Subject: 267.610 & 336.810(?) WBFM Crest Leaf & 29000/AF1 in N. Va. 11/4 From the Orderwire Tape. When I was able to monitor the Orderwire at work I've included the time. On the 267.610 Orderwire: Crest Leaf, Waldorf, calling 29000 and informing 29000 he has his circuits cut to him. Crest Leaf calling Abundance, NAOC, and telling Abundance, "Down on the old RF frequency they haven't changed over yet." Abundance said O.K. Crest Leaf asked if it seemed to be interfering. Abundance said he's not getting any "right now". Crest Leaf said he should because Abundance is sitting pretty close to him right now. Abundance said yeah, 8Khz. Crest Leaf started laughing and said if he was going to interfere with Abundance it should be now. At 1331z heard Abundance calling Crest Leaf, Abundance said he'd like to take a look at the Dispersal Patching at the station where Abundance is at. What Abundance has set up right now is ch. 9 patched up to where ch. 7 would come over the Dispersal Patching. Can Crest Leaf accommodate that? Crest Leaf asked "The Dispersal Patching, you mean the Land Lines?" Abundance said roger, if Crest Leaf could put Air to Ground 9 where 7 would come to Abundance on Ground Lines. Crest Leaf said "Oh, O.K., let me pick you up back there." At 1334z heard Crest Leaf calling Abundance and telling Abundance that on the Land Lines Crest Leaf is not sure what the normal cross reference is for which circuits Abundance gets on which Ground Lines. Crest Leaf said he could put ch. 9 on any one of the Ground Lines for Abundance. Abundance says what he has is what comes to him on AUTOVON Ground Line 4. Abundance has AUTOVON Ground Lines 1, 2, 3, & 4. Crest Leaf asked if Abundance has the designators like the 27E2, 27E3. Crest Leaf has those marked. Crest Leaf then said he sees another cross reference. Crest Leaf asked if Abundance wanted the regular ch. 9. Abundance said roger, in place of where ch. 7 should come to Abundance. Crest Leaf said O.K., he sees that. Crest Leaf then said that Abundance should have it now. Abundance said he'll check that out. At 1336z heard Abundance calling Crest Leaf, Abundance asked Crest Leaf to take that down and put a 1Khz tone on that line. Crest Leaf said O.K. Crest Leaf then told Abundance that Tech Control had called Waldorf a couple of days ago and toned everyone of the lines out to Tech Control so Crest Leaf knows they are good that far. Abundance said he thinks that they have a problem. Crest Leaf then gave Abundance a "ten down" tone, (-10dB), on ch. 7, Crest Leaf then said if Abundance wants they can run right down the line and send tone on all of them just to verify that it's not mixed up. Abundance said they'll probably do that. Crest Leaf said that right now that a tone should be coming to Abundance on 27E4 which is what the number 7 circuit would normally be patched to. Abundance said he sees that, which clarifies part of his problem with his patches. Abundance asked to go down the line with the tones. Crest Leaf said to let him know which one, Crest Leaf has a normal set up on his, but they don't have to patch them up that way. Abundance asked to start with Ground Line 1. Crest Leaf said that Ground Line 1 is what the ch.4 would normally be on. Crest Leaf then put a tone on it for Abundance. At 1340z heard Abundance then ask to go to where 5 would normally be on. Crest Leaf said "there it is". Abundance asked to go to the next one. Crest Leaf put a tone onto ch. 6. Abundance said that 3 and 8 were working when "these guys" worked it last night. Abundance then asked if they could put 9 on where 4 should be coming in. Crest Leaf said O.K., let him set up. Abundance said he'll get his patching done right also. Crest Leaf told Abundance he has that patched up to Abundance. Abundance said he'll check it. Crest Leaf said he doesn't see any SF coming in from Abundance yet, it might time out on him. Crest Leaf said what he sees is Ground Line 4, maybe he misunderstood, let him move that. Crest Leaf asked Abundance how that looks. Abundance said that he's sorry, he started back where he was before. Let him go back and check that. Crest Leaf said that the Ground Line number 4, 004, is not where the Night Watch 4 would normally patch, he put his patch over to where the Night Watch 4 would normally patch to which is Ground Line 1. Abundance says he got confused there for a second, they'll just go backwards on this. Abundance told Crest Leaf that that worked let's go to the next one down which would be 3 or ch. 6. Crest Leaf asked if Abundance moved his yet. Abundance said yes. Crest Leaf said he'll look for SF on that. Crest Leaf sees SF, that's Ground Line 3, Abundance has it. At 1341z heard Abundance say that that one worked fine. Can they go down to the next one? Crest Leaf said roger, he sees Abundance on Ground Line 2, Abundance should have it. Abundance said that one works, can they move to the next one down? Crest Leaf said roger. Crest Leaf sees Abundance on Ground Line 1. At 1343z heard Abundance say that works fine, he has a young man with him who's going to go through and actually set up the Dispersal Patching via the Ground Lines with Crest Leaf and they'd like to do one channel at a time until they get each one working. Crest Leaf said that's the best way to do it. At 1349z heard Abundance tell Crest Leaf he'd like to move ch. 8 over. Crest Leaf said let him move to the back room. At 1350z heard Crest Leaf tell Abundance that he's ready on number 8 whenever Abundance is. Abundance said go ahead. Crest Leaf said that he's over and it's going to be on the Ground Line 7, that's where it normally goes. Does Abundance want it somewhere else? Abundance said roger. At 1351z heard Abundance say that worked well, he'd like to go ahead and do ch. 3. Crest Leaf said roger, he's over on ch. 3. At 1352z heard Abundance ask Crest Leaf to put ch. 8 back up on the RF side, and ch. 3 checks 5ers. Crest Leaf put ch. 8 over to RF. Abundance asked to proceed with ch. 7. Crest Leaf said that ch. 7 is over, Abundance is Land Line on ch. 7. Abundance said he'll check it out. At 1352z heard Abundance say ch. 7 checks 5ers. He'd like to do ch. 6. Crest Leaf said that ch. 6 is on Land Line. Abundance said that he'll check it. At 1354z heard Abundance say that ch. 6 checks 5ers. Can they do ch. 5. Crest Leaf said roger, let him know on that one, he can put it up on Abundance's count if Abundance wants. Abundance said O.K., on his count, 1,2,3. Crest Leaf said 5 is up. At 1355z heard Abundance say he's ready to do ch. 4. Crest Leaf said ch. 4 is set up for DK. Abundance said roger. Crest Leaf said that one is moved over. At 1356z heard Abundance say that while they're waiting for 4 to be checked could Crest Leaf put a 1Khz tone where ch. 8 would be. Crest Leaf said roger, that's what Tech Control would know as the 27E7, there's a tone to him, let him make sure he's sending 10 down. O.K., Crest Leaf is sending a negative 10 so Abundance won't get a zero, unless Abundance wants him to bring it up that high. Crest Leaf said that just to remind Abundance that the circuits were toned out with Tech Control 2 days ago, they all checked good as far as levels so if there are any problems it's going to be between Tech Control out to Abundance's location. At 1357z heard Abundance tell Crest Leaf he has a good tone on ch. 8. Abundance asked Crest Leaf to put ch. 9 in place of ch. 8. Crest leaf said roger, he has ch. 9 Land Line. Abundance said he'll check it. At 1358z heard Abundance tell Crest Leaf "that something with that circuit with 8 or 9, whatever we put on it, when we punch into it it sounds like instead of getting dial tone we're continuously getting 2.6, let me send you a 1Khz tone on that to see if we get through. Crest Leaf said there may be noise on it or something that's possibly what it is. He'll look at it. Abundance said there should be a 1Khz tone at zero. Crest Leaf said he doesn't see it, so what's happening is the switch is always seeing Abundance off hook. It looks like it's open on receive, this was good to me from Tech Control 2 days ago. Abundance said it could be in the plane or through the cable. Crest Leaf said if he pulls out of the circuit it'll give Abundance a loop back if Abundance wants to test on it that way. Abundance said that would be great. Crest Leaf said he'll go ahead and hard patch it anyway but if Crest Leaf is not in it all of the Land Lines will give Abundance a loop back from Crest Leaf. At 1405z heard Abundance telling Crest Leaf he's seeing a loop back on the whole thing and he's losing about 10 dB, he sees his 1K going out and coming back . Crest Leaf said he'll take a look at it. At 1406z heard Crest Leaf telling Abundance he doesn't see Abundance's tone. Does Abundance still see a loop back? Abundance said he does. Crest Leaf said he doesn't have a loop back up. Abundance told Crest Leaf to stand by. Crest Leaf said Tech Control may have a loop back up. Abundance said that may explain why when they punch into it he gets 2.6, Abundance is hearing his own 2.6. At 1407z heard Abundance telling Crest Leaf that he wasn't really seeing a loop up, he still sees 10 down and he doesn't know if that's coming from Crest Leaf. Crest Leaf says that he has it plugged open going to Abundance. Abundance says he's seeing a 1Khz tone with 10 down on it coming to him. Crest Leaf said the only place that could be coming from would be Tech Control. Abundance said he'll give them a call and see what they have. Crest Leaf said he'll leave it plugged open. At 1409z heard Abundance ask Crest Leaf if he has a phone number for Tech Control. Crest Leaf gave Abundance 981-4187. Abundance asked for the circuit designator for that. Crest Leaf told him he needs to check, he forgets. Crest Leaf then told Abundance that would be the 27E7. At 1410z heard Abundance ask Crest Leaf if that 981 was AUTOVON. Crest Leaf said commercial and he needs to use the 301 area code. At 1422z heard Abundance telling Crest Leaf that he just talked with Tech Control and they just pulled their loop down, can Crest Leaf tell Abundance if he sees Abundance's 1K tone. Crest Leaf says he sees it now. Abundance asked if they could try to put ch. 8 back up on that. Crest Leaf said sure. Crest Leaf then told Abundance he should have ch. 8. Abundance told Crest Leaf that the circuit checks 5ers. That was the problem. Crest Leaf said there must have been some testing on it earlier then. It had to be a loop back to Abundance because Crest Leaf did not see it. Abundance says that the problem wasn't a loop, Tech Control blocked the SF on them. At 1432z heard Abundance asking Crest Leaf if he sees Abundance taking hits on DK. Crest Leaf said he can't check it right now, does Abundance want Crest Leaf to put a monitor on it in the back. Crest Leaf said he can't tell if Abundance is taking hits normally. Abundance says it looks like it's working now. Crest Leaf said it should be quieter being Land Line. Crest Leaf said if they have any more trouble they could go back RF on it. Abundance said they'll let it sit here a while it looks O.K., he doesn't see any more hits on it. At 1442z heard Crest Leaf replying to AF1. Apparently AF1 passed along their airborne time. At 1447z heard Crest Leaf telling AF1 he's fading way down, Crest Leaf has about a 1.5 AGC, he doesn't see any signal farther North, AF1 may be too low to pick up. Crest Leaf will try to pick him up at the next station. The carrier dropped a short while later. Another carrier popped up, probably for the back up a/c. Later in the evening the back up a/c used 336.815/397.050. I suspect they used it this time also. Abundance called Crest Leaf, Crest Leaf told Abundance "that didn't seem to help any". Abundance said he'll try a different radio. Crest Leaf then told Abundance that he thinks it may be a T1 coming "in here". Abundance said he'll still change radios to make sure that it's not him, Crest Leaf is going to lose Abundance for a second. After Abundance changed radios he told Crest Leaf "No joy here either." Crest Leaf called Abundance, Abundance no longer heard on the Orderwire and the "whine" from the MUX channels was no longer present on the Orderwire either. No Reply. Crest Leaf replying to Abundance and telling Abundance that he doesn't know what caused it. Crest Leaf said they were experiencing noise on the T1 between Waldorf and Head Gear. Crest Leaf called Abundance and said "This problem with the circuits noising up we've got that referred out at this time and they are checking the facility coming in here." Crest Leaf replying to Abundance and saying they are working on it now. Crest Leaf "sees it coming in here, but we're not sure where from." Crest Leaf called Abundance, now Abundance is heard and the MUX whine is back, and gave Abundance an update on the trouble with the circuits. It's on the facility between Waldorf and Head Gear and they are working on it. Abundance called Crest Leaf and asked to normal up ch. 8 to Air to Ground. It was Dispersed through the Ground Lines can they bring that back up RF. Crest Leaf said he can but it may not work because of the problem they are having, he'll go ahead and move it. He asked Abundance to let him know if they still have a problem. Abundance says that they have a problem where it is now and he's "trying to determine, cause my book doesn't tell where it originates other then Omaha." Crest Leaf said that's where there problem is on the T1. Crest Leaf will go in the back room and pull it down so Abundance can check it. Abundance asked if Crest Leaf hears him O.K. on ADMIN because he's getting a lot of echo. Crest Leaf said there's an echo on there, there may be a loop back somewhere. Crest Leaf called Abundance and told him he has him up on RF for ch. 8. Crest Leaf called Abundance, MUX whine gone and Abundance no longer heard, and told him he thinks they have the trouble fixed on the T1. It was a bad low speed card on the DDM 1000. Crest Leaf replying to Abundance and asking which circuits are those, he's the new shift and he just came on. He then asked if they are good now. No more comms. from this tape. When I came home noticed that 326.000 with crickets and 382.350 were up. About an hour and a half of tape was recorded. No comms. on that tape. At 2334z heard on the 326 Orderwire Crest Leaf replying to Abundance, Crest Leaf asked if Abundance was Land Line with that or RF. Crest Leaf said he'll check it for him. At 2335z heard on the 326 Orderwire Crest Leaf replying to Abundance and telling Abundance he wasn't receiving any SF on that for a little bit from Abundance. He shows SF coming from the Distant End, it looks like it may be hung up over there. Crest Leaf will call them and have them check it. At 2338z heard on the 326 Orderwire Crest Leaf calling Abundance and telling Abundance that they are going to reset it, give them 5 - 10 minutes and try it again. At 2344z heard on the 326 Orderwire Crest Leaf calling 27000 twice, no reply. Carriers present on 336.815 at S-6 and 397.050 at S-1. At 2348z heard on the 326 Orderwire Crest Leaf called by 28000, 28000 told Crest Leaf his channels check fine. At 2352z heard on the 336 Orderwire Crest Leaf calling Abundance a couple of times, no reply. At 2357z heard on the 336 Orderwire Abundance calling Crest Leaf and telling Crest Leaf that the problem with 2, 10, & 12 has occurred again. Crest Leaf asked what problem was that? Abundance said that the SF is gone. Crest Leaf asked if Abundance got a check on his ch. 5 to see if it's good. Abundance said that it checked good. Crest Leaf said he'll get back to Abundance about 2, 10, & 12. Abundance asked Crest Leaf if he was aware that the problem happened earlier in the evening. Crest Leaf said when he came in they mentioned something about trouble earlier, he didn't know it was on 2, 10, & 12. Crest Leaf said there is a mapping plan he can throw up and see if that clears the problem up. Crest Leaf asked Abundance if they are still down. Abundance said they are still down. Crest Leaf said he'll try it, he doesn't know if it will work or not, he'll be back. At 2359z heard on the 336 Orderwire Abundance saying he sees them. Crest Leaf told Abundance he hasn't done anything yet, but he thinks there may be a problem with the DACS bridge out there where the circuits are mapped in at because he's getting some strange stuff on his terminal and he's getting some static on the Orderwire, it's only there when he has that frame pulled up. He'll look into it and get back to Abundance in a bit. In a few days a log of activity from the 5th & 6th. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 326.000/382.350 WBFM Black Day/Rough Jim & Snow Flake/Tin Cake in N. Va. 11/5 - 6 Times listed are when I was monitoring. There was a carrier up for 28000, the Back Up a/c until AF1 was airborne. At 0000z heard on the 336 Orderwire Snow Flake, NAOC, calling Black Day, Waldorf. Snow Flake told Black Day he's not sure what Black Day is doing, but they keep coming up and going down. Black Day said he's not doing it, there's something out in one of the pipes and he's trying to figure out exactly what's going on, it shouldn't be doing what it's doing. Black Day asked Snow Flake if they are currently up. Snow Flake said for now. Black Day said he's still trying to figure out what he has. Black Day told Snow Flake he'll be back in a minute. At 0015z heard on the 336 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake. Black Day asked if Snow Flake's 2, 10 & 12 were currently good. Snow Flake said at the moment they are. Black Day said what they have, and he's not totally sure what it is he still has to do some research, it looks like one of the T1s in the ring that supports those circuits is in trouble, it's noisy. Black Day is going to have some folks look at it. He also has a person going into the station at Pull Over. Snow Flake asked Black Day if the shift before him gave him any written(?) turnover on that thing. They told Snow Flake it was an LS something or other that needed reset. Black Day said something is affecting the DACS frame. Looking at it at T1 level he's getting static noise and everything on it and that shouldn't be there. Black Day has someone going into the station there to look at the frame, he's also going to refer the facility trouble to somebody to take a look at that also, because it's outside of where he can get to it. Snow Flake asked how long till they get there. Black Day said he's not sure, he just talked to somebody a few minutes ago and he was headed right over there and it shouldn't be more then a half hour he thinks. As far as the other trouble he's going to tell them to do this on a non intrusive basis, he doesn't want them to open it up, he just wants them to look to see if they can see a problem and then they'll determine what to do after that. Snow Flake asked Black Day once he finds something out to get back to Snow Flake. At 0140z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling 28000. Black Day asked 28000 if he has any schedule on AF1, he's running late. 28000 said he's very late, he should have an arrival at the airplane in about 30 minutes time. It'll probably be another 45 to 50 minutes before Black Day sees anything from AF1. Black Day said roger, he just wanted to make sure he didn't miss him. Heard on the 336 Orderwire Snow Flake called by Black Day. Black Day told Snow Flake the troubles on 2, 10, & 12 he may have even more problems. The T1 out there either has the wrong clock on it and it's causing it to slip or something similar to that, because this thing is cycling through, it goes through, it stays quiet for a while then it builds back up and then it quiets down again and they are going to try and isolate it and he doesn't know how long it's going to take them. Snow Flake said he's already made his people aware of intermittent faults with it. Black Day said they are going to call him back as soon as they start working on it. He'll give Snow Flake a call when they call him. For a few minutes the Orderwires had all sorts of sounds and weird tones on them. When the strange sounds stopped Snow Flake called Black Day. Snow Flake told Black Day he's seeing a lot of noise. Black Day said he knows, he thinks he knows what it is. More tones and sounds then came over the Orderwire for about a minute. Snow Flake came on again after things cleared up and said that it looks good. Black Day came on and said that Snow Flake should have everything back. They are going to have to figure out another way to do "this". Snow Flake said he had some real screwy SF across the whole MUX. Black Day said they threw up a loop some place and it looped the whole network back onto Snow Flake and so Snow Flake was seeing double and triple of everything. Black Day said hopefully they'll be able to avoid that. Snow Flake said if they really need to do that he may be able to arrange that for them possibly on mid shift if not now. Black Day said that would be good if they could do that, he was trying to look at a way to isolate it so when they put up a loop it wouldn't affect everything, he was looking at possibly blocking off the one service that's in trouble, that would mean that Snow Flake would lose those three channels permanently till they were finished. He's not exactly sure what it would do when they threw up their loops to do their testing as far as the rest of the channels go, he knows it would block it coming into Black Day, but he doesn't know what it would do to the rest of the net. That's where the problem lies, all this stuff is bridged together out there. Snow Flake said he would check his schedule to see if he could let them do this. Snow Flake asked how long Black Day thinks they need to have that up to do their troubleshooting. Black Day said to hang on, he has them on the phone, he'll ask them. Heard on the Orderwires Waldorf call 28000, no reply. Heard on the 326 Orderwire SAM 28000 call Black Day. When Black Day answered he told 28000 that all 28000 has is the Orderwire, he took all the circuits back. 28000 told Black Day "The Big One's up, I'm gonna go ahead and drop." The 336 carrier then dropped. Heard on the 326 Orderwire AF1 calling Black Day and asking if he has his circuits yet. Black Day said he should have his 1A coming to him. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake and asking if Snow Flake has an idea of when they'd like to do "this". Black Day said they are looking at 10 minutes to isolate it into a section and depending on whose problem it is they may have to refer it to someone else. Once they referred it out it could take an hour, maybe more. The initial check to try to isolate it they figure 10 to 15 minutes. It'll affect everything, Black Day will try to block off one side of it which means that Snow Flake will wind up losing 2, 10, & 12. The rest of them should possibly be good, but he doesn't know what will happen to the rest of the net when they start looping in the wrong place. AF1 then came on and called Black Day. AF1 asked if Black Day has his circuits up to him. Black Day said roger that. AF1 said he's having a lot of ring ins on his channels 6, 7, & 8 and no dial tones on those lines. Black Day said that he'll check that. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling AF1 and Snow Flake, no replies. Heard on the 326 Orderwire AF1 calling Black Day and telling Black Day that he's having tremendous problems with his 6, 7, & 8 continuous ringing. Can Black Day do something about it. Black Day said he's working on it at this time. The problem is in the network, it's not in the station itself. It's also affecting Snow Flake's services, right now Black Day is trying to get it plugged out so they can get that off of there. AF1 said roger that, can Black Day please keep AF1 advised. Black Day said roger. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day telling Snow Flake that ch. 8 does go through "that". Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day responding to Snow Flake. Black Day said that he has to get the other end in and he will have to advise AF1 he's going to lose some of his channels too. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling AF1 and Snow Flake. No reply from AF1. Black Day told Snow Flake that it'll be about 10 minutes before they do "this", right now the thing's quiet. Snow Flake should have clean channels. As soon as they get to the point where they can get this done he'll give Snow Flake a call. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling AF1, no reply. At 0152z noticed that a carrier was present on 267.610 at S-9. At 0152z heard phone call on 267.6670LSB, "I'll highlight some of the pages where they talk about you and new Markets. Can you hear me name? So you heard about the memo I'm going to fax you from name on the meeting today? O.K., two things, name called me twice, I think it's on China, I can't get anything else out of that. And the last thing again I just want to make sure you know bankruptcy is hot and it's what we talked about at the 830. Name will take your call as late as you want tonight. I don't know, I talked to both name and Select Affairs they expected it sometime tonight and they sent everybody home so they think sometime tomorrow. Minimum wage, name just needs 4 minutes of your time she'll take your call as late as you want tonight, she'd rather talk to you and be woken up then not talk to you. I'll put you through to name." (When the other party came on both sides of the call were now heard.) The ground party told the chap on the plane that she wanted to give him a report on her conversation with MM on the issue of Leaders. "Also on the situation of the visa for the "person" and there should be no problem, there was no invitation of any sort extended by the WTO. I reported that to S and so I think we'll be in good shape on that issue. I don't need to do this right now we can talk over the weekend or Monday, I just wanted to bring you up to date on MM and also wanted to get your sense on the timing of the phone call. If you had any, you may not have a sense of that yet. The chap: "I'm worried we don't have a strategy on this anymore like when the phone call takes place, does Sandy have an idea?" The gal: "No, I talked briefly with name who I think, you guys aren't going to return till sort of midnight tomorrow night. So the next time would be for him to call by 9 am Saturday morning, which is hard to imagine he would." The chap: "That's not going to happen." The gal: "Right, or to call Saturday evening." The chap: "I mean we'd be better off trying to do it before he left to come back tomorrow night." The gal: "That could very well be, that's a good thought, one of our problems is with every day gone it's a big day gone, it's a lot, maybe that's a possibility to do it if he's willing before you all leave again tomorrow night if that can be arranged through channels with the other party. I take it, well the word was that the scheduler was somewhat afraid to call because, the word was that he was in a very bad mood. The scheduler told name that he couldn't imagine calling to set this up because he would get his head bitten off. I'm not sure...,( Orderwire comms. wiping out call now), ... One thing you should think about is is it something he could do before you all leave tomorrow night and if so is there a chance to arrange some sort of conference call just to go through the scenarios with him." The chap: "I think you should talk to Sandy, I don't want to go through the fighting with people here if it's not a good idea, but there is no way it's going to be 9 am Saturday morning. I mean this guy is like wasted, he's had a long day, we get home Friday night he's not going to be awake Saturday morning." The gal: "Right, so the one thought is, here are the options I think name, one is for you guys to do it tomorrow you know, 6 in the evening, 7 in the evening which would be 13 hours later there, which would work." The chap: "When is it to late to call our time?" The gal: "Probably your time, wait let's think about that, anytime evening our time is already the next morning their time, they're 13 ahead." The chap: "Let me tell you what, if he did it I think that it would be, he would probably not like this, but he would be done with his trip, he'd be exhausted, you hold him up before he got on the plane and you have him call maybe 9 o'clock." The gal: "Which wouldn't be a problem, it would be 10 am the next morning, the other options would be, I agree 9 am on Saturday is not going to happen, would be Saturday evening, kind of in the time range 7, 8, 9 in that range, which would be Sunday morning the other time, or Sunday morning our time which would be Sunday night their's. The down side to that is you've lost a number of valuable days, because of course to go there you lose a day so it's 2 days gone again, that is you leave Monday morning you get there Tuesday night so now we lost Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday with Europe on our heels. So that's the complicating factor. How about this, let me talk to Sandy and see what he thinks would make the most sense and I'll call you back tomorrow." The chap: "O.K." The gal: "Now the other thing just so you know, apart from the MM report for you, like I say we can do over the weekend, I had a very lengthy call with name, the Chilean, and I have a lot of notes from that which I'll read through with you. I think it was a good call, he's not coming to Washington tomorrow because he's actually going from Toronto to Tokyo, but it was like a 45 to 50 minute call, I went through all the issues and questions that a number of us have about intentions, time frames, so on and so forth as well as the Social issues, and I'll go through all that with you and sort of give you his take on things, and then he and I were going to talk next Friday when he gets back from Tokyo. The Chilean issue and the MM on the Leaders issue we can do over the weekend, you don't need to worry about it now." The chap: "O.K., have you guys heard on where Sandy's head is on all of the Leaders stuff?" The gal: "No, I haven't heard a thing." The chap: "I think you should raise it with Sandy when you call him on the other matter." The gal: "O.K., I'll do that just to get an initial impression." The chap: "Because truthfully I don't think I'm up to fighting real hard against, for this if Sandy you know figures this is a terrible idea." The gal: "I think if people think it's a terrible idea I agree with you..." The chap: "I actually started thinking it was a bad idea, but I became convinced that if we could get ten people in there and do like we said it would probably be pretty uplifting, now I like it." The gal: "I think it would too, I think the issue, we don't have to go into it now, but MM was already starting down this road and I asked him to please stop, because I don't mean to imply that you should be taking directions from us, but I said M there are a lot of considerations here including you end up with the wrong group of people which would be disastrous, also including the question if you invite people and 9 out of 10 say no it looks as though they have rebuffed the WTO and that's a very dangerous message, so I said would you please not proceed on anything you've been doing until I'm able to consult with the White House further and you and I talk. He already had his staff embarked upon the following mission and that is how could he under the rules invite selected Countries, he had a staff person looking into how M could do this. I told him I expect annoyance with him that he had not raised this with me, he and I talked last week that he had not raised this issue with me because obviously since it has been held in the U.S. and the President will be there for part of the time we would have a direct interest in this. He took a little umbridge, but I think at the end of the conversation he was persuaded to do nothing further other then really rethink the question of how do you end up with the right group if you can invite differentially, and what would they do and how would this run and if you invite them how do you know in advance they would say yes, rather then a press story that would say that the WTO was rebuffed, because no one wanted to be near it. Bottom line is I was very annoyed that he didn't raise it with me, because apparently he's been doing this for at least a week near as I could tell from his comments. He has stopped at least that is what we have agreed and then I'll go through with you his thoughts and what he has begun to prepare, anyway that's what it is." The chap: "O.K." The gal: "O.K., so I will talk with you over the weekend, I'll talk with you tomorrow, but I'll get Sandy first." The chap: "O.K., bye." The gal: "bye." At 0158z heard on the 267 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake. Black Day told Snow Flake he's getting ready to plug "this" off. At 0200z heard on the 267 Orderwire Black Day call Snow Flake and ask if the rest of Snow Flake's channels are good except for those for 4. Snow Flake said that is correct. At 0207z heard phone call on 267.6590LSB. At 0209z heard phone call on 267.6509USB, A conference call. A/C side unheard. A: "And L we're doing that CEO Meet & Greet in a room." L: "I said that yes. It won't get shortened but it may get bumped back into the ???? if we run late because we're trying to make a photo for the ???? file. K are you going to make sure ABC News is prepared." K: "The people on the road will be keeping track of that, but absolutely, that's not a problem. The crew will be there either way." L: "And J you'll notify the CEO's office that there will be a behind the scenes camera there. (J unheard) Go ahead A, sorry." A: "4:30, let's make that arrival time 4:30 for CEOs and Elected. I'm a little more comfortable with that." L: "It may have gone out already, but between 4:15 and 4:30. O.K., and that's 20 people, then we would hold until 5:45 which right now is the best prediction we can get as to when he can get on stage, depending on the crowd. Now if the crowd's in there and ready to go after the ??? then A will let you all know and you can put him up there sooner. Then we do the speech which this is right now who I have on stage. Everybody listen carefully, Jackson Sr., Sperling, yes or no to any of these let me know, Hastert, yes on Sperling?, O.K., Rush, Davis, Jackson Jr., J.C. Watts is he confirmed?, other Congressional members to be determined, the Principal of the High School, and David Shyrock President of SD(?) Partners." A/C guy chatting now. L: "And J do you have a sense of how large the members can grow so we..." A/C again. L: "O.K., that helps if 8 is the largest." A/C guy again. L: "O.K., now my question is do we want to do an off stage announcement of the President accompanied by Jackson, Hastert, Rush, and Shyrock? Cause that will make a photo, do we want that or not? It doesn't matter to me." A/C guy again. L: "Alrighty A? you got that? and then we do the program..." A: "Hold on I was getting to the page, ahh..." L: "It's an off stage announcement of POTUS, Jackson, Hastert, Rush, and Shyrock." A/C guy. L: "Then Russ, then Shyrock?" K: "I wonder if the ??? members know this." L: "The members are going to be prepositioned on stage." K: "I meant Hastert Rush." L: "Hastert and Rush together?" K: "No, in the order of announcement that's all." L: "It's the President, Hastert, Rush, Jackson Sr., and Shyrock." A/C guy. L: "You got that A?" A: "Have it." L: "Then the program is as follows, Rush goes directly to the podium and makes remarks then there's a WHCA..." A/C guy must have chimed in. L: "Not yet, we need to get through the program first." A: "Before we move onto the program, as far as we know L who are the members we are going to announce?" L: "We don't know." A/C guy chatting and then OW traffic covering up the call. L: "...David Shyrock..." A: "I need to say this, that when I discussed that with the WHCA Lead here he was definitely hesitant that he needed to call back to see if they could do that." A/C guy. A: "Roger that sir." L: "Thanks sir. O.K., off stage announcement, David Shyrock makes remarks, then there is another off stage announcement of Rev. Jackson who goes up to make remarks, then another off stage announcement of Hastert who goes up and makes remarks and an off stage announcement of the President, makes remarks, rope line." A/C guy. L: "I'm just confused, what is it?" A/C guy. L: "Copy that A?" A: "Copy." L: "Any other issues at the speech site?" A/C guy. L: "I just want to say I'm not taking any more requests for tickets, there are no more seats left." E: "S are you on?" P: "No, this is P, she had to go for a second." E: "P this is EN from the Press Office can you call me through Signal at my home after this call about some changes?" P: "O.K., what's your name?" E: "EN." P: "O.K." A/C guy. L: "That's a problem, isn't A." A: "Yeah." L: "Cause we are way over now." A: "Let's examine this, when you say they want to have a couple people with them." A/C guy. A: "We need to really avoid that." L: "They can't sit." A/C guy. L: "In the staff section they can stand, I assume A." A: "L, it's not an issue of a lack of standing room. I'm concerned about these people wanting to be back stage..." A/C guy. L: "Standing in the White House Staff section." A: "O.K., I need to know who they are." L: "We don't know yet." A: "I need to know who they are and we need to direct them to where to go." L: "A we don't know who they are, we're not going to know unfortunately. That's what J just said." A/C guy. A: "You understand I'm just getting a little nervous because we've got a lot of exits. Alright, but I'm just saying overall here in Chicago we've got a lot of loose ends that we normally wouldn't have." A/C guy. L: "Now A do you want to talk about how you're going move these logistics after the program is over? And what help you need to make a visual." A: "Why don't you go ahead and go on through and I'll just point it out." L: "The program's over, what I'm saying is after the President works the rope line." A: "What's going to happen basically when the President comes off the stage to work the rope line we've got to move, and again this is where that collectability comes in, either we have already seen the CEOs or we will have to do the Police and Driver Photos then do the CEO Meet and Greet then go to Overflow then work the Women then go to Radio Address." A/C guy. A: "Yeah, what I went through there was the late scenario." A/C guy. A: "Guys. that would work if my CEO Meet and Greet and my Radio Address were in 2 different locations." A/C guy. A: "No they are not, the CEO Meet and Greet is in Room 137, so is Radio." A/C guy. A: "You already have 25 people in the Radio Address." A/C guy. A: "I think I'm going to need time, I'd like to tell you yes, but I think I'm going to need time to get people from, you know to get those CEOs which there are going to be 20 of or so, and I really feel more comfortable if we do the remarks then do Police and Driver Photos and then come..." A/C guy. A: "Overflow?, then you want to come and do Police and Driver Photos?" A/C guy. L: "Then we do the Police and Driver Photos... " Carrier dropped...See 0223z At 0214z heard on the 267 Orderwire Snow Flake call Black Day. Snow Flake asked how much longer. Black Day said right now they know part of where it's not, they don't know where it is, they are working on it. He has both ends of it blocked off and they are working in the middle. He should know a little more in about 10 minutes. At 0216z heard on the Orderwires Black Day calling AF1, no reply. At 0222z heard on the Orderwires Black Day calling AF1 numerous times, no reply. At 0223z the 267 carrier dropped. At 0223z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day continuing to call AF1 for the next few minutes. AF1 eventually came on and called Black Day and asked what station Black Day had AF1 in. Black Day said Corn Stalk, (probably WPAFB). AF1 asked if Black Day had a good signal on him. Black Day said yes, he also has a good signal at Syracuse. Black Day also told AF1 that when they go into the next station, they have a problem out in the network, when AF1 goes into Oil King he could lose channels 2, 4, & 7. AF1 said he copies and also his block time will be 0350z. Black Day said the problem AF1 was experiencing earlier with the hits is a network problem they have and what they have done is isolate a T1 off of the network which is why AF1 is going to lose the 3 circuits when AF1 goes into the next station. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling AF1 numerous times. No reply. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day responding to Snow Flake and telling Snow Flake they still have a problem and they are not sure exactly where it's at. He's going to leave them the way the are for the time being until they figure out what to do next. It looks like it's a clock problem. Black Day asked Snow Flake to give him about 3 minutes. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day responding to Snow Flake. Black Day said they normalled up the T1 and that's putting the noise on there, (there was a crackling sound on the Orderwire). The only way to get it off would be to take the T1 back down. They are trying to find out where they are picking the noise up from and they have not been able to isolate it yet. It looks like a clock problem because the thing will sit there and quiet down and it'll be quiet a little while then it'll build back up and you'll get a lot of noise and then it'll quiet down again and they have done loop checks from both ends and when they run it to a test set to its self it's clean, so that's why I think it's kind of a clock problem because it won't run end to end. Black Day will get back to Snow Flake in a few. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake. Black Day asked if Snow Flake had the 3 circuits. Black Day said they are doing something in a frame in Chicago right now trying to clear this up. Well they just put it back together I think. Black Day said he'll get back to Snow Flake in a few. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling AF1 a few times, no reply. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake. Black Day asked Snow Flake to check to see if he has all of his circuits. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake and asking "on your channel 1 & 2 troubles you were talking about just a few minutes ago I was looking into this, I'm getting SF from you extremely long on both of those channels and I'm checking it right off of the radio link before it hits anything else, on channel one I'm running about a 30 and the frequency is drifting all over the place and on channel 2 I've got about a 32.9 and it's anywhere from a 2520 up to a 2560, it doesn't look good, the rest of them are a little long on some of the channels like 23s and 24s and they should work fine, but the frequency's stable it's just those first two that don't look good and like I said I look at them on the radio link right off the radio and they look the same way. Could you take a look at them leaving you and tell me what you see?" Black Day then told Snow Flake he needs to plug into it. He then told Snow Flake that on channel 2 he's seeing a 29 and the frequency is at 2565. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day responding to Snow Flake. Black Day repeated back to Snow Flake, "You want a 1F on RF 27, the new sheet, roger that the test sheet, that's a temporary,(I believe that's what he said), test sheet. Who's it going to be for? For you out there. O.K., let me get set up for that and I'll have to put that up on the second MUX and map the circuits there. We could have a problem with that. Well the problem I have, you know the problem you were having with all of your channels earlier with that bad T1? O.K., in order to make your stuff good I used the T1 that we use to get the other customers circuits, oh you said a 1F, never mind, take all that back I was thinking of a 7F, never mind I can fix you right up. It'll only take me a minute. RF 27." Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake. No reply. At 1418z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day responding to Snow Flake. Black Day told Snow Flake to let him move back there. At 1419z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day telling Snow Flake the DK is back RF. At 1541z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day responding to Snow Flake and saying that not yet, later on this afternoon the 1A should be used. He said not that he can see, let him check. At 1543z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day telling Snow Flake that he doesn't see anything else up, no one else is in the area here. Black Day said he doesn't know what it is, they don't see anyone else up at all. Is Snow Flake going to stay on this frequency? At 1602z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day saying to Snow Flake, roger RF ch. 3. Black Day asked "the one circuit?" Not that Black Day knows of, stand by. At 1610z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake and asking about the 3 circuits Snow Flake was talking about, were they up to him on another rack? Black Day said he didn't realize, they turned that rack off. Black Day asked if they wanted them back up. Black Day doesn't see a transmitter from Snow Flake at this time. At 1614z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake and asking about the 3 circuits Snow Flake wants up on the other rack, on the test frequencies, what circuits did Snow Flake want. O.K., 3, 4, & 5 of the Ciders. Black Day found it. Black Day then gave Snow Flake the circuits. At 1617z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day telling Snow Flake he guesses they are going to have to look for another RF. Black Day said it looks like RF 2 may be good. At 1619z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day telling Snow Flake they are getting set up to go to RF 2. Black Day told Snow Flake to go ahead and go. (They must have left RF 27 for RF 2 since they stayed put on 326/382). Black Day asked Snow Flake if they have it. At 1629z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake and telling Snow Flake he has a request from SAM 28000 to use the Combat Ciders, they are the Back Up for AF1 today, is it possible for Black Day to take them back. At 1634z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day responding to Snow Flake and saying "you should have everything." At 1635z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling 28000, 28000 told Black Day he has him loud and clear. Black Day told 28000 he has the A. 28000 said he'll go ahead and check. At 1636z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day responding to Snow Flake and asking "channel 1? I'll go back and check it." At 1638z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day responding to Snow Flake. Black Day asked if they wanted to swap them. Black Day told Snow Flake to stand by. At 1641z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling Snow Flake and telling Snow Flake that they swapped 4 & 8. At 1642z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day responding to Snow Flake. Black Day asked if Snow Flake had the same problem on channel 4. At 1652z heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day asking Snow Flake if his channel 4 is working good now. Which has got channel 8 on there at this time, O.K. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day telling Snow Flake that they were notified about that by Over Draft and they are burning RF 18 at that station now, but Black Day does not see them. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Black Day calling AF1 numerous times during the early evening hours, no reply. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim, Waldorf's call for Nov. 6, calling Tin Cake, NAOC, and asking Tin Cake if he's heard anything on AF1. Rough Jim said he's been looking for him for 45 minutes and hasn't got anything yet. Rough Jim said on the last two legs he's been running late. Maybe he's running late again. He's got 5 receivers up looking for him and he can't find him anywhere, he'll have to wait and see if they get in touch with him. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim calling AF1 numerous times. No reply. At 1026z heard phone call on 326.0165USB. The following comms. took place between 1300z and 1700z. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim responding to Tin Cake. Rough Jim asked Tin Cake to let him know when Tin Cake was up. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim asking Tin Cake if he wants to do them one at a time. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim asking about 8 & 3, does Tin Cake want Rough Jim to pull those down also, he's got the 27DK. Rough Jim asked if Tin Cake wanted the DK down too. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim responding to Tin Cake and asking "Am I ready?, what are we doing?" "Going back?" Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim telling Tin Cake that "It's like their trying to put your voice on it or something." Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim telling Tin Cake that Tin Cake told him to take it down. The one that's up on channel 8 or 4. Yeah the one that's on 4. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim asking Tin Cake if he thinks he has it now. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim asking Tin Cake if maybe Tin Cake shouldn't give "them" the job, the job ticket. Rough Jim then asked if he should keep a ticket on "this" also. He then asked what good is that going to do. He said he'll go ahead and start one. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim asking Tin Cake if he wants that on channel 4. He then told Tin Cake to try it and see if it works. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim telling Tin Cake he's going to have to wait until he gets up in the air, there is so much multipath between them that he doubts any of Tin Cake's circuits are working. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim saying he'll put them on channel 8 and put a frog in them. Put a frog in the channels which really won't do you much good, put it on channel 8. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim calling Tin Cake and saying he's going to switch transmitters. Heard on the 382 Orderwire, the scanner must have locked onto the airborne NAOC's carrier when Waldorf shut down to change transmitters, Tin Cake telling Rough Jim that his MUX channel 4 which should be channel 8, he has a patch at his position and he's unable to draw dial tone. He then told Rough Jim to just frog them. He'd like to have channel 8 come up to him on the channel 4 circuit and the DK on the channel 8 circuit. Heard on the 382 Orderwire Tin Cake telling Rough Jim that channel 8 is working, he received a call on it as soon as Rough Jim normalled everything up. Heard on the 382 Orderwire Tin Cake telling Rough Jim that the DK is still not going through, it's almost like it's not connecting with the distant end. Heard on the 382 Orderwire Tin Cake telling Rough Jim that it's a good check on DK, he appreciates Rough Jim's help. Tin Cake said he understands, he came and visited one time, you guys got a big huge empty room that used to be full of racks. They sure didn't put things locally next to the office. After meeting some of you all it probably doesn't hurt too much, haa. There are a couple of guys running around there that are kind of on the big side. Heard on the 382 Orderwire Tin Cake asking Rough Jim if he sees the transmitter up. Heard on the 382 Orderwire Tin Cake asking if Rough Jim put the circuits on that line. Heard on the 326 Orderwire, the NAOC must have faded out, Rough Jim telling Tin Cake they should be there he believes. Heard on the 382 Orderwire Tin Cake telling Rough Jim he's got baseband now but he lost the AGC. Tin Cake then replied to Rough Jim saying ,sorry my fault. (I don't know how I wound back up on the NAOC carrier.) Heard on the 326 Orderwire "Tin Cake, Tin Cake this is Shoe Gum, I mean Rough Jim, excuse me, Shoe Gum do you see anything from them yet? Let me look at the status of that place and see what's going on here." Shoe Gum may have been WAR 46. Heard on the 326 Orderwire Rough Jim telling Tin Cake he's going to have to put him into the next station. The carrier then dropped. Bill leaves early on the morning of the 14th for Europe. To quote Sandy Berger "at the crack of dawn". He should return on the 23/24th. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.610/355.000 & 336.800/397.050 WBFM Ridge Fox, 29000/AF1, 28000 in N. Va. 11/14 At 0834z WBFM carriers popped up on 267.615 at S-9 & 355.000 at S-1. At 0834z heard on the 267 Orderwire Ridge Fox, Waldorf, telling 29000 "Good Morning". At 0849z heard on the 267 Orderwire Ridge Fox calling Labor Day, Primary NAOC, and telling Labor Day that 28000 will be coming up on RF 3 in Ridge Fox's area. At 0850z heard on the 267 Orderwire Advon calling Ridge Fox and saying he has Ridge Fox loud and clear. Ridge Fox told Advon he has him now. Advon asked for any channel on EB. Ridge Fox said he's pretty tied up right now. Advon said never mind. Ridge Fox then called Labor Day and said he has the Advon Team, could he use one of Labor Day's channels for testing. Labor Day said they can use channel 11. Ridge Fox asked Advon where Advon wanted it. Advon said EB. Ridge Fox said it'll be a few moments, he'll get back to Advon. At 0851z heard on the 267 Orderwire Ridge Fox calling 28000 a couple of times, no reply. Ridge Fox then called 29000 a couple of times, no reply. At 0851z found WBFM carriers on 336.800, (the second transmitter at Waldorf usually puts out a signal right on, not 10 to 20khz high like the primary transmitter), at S-6 and 397.050 at S-1. At 0853z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Ridge Fox calling Advon 1. Ridge Fox told Advon that channel 11 is on EB. At 0854z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Advon telling Ridge Fox that checks good, can they go to EC. Ridge Fox said roger, he doesn't know if they fixed this one yet or not, the ticket hasn't been cleared out on it yet. Ridge Fox then gave Advon the EC. At 0855z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Advon say that Ridge Fox can turn that ticket off, it checks good. Advon then asked to go to ED. Ridge Fox gave Advon the ED. Advon said that's good,he then asked for EE. Ridge Fox gave Advon the EE. Advon then asked for EF. Ridge Fox gave Advon the EF. Advon then asked for EG. Ridge Fox then gave Advon the EG. Advon said they all check good. Ridge Fox asked if Advon wanted to leave it on there. Advon said that Ridge Fox can go ahead and terminate the circuit, he's going to break off and wait for his counterparts. He thanked Ridge Fox and said he was a great help. Ridge Fox said he still has the Orderwire patched up, it'll stay patched. At 0903z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Ridge Fox calling Labor Day, Ridge Fox told Labor Day he has his channel 11 back. He then asked to have the SHF operator update his TCCC. Labor Day said he's plugging as they speak. At 0926z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Ridge Fox calling Labor Day. Ridge Fox told Labor Day that Labor Day's Orderwire went extremely noisy, there's a lot of noise on it. Labor Day asked if there is noise on it currently. Ridge Fox said yes, it must be on the baseband, on the land line side. Labor Day's data is running over on it and it's like a waterfall. Labor Day said he'll take a look at it. At 0928z heard on the 267 and 336 Orderwires Humus, (who was patched onto both a SAT Orderwire and the UHF Orderwire. Hollow audio. Humus was heard earlier in the evening on GHFS with a phone patch to Waldorf through McClellan saying he lost the signal at Note Book and requesting a loop from Belvoir Tech Control.) calling Ridge Fox and saying he had a question for Ridge Fox. He wanted to know if Ridge Fox transferred his service. Ridge Fox said no. Humus asked if Ridge Fox can cut circuits to him then. Ridge Fox said everything is locked up, is it locked up on Humus's side? When Humus came back his call was now Assurance. He told Ridge Fox that they are at the formally Advon location. ????(Ridge Fox talked over Assurance, Assurance had a delay in his replies. SAT delay) FDMA circuits, are the other services cut over? Ridge Fox said nothing is cut over at the present time. Let him go check the Orderwire, he thinks the Orderwire is over. Assurance said he's going to pull his other patch. At 0930z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Ridge Fox telling Assurance that on the ADMIN he has 2600 coming from Assurance on the ADMIN where the Advon is. Assurance said that must mean that they have it in the E(?) Current Check. At 0932z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Assurance, now with out the hollow audio, calling Ridge Fox and saying he has Ridge Fox loud and clear. Ridge Fox said he has Assurance loud and clear also, does Assurance want him to roll the circuits over. Assurance said yes, he's bumping what he has with what the Advon crew has, it'll take a couple of minutes. They'll do it one at a time. As long as they got rid of that silly echo he's happy. Ridge Fox asked if they wanted to do the 27EB, he thinks it's the Night Watch 1 that goes on there. Assurance said that sounds good, stand by, let him see where they got it at. Ridge Fox said he'll patch it over when Assurance is ready. At 0933z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Assurance telling Ridge Fox he can go ahead and put the EB over if he hasn't already. Ridge Fox said that it's over, EB channel 1. Assurance told Ridge Fox that one checks 5 by. What's the next one Ridge Fox wants to do. Ridge Fox said EC, channel 2. Assurance said to stand by. Ridge Fox said he's over. Assurance said to stand by one. Assurance then told Ridge Fox that channel checks 5 by as well can they do the next one. Ridge Fox said that will be the ED, channel 9, it's up now. Assurance came back and said to please roll over 27EE. Ridge Fox told Assurance that it's over. Assurance said he'll check it. He then asked Ridge Fox to roll over FDMA to EF. Ridge Fox said he has to go into the back room, give him a minute. Assurance said he can go ahead and do the other one at the same time. At 0941z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Ridge Fox calling Assurance and asking Assurance to try his 27EF and 27EG. He patched the 2 FDMA circuits on there. Assurance said the FDMA checked good. At 0953z heard phone call on 267.6505USB, "Is Col. name on board yet? I need you to pass something to him. The President may, may, do a press statement upon departure, it's not final yet. I will keep you advised, but if he does do a press statement we're going to have to go quiet on the left side of the aircraft. Bye now." At 1003z heard phone call on 267.6665USB, "30 minutes? thanks, call name and brief him O.K. Bob. Thanks" After this guy hung up I could now hear the a/c guy talking to another chap. "We're running a little bit behind right now, we're looking at about 10 hours and 10 mins. versus 10 hours, so any delays will push us back much further, 10 minutes we can make up. So if we have any more delays here ???????" Other chap: "O.K., I'll brief folks on that. I appreciate the heads up. Have they given you word about a possible departure statement?" A/C guy: "Yeah, you want us to go completely quiet?" Other chap: "No sir, can you go quiet on the left side." A/C: "Yeah, that's a lot better, we can power down nearly everything, it'll be pretty quiet out there. It'll save us a lot of problems if we don't have to go completely quiet." Other chap: "What I will do is when that decision is made I will give you a call either way and let you know. I've been getting calls about once an hour through out the night, they just can't make up their mind about whether or not they want to do this." At 1024z heard phone call on 267.6584LSB, "How's our jet? Cocked, locked and ready to rock. Our jet is uptight and out of sight." This was 28000. At 1028z heard phone call on 267.6584LSB, Hey, Mr. Blinkin(?) I'm going to put you through to Mr. Berger. Sandy: "Yeah, name said these are slippery guys you know, and he wouldn't do it. Call name, this whole fu@king thing is crazy. I'm on with another call". He then hangs up. At 1034z heard phone call on 267.6584LSB. At 1035z heard phone call on 267.6423USB, "...the Secretary General's party. They're going to call me back, I put to them the question before my last conversation with Sandy. Would the Secretary General have any objections to the President making a statement before this is shored up? They're going to get back to me in a half hour. Then we go, Clerides called me back says he checked the political parties it's go. We're O.K. I'll stake my reputation on this one, the Greeks won't screw us. Sandy called them back he'll help you talk to ???? He got the wrong read from name, he knows name can't tell us about the Greeks, we know them better then name, we're the only ones who have been talking to them. The issue on Koffi is a legitimate issue and I guess he didn't ask name about that, but in any event Sandy's really got to hear from Koffi and I'm waiting to hear from Koffi's people. Where are you? Sandy's still in Washington, at the White House. I suggest you hold up the flight for a few minutes, what's the difference? So he lands a half hour later in Ankara. Our call from the risk factor, and I'm prepared to say we got it locked. There's always 1 in a 100, we've got it locked. There's nobody who knows the situation and these characters as well as I do cause I've been dealing with them 3 times a day. Point 1, point 2 I'll hear back from Koffi and I'll reach you and Sandy. Thank you." This was probably Al Moses. At 1038z heard phone call on 267.6324USB. At 1041z heard phone call on 267.6583LSB, "Hey name, this is name. I just saw something in the NGO memo that I think we might want to line out, under Kurdish Problem first ??? first sentence U.S. Turkish Counter Terrorism, that may not be a subject appropriate for the NGO discussion. If there is one." At 1045z heard phone call on 267.6421USB. At 1053z heard phone call on 267.6503USB, "Hi, I talked to name, he said you know these Greeks, he said he wouldn't do it. Which is just the opposite of what he said to Al. Under these circumstances, unless Al get's ahold of Moses, ah Koffi I don't think we can do it. We haven't left yet , so we probably have 20 minutes to a half hour. He's already landed in Beijing. Where are you? Why don't you try to get ahold of Al and see where he is." At 1058z heard phone call on 267.6422USB. At 1100z heard phone call on 267.6502USB, "Hello, Mr. Blinkin. I have Amb. Moses on the line for you. Amb. Moses you have Mr. Blinkin. M: "Tony, I just spoke with Sandy and I'll try to reach him again. I spoke with Beijing" Another voice broke in and said "Excuse me gentlemen I'm sorry, Mr. Berger would like to speak to Amb. Moses, can I put him through?" "Please" "Mr. Berger, you have Amb. Moses." Sandy: "Al is Tony on with us?, there's another alternative which gives us a little more breathing space." M: "O.K. good." Sandy: "Which is if we can do this from the plane, we can bring the press up to his office and he can make a statement, we won't have the pictures until he lands they'll file from the plane, this is not necessarily a big picture story anyhow." M: "That's fine, I suggested that a few hours ago." Sandy: "I think it'll work, I think what I would suggest now, first of all you're fantastic, M: "We don't have the results yet." Sandy: "We're almost there, when you get Koffi.." M: "I'm not going to change the script, let's stay with it cause we'll look like jerks and if he gives it later he gives it later and I'll get word..." Sandy: "The later could also have Koffi call Clerides and getting the actual conformation." M: "We'll have the conformation of course." Sandy: "It'll give us a little breathing space." M: "I think the problem here is if we hold this departure and for some reason this gets delayed and we don't get Koffi or something we're creating a negative thing we don't have to. My sense would be that if we get it before we leave great if not we'll do it from the plane. Sandy: "I will call you obviously when I get word and you can make the decision, we won't have Clerides acceptance. If Koffi says it's fine and I wouldn't push him. I'd say this is what we'd like." M: "You got it, there's one thing, the President has to give the statement with Clerides acceptance is dependent upon it. He has to read the statement. That statement has to be given. That's the basis of Clerides accepting the invitation." Sandy: "O.K., Al, there are 2 possible sequences here, one is we do it, if Koffi says O.K., I'll call Clerides right now and call you right back, we'll probably be on the plane anyhow, we'll wait we'll have Clerides acceptance and we'll be totally nailed down, if not we can walk into it for another few hours then ??????" M: "I will get a green light on the President going ahead and if we don't get a green light on the President going ahead and I'll let you know..." Sandy: "What I'm saying is we're probably missing the window of standup. So time urgency is a little bit released." T: "I hear that, I'm not going to stand down because..." M: "O.K., that's fine." Sandy: "They'll file from the plane, they just won't file the pictures." M: "O.K., goodbye." Sandy: "Bye." At 1105z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Assurance, with heavy echo, calling Ridge Fox, also with heavy echo, and asking for a 27EB on 27EG. Ridge Fox said he's going to pull the Orderwire down on the FDMA. Assurance said that's fine. He also asked Ridge Fox to cycle his 14 day on his KG 94. Ridge Fox, without the echo, called Assurance. Ridge Fox asked where Assurance wanted the 27EB at. Assurance said the 27EG. Ridge Fox said there was a real echo there and he couldn't hear earlier. Ridge Fox put the 27B1 on the 27EG, he then asked what else Assurance needed. Assurance asked for Ridge Fox to cycle his 14 day on the KG 94. Ridge Fox said he can do that, he went to 14. At 1107z heard phone call on 267.6583LSB, "The President, the last time I was up, which was just a minute ago was still in bed." At 1120z heard phone call on 267.6583LSB. At 1120z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Assurance asking Ridge Fox to put a loop up on Data Port 3, coming to us. Ridge Fox said roger. Ridge Fox put the loop up on 3. Assurance called Ridge Fox and asked him to take a look at port 3 and tell Assurance what he sees on it. Ridge Fox says he's just using a monitor and he sees data going in both directions. Assurance says he's receiving data but he's not sending anything out to Ridge Fox at this time. Ridge Fox said he's not sure what he's looking at then. Ridge Fox then came back on and said he's sorry, he was looking at Hancock's data. Ridge Fox says he sees something from Assurance, a flat line, that's about what he sees. Assurance then asked what Ridge Fox sees from the distant end, does he see data coming towards Assurance? Ridge Fox said he sees data from the distant end. Assurance asked to be put on a loop there, can Ridge Fox break their signal. Ridge Fox said it is looped right now towards Assurance. Ridge Fox said he'll open it back up. Assurance asked for Ridge Fox to break the signal. Ridge Fox broke the signal and Assurance said he sees that. Assurance asked for the loop to be put back in so Assurance's signal is going back to Assurance. Ridge Fox said he'll put a hard loop up. Assurance said thanks. Ridge Fox asked if Assurance wanted it to stay there. Assurance said yes. At 1127z heard phone call on 267.6502USB, "Mam, the aircraft's on the phone." Mam: "Thank you, Hello, this is the Situation Room. I'd like name please." (While waiting for name I could hear another call, a harmonic. "This is Crown. Let me put you on Royal Crown for that, hold on.") "Do you know if he's on the plane? Hello?, I have Amb. Parris's(sp?) line on the phone." YL on Amb. Parris's line: "How are you?, O.K., did you get the latest version of the Ambassador's... oh good, so it's in your hands. Do you know if Tony Blankin got his copy too? Great are you on the plane, on your way? Oh O.K., are you on AF1 or the other one? Oh, O.K., Hi Tony, you're about 30 minutes late so far. When are you taking off? O.K., maybe I'll get to see you when you're here. Have a good flight." At 1131z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Assurance call Ridge Fox and tell Ridge Fox that he's sending a 10 10 pattern on port 3, can Ridge Fox take a look and see if he sees it? Ridge Fox said he doesn't see a 10 10 pattern. He's seeing a loop from Assurance. He says when he cuts the data through from the distant end he sees it coming back. When he terminates it it goes away. Assurance told Ridge Fox to stand by. At 1132z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Assurance asking Ridge Fox to put a Fireberd on it and send a 10 10 pattern. Ridge Fox said he could. At 1135z heard phone call on 267.6422USB, "Signal Op 11. One moment. Go ahead please." YL: "Hey, we're on our way to the Helos now, so they could decide on the Helos to do this. We figure the most we can do is just go to the Pool. You're prepared to do that right? What is more likely is we may take them up to the cabin at some point during the flight and have him make it then." At 1136z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Ridge Fox asking Assurance "How about there?" Assurance said he's seeing a dead line. Ridge Fox said one moment, he came on a short while later and asked if Assurance sees it now. Assurance said he's seeing a really weird signal . Ridge Fox said that he sees a loop on it towards Assurance. Assurance asked about the hard loop Ridge Fox put up on him. Ridge Fox said no sir, he has his Fireberd on there, and it's locked up, it's on sync and shows he has a loop. It's running error free. Ridge Fox asked if "they" took Assurance's Satellite time down. Assurance said not to his knowledge. Ridge Fox asked if everything else is working otherwise. Assurance yes, they even got through the update of the day fine. Ridge Fox said he's got his Fireberd on there, he made sure he had it on the right port, he has it on port 3 towards Assurance and he's looking at a loop with his Fireberd and it's running error free. Assurance asked if Ridge Fox was getting this data signal for a while, even when Ridge Fox had him up on the hard loop patch, he was still receiving the data signal. Ridge Fox said yes, he doesn't know where it's coming from. Assurance said that Ridge Fox can break it. Ridge Fox said he knows, where's the loop coming from, does Assurance have a loop up? Assurance said negative. Ridge Fox asked if Assurance has his Fireberd on there. Assurance said he does. Ridge Fox asked if Assurance sees his, before Assurance could answer Ridge Fox said maybe he's looking at Assurance's. Assurance said that's possible, let him break and they'll see. Assurance broke it and Ridge Fox said he sees a loop. Assurance said he doesn't know where it's coming from, all of Assurance's patches are out of his patch panel. He asked Ridge Fox what data rate he was running out of his Fireberd. Ridge Fox said 2047. Assurance asked what Ridge Foxes synth(sync?) freq. was set at. Ridge Fox said he's looking, he's in interface and synchronous. Assurance asked if he was running at 1.2khz. Ridge Fox said he doesn't know, he's looking. He doesn't see anywhere on there where it tells him what he's running at. Assurance asked Ridge Fox to contact Belvoir Tech Control and check to make sure they don't have a loop up to Assurance. Ridge Fox said that goes through a Comquest. Assurance said that's correct. Ridge Fox asked if they could put up loops on different ports on a Comquest. He thought that was straight through. Assurance said he was trying to exhaust all of his possibilities. Ridge Fox started laughing and said O.K. Assurance said the signal is coming from somewhere, Ridge Fox can break it and Assurance does not know where it could be coming from. Assurance said his Fireberd is running at a 1 to 1 on his freq. mark and he's got a synth freq. of 1.2Khz. Ridge Fox said he'll check to see if he could put a remote loop up. Assurance said he sees that. Ridge Fox said that's Assurance's. Assurance said whenever he has a signal on there it locks up and he has a good loop on it. Ridge Fox said that's coming out of his 100, Ridge Fox put a remote loop on his 100. Assurance said so he's just sending it out to himself on his own ports. Ridge Fox said that's correct and when he takes it down there is still a loop up. Towards him anyhow. Assurance asked if Ridge Fox was currently seeing a loop. Ridge Fox said yes, he's going to take the loop down. When the loop was down Assurance said he sees that weird signal. Ridge Fox said he still sees a loop, he doesn't know why. Ridge Fox said he doesn't think Belvoir can get in there and test individual ports on this. Assurance told Ridge Fox to hang on. At 1139z heard phone call on 267.6502USB, "They're still at the White House, right, one moment please. Alright, thank you very much sir, out." At 1140z heard phone call on 267.6583LSB. At 1144z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Assurance asking Ridge Fox if he sees a loop on port 4. Ridge Fox said he has to pull down whatever is on there. He sees the loop on port 4. Assurance asked if he sees a loop on port 5. Ridge Fox said he sees no loop on port 5. Assurance asked what about port 2. Ridge Fox said he sees a loop on port 2. At 1148z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Assurance asking Ridge Fox to contact Belvoir Tech Control and see if they have any kind of loop whatsoever up. The problem Assurance is having is they don't have any of the circuits like ???tty or any of the data circuits running to them and each one that is not working Ridge Fox had registered a loop on and Assurance doesn't have any loops on his station at all up. At 1150z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Assurance calling Ridge Fox. Assurance asked for Low MUX B on the 27EF channel. Ridge Fox asked what was on there presently. Assurance said an FDMA channel. Ridge Fox then called Labor Day and asked for the Low MUX C for Assurance. Labor Day said to stand by. At 1151z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Labor Day calling Ridge Fox and telling him that Assurance is cleared for the Low MUX C. Ridge Fox then called Assurance and told him that Low MUX C is patched on EF. At 1200z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Ridge Fox calling Assurance and asking what Assurance sees now, "I bet you see good data going both directions, cause I do, I see 10 10 pattern from you". Assurance said he's sending a 10 10 pattern to Ridge Fox but he receives that same strange data pattern back. Ridge Fox said that strange data pattern is Hancock's data. Ridge Fox said he can put a loop "right here", they had it in loop, it was in Satty loop and that was only going in one direction, your signal was my signal. Assurance said that he was going to take down the 10 10 pattern and see if his circuit works. At 1200z heard phone call on 267.6662USB, "If the President wants to make the statement fine. ...OW comms. wiped out some of the call... I would then wait till we get Clerides acceptance. My sense is that the bureaucracy is not assigning as high a priority as we would want. All he has to do is place the call, now I talked to another woman on the other end who said they would do it. She had not called me back, I had to call her. It seems to be the usual bureaucratic indifference which I can't break through cause I don't know the players. Name who? Hell no, hell no. He's a good bumper as long as he doesn't get involved in the issue. And you really don't want to bring name in on this issue, cause once you bring him in he's pretty hard to keep out. Sandy could make the call as well, I'd like to reinforce the notion that the call be made now. My assumption is the Secretary General is probably sitting with a Chinese gentleman and probably has a full schedule and we'd have to pull him out. Now in terms of how to impress upon him the urgency of that I don't know if name P knows that staff. Why don't I call P and have P call over he must know some of these people. Look if you think it should be name I'll go with name I don't care. I think P can just call himself, I'll give him the number. It'll just be another call from the pushy Americans who don't pay our dues and trying to use the Secretary General to do our bidding. They have to make the call. I told them that Clerides will accept. It's very hard the people we are dealing with are not Americans and it's very hard to translate this they tend... OW comms. wiping out... They have suspicions because Clerides burnt the Secretary General last time. I think he's having a hard time believing he's changed his position. That's really where it is. ...OW comms. wiping out call... We got the wrong answer because the wrong message was delivered. What Koffi is saying is he doesn't want us to announce because he's not comfortable these parties are going to accept. ...OW comms. again... Obviously if the President wants to make a statement that's his business. ...OW comms. again... I can have P, you can do it, say you're calling from AF1. I don't think Sandy Berger's name means anything more to these folks, frankly then yours or anyone elses. Her name is Elizabeth and I have not been able to pick up her last name. She's with the Secretary General, but she did not come back to me with the answer she promised she would, I could ring her back. That's were we are, her number is 86-136-0-1004-593. Beijing. I would say European, perhaps British, she speaks with a British accent, but that doesn't mean a thing. She could be Oriental, South American, etc. This is a cell in Beijing. A different voice and a different personality may go over well. If you ask for Elizabeth they'll find her. The last time as I told you the Secretary General is not comfortable with the statement because he doesn't believe at this point we have a deal. The President if he wants to go ahead can go ahead, what Koffi was responding to was simply he doesn't feel he has a deal and I don't think they made the distinction that I hoped they would make and it's hard for them to do that and for Koffi to respond because at this point he doesn't he doesn't feel confident that there's going to be a deal and therefore he thinks the statement as far as protocol is ill advised. We'll accept that risk because I am confident the President will accept. This is my interpretation, given his doubts that this will go through he doesn't want an announcement made because it will not only be egg on our face but egg on the whole process and we're involved with the United Nations and the Secretary General in this. I think from that stand point given the 2 conversations with Clerides yesterday is the fact that he has not been able to confirm Clerides will accept, since he has problems with the statement being issued along these lines because even though we're vouching for it he would feel that it's an embarrassment for all of us giving him that legitimacy and I can understand that. That he's cleared it with Political Parties? That's the kind of message I'd like to give directly to Koffi because that'll buck him up. What we can do is go through the OPS Center and we can both be on. I'll go to the OPS Center, can the OPS Center reach you? I'll put you on with the OPS Center and we'll try her again. You start the conversation." At 1204z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Assurance calling Ridge Fox and asking for a loop on that circuit. Ridge Fox put up a hard loop for Assurance and asked him if he sees it. Assurance asked Ridge Fox to take it out. Ridge Fox then took it out. Assurance said he's not seeing a change in the circuit. He asked Ridge Fox if he sees data going in both directions. Ridge Fox said yes, then started talking to himself, "what's wrong? I see data". He then told Assurance he'll put his Fireberd back on there, maybe the loop went back up. They both then came on at the same time and said they're looking at nothing. Ridge Fox said he put his Fireberd on it and he doesn't see a loop on it. Assurance asked if they were looped presently. Ridge Fox said no, he took the loop down, he's going to kill what's coming from Hancock, he's going to loop Hancock back to it's self. Ridge Fox then saw data, it dropped out and was replaced by a 10 10 pattern. Ridge Fox said he saw a 10 10 from Assurance and that's it. At 1208z heard the 336 Orderwire AF1 calling Ridge Fox and informing Ridge Fox that they departed Andrews at 1206z. At 1211z noticed that the 355.000 carrier was at S-6. At 1213z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Labor Day calling Humus. Ridge Fox came on and told Labor Day that he thinks "it" changed to Assurance. Labor Day then called Assurance. No reply. At 1215z noticed that the 397.050 carrier was at S-5. 28000 airborne. At 1222z heard phone call on 267.6582LSB, "Roger, understand departure 1206 ETA 2155, thank you." Probably call to SAM Command. At 1227z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Ridge Fox calling AF1, no reply. At 1233z heard on the 267 & 336 Orderwires Ridge Fox calling AF1, no reply. At 1235z the 267 carrier dropped. At 1235z heard on the 336 Orderwire Ridge Fox calling AF1, no reply. He then called 28000, no reply. At 1242z heard on the 336 Orderwire Ridge Fox calling 28000, no reply. At 1249z heard on the 336 Orderwire Ridge Fox calling 28000, no reply. At 1250z the 336 carrier dropped. The Statement: November 14, 1999 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Aboard Air Force One En Route to Ankara, Turkey) _________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 14, 1999 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT The Secretary General of the United Nations has just informed me that President Clerides of Cyprus and Turkish Cypriot leader Denktash have accepted an invitation to start proximity talks in New York on December 3. The goal of the talks is to prepare the ground for meaningful negotiations leading to a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem. The talks will be held under U.N. auspices. They will go forward without pre-condition. They will focus on the substantive issues that divide the parties. The United States will work closely with the Secretary General to ensure that the talks are productive. This summer, the United States took the lead in calling on the United Nations to convene Cyprus talks. Ever since, together with our European allies and the U.N., we have been intensively engaged in an effort to bring the parties back to the negotiating table after a stalemate of more than two years. I am pleased that these efforts - including my meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Ecevit at the White House, Secretary Albright's conversation with President Clerides, and a month of shuttle diplomacy by my Special Envoy, Al Moses - have helped to produce this result. These Cyprus talks can bring us one step closer to a lasting peace. A negotiated settlement is the best way to meet the fundamental interests of the parties - including real security for all Cypriots and an end to the island's division. The Cyprus problem has been with us for far too long. It will not be resolved overnight. But today we have new hope. I ask the parties to approach this opportunity with good faith - and the determination to build for all the people of Cyprus a future that is brighter than the past. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 325.965/359.750 WBFM 27000 & Top Coat / Milky Way in N. Va. 11/23 At 2239z noticed WBFM carriers on 325.965 at S-8 and 359.750 at S-2. Noticed that 14 minutes of tape had run on Orderwire tape. From the tape: At 2325z heard on the 325 Orderwire Top Coat, Waldorf, calling 27000, no reply. At 2326z heard on the 325 Orderwire Top Coat telling 27000 he started losing 27000's signal in the last station, he just moved 27000 into his station. 27000's signal is a little weak, but it should pick up. From live monitoring: At 2341z heard phone call on 325.9992USB. At 2341z heard on the 325 Orderwire Top Coat calling Sofa Bed, NAOC, and asking if Sofa Bed planed on going Land Line anytime soon or does he plan to stay up RF. Sofa Bed said they just hooked up, they'd like to try Double Feed. Top Coat asked what Spot. Sofa Bed said E3. At 2342z heard on the 325 Orderwire Top Coat telling Sofa Bed he has a Double Feed. At 2344z heard on the 325 Orderwire Sofa Bed calling Top Coat. Sofa Bed said they are going to have to do some troubleshooting in the pit, they'll be right back. Top Coat asked if Sofa Bed wanted the Double Feed kept up. Sofa Bed said roger. At 2348z the 359 carrier was at S-9 +10. At 2351z heard phone call on 326.0062USB. At 2351z heard phone call on 325.9982USB. At 2353z heard phone call on 325.9980USB. At 2355z heard on the 325 Orderwire Sofa Bed calling Top Coat. Sofa Bed said he'd like Top Coat to verify that he has them at E3 which is Spot 1. Top Coat said he has it at Spot 3. Sofa Bed said he needs it at Spot 1, his mistake. Top Coat said he can change that. Top Coat asked Sofa Bed to try Spot 1 now. Sofa Bed said roger, thanks. At 2358z heard phone call on 326.054USB. At 0004z heard on the 325 Orderwire Milky Way, Waldorf, calling 27000. Milky Way told 27000 he lost his signal there a couple of times, a few minutes it dropped down for a while and he didn't know if 27000 had terminated. 27000 must have been on the ground at Andrews in a bad spot for me, he was all broken up. At 0005z heard on the 325 Orderwire Milky Way calling New Deal. No reply. At 0006z heard on the 325 Orderwire New Deal, the old Sofa Bed, calling Milky Way. New Deal told Milky Way he must have a bad cable, he's getting a real noisy receive from Milky Way. New Deal is going to go ahead and troubleshoot. Milky Way asked if New Deal wanted the Double Feed kept up. New Deal said roger. Ay 0008z heard on the 325 Orderwire Milky Way talking to 27000. Milky Way said he's sorry he couldn't do something for him earlier, but Milky Way just couldn't see 27000. He had everything turned on that he could turn on and looking where he could look and 27000 just wasn't there. At 0009z the carriers dropped. That's all for now. 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.615/355.000 WBFM AF1 & Milky Way in N. Va. 11/24 At 0149z a WBFM carrier popped up on 267.615 at S-9. At 0149z heard on the 267 Orderwire Milky Way calling AF1. Milky Way told AF1 he was in Milky Way's station now. He then asked AF1 if she had any problems "at the station up there". They installed some new equipment up there, a new MUX and did some maintenance. It should be in better shape. At 0153z heard phone call on 267.6618USB, "It's up and running right now sir, it'll be up all night, the CAT(?) 2 will be, but I will pass it along anyway." At 0202z heard phone call on 267.6617LSB, "I don't know if they moved it, you guys were supposed to chopper in and they didn't make that call until about an hour ago." At 0203z heard phone call on 267.6693USB. At 0205z the 355 carrier was at S-4. At 0207z heard phone call on 267.6612LSB, "The First Lady's people, we cut them out. They were going to hold here till 10 to 10:30 for shift change and we came here and we're holding and we cut them out. I'm not sure when this weather call was made, but my instructions, the last ones I had from Room 89 were that you all were flying into the Reflecting Pool and that changed about 4:30 this afternoon at which time they told me that you would be flying into the South Grounds and we would make the shift change here." At 0213z heard phone call on 267.6529USB. At 0213z heard on the 267 Orderwire New Deal calling Mona Lisa, another NAOC, and asking if Mona Lisa was done with ch. 8. Mona Lisa said he thinks they are done, "he's" just been sitting on it. New Deal can pull it back. New Deal said it's Mona Lisa's call, he can keep it a little while longer. Mona Lisa said he'll walk around and see if anyone needs it, he'll be back. At 0215z heard on the 267 Orderwire Mona Lisa calling Milky Way and asking Milky Way to give Air to Ground 8 back to New Deal. Mona Lisa thanked New Deal for the channel. New Deal then asked Mona Lisa to give him a call. At 0216z heard on the 267 Orderwire Milky Way calling New Deal and telling New Deal that he has ch. 8 back. New Deal said he'll check it. New Deal told Milky way it checks 5 by. At 0225z heard phone call on 267.6680LSB, "I was wondering about that, it's a little foggy, iffy." At 0225z the 355 carrier was at S-1, AF1 landed at Andrews. At 0228z heard on the 267 & 355 Orderwires AF1 calling Milky Way. AF1 told Milky Way they were on the deck at 25 and they are getting ready to terminate. At 0231z heard on the 267 & 355 Orderwires AF1 calling Milky Way and saying she's ready to terminate and thanks for Milky Way's help. Milky Way said he'll get set up. AF1 said whenever Milky Way's ready. Milky Way said on AF1's count. AF1 counted to 3 and the carriers dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 325.970/359.750 WBFM 27000 & Majority in N. Va. 11/30 At 0129z noticed a WBFM carrier on 325.970 at S-9. Weak carrier also on 359.750. At 0132z heard on the 325 Orderwire Majority, Waldorf, telling 27000 that he has a 1A. At 0134z heard phone call on 326.0106USB. At 0246z heard phone call on 326.0114LSB. At 0256z heard on the 325 Orderwire Majority telling 27000 to let him set up. The carriers then dropped. I don't know who this was for. The 359 carrier never really got out of the noise, so the aircraft stayed on the ground at Andrews. There was an Air Terminal Ramp Freeze scheduled for 0215z at Andrews. The circuits seem to have been for a back up aircraft. Though the plane getting the 1A seems odd. This is the MUX configuration usually given to AF1. No "Primary" aircraft was heard on the Orderwire. As I was getting ready to send this a carrier popped up at 1042z on 325.970 with Majority calling 27000, no reply from 27000. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 325.965/359.750 WBFM 27000 & Majority in N. Va. 11/30 pt. 2 At 1042z carriers popped up on 325.965 at S-9 & 359.750 at S-1. At 1042z heard on the 325 Orderwire Majority calling 27000 numerous times , no reply. At 1049z heard on the 325 & 359 Orderwires Majority calling 27000. Majority asked if 27000 was ready for his 1A err 1C. 27000 said yes. Majority gave 27000 a 1C. 27000 said he'd check his circuits. At 1050z heard on the 325 & 359 Orderwires 27000 telling Majority that the 1C checks good. At around 1200z noticed that the 359 carrier was at full scale on the 8200. At 1230z heard on the 325 Orderwire Majority telling 27000 to let him get set up. At 1231z heard on the 325 Orderwire Majority telling 27000 that he's ready, if it doesn't work they'll come back to RF 4. Majority counted to 3 and the 325 carrier dropped. A carrier popped up on 345.400. At 1231z heard on the 345 Orderwire Majority getting a check from 27000. At 1231z heard on the 345 Orderwire Majority calling Loop Hole, NAOC, no reply. At 1240z the 345 carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.615 WBFM 2X000/AF1 & Majority in N. Va. 11/30 At 1245z a WBFM carrier popped up on 267.615 at S-9. I was at work monitoring so I may not have times for each transmission. Heard on the 267 Orderwire Majority telling YL OP on 2X000 that she has her circuits. At 1256z heard on the 267 Orderwire Loop Hole calling Majority and informing Majority that he's taking hits on ch. 12 could Majority take a look at it. Loop Hole is not seeing the SF drop and it's coming in with a lot of noise and it's causing the line to call. It's an intermittent thing. At 1258z heard on the 267 Orderwire Loop Hole asking Majority if he sees it. Majority says yes, he lost SF from Loop Hole. Loop Hole asked "you lost SF from me?" Majority said yeah, that would cause the incoming call to you. At 1311z heard on the 267 Orderwire Loop Hole telling Majority that he was taking a look at his ch. 12 and he's seeing it going out to Majority. Majority asked if he sticks up another receiver does Loop Hole see the SF still on there. Loop Hole said he hasn't taken it RF yet. He's just going strictly on the Land Lines. Majority said the Wideband. He then asked if Loop Hole was looking at Narrowband or Wideband when he looks at his SF. Loop Hole said Wideband. At 1313z heard on the 267 Orderwire Majority calling Loop Hole and telling Loop Hole that he's going to give him a ticket number. Loop Hole asked if this was already written up. Majority said no, he's going to start one so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle. The ticket number on this is 991171. There should be a man in the station within a half hour. He'll check it and monitor it on his end. At 1326z heard on the 267 Orderwire Loop Hole telling Majority that he's getting some indications that his switchboard might be causing the other indications on that channel so he'll be working that at his site also. Majority told Loop Hole the man at the site sees the SF dropping from Loop Hole. Majority says he thinks his switchboard may be loading it down after the point where he's looking at it. Majority says he'll continue to monitor until Loop Hole gets back to him. At 1329z heard on the 267 Orderwire Loop Hole asking Majority for a double feed. Majority gave Loop Hole a double feed. At 1330z heard on the 267 Orderwire Loop Hole telling Majority that he's on the RF side, how does Majority copy. Majority told Loop Hole he has him loud and clear. At 1337z heard on the 267 Orderwire Loop Hole telling Majority that "that piece of equipment of his that he thought was in question, he has verified it's good." Majority says he still shows it dropping coming off of the Wideband. Loop Hole said that what he's getting is he's seeing some noise coming in on the receive side, receive SF, then he gets a high pitch tone and he's not seeing his SF drop to Majority. Majority says that since Loop Hole is RF, Loop Hole then broke in and said that he's looked at that and he's not seeing his RF drop. At 1431z heard on the 267 Orderwire Loop Hole telling Majority that he believes that he has the problem with ch. 12 fixed. Majority asked what was the trouble. Loop Hole said he had an equipment problem with his MUX. Heard on the 267 Orderwire Loop Hole asking to go strictly RF. Majority then set up Loop Hole strictly RF. Heard on the 267 Orderwire Majority replying to 2X000/AF1. Probably AF1 airborne time. Heard on the 267 Orderwire Loop Hole telling Majority that they are going to be airborne in a couple of minutes, their destination is White Ash. Heard on the 267 Orderwire Majority calling AF1 a couple of times. No reply, Majority then transitioned AF1, carrier dropped. Sometime before 2015z another carrier popped up, freq. pair unknown, carrier was up for about an hour. Heard on the tape: Majority replying to unknown a/c. Majority calling AF1. AF1 answered, OM OP, Majority asked if they have any calls up. AF1 said he has 2 up. Majority said he has a good signal in Axe Knife, could AF1 let him know when he can transition. AF1 said that when he starts dropping off for Majority to use his discretion, he'll let Majority know when he has a clear board. Majority replying to unknown a/c. AF1,OM, calling Majority and asking if Majority sees him in any other stations. Majority said no. AF1 said that the signal is starting to drop. Majority said that maybe AF1 is going over the top because he has a very strong signal. Majority replying to unknown a/c and asking to be kept advised. AF1, YL OP, calling Majority and telling Majority that they are taking numerous hits on channels 2, 3, 5, & 6. Majority said he believes it's AF1's location, they're probably taking a northern route, after the station they are in now Majority will probably lose them completely. AF1 said that she's at 38 North currently. Loop Hole calling Majority and asking on the 25D4 could Majority see if he sees anything coming from him. Majority said he shows something from Loop Hole. Loop Hole said that he's being told that the distant end is not seeing anything. Majority said he sees a 10 10, it appears to be from that end. Loop Hole said he's seeing that also, but apparently they are not seeing his end, he doesn't know why. Majority asked if Loop Hole would like a loop to Fort Detrick. Loop Hole said yes. Majority said he show's it looped back to Loop Hole, he has a remote loop up at Ft. Detrick. Loop Hole said he sees it, could Majority take it down. Majority took it down. Loop Hole said he's going to get back to the distant end and have them check it out again. AF1 calling Majority and saying she's still taking numerous hits since transitioning into the ground station, does Majority have another bay he could put her up on, another rack. Majority said yes, it'll take about 5 minutes. He'll get set up for it. 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>)