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Showing posts with label US DoD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US DoD. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Hurricane Michael DoD Hurrevac Intercepts

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Below is a list of aircraft that have been hurrevac'ed ahead of Hurricane Michael approaching the AL/FL Gulf coast. (Intercepts from the...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Update: DoD Assigned Dynamic Mode-S Addresses

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I have long suspected that DoD units operating outside CONUS may in some cases be assigned Mode-S addresses from a pool of addresses no...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Hurricane Harvey Houston Aircraft Activity

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Three HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters carrying pararescuemen depart from Fort Hood, Texas, Aug. 28, 2017. The crews are flying to Houston to c...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

U.S. Military Open Skies OC-135B makes emergency landing in Russia

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Will Stewart reporting for the Daily Mail.com is reporting that United States Open Skies aircraft has made an emergency landing in eastern R...
Monday, March 14, 2016

A DoD E-6B TACAMO used a most unsual radio call word last week!

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According to Mode-S intercepts from the Live Mode-S network, yesterday an E-6B Mercury TACAMO (serial number 162784) aircraft departed fr...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

US aerospace command moving comms gear back to Cold War bunker

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Blog Editor's Note: YahooNews has picked up the following AFP story. HF radio monitors should keep an eye on the following frequencies ...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

The Department of Defense Prepares for Hurricane Sandy

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At the direction of Secretary Panetta, the Department of Defense is taking aggressive steps to support the Federal Emergency Man...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Is military's communications system interfering with garage doors?

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Blog Editor Note: This has been a very common occurence since DoD stood up their 380-399.9 MHz LMR subband. Back in 2003, I first documented...
Friday, July 20, 2012

California Air Guard members participate in largest Rim of the Pacific exercise

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By Air National Guard Master Sgt. David J. Loeffler, 144th Fighter Wing, California National Guard JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Pentagon Bulks Up Defenses in the Gulf

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A U.S. military facility in 2008 in the Negev desert in Israel that deploys an X-Band radar system. The Pentagon is building a new radar st...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Army National Guard Soldiers take part in Operation Golden Cargo, move ammunition thousands of miles

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By Army Sgt. Daniel Haun and Army Staff Sgt. Gary Witte, 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - Soldiers from the Army Na...
Saturday, July 07, 2012

Is the Cold War Really Over??

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Bill Gertz on the Washington Free Beacon website has a really interesting article dated July 6 for Milcom monitors to digest titled: Putin’...
Friday, July 06, 2012

Top Secret America- A hidden world, growing beyond control

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If you think you know all there is to know about the U.S. government and its various federal agencies, think again. The government that we k...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

New Indian Ocean Region UHF Milsat Downlinks Discovered

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(IS-22: Credit Boeing Artist Concept) According to a report filed on the Hearsat-L newsgroup, Ronald Rensen in the NL has uncovered severa...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

NORAD and USNORTHCOM conducting ARDENT SENTRY 2012 starting tomorrow

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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command will conduct a major exercise, ARDEN...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The 344.6 CONUS Metro Cleanout Continues

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For decades 344.6 MHz has been a worldwide military Metro (weather frequency). Several years ago I noticed that station in the CONUS where b...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

DOD Identifies Unit for Upcoming Afghanistan Rotation

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The Department of Defense today identified one Army brigade combat team to deploy as part of the upcoming rotation of forces operating in Af...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

End of an Era - Almost!

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Over the last few years, I have documented the wholesale changes to DoDs bandplan in the 225-400 MHz milair band. One of the casualties of t...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Failure to communicate: Inside the army's doomed quest for the 'perfect' radio

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Sgt. Ryan Pike, left, and Staff Sgt. Altaf Swati erect a tactical satellite radio antenna while on patrol in Afak, Iraq, Dec. 28, 2008. By ...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

US-Egypt military exercise canceled

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The Associated Press is reporting that this year's joint military exercises involving Egypt, the United States and other coalition natio...