Today I logged Warship 58 calling Norfolk Port Control on 260.475.
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Unid aircraft “762” calling “Eagle Ops” on UHF SATCOM freq 262.125.
Tags: CONUS
5565 USB 0342: Luanda wkg Springbok 221 and Virgin 601.
5565 USB 0347: Luanda wkg Speedbird 59. Boeing 747-400 from London to Cape Town.
5696 USB 0750: Commsta Kodiak wkg Rescue 6044 coordinating rescue ops from the fishing tender St. Joseph.
11215 USB 0817: OMs in Asian sounding language.
11232 USB 0833: Trenton Military wkg Rescue 219 with updated weather conditions at CFB Bagotville and Quebec City.
13261 USB 0549: Qantas 15 wkg San Francisco. Boeing 747-400 from Brisbane to Los Angeles.
16420 USB 0645: RCC Australia (VIC) reporting they are standing by on 8291, 12290 and 16420 kHz.
16540 USB 0653: Filipino OM in Tagalog and occasional English read number 37-221-9000.
21985 USB 0227: San Francisco clg Ghost 53 and requests they call again on 8903 and then 17904.
21985 USB 0246: San Francisco wkg Raider 17.
6632.5 USB 0712: Omni 17 wkg Kalamar (sound like) w/ inquiry about status of helicopters. Omni 17 also reports bravo alpha due to fuel and passes message of BL456ERAGRR.
8440 USB 0630: Alpha Xray wkg Alpha Bravo; Alpha Xray to investigate submarine contact.
8440 USB 1121: India wkg Alpha Bravo w/positions of submarine/periscope contact.
11235 USB 0424: Airforce Auckland wkg Kiwi 931 to pass WX info.
11494 USB 1656: Rescue 1714 wkg Camspac and reports on scene at South Lake Tahoe for SAR case.
15867 USB 0127: Omaha 5MR checks in w/ Xray 950 on west node.
8912 USB 1959: Coast Guard 1714 wkg Camspac w/ position and requests they contact Humboldt Bay to obtain position of vessel that was reportedly on fire.
12222 USB 1837: Coast Guard 1714 advising Camspac they are dropping flares in Bodega Bay and to have them inform Sector San Francisco.
18594 USB 1440: Omaha 47 clg Jackknife reports off deck KADW at time 1435 w/ ETA of 2 hours.
18594 USB 1913: Rescue 1716 wkg Miami Ops wants to know if patient on vessel Green Links is ambulatory.
10458 USB 0807: Asian accented OM w/long report and occasional NATO style phonetics/numbers in English.
12350 USB 0759: OMs in Greek language.
12395 USB 0848: Unid OM in Russian language.
13107 USB 0819: XSQ Guangzhou Radio w/ YLs and OMs in Chinese language.
13173 USB 0753: Distorted sounding beeps/morse code and brief voice from OM in Russian language. (Sounded like they said Okhotsk Radio)
13261 USB 0825: Brisbane wkg Qantas 133 w/ selcal check.
16150 USB 0841: Unid OM in Asian sounding language.
16933 USB 0843: Unid OM and YL in Asian sounding language.
17398 USB 0838: XSQ Guangzhou Radio w/ telephone hold music and YL in Chinese language.
24838.5 USB 2333: Coast Guard Rescue 1718 wkg USCG District 8 w/report of abandoned boat near 26-41N 086-30W. The vessel has sign reading Parasail Bus w/phone number 976-2953 and that boat appears striped w/no engine or console.
6990 USB 0453: Unid oddity station w/repeating message: “She had your dark suit in greasy wash water all year. Don’t ask me to carry an oily rag like that. They used an aggressive policeman to flag thoughtless motorists.”
8173 USB 0509: Males w/simplex comms. Stations were using Codan radios.
8291 USB 0654: USCG Communications Area Master Station Pacific w/notice that Camspac Pt Reyes and Commsta Honolulu are unable to respond to DSC alerts and requests vessels to contact via alternate means in the event of an emergency.
10024 USB 0541: Spirit Wings 155 clg Cenamer Center and is told to contact them on 124.600. Airbus A319 from Hollywood FL to El Salvador.
11220 USB 0332: Lajes clg Reach 102 w/no joy.
11342 USB 0348: Alaska 836 wkg San Francisco. Boeing 737-800 from Honolulu to Oakland.
12222 USB 2310: Omaha 718 clg Service Center and requests secure then into DVP-200 comms.
20890 USB 0248: 41E clg Z19 in ALE then Coast Guard 33141 wkg Sector Corpus Christi w/comms about a vessel 2 miles north of the border.
8912 USB 1051: OPB clg SAR in ALE then Parkhill comms.
10242 USB 0149: Omaha 8MR wkg Miami Ops regarding vessel w/people on board that appears DIW. 8MR to overfly vessel for better look and see whether people are in distress or if its a smuggling venture. 8MR said they would be on Net-1 and CG-111 for the USCG cutter.
10986 USB 0331: USCG Auxiliary stations NF11BN wkg NF85LA and 7DA taking check-ins to District 17 net and ended up QSY to frequency B5E.
11175 USB 1428: Offutt w/unheard aircraft repeating EAM message FCJ2V5.
13224.1 USB 0236: Dragonclaw 17 wkg Pipeline w/ talk about TOI. Dragonclaw 17 troubleshooting secure comms and will continue to pass information in the red via Ramrod.
13231 USB 0731: Unclouded clg Triple Zero on high fox red.
13312 USB 1823: CRB clg D47 in ALE then into Parkhill comms.
14422 USB 0633: OMs and YL in Italian language.
16546 USB 0540: VMC Australia maritime weather broadcast.
6990 USB on May 17th around 0300Z with looped message: “She had your dark suit in greasy wash water all year. Don’t ask me to carry an oily rag like that. They used an aggressive policeman to flag thoughtless motorists.”
Say what? That is exactly what a lot of folks were asking. After several emails to UDXF and other sources we are told the following.
“It’s an experiment for what’s basically an automated COMINT collection & analysis system that does speech & lexicon recognition — converts the analog to digital & then automatically looks at the waveform to compare it to cataloged targets.”
Here is a recording of the transmission taken from a Perseus remote in Florida.
Tags: oddities