Subject: 232.710/357.700WBFM in N. Va. AF1 & Waldorf 10/2 At 2003z heard WBFM carrier on 232.710 at S-8. At 2004z on the Orderwire heard Waldorf calling Air Force 1, no reply from AF1. Between 2008z and 2033z heard phone calls on 232.7525USB 3x, 232.7494LSB, 232.7438LSB, 232.7565LSB, 232.7403LSB. One call dealt with an article about the scandal in one of the papers, another about needing bodies to stand post on Mon. for POTUS and Dignitaries, another about someone wanting to take someone to the BIG Game on Sun. at the BIG JACK, Redskins/Cowboys, another was an order of hoagies in Philly ( The breakfast of Champs:>) ), another started talking about Al and Hill and the party on the plane ended that call:>(. At 2018z found a carrier at S-2 on 357.700. At 2033z on the 232 Orderwire heard Waldorf tell AF1 that they'll be looking for them later. At 2035z the 232 carrier dropped. AF1 was enroute to Philly from Cleveland. I'll be listening for AF1's return to Andrews later on this evening. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: More 232.710/357.700 WBFM in N. Va. AF1 & Waldorf 10/3 At 0218z heard WBFM carrier on 232.710 at S-8. The whole signal bandwidth was noised up in SSB at +40 over 9, the Orderwire had a sound like one gets between FM broadcast stations. The circuits were not up yet. At 0225z the signal cleaned up, the "noise" was gone. At 0226z on the Orderwire heard Waldorf tell AF1 that they should have their circuits. At 0230z heard phone call on 232.7528USB, talking about the ATU, (Teamsters type activity?) At 0231z heard phone call on 232.7502LSB, AF1 passing along a Block time of 0255z At 0232z heard phone call on 232.7527USB, call to Base OPS with 0255z Block time. At 0235z heard phone call on 232.7683USB, SAM 203, I believe, calling AF1 and asking for permission from the AF1 pilots to allow 203 to land within 5 minutes of AF1. 203 tells AF1 that ATC is demanding that there is a 20 minute separation between AF1 and all other a/c. AF1 pilots agree to allow 203 to land 5 minutes after AF1 does. ( I heard SAM 203 calling SAM CP about 15 minutes earlier and giving a block time within the AF1 original time of 0240z) At 0239z heard phone call on 232.7411LSB. At 0239z heard 357.700 carrier up at S-2. At 0244z on the 357.700 Orderwire heard AF1,YL op, calling Waldorf and passing along a block time of 0255z. At 0249z heard phone call on 232.7600USB, also another call at 0250z on same freq. At 0250z on the 232/357 Orderwires heard AF1 and Waldorf, Waldorf told AF1 that if he looses the Orderwire he'll leave the circuits up. At 0255z on the 232 Orderwire heard Waldorf tell AF1 that he's all set up and for the AF1 op to have a good evening, the carrier then dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.610/355.000 326.000/382.350 WBFM in N. Va. 10/12 At 1827z found WBFM carrier on 267.610 at S-8. At 1837z on the Orderwire heard Waldorf calling 01and informing 01 that there is a good signal at Waldorf. Waldorf can transition 01 into Waldorf anytime. 01 said now was a good time. Found WBFM carrier for 01 at 326.000 at S-4. At 1904z heard phone call on 267.6652LSB, a steward making sure the proper shirts and shoes are with the suits. At 1907z heard phone call on 267.6486LSB, wx for JFK. At 1908z on 267.6651LSB heard phone call with wx for McGuire and JFK, this is probably the same call from 267.6486, the earlier call was very weak, just barely above the noise. ( Harmonic ?) At 1916z heard phone calls on 6569LSB, also calls on 267.6650LSB all dealing with some problem, at 1924z noticed tape in deck acting squirrely, replaced tape so I can't give good details about the calls. There seemed to be some concern about the pecking order or something. Lindsey a couple of other names then Hernreich, Currie, and Bowles were mentioned. At 1924z the call on 267.6569LSB, Chief Signal was asked to get Nancy Hernreich on the phone, at this point there were 2 fellas, ( one being "Chief Signal") on the phone talking to a Col. aboard AF1. Nancy came on the line, Nancy told the Col. That "name 1" was first then "name 2" was second, name 1 is the only one who knows where all the calls are right now, which ones they have out and which ones they're expecting to call back. Just make sure name 1 has briefed name 3 about all the calls. Nancy then told the Col. goodbye and one of the parties on the phone asked "Signal Supervisor" to patch them up to New York. At 1930z on the 267 Orderwire heard Waldorf tell ? they have Green Hill up and looking. On the 326 Orderwire heard a reply of Thanks alot. This was on the 326 Orderwire so it was not 01, Maybe AF1. At 1932z on 267.6410LSB heard the following: phone ringing then "Air Force 1, 1610L, OK, you should be able to use either runway you want any direction 31 Left 13, everything looks good. Alright thanks, goodbye". At 1932z heard phone call on 267.6677USB. At 1933z heard phone call on 267.6569LSB. also at 1934z. At 1936z on the 267 Orderwire heard 01 calling Waldorf, 01 informed Waldorf they were not receiving them through their normal Admin, they had to go through a switchboard to get them, noticeable 400hz hum on 01's audio. Waldorf has 01 loud and clear 01 the same. 01 informed Waldorf they are on the ground, rolling at Andrews. 01 asked Waldorf if they have Wide Band cables at Andrews. Waldorf was going to check on that. Waldorf came back and said there was no changes on that yet. Waldorf has to put their circuits up one at a time at the Hard Stand, Waldorf can patch them up one at a time if 01 would like to tone them out first. 01 said that's alright they'll just bring them up later. Waldorf then told 01 that they do have landline capability on 3 through 8, that's usually what you have but Waldorf can patch whatever 01 wants on the ground lines. 01 knew that they had that they weren't sure if maybe they had switched over to an entire Wide Band. Waldorf said that that's what he was checking on, he knew that they were supposed to, but he didn't know how that was coming along as far as the Wide Band. At 1940z the circuits dropped on the 267 signal, the carrier was still up though. On the 326 Orderwire heard Waldorf say "I may have lost my MUX from you, I'm getting loss of SF and pilots at my end and high noise". A short while later heard Waldorf on the 326 Orderwire say " Roger sir, I still have high noise from you". I switched over to the 267 Orderwire and heard 01 ask Waldorf if they could try a different RF. Waldorf told 01 that it sounds exactly like it did at Offutt when they lost everything. 01 asked if it was when they were first taking off, Waldorf said yes. Waldorf said it sounds like the same problem. 01: " No Kidding". 01 said he wanted to take a look at something real quick, 01 asked if they could try RF 4. Waldorf and 01 transitioned to RF 4. (336.800/397.050 is RF 4. 336.800 is at the noise level here(Waldorf), same for 397.050. The 397 signal should be at the noise level here since 01 is parked at Andrews. Maybe Waldorf is on real low power. ) Waldorf and 01 say things sound better on RF 4. 01 said it must be some RFI locally causing problems on RF 1. At 1947z heard phone call on 267.6649LSB. A fella wanted to connect Erskin Bowles to a party on the a/c. Erskin is in Newt's office. The ground party wants to try another number, no one is answering. The ground party said they are getting Erskin. Of course the carrier drops out :>( I don't know who the 267 WBFM was for. I had just come back from a long weekend out of town and hadn't heard any news. Maybe Bill's trip to N.Y. was delayed due to budget talks. I guess I'll find out later on the news. The 336.800 carrier is still weak here (2120z), no Orderwire traffic on it while I was typing this. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 326.000/382.350 WBFM 01 & Waldorf in N. Va. 10/13 At 0948z noticed 336.800 signal was gone, found carrier at 326.000 at S-4 and weak carrier on 382.350. At 1922z heard phone call on 326.0539LSB. At 1928z on the 326 Orderwire heard Waldorf talking to 01, Waldorf told 01 they have "this here AutoDin", he thinks they're calling it the 29JK, and there was some concern last week about patching it up to 01 in an analog manner. Waldorf has been working on the frame today and he thinks they can do it. Waldorf asks 01 if they'd like to test it. Apparently 01 asked some questions about it, Waldorf said it's an AutoDin, you take an AoutDin on the normal analog side of it, it's the new one that goes up to Andrews. Last week Waldorf had it built to go digital and of course once Waldorf got it to go digital NW wanted it to go analog. Waldorf put some analog patch jacks on it and can patch it in place of 01's Low MUX B. Waldorf asked 01 if they have a modem on board so they can work with it. Waldorf says it's 1200 bits per second something or other. Waldorf says it's a Din that comes to him all the time and asks 01 which trunk he'd like it patched to. Waldorf says he'll set the patch up. Waldorf came back and told 01 he should have the data tones coming on Low MUX B. Apparently 01 asked for the phone number for Andrews Tech. Control, Waldorf gave it to 01. At 1939z heard phone call on 326.0498USB, talking about 29JK. Must be Andrews Tech. Control :>) The fella asked if they just want to put it in service to see if it'll pass traffic. The fella showed them in service and their system off line or out of service. He said crypto was OK. Heard phone calls on 326.0369LSB, 326.0305LSB & 326.0146LSB. At 2002z on 326.0388LSB heard siren type sounds and then "This is Nightwatch stand by for a Communications Flash Test call" a couple of times then " As your command is called report on the audibility of the Conference, STRATCOM, ACOM, Europe, SITCOM(?), NORAD US SPACECOM, Space COM Special Activities, Command Center, Pacific, Special OPS, SOUTHCOM, TRANSCOM, Glass Bowl, Fire Dome, Grass Field(?)." All replied loud and clear, then "Nightwatch has all conferees loud and clear, this terminates the Conference." At 2005z another Communications Flash Test call on 326.0388LSB . NW called Glass Bowl, Fire Dome, and Grass Field. All replied except for Glass Bowl. At 2007z heard phone call on 326.0501USB, fella mentioned channel 27 and Yankee Echo Kilo November. The fella asked who NW's primary AFC was. He then mentioned looking at channel 26, and then he wanted NW to ring out all of NW's ????? both NW's voicecom and ???com going over to Hancock. The fella said "Loud and clear, Romeo, Tango, Romeo Alpha. You're going to have to go through the Hancock circuits, your traffic will be going through Hancock. " "What I'm telling you now is that all your traffic that is ????? Andrews circuits is being out routed over to your Hancock circuits." "Instead of the traffic going over to the Hancock side of the house you'll now see it on both circuits." "Everything is going through Hancock right now". "You got two AutoDin circuits, You got Hancock and Andrews, do you understand that?". "If you want to test your Andrews circuits give a call and explain to them what you want to do, give them a call or we can set it up for you". This call lasted well over twenty minutes. At 2030z heard phone call on 326.0232LSB. At 0012z, 10/14, heard phone call on 326.0312LSB. Carrier still up at 0020z, 10/14. Carrier is fluctuating in signal strength from S-0 to S-4. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 232.710/357.700 WBFM AF1 & Waldorf in N. Va. 10/16 At 2258z found WBFM carrier at 232.710 at S-8. At 2300z heard phone call on 232.7579LSB, "You're on Air Force 1?" At 2301z on the 357 & 232 Orderwires heard AF1 and Waldorf, AF1 told Waldorf he's not pulling dial tones on 6 & 7. Waldorf told AF1 to stand by, Waldorf then came back and asked AF1 to check them now. At 2305z heard phone call on 232.7416LSB. At 2310z heard phone call on 232.7579LSB, fella asked for some "souvenirs" from AF1. At 2316z heard phone call on 232.7412LSB, problems with a conference set up, "Did Conference One sound abnormal when you called directly". "Was Conference One noisy, the phone itself?". "Were you hearing the static being transmitted or... OK, when he hung up and you were still in the connection it sounded good?". "Is it possible both Conference room 1 and 6 PTT was being pushed at the same time?". "I think it's possible, because what's gonna happen is you're gonna get multiple people going in the front end of 58 at the same time as well as you get the ambient noise from the conference room, there's a possibility that could be the problem right there". "I think if the phones are all listening, not keyed, the mikes weren't hot, I couldn't imagine it being a problem unless the phone itself had a problem". "The 58s are a weird setup any way, you got the side tone from the transmit 58 coming back to the receive loop, and you got the receive, the regular receive 58 going to the receive loop, so as you mentioned you couldn't tell where the static was coming from". "I have to assume that if the ground was hearing it it was transmitted static and you were hearing the side tone of the static". "Maybe you can try once you get on the ground keying up two phones and seeing if that creates a problem". "You're on 9000 right?". "That was out on 8 and PSL 3 on 8 has a blue tint to everything, that's kinda odd". "The other day we were out on 8 reloading a different version of software". At 2324z heard phone call on 232.7567LSB. At 2336z heard phone call on 232.7482LSB, unknown patched AF1 to Air Force Operations Center, heard AFOC: "Arrival 2332, Estimating time in the Blocks 2340". At 2351z heard on the 357 Orderwire 29000 calling Waldorf on Admin, Waldorf answered on the 232 Orderwire. 29000 thanked Waldorf for their help, Waldorf told 29000 on his count. 29000 then to 3 and the carriers dropped. 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 232.710/357.700 WBFM ??? & Waldorf in N. Va. 10/19 At 1323z found WBFM carrier on 232.710 at S-8. Carrier had a hum (400 cycles?) on it. Carrier also present on 357.700 at S-1. At 1327z on the 232 Orderwire heard Waldorf tell unknown " Got 'em". At 1348z on the 232 Orderwire heard NW02 request a 1B and 1F from Waldorf. Waldorf asked if this was NW01 and 02 told him it was 02. Waldorf told 02 that the Combat Ciders were in use. 02 said he'll let that go then. At 1352z on the 232 Orderwire heard NW01 tell Waldorf that he had a station, Razz 84, that had contacted Waldorf about a half hour ago and were coming up 7C on RF 18. Waldorf told 01 to standby, Waldorf then asked where. 01 told Waldorf to standby 1 mike to find that, 01 came back and told Waldorf they are over Strawberry Peak, (Ca. I believe), at this time. At 1412z on the 232 Orderwire heard Waldorf call 01 and ask for a 2 hour release on the Nightwatch rack at Waldorf. 01 said that'll be fine. At 1418z on the 357 Orderwire heard ???, (yl op, I've heard this op on AF1 sometimes), inform Waldorf they were airborne at 17, and would be in a local pattern for a while. At 1419z heard phone call on 232.7550LSB. At 1452z heard phone call on 232.7501USB. Both phone calls had very poor audio, maybe from the hum on the signal? At 1501z on the 232 Orderwire heard 02 inform Waldorf that they were airborne. Waldorf asked 02 which way they were headed, 02 told them he believed they were headed south and would also turn around and head up towards the Lakes. At 1502z on the 232 Orderwire heard Waldorf say "Roger mam", then the carrier dropped. I believe this was one of the 2#000 or 97# birds getting some flight time and radio practice in. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.610/355.000 WBFM ??? & Waldorf, in N. Va. 10/22 At 1921z found WBFM carrier on 267.610 at S-8. At 1936z hum appeared on carrier and 355.000 up at S-1. At 1953z hum and 355.000 carrier disappeared. At 1956z hum back on 267 carrier, 355 back also. At 2007z hum and 355 carrier gone again. At 2010z hum and 355 carrier reappear. At 2012z 355 carrier at S-4. At 2015z 355 carrier at S-6. At 2020z 355 carrier up at S-8, over the next half hour the carrier varied in strength from S-0 to S-8. At 2044z heard phone call on 267.6500LSB, "See ya when you get on the ground". At 2047z 355 carrier sunk into the noise. At 2048z on the 267 Orderwire heard Waldorf say, "Thank you sir, you're welcome". At 2053z the 267 carrier dropped. Don't know who the circuit was up for, maybe some more flying time for one of the SAM birds. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 232.710/357.700 WBFM AF1 & Waldorf in N. Va. 10/24 At 1540z heard WBFM carriers on 232.715 at S-8 and 357.700 at S-1. Within a half hour the 232.715 carrier shifted down to 232.710. At 1540z heard Waldorf calling 29000 on the 232 Orderwire, Waldorf called the op mam, didn't hear 29000, and said at this time Nightwatch 02 has Cider 3, 02 would like to know if he can keep that til 29000 is ready to take off. Apparently yes. At 1542z heard phone call on 232.7611LSB. At 1543z heard Waldorf calling 29000 on the 232 Orderwire, no reply. He tried again at 1547z, still no reply. Heard phone calls on 232.7680LSB, 232.7439LSB, 232.7511LSB, between 1547z and 1602z. At 1609z on the 232 Orderwire heard 01 calling 02. 01 asked 02 if his SHF operator was listening. 01 asked if 02 had pulled his patches from his port 3 to his AUTODIN because 01 had Waldorf normal everything up and it won't work for 02 if the patches aren't removed. 02 informed 01 that they are already going through Roberts now, but thanks for the info anyway. 01 asked if they were not pulling it off the port off the MUX anymore. 02 said no, they have a direct link from Camp Roberts(Ca.) to Fort McClellan(Al.) 01 said he knew when he left, the patch from the black patch panel from port 3 to AUTODIN was still up. At 1613z on the 232 Orderwire heard Waldorf calling 29000, no reply. At 1617z heard phone call on 232.7576LSB, gentleman asking who was doing the trip was it Col. "A", could he speak to the Col. The Col. is not on the plane yet he's still in his office. At 1629z on the 232 Orderwire heard Waldorf calling 01, Waldorf told 01 there is going to be a conflict out "there". AF1 is heading that way, they're going all the way to the West Coast, Waldorf would like to know when the time comes can he take 02 down. 01 said to standby, he needs to get the person who would be able to authorize that. 01 came back and said that that's a go on taking 02 down when needed. Does Waldorf have a time when they'll be doing that? Waldorf told 01 that AF1 is scheduled to take off from Andrews at 1725z, and that would put them out around "there" at about 1900z. 01 told Waldorf that the only concern was that Waldorf drops 02 and not 01. 01 then called 02 on the Orderwire and asked if he heard that, 02 said he had and then asked Waldorf if they would be dropping his circuits or RF. Waldorf said everything. Waldorf said that they will drop them completely, right now 02 is on the VIP rack at Offutt. Waldorf was asked how long they'll be flying over. Waldorf told them it usually takes about an hour for them to fly over and get out of range. 02 asked Waldorf what RF AF1 will be on, Waldorf said RF 10. 02 asked if Waldorf was going to give them the 1A, Waldorf said that's correct. 01 then called 02, and told 02 he'll just take the other circuit back and pass then over air to air. 02 said that sounds good, and wanted to keep the RF 2 up and 02 would take the high and 01 would take the low. Waldorf came on and said that wouldn't work since RF2 interferes with RF 10. 01 came on and said what about RF 5? Waldorf said that 5 looks like a clean channel. 01 told 02 that they'll go ahead and establish that first. 02 said that they'll be setting up, 02 asked 01 what they want to take, the high or low? 01 said that they'll be the GEP, 02 can be the airplane. The orderwire then noised up, Waldorf called 01 and said that 02 dropped their link. 02 then came back up. 02 then informed 01 that they are set up for their air to air link. 01 asked Waldorf to give all the circuits to him so he can pass them to 02. 01 shortly there after told 02 he was sending them 2, 9, & 10. From this point on I did not hear 02 on the Orderwire anymore. 01 then asked 02 what kind of rx SF level he has on Nightwatch channel 2. At 1753z heard phone call on 232.7548LSB, guy with an accent passing along info about AF1's arrival in S.F. he's going straight to a private residence. At the same time another call was bleeding through on top of this one. The Signal Supervisor at the White House was asking for Mr. Lindsey. Our friend with the accent then started speaking in his native tongue, I guess. I then tried to find the call for Mr. Lindsey. Found the call on 232.7394LSB, Signal had a Mr. Phillip Wogoman wishing to speak to the President, (this name sounds familiar). The Signal Supervisor then gave the number for Mr. Wogoman, a 202 area code ( Wash. ,D.C.). The Rev. Phillip Wogoman will be at this number for the next 4 hours, now I got it, the Rev. is one of Bill's Spiritual Advisors. At 1756z on the 357 & 232 Orderwires heard AF1,(now male op) inform Waldorf that they were airborne at 1755z, ETB in L.A. on time, 2230z. Waldorf acknowledged. At 1755z heard phone call on 232.7648LSB, same flight info passed to a CP (SAM?). At 1757z our foreign buddy was still yakking it up on 232.7548LSB, he then broke back into english and said right now it's raining, but tonight it might clear up, tomorrow it's clear. At 1758z heard phone call on 232.7506USB, a gal was looking for "church services that work, right now they're at 10:30 & 10:45, the problem with that is either they go back to the house for ten minutes or show up really early at the next ???". "They still end up early at the hotel as long as they are prepared to hold once they get there. It's a 15 -20 minute drive, if the service is over at 11:45 they are not due to show up there until 12:45. No that's what I'm trying to figure out here, there's a bunch of different Baptist churches here, but I don't have anyone on the ground who can get these". The gal has been dealing with "Oakland's Mayor's office", she dosen't have "a contact in S.F.'s Mayor's office because we don't speak to him". " Do you want Black or Hispanic? Hispanic, OK. If the timing doesn't work right we'll still use it as an option, I'll give it to you guys. Do you remember Dr. Amos Brown?, well he has a third Baptist Church, his would be at 10:45. It's raining here today, I have about 8 pages of people who'll be late because they're sitting in traffic everywhere because of the rain. The Bay Bridge is essentially shut today. If I knew today that we were going into Oakland, I need to give the Agents a heads up on that. If you get an idea page me, in the mean time I'll call Martha and get an Hispanic". At 1816z heard a phone call on 232.7548LSB. At 1823z heard a phone call on 232.7550LSB, "Signal Operator, how may I help you sir?" At 1823z the carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 326.000/382.350 WBFM AF1 & Waldorf, in N. Va. 10/26 At 0510z heard WBFM carriers on 326.000 at S-1 and 382.350 at S-1. The 326 carrier is sick, it was acting up the last time NW01 was in town. It was usually at S-4 before the last NW activity. I decided to listen to the plane side of the network since at least there would be a signal :>) At 0518z heard phone call on 382.3979LSB, The party asked for the Skymaster Security Room, When the SSR came on the line the gentleman on the plane identified himself and said he was calling from Angel and wanted a Sit report. He repeated back 1 Greeter, 3 Press contained, and no public. The gentleman told SSR they are supposed to land at 1240 and it's now 1219. At 0538z on the 326 Orderwire heard Waldorf tell AF1 " OK I'll go up there and set up, I'll be ready". At 0542z on the 326 Orderwire heard Waldorf say "Roger, you want me to count down?" "Thank you" then the carrier dropped. That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>) Subject: 267.610/355.000 WBFM, AF1 & Waldorf in N. Va. 10/30 At 0388z heard weak WBFM carrier on 355.000 at ~S-1. At 0410z 355 carrier was at S-3, 0414z at S-5, at 0430z S-9. 267.610 carrier popped up at 0419z at S-8. Hum (400 cycle?) on carrier. At 0432z heard phone call around 267.6595LSB, hum on carrier distorted audio. At 0446z on the 267 Orderwire heard Waldorf say "Roger" then the carrier dropped. That's all for now, Time for a Dominion :>) 73 de OBK Subject: 232.710/357.700 WBFM AF1 & Waldorf in N. Va. 10/30 At 1532z heard WBFM carriers on 232.710 at S-8, with Hum (400 cycles?), and at 357.700 at S-1. At 1538z heard phone call on 232.7582LSB, "Is this Angel?" then they discussed personnel changes. Audio was distorted. At 1545z heard phone call on 232.7524USB, Our friend with the accent discussing shirts and ties. Audio was distorted. At 1552z the 232 Orderwire noised up, wiping out the MUX channels, could barely here 01 calling Waldorf beneath the noise. The noisy OW lasted about 3 minutes, the noise would clear up and then tones and beeps and then noise again. This cycled 2 to 3 times like this. Then there was a loud tone for about a minute. Could hear someone trying to talk but the tone won the battle. When the craziness stopped heard 01 calling Waldorf and tell Waldorf they lost them for a while. Waldorf said he knows, what happened is that they're having trouble on a T-1 between Noble and Offutt and MCI looped it on them. 01 said he brought up radio 2 and will now go back to strictly landline. The Orderwire then noised up again and Waldorf came on yelling "Go back to the other side" a couple of times. The Orderwire then cleared up and 01 came back on and said they're back on RF side,Waldorf said when they tried to go back they got nothing but noise. 01 said they'll stand by on RF till they figure out what's going on. The good thing out of all of this is that the hum is now gone:>) At 1600z on the 232 Orderwire heard 01 tell Waldorf they have terminated the telephone link to Waldorf because he called them on the 1-800 number. At 1602z heard phone call on 232.7567LSB, "I told everybody I'm coming to New York to help remove Satan", The fellow then told the party about the event, standing motorcade, we go up a few steps to come up to the first floor, when we come in we got about 5 greeters ???, Schumer, Mrs. Schumer, Congressman ???. The fellow then went on describe the event, placement of folks and where certain physical barriers are. Just the President and Schumer on stage. The guy said that they expect about 160, about 75 being family. The fella then talked about Photo OPS with the President, group photos with 4 or 5 family members per photo. He was asked if a photographer was there. The fella was then heard calling someone else in the room to ask, he then came on and said that the photographer will be at the next event. The fella was then heard telling someone in the room that the White House wants a photographer there. The White House photographer can't take photos because it's a political event, so you'll have to get your own guy to take photos. If you can get him here now we can get him in the motorcade. Work on it. The guy then came back on the phone and told the party that they don't seem that concerned. The phone call was loud and clear, no distortion, maybe the hum was put on the Orderwire by NW01? At 1615z heard phone call on 232.7400LSB. At 1616z heard phone call on 232.7427USB with an answering machine message "... however if it is urgent please feel free to page me at the White House Signal Operator at 202 757 5000 thank you". At 1619z heard phone call on 232.7482LSB, "160 people, that's a huge problem, I'll take care of that". At 1622z on the 232 & 357 Orderwires heard Waldorf calling AF1, 29 answered, Waldorf told 29000 that both 1 and 2 work fine he can get the other end to answer I got SF from you today on 2, it's a little noisy but I have it. 29000 told Waldorf he'll check it out on his end. At 1631z on the 232 Orderwire heard 01 tell Waldorf that he had a phone patch a minute ago from callsign Reckless. They would like a 7A but they never said what RF. Waldorf then said that any of them that come up on the A or C they have to be starting on Sunday the First, anybody coming up on the 7A has to come up on RF Channel 19 and the only one that's allowed to have it is the Prime A/C, the 7C will be reserved for the secondary on RF 18 and if it's anybody else and nobody is using the circuits then it's up to you to split them however you want to do it. Waldorf has someone on 19 right now using the 7A. If he comes up in Offutt on that... 01 then came on and said that it'll be in your GEP area. Waldorf asked what the callsign was and then said I guess he'll contact you, but I still need an RF. At 1634z heard phone call on 232.7549LSB, the call dealt with generator problems and photo ops at a senior center. At 1644z heard phone call on 232.7420USB. At 1652 the 357 signal was at S-8. At 1655z heard phone call on 232.7504USB, another call took place at 1657z. At 1659z heard phone call on 232.7473LSB. At 1703z heard phone call on 232.7417USB, "you'll be back tonight at 7:20? OK ". At 1706z heard phone call on 232.7473LSB, fella was put on hold and then "What's up Big Brother?" "Got it, we're standing by ready to receive". At 1710z heard phone call on 232.7418USB, an upset lady about photographer mess, she tried to forward a call to a cell phone but a message came on and said the phone was turned off or out of the area. At 1720z the carrier dropped. The Reckless WBFM activity was searched for over an hour and a half here with no signals found. Maybe 01 was refering to the Waldorf "network" when he said "Waldorf GEP area". That's all for now, 73 de OBK Time for a Dominion :>)