Subject: 398.500 WBFM in N. Va. 11/2 At 1417z heard weak WBFM carrier on 398.500 at S-2. Orderwire had data sounds on it. (NW Bird?) At 1420z data sound dropped off Orderwire, Data came back within a minute. At 1427z data again dropped off of signal. Data returned at 1448z, carrier just at S-1. At 1707z carrier and data still present at S-1. At 1725z carrier dropped. Maybe signal was from Mt. Weather???? No Orderwire traffic heard. At 1904z a weak carrier with data on it popped up again. At 1922z heard on the Orderwire ??? in comms. with Waldorf, ??? informed Waldorf someone was going to be coming up shortly on RF 1 and ??? will probably be giving him channels 2 & 3. Waldorf said that he'll be looking for him. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 326.000 WBFM in N. Va. 973 & Waldorf 11/11 At 2125z heard WBFM carrier on 326.000 at S-1 and dropping into the noise. Signal had loud hum on it. At 2129z heard 973 tell Waldorf it looks like they lost their circuits. 973 asked Waldorf if 1C was still up. Waldorf said yes, 973 told Waldorf he's not getting any dial tones across them. At 2132z 973 called Waldorf and asked him if he found anything wrong. Waldorf told 973 he's looking. 973 told Waldorf they are on descent and switched to the upper antenna and still nothing. 973 told Waldorf they'll give them a call when they hit And... the signal went into the noise, I suppose he said Andrews though I didn't find any carrier on 382.350 when I checked a couple of minutes earlier. There must be another air channel for this freq. When the signal came back up Waldorf was telling 973 it looks like he's got double SF or a MUX loop back or something from 973. 973 said they are still up and transmitting on RF4 still and are showing a good signal going out. At 2137z Waldorf was calling 973 with no answer At 2138z Waldorf was calling 973 with no answer. At 2139z Waldorf again started calling 973, 973 answered, Waldorf wanted to change to RF 5 , 973 told Waldorf they are on the ... signal dropped out again. When the signal came back Waldorf was saying OK, 973 said thanks for your help. 973 said on your count, Waldorf counted to 3 and the carrier dropped. This is the first time in a while I've heard both sides on an Orderwire for Waldorf and an a/c's circuit. Usually Waldorf and the a/c will not have each other on the Orderwire due to feed back. This time though Waldorf had an echo on the voice transmissions. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 326.000=>325.965 WBFM Waldorf & ? in N. Va. 11/12 At 1038z heard weak WBFM carrier pop up on 326.000, at S-1 and dropping in and out of the noise. At 1038z heard Waldorf telling unheard/unknown "This is Waldorf, you're loud and clear. You have your circuits". At 1045z noticed another scanner I was using to search for the other freq. for this RF kept stopping well before 326.000, it was stopping around 325.925. I searched below the 326 freq. on the FRG-9600 in SSB and found that the carrier was peaking at 325.965. It was fluctuating from S-9+20 to S-5 in SSB mode. On 326.000 it was fluctuating from S-5 to S-0 in SSB mode. The 325.965 freq. was going from S-1 to S-4 in signal strength in WBFM mode. I never did find the air freq. for this ground freq. Maybe 325.965 is the ground freq. for RF 4, which is what was used yesterday with SAM 973 and Waldorf. Time will tell. At 1110z on the Orderwire heard 01 calling Waldorf, Waldorf answered and 01 passed along to Waldorf, "I just got a call from a TACAMO requesting circuits, they're gonna be coming up at Noble GEP, they're gonna need a 7D on RF 28. Waldorf said he'll be looking. 01 told Waldorf the callsign will be Razz 82. 01 then told Waldorf he was kinda confused when 82 called him, 01 wanted to know if he, 01, was a point of contact for Waldorf or should 82 have called Waldorf directly? Waldorf said they changed it, there's a new procedure, they're supposed to go through 01 now. 01 said he was not aware of that. 01 then asked that TACAMOs will be calling them when they want to come up, Waldorf said roger. Had to hit the road at 1115z, carrier still dancing on 325.965. Carrier gone at 2020z. 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 345.400 WBFM in N. Va. Waldorf & 02, 11/12 At 2123z while manually tuning the WBFM memories on the 9600 found a weak carrier on 345.500, tuned lower in freq. and found center freq. on 345.400 at S-8. Loud hum on signal. At 2140z on the Orderwire heard Waldorf talking to unknown about modems, "the internet access modem or the other one?" Waldorf told them to hold on a minute, they'll do a swap on the modems. Waldorf is going to take the one that was hooked to ? , the Robotics, and give ? the other one. At 2142z heard on the Orderwire 01 calling Waldorf, Waldorf replied, 01 asked if 02 was still up. Waldorf said roger. At 2145z heard Waldorf calling 02, did not hear 02, more talk about modem and computer configurations. ? is 02. This went on for about 1 & 1/2 hours, got about 40 mins. of Orderwire chatter on tape:>) one good Waldorf comment was " Roger on that sir, what you need to do is you come out the back of your laptop computer with an RS-232 cable and go into your multiplex, then you'll have a 45,000 mile long line, it'll go up to the satellite come down and be digital and it gets converted here, you will not hear dial tone in any way up at your house". Eventually Waldorf talked the guy on 02 to come on down to Waldorf with his laptop and they'll hook it up to Waldorf's modem and make sure the computer is compatible with the equipment on 02's plane. At 2310z I went upstairs to get a drink and when I got back the carrier was gone. I suspect that tomorrow this plane will be going with Bill onto Asia. I searched the band for the a/c freq. but could not find it, better luck next time. It seems that maybe some freq. pairs have been changed, maybe starting Nov. 1st? I heard Waldorf and 01 discussing some changes in late Oct. that were due to take place Nov. 1st. So far today I found two new freqs. 325.965 and this 345.400. They weren't far removed from known existing freqs. We'll just have to see what other changes have been made. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 232.760/357.700 WBFM Waldorf & 28000 in N. Va. 11/13-14 At 2242z found WBFM carrier on 232.760 at S-8, hum present on signal. At 2357z found WBFM carrier on 357.700 at S-8, no hum on this signal:>) At 0000z heard phone call on 357.7467LSB, "I just thought I'd call, to see how you're doing. We're headed to preposition over in Va. Still scheduled to take off tomorrow night. I'll probably give you a call sometime tomorrow night then, Bye". Left message on answering machine. At 0004z 357.700 signal had peaked to S-9+50. At 0010z heard phone call on 357.7311LSB. A personal call but he added,, " We're just headed over to Va. to park the airplane til tomorrow night, we're supposed to leave tomorrow night". I guess they're putting 28000 down at Dulles, I don't think it'll be at National. During this call the signal started dropping in and out. The carrier finally faded away at 0013z. At 0014z on the 232 Orderwire Waldorf was calling 28000, and the hum disappeared, Waldorf called again at 0015z and the hum came back, 28000 never answered. At 0015z the 232 carrier dropped. We'll have to see what action takes place tomorrow:>) This is the third freq. deviation I've found this week, first 326.000 => 325.965, second 345.500 => 345.400, third 232.710 => 232.760. Who knows what else is in store? That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.610/355.000 WBFM Waldorf & AF2 in N. Va. 11/15 At 0315z found WBFM carrier on 267.600 WBFM at S-4 with hum, carrier also found on 355.000 at S-9, no hum. At 0315z on the 267 Orderwire heard Waldorf calling 29000, on 355.000 heard AF2 answer. AF2 asked "???? us", Waldorf said "stand by I'll pick you up at the board". Waldorf then called AF2 and said that they had AF1 scheduled to come up 15 mins. before you were, AF2 said he understands that, they actually are the primary and the callsign will be AF2. Waldorf asked if 28000 will be coming up, AF2 said he will not. Waldorf asked if AF2 wants the 1A, AF2 said yes and they are burning RF6. Waldorf told AF2 to stand by for the 1A. (Waldorf doesn't get CNN?) At 0318z Waldorf called AF2 on the 267 Orderwire, AF2 came on and said they are taking some hits on MUX 3 & 8. Waldorf asked if AF2 was airborne at this time, no reply from AF2. (they were). At 0320z the center freq. of 267 had shifted to 267.610 and was at S-5. At 0323z heard phone call on 355.0394LSB, some gal leaving a message for someone, bragging about being on AF1 (wrong) and flying to Malaysia. At 0327z heard phone call on 355.0422LSB. At 0330z on the 267 Orderwire, didn't hear anything on the 355 Orderwire so I missed the beginning, heard I believe NW01 telling Waldorf, " 1330 to 1400z they're going to be coming back up, about that time they'll be flying into West PACC coverage and they're going to be coming up FDMA through Roberts", a long pause, then Waldorf, "OK I was trying to write all that down sorry about the long silence". "And they'll be coming up how?, FDMA?" 01(?) "Yes sir". Waldorf "OK, I'll make a log of that". 01(?) "And what'll probably happen is that once they get into the footprint, maybe half way or so we'll have to come down because they'll fly right on through West PACC and they'll have to get MIDLANT, which we're on now, so I'm gonna have to come down off FDMA and go back SSMA so they can have the MIDLANT and give the Sec. of State her circuits until they get back to Andrews". Waldorf "OK, I didn't know about the Sec. of State's flight. Or is that 02?" 01(?) "That is 02". Waldorf "Oh, OK , I understand". Looks like maybe we'll get some SAM 02 WBFM activity tomorrow morning? At 0336z Waldorf called AF2 a couple of times on the 267 Orderwire, no reply. At 0337z the 267 carrier had drifted to 267.615 and was at S-8. At 0339z heard phone call on 267.6549USB, extremely poor audio due to hum on carrier. Also heard call at 0340z on same freq. poor audio. At 0341z on the 267 Orderwire Waldorf was calling AF2, Waldorf told AF2, now yl op, that he's losing AF2's signal, he has 1.2 on a scale of 8 and they're getting noisy. Waldorf asked if they were headed towards Wright Patterson. Waldorf said he'll pick them up at Wright Patterson if he can, otherwise he'll carry them as long as he can in Waldorf. The hum then dropped off the Orderwire, but when I tuned within the signal in SSB the passband was noise at S-9+50!!! Carrier up, no circuits. At 0345z the carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 345.400/366.750 WBFM Waldorf & 01 in N. Va. 11/23, also AF1 At 1941z heard WBFM carrier on 305.550 at S-6, had cricket sound on it. suspect carrier for 01. At 1947z found WBFM carrier on 230.650 at S-4. At 1947z heard Waldorf call 01 on the 305 Orderwire, 01 replied on the 230 Orderwire. They're having some sort of problem. 01 says it looks like they're getting a double signal coming into them. Waldorf said he'll bring them up on another rack, he's firing it up now. Apparently another rack didn't help, 01 asked Waldorf to shut down his transmitter and then bring it back up. 01 then told Waldorf he had a perfect signal and then it went bad again. Waldorf then called one of his co-workers on the Orderwire and told him about 01's troubles. Waldorf and 01 said that they're both getting low levels from each other, Waldorf suggests they change RFs. They went to RF 3. I found Waldorf on 336.810 and 01 on 366.000. Waldorf didn't stay up long enough and 01 couldn't contact them. They both switched back to RF 2. Waldorf says he now sees a super AGC on 01, he wants to go back and look at his spectrum analyzer. 01 says his circuits are all still very bad, it's like they're getting double SF coming into them. 01 again asks Waldorf to shut down his transmitter and bring it back up, 01's gonna monitor the signal. Waldorf drops his transmitter and then brings it back up. Waldorf also says they are checking their antennas. Waldorf says he can't figure out way 01's getting double signal, did 01 see anything when Waldorf shut down. 01 says everything appeared to go away when Waldorf shut down. Waldorf sees on two radio racks 01's signal, it's weak and noisy on both. Waldorf is still checking their antennas. Waldorf came on a short while later and told 01 he lost all AGC, but has him back now. Waldorf asks if 01 can go to RF 5. 01 calls Waldorf says on his count switching to RF 5, 01 counts to 3 and carriers dropped. Found Waldorf on 345.400 at S-8, didn't find 01 on any freqs. in my memories. Searched the band and found 01 on 366.750 at S-9. Waldorf then told 01 he switched racks, transmitters and receivers, Waldorf's signal is now S-2. 01 tells Waldorf he'll check his circuits, 01 tells Waldorf circuits are still unusable. Waldorf then switched back to the original rack. 01 tells Waldorf he has dial tone on air to ground 7 only. 01 then switched radios, no change. Waldorf asks 01 to put on a different multiplexer, he checked 01 on 3 radios and all 3 show bad signals from 01. Waldorf has a good AGC on all 3 radios. At 2036z heard 01 call Waldorf on the 345 Orderwire, odd - usually don't hear both parties on their Orderwires, 01 asks Waldorf to roll over channels 3, 4, 5, & 6 to the landline side. Waldorf told 01 he has the circuits patched over to him on the landline also an Orderwire patched to him on the landline. At 2042z heard phone call on 345.4264USB. At 2047z on the 345 Orderwire heard 01 ask Waldorf to roll the circuits back RF, the only circuits he gets to work are RF, don't hear 01 on the Orderwire anymore. A while later heard 01 on the Orderwire again, Orderwire on landline?, 01 says that since Waldorf put the circuits back RF they work good now. At 2059z heard phone call on 345.4339USB, "Can I call you secure?" At 2112z Waldorf told 01 that on his low MUX B and low MUX C you have data on both those circuits about 10dB to hot and it's spilling all over the Orderwire and he's not sure what else it's spilling on. At 2116z heard phone call on 345.4313LSB. At 2116z heard Waldorf on the Orderwire tell 01 that he called the Pentagon to reset the 27DK, it's out of Waldorfs control when they do it. Waldorf says it should have been done by now. Heard phone calls on 345.4338USB & 345.4312LSB. At 2135z on 345.4395LSB heard siren type sound and the yl voice saying "All conferees stand by" numerous times, then "HMQKM3 stand by" numerous times. At 2138z om voice came on with EAM "HMQKM3UHUXHYH2KVUZEIEV(F?)XZFCIFF5E77T2222NNIABNIDDRUN2DEAAAKNGLMIGVJDDT4ZD7WDZEFAGILIF5PEC4PPPPIIWZNI53Q". This was repeated and then "This is Mike, acknowledge, he then called about a half dozen figures to confirm receipt. At 2150z heard phone call on 345.4475LSB, scrambled comms. At 2206z heard phone call on 345.4313LSB, "Get to Offutt and call you secure". Noticed that calls on Ch. 7 were very distorted. At 2215z heard phone call on 345.4154LSB. At 2220z on the Orderwire heard Waldorf tell 01 he looked at all 15 channels and the only one that should be working is low MUX B, C may be working he doesn't know. B he sees all the way from channel 12 to channel 8. He sees no SFs from 01. Went to eat dinner at 2240z, put a tape in the deck and recorded the Orderwire. Heard Waldorf call 01 and tell him he's got a thousand to him. On the background of the tape heard a phone call bleeding over on to the Orderwire that then went secure. Waldorf and 01 were then checking the levels on each channel. On the Orderwire Waldorf hears noise, dosen't know if it's from 01 or Air Force 1. Heard Waldorf say anytime 01's ready, he won't go til he loses 01. When I got back at 2337z noticed that the carriers were gone, found carriers at 326.000 at S-4 and 382.350 at S-1. There was more Orderwire chatter about channels and such. At 2350z heard Waldorf tell 01 to stand by he just got hit from Air Force 1. At 0010z found WBFM carrier on 267.615 at S-8, found carrier also on 355.000 at S-6. At 0016z heard phone call on 267.6519LSB, some guy reading a newspaper article about Pres. Clinton to someone on AF1. At 0020z heard scrambled call on 267.6592LSB. At 0023z heard phone call on 267.6544USB. At 0300z on the 326 Orderwire heard AF1 tell Waldorf they're in the Blocks at Andrews and have landlines, thanks for your help. The carrier on 267 then dropped out, That's all for now part 2 tomorrow afternoon, for those who can monitor D.C. activity 01 and Waldorf have switched again to 305.550/230.650. 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 326.000/382.350 WBFM 01 & Waldorf in N. Va. 11/24 From 0030z til about 0045z Waldorf and 01 were moving and testing channels on RF and landline. At 0049z on the 326 Orderwire heard 01 ask Waldorf "Do we usually stay landline at this location?" Waldorf "Lately they haven't even used the landline when they were there" 01 "We were just wondering, we lose a lot of circuits by going landline" Waldorf "Yeah, it's similar to a rebound echo" 01 "Correct" Waldorf "They've talked for a couple of years at a T-1 going in there so you'd have everything" 01 "Eventually that would be nice" Waldorf "Yes, then you'd have all your circuits, but they haven't gone that far yet" 01 "That's that money thing" Waldorf "You know it". More Orderwire chatter about channels and testing of circuits. At 0113z on the 326 Orderwire heard 01 tell Waldorf he wants to transition all the circuits back to the RF side. At 0121z Waldorf put the Orderwire on RF. No more 01 on the 326 Orderwire At 0138z on the 326 Orderwire heard Waldorf saying "any time you're ready sir" The 326 carrier then dropped. At 0138z found WBFM carriers on 305.550 at S-8 and 230.650 at S-1. Carriers still up at 1100z. Carriers still up at 2022z. At 2027z heard phone call on 305.5649LSB. At 2037z on the 305 Orderwire heard Waldorf say "Can you check your channel 1 and channel 8 both ways going in and out, we have a party trying to reach you from Offutt and he's getting a constant busy on 8" "1 should be good?" At 2038z heard phone call on 305.6081USB, The Offutt call. "This is Big Moe from Offutt, Thank you" At 2052z heard phone call on 305.6054LSB, "O.K. you still there Nightwatch?" "O.K. you want to go ahead and initiate", then scrambled comms. or data came on the line. At 2054z heard phone call on 305.6054LSB, "Command Center" "Roger, give me a second" "O.K. go ahead and initiate", then more scrambled or data comms. At 2102z heard phone call on 305.6054LSB. At 2113z heard phone call on 305.5762USB, "2 deployment briefings" At 2319z heard phone call on 305.6055LSB. At 2120z heard phone call on 305.5653LSB. At 2124z heard phone call on 305.5653LSB, scrambled or data comms. At 2125z heard phone call on 305.5730LSB, discussing part numbers. At 2131z heard phone call on 305.6056LSB. More part number questions. At 2133z heard phone call on 305.6554LSB, scrambled or data comms. At 2137z heard phone call on 305.6056LSB. At 2142z heard phone call on 305.6056LSB, Resept(?)COM Scheduling. That's all for now, 305.550/230.650 still up at 0100z 11/25. p.s. at 0101z 973 came on the Orderwire and told Waldorf they have a poor signal, Waldorf said it'll get better when you get closer in. Orderwire has lots of crackling noise on it now, 973. No new carriers up in D.C. area yet. 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 305.550/230.650 WBFM 01 & Waldorf, Also SAM 973 in N. Va. 11/25 At 0101z on the 305 Orderwire heard SAM 973 calling Waldorf, 973 told Waldorf he has them weak barely readable. Waldorf told 973 it should come in as he flies closer. 973 asked Waldorf if he had the Charlie, Waldorf said yes. The Orderwire had crackling noise on it from 973's signal. 973 told Waldorf his circuits check good. At 0124z heard phone call on 305.5688USB. At 0127z on the 305 Orderwire heard Waldorf tell 01 "The 27DK on your Nightwatch 2 on the RF, you take Nightwatch 2 and patch it to the landline where 4 should be." "That's part of it, the scratchy noise on the Admin makes it hard to understand, I've got the 27DK going to you on the RF side channel 2 slot" "Nightwatch 2 on the RF side or landline?" Waldorf then took 973 off the Orderwire to quiet it down, he then asked 01 "You want 4 landline?" "You got 4 on landline". At 0137z found WBFM carrier on 325.965 at S-4. (973's ground) At 0138z on the 325 Orderwire heard 01 ask if Waldorf can see a tone 01's sending on air to ground 4. Waldorf says he doesn't show anything on 4. 01 then asked Waldorf to send them a tone. 01 sees Waldorf's tone so he suspects it's his transmit side with a problem. There must be something wrong with one of Waldorf's transmitters when they try to transmit on 325/326 freqs. The signal this night was going from S-1 to S-4. The other day when NW01 first showed up and Waldorf was transmitting to them on 326.000 it was a nice steady S-4, he then switched racks and the signal started fluctuating. The 325 carrier here must be on that rack or antenna system. At 0150z found WBFM carrier at 359.750 at S-4, (SAM 973 air) At 0151z on the 325 Orderwire heard 01 tell Waldorf "I just tested that tone with the Andrews GP(?), (I doubt he said Andrews GEP I listened to the tape 5 times and it sounds like GP unless he's running his G & E together), and they are receiving it and we are receiving them, they'll probably be giving you a call in about 5 minutes to try to test it with you" At 0206z heard phone call on 305.6055LSB, scrambled comms. for sure. At 0211z the 359 carrier faded into the noise, 973 landed at Andrews. At 0214z the 305 Orderwire noised up, 973 shut down, the 325 carrier was gone when I went to check on it. The 305 carrier was still up at 1100z this morning, and was gone when I got home at 2025z. Some observations: It seems that when the Orderwire is put on landline both parties can be heard on a single Orderwire freq., when it is RF you need to listen to each one's transmitted Orderwire to hear both sides of the conversation. You still hear both sides if you're listening to a third Orderwire. Like in this log, I was able to hear 01 and Waldorf on 973's ground signal from Waldorf. The transmitted signal from Waldorf on 326.000 or 325.965 is sick most of the time, bad rack or antenna? The loud hum that was on the Orderwire circuits earlier this month was gone this week, let's hope for good. The hum distorted the phone calls. New freqs. and some new RF pairs were discovered this week, a separate e-mail will be sent to the list so you'll have the latest information from this end. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 325.965/359.750 WBFM, 973 and Waldorf in N. Va. 11/29 At 1852z found WBFM carrier on 325.965 at S-4, steady:>), with hum. At 1852z found WBFM carrier on 359.750 at S-1. Andrews ATIS was reporting an expected Air Terminal Ramp Freeze at 1900z. At 1905z heard phone call on 325.9995USB, "You're in Africa, oh you're going to Africa". No distortion on call:>) At 2002z heard phone call on 326.0017LSB. WX for unheard airport. At 2006z heard phone call on 326.0129USB, low audio. At 2006z heard phone call on 325.9771USB, tape of NFL scores and later games starting times. At 2015z noticed that the 359 carrier was popping in and out of the noise, a/c taxiing? At 2020z noticed signal level of 359 carrier going from S-1 to S-8 in 10 seconds, a/c now airborne:>) At 2023z heard phone call on 325.9971USB, "This is Andrews Command Post, how may I help you?" "Ah sir, was the DV late for a late departure?" "Stand by for one second, I want to make sure SAM control has nothing else for you." "973 there's nothing further for you at this time". At 2051z 359 carrier faded away. At 2056z on the 325 Orderwire heard Waldorf calling 973, no reply from 973, the carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>)