and clear. Humorous calling Bean Pole, (NAOC), when Bean Pole answered Humorous asked Bean Pole to go off hook and try a test call. Humorous said he sees him off hook, Humorous said he doesn't see any answer, he asked Bean Pole to stay off hook, "they're" trying to locate where this goes into. Humorous calling Bean Pole, Humorous asked if Bean Pole's SHF Operator was around and to ask him if he updated his T triple C. Bean Pole said that the SHF Operator had not updated the T triple C. Humorous said "he had a surprised look, didn't he?, tell him I got him again." Bean Pole said that "sir, he says he's been busy." Humorous said yeah, likely story. Bean Pole called Humorous and asked if Humorous said that Bean Pole can go back on hook. Humorous said that Bean Pole can go on hook. Humorous said they are trying to figure out where they can test it at, they don't see it on the other side. Bean Pole said he'll be standing by. Humorous called Bean Pole and asked for the SHF Operator, Bean Pole said that's him. Humorous said they finally traced it down to the STU, they are trying to got someone to check it out completely or replace it. So they are making a little progress. Bean Pole said "so when they were sledge hammering the safe open they damaged the STU?" Humorous said "well, I guess. I always get the feeling that when they would go off hook it was kind of heavy, you know, and they were having trouble to get it to go off hook, because it was in the safe." Bean Pole starts laughing. Humorous says evidently it goes to one section over there and they are not real familiar with it, they don't even know why they have it, and they want to know all kinds of things, I couldn't tell them a whole lot so I asked them to either replace the STU or repair it, so they are writing a job order right now and putting it on the ticket to get maintenance to do that. Bean Pole said that the operators on his end, if they want to know settings, his operators know the settings, but the problem was the people his operators were talking to were so non conversant in the system, (Humorous broke in and said definitely), you couldn't even begin to tell them how to do the settings. Humorous said maintenance had it hooked up to some other piece of equipment other then the STU. Bean Pole starts laughing and Humorous breaks in and says don't laugh, this is serious O.K., finally when they came back up there and went to test it and check the line out they said it wasn't going to the STU, so they put it in there. I finally talked to the guy and I said I don't recognize any of your guys names or anything like that and one man had been there two weeks and one guy had been there a week. They're not really like you said, very familiar with it. STU IIs is not their forte let's put it that way. Bean Pole said hopefully these aren't around much longer, he appreciates Humorous' help. Humorous said Specialist name said he would get on the ticket right away and he seems to be really trying. He said he would try to get somebody down from one of the other buildings, he said he knew somebody who had STU II experience and he was trying to get ahold of him, but he couldn't do anything until he got his ticket back from maintenance and updated it. The carrier dropped around 1230z. From the Orderwire tape, between 12/22 2230z - 12/23 0015z. Freq. unknown. Wild Man, (NAOC), talking to Gauze, (Unheard Plane), Wild Man asked if Gauze had tried calling them over the rotary. Wild Man said he's trying to call Gauze but it's busy. Wild Man telling Gauze that it's kind of hard to see it from his position. He doesn't have any windows. (looking for super bright Moon?) Wild Man told Gauze that the guys sitting in the seats said they saw Gauze. Wild Man said he didn't know he was "coming here, till you told us." Wild Man talking to Gauze using first names, Wild Man told Gauze he was on the list for Christmas. Wild Man called Gauze and asked if Gauze was playing with his Switch Board. I heard Gauze in the background coming over Wild Man's transmission, he told Wild Man that he is using his Switch Board. Wild Man said that he was trying to dial in and couldn't get through. Wild Man replying to Gauze and saying he can barely hear Gauze. Wild Man called Fuse Box, (Waldorf), and told Fuse Box that they are headed out to station Corn Stalk. Fuse Box said he has it set up for Wild Man. Wild Man called Gauze and asked Gauze how much longer he wanted to keep the air to air up. Wild Man said they can maintain it until Wild Man loses Gauze if Gauze wants. Fuse Box called Wild Man and told Wild Man he can put him into Corn Stalk any time he's ready. Wild Man told Fuse Box that Fuse Box can do it now. Wild Man then called Fuse Box and told him he has him loud and clear. Wild Man called Gauze and told Gauze he was still there. Wild Man called Gauze and asked if Gauze wanted to drop the link. Wild Man told "Tex" to have a good one. Wild Man called Fuse Box and told Fuse Box he'd like to crossover channels 5, 6, & 7 over to SSMA ports 7, 8, & 9, do them one at a time. Fuse Box said to let him get set up. Fuse Box asked if Wild Man wanted then in order. Wild Man said he wants 5 on port 7, 6 on 8 and 7 on 9 and on port 10 he'd like ADMIN. Fuse Box said he's going to take port 7 away from Wild Man and go set it up to put on the patch. Fuse Box will let Wild Man know when he's ready to throw it up on the patch. Fuse Box called Wild Man and said he's ready to put 5 up on port 7 if Wild Man is ready. Wild Man said he's ready. Fuse Box asked Wild Man to check it to see if it's there. Wild Man said he would. He told Fuse Box that on port 7 he's receiving a constant call from Fuse Box. Fuse Box told Wild Man to check it again he had a cord flipped over. A short while later Fuse Box called Wild Man and asked if Wild Man had a good check on 5 yet. Fuse Box said it's there, but it's busy. Fuse Box said he's showing SF on it both ways. Fuse Box said he's going to move it to a different trunk. Fuse Box came back and said that he's getting a reorder or something on it. Wild Man told Fuse Box to normal up 5 and give 6 a shot. Fuse Box told Wild Man that he should have 5 back. Wild Man called Fuse Box and the Orderwire started getting real noisy, when Fuse Box answered Wild Man asked to move the ADMIN over quick before he loses Fuse Box. Fuse Box said they were in the process of doing that. The Orderwire was very noisy and Fuse Box told Wild Man he has it, the Orderwire quieted down and when Wild Man came back he had the hollow, wavering audio of the SAT Orderwire being patched over to the UHF system, Wild Man asked for 6 to be put on port 8. Wild Man called Fuse Box and Fuse Box asked Wild Man to try his channel 6, Wild Man kept calling Fuse Box though. Spy Song, the old Wild Man, called Green Sky, the old Fuse Box, Green Sky answered and again no reply from Spy Song. Green Sky called Spy Song, the carrier then dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>)