5/20 At 2331z on 397.000, 336.800, 398.500 heard WBFM carriers. No orderwire traffic was heard, carriers dropped out at 2347z. 5/21 At 1926z on 336.800 heard a WBFM carrier heard Waldorf talking to unknown on the orderwire, unknown was not heard, (on an outside speaker?). At 1935z on 336.742LSB heard a phone call. At 1938z heard Waldorf say "we'll be looking for you, thanks alot." then the carrier dropped. That's all for now. 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 326.000 WBFM in N. Va. Waldorf , 01 & 02 5/21 At 0922z heard carrier on 326.000, heard Waldorf talking to 01, 01 not heard, (on an outside speaker?). Lots of data was heard +/- center freq., apparently there was a data problem. Waldorf was talking about a foreign loop up at Roberts, also replace 29JL with 29HS (whatever that means:>)), 29HS is 1200 bits/sec. , it's looped back to you, the foreign loop you don't see, you must have a problem up there. At 0942z on 326.0544LSB heard phone call discussing data problem, " he just started HS again". At 0955z on 325.9461USB heard same phone call from 326.0544LSB. I had to hit the road at 09548z. Carrier still present at 1920z. At 1946z heard phone call on 325.970USB. At 2000z had to hit the road to film the wife riding one of her horses. Carrier still up at 2247z. At 2350z on the Orderwire heard 02 tell Waldorf he has no SF on Nightwatch Ch. 1. At 2353z they had their SF. 02 told Waldorf they moved from their usual parking spot and picked up a lot of interference while moving. Maybe it'll clear up once they are airborne. At 0001z on 326.0312LSB heard phone call. At 0009z on the Orderwire heard 02 calling 01, no reply. 02 then called Waldorf and informed Waldorf they were airborne. 02 should be getting their data from Belvoir, but isn't seeing any. 02 and Waldorf are on Day 22. Waldorf checks into it and a couple of minutes later Waldorf and 02 are seeing good data. At 0014z on 325.9508LSB heard the tail end of a phone call, ETA to Argentina is 1000z. At 0016z on the Orderwire heard 02 tell Waldorf they are heading south and will be out of GEP coverage in 50 mins. Waldorf has Seymour up looking for 02. ( 02 heading to Argentina? ) At 0019z on 325.9508 heard phone call about which freqs. to use. 7748 was mentioned. At 0033z on the Orderwire heard Waldorf tell 02 that Waldorf has a better signal at Seymour, Waldorf transitions 02 into Seymour. At 0049z on the Orderwire 02 calls Waldorf and informs Waldorf that they are getting a noisy signal, Waldorf tells 02 that the signal from 02 is still strong, 02 will hang in as long as he can then. At 0053z on the Orderwire heard 02 call Waldorf and tell him it's getting real noisy now, Waldorf agrees and 02 asks Waldorf to drop the link. 02 is dropped at 0053z. At 0054z on the Orderwire 02 calls Waldorf for a signal check. Waldorf replies and then asks 01 to take back the 5B from 02. Waldorf thought that 02's op was 01. Waldorf calls 01 a couple of times and gets no answer.( Does anyone know why 02 was still on the Orderwire after his link was dropped?) At 0059z on the Orderwire 02 reports no dial tone on FDMA 7, Waldorf will check into it. At 0106z on the Orderwire Waldorf called 02 3 times, no reply. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: More 326.000 WBFM in N. Va. 5/23 Carrier was still present at 0925z. At 0926z on the Orderwire heard 02 calling Waldorf and informing him that he was dropping out of the net since he was getting ready to land. He sounded like he was patched through the Orderwire on a speaker,( maybe through 01?). 02 informed Waldorf that he'll be back up tomorrow and will need the same configuration, "that's the way it'll be all week". Waldorf then called 01 and got no answer. Had to hit the road at 1000z. Carrier was still present at 1922z. At 1942z heard a conference call on 326.0389LSB and the same call on 325.9620USB. The usual "All conferees stand by" also had a much stronger voice saying "Just the Back Up conference stand by". Then Z, (or 0)GRENZ, Then the message at 1947z Z(OR 0)GRENZD6WNUY36EMBE2LQARDQD. This was repeated and then a female came on and said "this is N acknowledge Z, she then called Lima, Lima's reply was Quebec, Then she called Delta, no reply, then she called Whiskey, Whiskey's reply was 7, Then Golf was called Golf's reply was Quebec, she then repolled Delta and still no reply. Then "this is November out". At 1950z on 325.9704USB and 326.0310LSB heard a phone call, the same one on both freqs. Carrier is still up at 2010z, gotta hit the road for about 8 hrs. 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 01 Leave Andrews 326.000 WBFM 5/24 in N. Va. Carrier was still present at 0250z At 1456z heard phone call on 326.031LSB At 1643z on the Orderwire heard Waldorf confirm with 01 that they are heading back to Offutt. Between 1648z and 1652z heard phone calls on 326.0505LSB, 325.9622USB, & 3259509LSB. At 1654z caught the tail end of an EAM type conference call on 325.9673LSB, (live voice), "AEQN7XFA, correction, OB, acknowledge NORAD Space Comm., AFOC, ??? Special Activities, STRATCOM, Command Center, Poll Bearer, Marigold, ??????, Bluegrass, Mailbox." All replied loud and clear, except Marigold needed line 6 repeated, NW01 repeated line 6 N7X, then "This terminates the Conference, Nightwatch 01 out". At 1700z heard Waldorf talking to 01, 01 unheard, There apparently was a T1 problem, "A T1 is used to get the FEMA circuits up to Waldorf to patch up to you. I don't think this has anything to do with the FEMA GEP. Leesburg T1 was failed, looking at the trouble ticket now. The 22nd at 1630 in trouble, would've been the 23rd at 0111. If they're in use by someone else, some other FEMA operation, we don't always have them available. That was a failed T1, the T1 at Leesburg failed and they did clear that. Waldorf has the T1 and can draw dial tone on the circuits." At 1708z on 325.9623USB heard phone call. At 1711z on 326.0314LSB heard phone call, discussing Air to Ground 8. At 1713z found WBFM carrier up on 382.350 at S-3. At 1717z on 326.000 Orderwire heard Waldorf getting ready to transition 01 into WPAFB, carrier gone at transition. At 1718z carrier was still present on 382.350, heard 01 call Waldorf and tell Waldorf "Circuits check 5 by." At 1726z on 382.350 signal faded away. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) 5/28 At 2308z on 267.615 heard carrier at S-8. At 2317z noticed center of carrier had drifted to 267.610. Heard p/c at 2336z on 267.5620LSB. No traffic heard on the Orderwire. Carrier still up at 0010z.