US Civil Air Patrol to Exercise this Weekend

The USAF Civil Air Patrol will be conducting a nationwide exercise this weekend on their communication frequencies.

I found this item on the Colorado CAP Facebook page:

"The national HF communications exercise, Constant Watch 13, is scheduled to
run continuously from 2200Z 6 Dec to 2200Z 8 Dec."

I have just posted a new reference page here on the Milcom MP devoted to monitoring the CAP. 73 and good hunting.

Civil Air Patrol Nationwide Exercise Starts Today

The USAF Civil Air Patrol auxiliary service will be conducting a nationwide communications exercise starting today and will last through the weekend until July 12. I have posted some background on this last month on this blog at
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2011/06/cap-constant-watch-exercise-sked-for.html

From one public website:

"Constant Watch Communications Exercise: Significant investment has been made into CAP’s communications infrastructure in recent years, including HF-ALE. Constant Watch is an exercise being held 8-12 July to test our HF capabilities, and learn as much as we can so that we can improve our systems and techniques. All wings are expected to participate in this exercise, and we look forward to seeing the results."

I fully expect the National HF ALE net (NCN) and regional nets to be hopping the next four days.

Courtesy of Monitoring Times magazine, from my July 2011 MT Milcom column:

CAP National Command ALE Network: 2011.0 3204.0 4477.0 5006.0 6806.0 7602.0 8012.0 9047.0 10162.0 11402.0 12081.0 13415.0 14357.0 15602.0 17412.0 19814.0 25354.0 29894.0 kHz.

If you are an MT subscriber and want to monitor the regional nets, I have a list of the known regional CAP nets that I have uncovered in the July Milcom column mentioned above. July is available for sale on select newsstands right now.

CAP Constant Watch Exercise Sked for July

According to a public post on a CAP Facebook page, the rescheduled dates for the Civil Air Patrol Constant Watch national communications exercise have been set for 8-12 July. According to the Facebook post, all CAP wings are expected to participate.

The post indicated that the plan for this exercise, though not formally For Official Use Only, includes details of how they operate, so it should not be shared outside CAP (sic-LVH).

So to the folks at CAP, we will see you in July on HF and see how your national communications exercise shakes out. It will be interested in seeing how our tax money is being spent and the limited HF spectrum is being used by your organization.