Just when you thought it was safe to ditch the tin foil hat, the Navy/MC MARS nets have stepped up to the plate with a new super secret squirrel method of operation (encypting message text). Here is an interesting intercept monitoring by our good friend Gray Ghost. Anyone have any ideas on what method these guys are using to encrpt their text?
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Net: Navy/MC
Region 4 Tennessee MARS 4H2B net Freq: 4038.5 USB
Mode: MT63 /
1K
TOI: 220103Z Oct
12
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625
R 212122Z OCT
2012
FM NNN0FAA TN
TO NNN0ASG SIX
INFO NNN0AS4 GA
NNN0GBU
TN
NNN0ANX TN
GR 83
BT
UNCLAS EFTO
HMDOGQX CLPDVJU
UAXEB
WGVAR MZPQZ MADDC VLPXL BLPVC HAIWY IDJHD ZVQQZ JDGMC
VHPVH LLMPX TYNIM
DNRHA AWYWX IDYNX KATZD YSHTX WCJDK MRZSZ
JNJHQ EEVWW WJAOF YHMOB VFSTB
RKRKW AEEHK VEFBX ZHXIT RLYCI
ZHOHQ HERIA KPEHV BWJTC TUGZR ACAKT VYLZT
XTOCZ CRCWW EBSAF
WEAQH OPYKD LBYEC KUNNI BLSYE RHEBL LXUZQ MZDNE CIMRD
RRTUM
VRJYI CKUFB GEYWI YLLCE WFZMC BTUOB IDUUU MDHKY UXYQX YSECU
CKTQW
AEVFH UQHQF PFWUM ZLKAN OWGMF SOYXZ SBZNN APEDY OAPPF
AMVZF PXJIX QTWDB
CVPOA WCDQX ALRHI MHQZB JGMSX VUSYN KPTSJ
TIAEB
BT
NNNN
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Net:
Navy/MC Region 4
MARS 4X9B net
Freq: 3390.0 USM
Mode: MT63 / 1K
TOI: 210108Z Oct
12
*DE NN0RBD*
DE NNN0FAA 613
R 182238Z OCT 2012
FM NNN0FAA
TN
TO NNN0ASG SIX SC
INFO NNN0AS4 GA
NNN0GBU TN
NNN0ANX
TN
GR 48
BT
UNCLAS EFTO
TRAINING
GCGJ RKGUL XOFQF NCSLY IJWQC
EGZAB OKPQK LIFAQ ZRNJV APFVK
SJJSD YUFBV UDWYK IVUDH SCONE NMLXM OFZUK
EVKSS CBPJU RYMEA
TPKIV DBEBF DBIYE PTCGD WEHTX XTTPS VMHOL NRIEZ RCCQE
UWSFC
TQGPI JDCBF OZUDL SDZXH DTLYG AALQC LVZKN HBUDL EPBTT SUCBZ
FQVKK
LVOFF QKXOB FEOMO XKADQ YYGNU DGKGZ TEOJG
BT
NNNN
*EOT*
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Thursday, November 17, 2011
New Frequency Matrix Issue for N/MC MARS
DE NNN0ASA 062
R 151800Z NOV 2011
FM CHNAVMARCORMARS WILLIAMSBURG VA
TO ALNAVMARCORMARS
INFO ZEN/CHIEF ARMY MARS FT HUACHUCA AZ
ZEN/CHIEF AIR FORCE MARS SCOTT AFB IL
BT
UNCLAS
SUBJ: CHNAVMARCORMARS BCST 05-11 - NEW FREQUENCY MATRIX
1. A NEW FREQUENCY MATRIX AND HF FREQ AND POWER TEXT FILE HAVE JUST
BEEN UPLOADED TO THE FREQUENCIES TAB ON NAVYMARS.ORG.
2. THIS REFLECTS THE JOINT EFFORTS OF NAVY-MARINE CORPS SPECTRUM
OFFICE, PACIFIC AND HQ NAVMARCORMARS TO CONSOLIDATE ALL HF FREQUENCY
RECORDS FROM OVER 700 DOWN TO A TOTAL OF 175 RECORDS. ALL FREQUENCIES
ARE NOW AUTHORIZED FOR UNITED STATES AND POSESSIONS FOR 3K00J8E,
2K80J3E AND 1K24F1B AT A 1000 WATT POWER OUTPUT LEVEL.
3. CHANGES WERE MADE IN SEVERAL PLACES, MOST NOTABLY JUST ABOVE THE
80 METER AMATEUR BAND. SINCE ASSIGNMENTS WERE SO CLOSELY BUNCHED, I
ASKED, AND NMCSO PAC OBTAINED, ADDITIONAL FREQUENCIES HIGHER IN THE 4
MHZ RANGE TO REPLACE SOME OF THE CLOSELY BUNCHED ONES. I HAVE
REASSIGNED ALL OLD ALLOCATIONS TO THE NEW FREQUENCIES. PLEASE SHIFT
OVER TO THESE NEW FREQUENCIES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. TWO ADDITIONAL
FREQUENCIES HAVE BEEN REQUESTED BUT HAVE STILL NOT BEEN APPROVED BY
NTIA SO ARE NOT YET ASSIGNED.
4. MARS: TOGETHER WE CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING.
BT
NNNN
R 151800Z NOV 2011
FM CHNAVMARCORMARS WILLIAMSBURG VA
TO ALNAVMARCORMARS
INFO ZEN/CHIEF ARMY MARS FT HUACHUCA AZ
ZEN/CHIEF AIR FORCE MARS SCOTT AFB IL
BT
UNCLAS
SUBJ: CHNAVMARCORMARS BCST 05-11 - NEW FREQUENCY MATRIX
1. A NEW FREQUENCY MATRIX AND HF FREQ AND POWER TEXT FILE HAVE JUST
BEEN UPLOADED TO THE FREQUENCIES TAB ON NAVYMARS.ORG.
2. THIS REFLECTS THE JOINT EFFORTS OF NAVY-MARINE CORPS SPECTRUM
OFFICE, PACIFIC AND HQ NAVMARCORMARS TO CONSOLIDATE ALL HF FREQUENCY
RECORDS FROM OVER 700 DOWN TO A TOTAL OF 175 RECORDS. ALL FREQUENCIES
ARE NOW AUTHORIZED FOR UNITED STATES AND POSESSIONS FOR 3K00J8E,
2K80J3E AND 1K24F1B AT A 1000 WATT POWER OUTPUT LEVEL.
3. CHANGES WERE MADE IN SEVERAL PLACES, MOST NOTABLY JUST ABOVE THE
80 METER AMATEUR BAND. SINCE ASSIGNMENTS WERE SO CLOSELY BUNCHED, I
ASKED, AND NMCSO PAC OBTAINED, ADDITIONAL FREQUENCIES HIGHER IN THE 4
MHZ RANGE TO REPLACE SOME OF THE CLOSELY BUNCHED ONES. I HAVE
REASSIGNED ALL OLD ALLOCATIONS TO THE NEW FREQUENCIES. PLEASE SHIFT
OVER TO THESE NEW FREQUENCIES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. TWO ADDITIONAL
FREQUENCIES HAVE BEEN REQUESTED BUT HAVE STILL NOT BEEN APPROVED BY
NTIA SO ARE NOT YET ASSIGNED.
4. MARS: TOGETHER WE CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING.
BT
NNNN
Saturday, December 23, 2006
MARScom Satellite Launched - Where to Hear It!
This message below has been posted to the Navy/Marine Corps MARS website.
PP NOALL
DE NNN0ASA 139P 211235Z DEC 2006
FM NNN0ASA VA
TO NNN0ALL
ZEN/AAA9A AZ
ZEN/AGA3C IL
BT
UNCLAS
SUBJ: MARSCOM SATELLITE INITIAL OPERATIONS
1. THE FOLLOWING WAS RECEIVED FROM NNN0APR MDE, ON THE LATEST STATUS OF THE MARSCOM SATELLITE:
QUOTE
FOR ALL NAVY MARINE CORPS MARS AND ALL ARMY AND AF MARS:
AT 0156Z ON 21 DECEMBER, THE MARSCOM SATELLITE WILL DEPLOY FROM THE SPACE SHUTTLE AND BEGIN OPERATING. IT'S PACKET CALLSIGN IS NMARS ANDWE INVITE ALL ACTIVE MARS MEMBERS TO TRY TO COPY ITS WEAK SIGNAL ON------ MHZ +/- 2 KHZ. THE MODE WILL BE AX.25 PACKETS BUT IN SSB MODE.
IT WILL ONLY TRANSMIT ONE PACKET A MINUTE UNLESS WE HAVE USERS PINGING THE SPACECRAFT. TO PING NMARS, SIMPLY SEND AN UNPROTO PACKET VIA NMARS ON THE NAVY MARS UPLINK OF ------- FM STANDARD PACKET. IF THE SPACE CRAFT HEARD YOU, IT SHOULD DIGIPEAT THE PACKET. THIS WILL GIVE YOU A SIGNAL TO TUNE IN AS THE DOPPLER CHANGES.THE PRIMARY MISSION OF MARSCOM WILL EVENTUALLY BE FOR VOICE NETS, BUT THE COMMAND AND CONTROL REQUIRES PACKET. AND SO WE CANNOT ACTIVATE THE VOICE TRANSPONDER UNTIL WE HAVE COMMAND. THIS WILL BE HARD DUE TO THE DOPPLER AND SSB DOWNLINK.
SO WE INVITE ALL MARS STATIONS THAT ARE CAPABLE OF PACKET, TO PING ON------- FOR THE FIRST DAY OR SO OF OPERATION DURING PASSES OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE (THEY WILL BE IN SIMILAR ORBITS FOR THE FIRST FEW DAYS).
PLEASE MONITOR THE ------- FREQUENCY BEFORE TRANSMITTING BECAUSE IT IS A VERY COMMON INPUT OR OUTPUT TO OVER 60 NAVY MARS REPEATERS ACROSS THE USA. IT IS OFTEN PAIRED WITH ------- MHZ SO CHECK BOTH FREQUENCIES TO MAKE SURE A NET IS NOT IN PROGRESS BEFORE TRANSMITTING TO THE SATELLITE ON -------. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEE HTTP://WWW.EW.----------------/MARSCOM.HTML
BOB --------, NNN0APR
US NAVAL ACADEMY SATELLITE LAB
ANNAPOLIS, MD
UNQUOTE
NOTE: THE SATELLITE OPERATES 1200 BAUD VHF PACKET.
2. A LATER E-MAIL UPDATE INDICATES MARSCOM WAS SUCCESFULLY DEPLOYED AND NNN0APR REPORTS THAT TELEMETRY HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE SATELLITE INDICATING BATTERIES ARE CHARGING UP.
3. NAVMARCORMARS: PROUDLY SERVING THOSE WHO SERVE.
BT
NNNN
Since Bo and the Navy MARS folks continue to play their secrecy game, here is the scoop in the MARScom (ie frequencies) direct from a public website associated with the mission. Someone really needs to teach these people that you can't run from Google.
As first published on this blog July 24, 2006:
If STS-116 launches in December, it will carry two experimental satellites into orbit built by students at the US Naval Academy.
RAFT is a US Naval Academy Aerospace student project currently manifested on Space Shuttle Mission STS-116. It is designed to give students real hands on experience in satellite engineering, design and operations. The USNA RAFT hopes to accomplish the following objectives:
The education of Midhsipmen in Aerospace Engineering See their RAFT WEB page.
Development of our ability to design/construct CUBESAT/Picosat type spacecraft
Provide a 217 MHz transmitter/receiver for Navy Space Surveillance System (NSSS) Radar Fence experiments.
Provide TDMA packet, and FDMA Multiuser PSK-31 transponders for experiments in the Amateur Satellite Service.
Provide voice/data experiments in support of the Navy/MarineCorp MARS programs and the Naval Academy's boats.
As usual there is the usual MARS frequency disclaimer on the main webpage stating that the MARS frequencies are sensitive and will not be published. But also as usual digging around the website and its links revealed the following:
RAFT1 Satellite
Downlink 145.825 MHz, 2 watts 20 kHz bandwidth FM with both AX.25 packet and PSK-31 signals, Uplinks
28.122 MHz linear PSK-31
216.980 MHz NSSS transponder (Radar fence)
RAFT1 Satellite Operating Modes:
Telemetry Mode, Packet Transponder Mode, PSK-31 Transponder Mode, Packet/Voice transponder, and the XP217 radar fence mode.
MARScom Satellite
148.975 MHz Uplink
27.9635 (27.962) MHz SSB downlink
123.100 MHz SAR AM Monitor
MARScom Satellite Operating Modes:
Telemetry Mode, Packet Transponder Mode, Voice Relay Mode, and SAR Monitor Mode.
What is amazing to me is that the brain thrust in MARS actually thought they could keep the frequencies of their orbiting satellite secret. It is obvious that they are not technically the sharpest knives in the drawer. Someone needs to educate these folks that low earth orbiting platforms are quite easy to hear, even on simple multimode handhelds. Duh huh!
PP NOALL
DE NNN0ASA 139P 211235Z DEC 2006
FM NNN0ASA VA
TO NNN0ALL
ZEN/AAA9A AZ
ZEN/AGA3C IL
BT
UNCLAS
SUBJ: MARSCOM SATELLITE INITIAL OPERATIONS
1. THE FOLLOWING WAS RECEIVED FROM NNN0APR MDE, ON THE LATEST STATUS OF THE MARSCOM SATELLITE:
QUOTE
FOR ALL NAVY MARINE CORPS MARS AND ALL ARMY AND AF MARS:
AT 0156Z ON 21 DECEMBER, THE MARSCOM SATELLITE WILL DEPLOY FROM THE SPACE SHUTTLE AND BEGIN OPERATING. IT'S PACKET CALLSIGN IS NMARS ANDWE INVITE ALL ACTIVE MARS MEMBERS TO TRY TO COPY ITS WEAK SIGNAL ON------ MHZ +/- 2 KHZ. THE MODE WILL BE AX.25 PACKETS BUT IN SSB MODE.
IT WILL ONLY TRANSMIT ONE PACKET A MINUTE UNLESS WE HAVE USERS PINGING THE SPACECRAFT. TO PING NMARS, SIMPLY SEND AN UNPROTO PACKET VIA NMARS ON THE NAVY MARS UPLINK OF ------- FM STANDARD PACKET. IF THE SPACE CRAFT HEARD YOU, IT SHOULD DIGIPEAT THE PACKET. THIS WILL GIVE YOU A SIGNAL TO TUNE IN AS THE DOPPLER CHANGES.THE PRIMARY MISSION OF MARSCOM WILL EVENTUALLY BE FOR VOICE NETS, BUT THE COMMAND AND CONTROL REQUIRES PACKET. AND SO WE CANNOT ACTIVATE THE VOICE TRANSPONDER UNTIL WE HAVE COMMAND. THIS WILL BE HARD DUE TO THE DOPPLER AND SSB DOWNLINK.
SO WE INVITE ALL MARS STATIONS THAT ARE CAPABLE OF PACKET, TO PING ON------- FOR THE FIRST DAY OR SO OF OPERATION DURING PASSES OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE (THEY WILL BE IN SIMILAR ORBITS FOR THE FIRST FEW DAYS).
PLEASE MONITOR THE ------- FREQUENCY BEFORE TRANSMITTING BECAUSE IT IS A VERY COMMON INPUT OR OUTPUT TO OVER 60 NAVY MARS REPEATERS ACROSS THE USA. IT IS OFTEN PAIRED WITH ------- MHZ SO CHECK BOTH FREQUENCIES TO MAKE SURE A NET IS NOT IN PROGRESS BEFORE TRANSMITTING TO THE SATELLITE ON -------. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEE HTTP://WWW.EW.----------------/MARSCOM.HTML
BOB --------, NNN0APR
US NAVAL ACADEMY SATELLITE LAB
ANNAPOLIS, MD
UNQUOTE
NOTE: THE SATELLITE OPERATES 1200 BAUD VHF PACKET.
2. A LATER E-MAIL UPDATE INDICATES MARSCOM WAS SUCCESFULLY DEPLOYED AND NNN0APR REPORTS THAT TELEMETRY HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE SATELLITE INDICATING BATTERIES ARE CHARGING UP.
3. NAVMARCORMARS: PROUDLY SERVING THOSE WHO SERVE.
BT
NNNN
Since Bo and the Navy MARS folks continue to play their secrecy game, here is the scoop in the MARScom (ie frequencies) direct from a public website associated with the mission. Someone really needs to teach these people that you can't run from Google.
As first published on this blog July 24, 2006:
If STS-116 launches in December, it will carry two experimental satellites into orbit built by students at the US Naval Academy.
RAFT is a US Naval Academy Aerospace student project currently manifested on Space Shuttle Mission STS-116. It is designed to give students real hands on experience in satellite engineering, design and operations. The USNA RAFT hopes to accomplish the following objectives:
As usual there is the usual MARS frequency disclaimer on the main webpage stating that the MARS frequencies are sensitive and will not be published. But also as usual digging around the website and its links revealed the following:
RAFT1 Satellite
Downlink 145.825 MHz, 2 watts 20 kHz bandwidth FM with both AX.25 packet and PSK-31 signals, Uplinks
28.122 MHz linear PSK-31
216.980 MHz NSSS transponder (Radar fence)
RAFT1 Satellite Operating Modes:
Telemetry Mode, Packet Transponder Mode, PSK-31 Transponder Mode, Packet/Voice transponder, and the XP217 radar fence mode.
MARScom Satellite
148.975 MHz Uplink
27.9635 (27.962) MHz SSB downlink
123.100 MHz SAR AM Monitor
MARScom Satellite Operating Modes:
Telemetry Mode, Packet Transponder Mode, Voice Relay Mode, and SAR Monitor Mode.
What is amazing to me is that the brain thrust in MARS actually thought they could keep the frequencies of their orbiting satellite secret. It is obvious that they are not technically the sharpest knives in the drawer. Someone needs to educate these folks that low earth orbiting platforms are quite easy to hear, even on simple multimode handhelds. Duh huh!
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