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[gary]

I did a FOIA on a Predator crash which was due to loss of the 
terrestrial signal. Basically, it was lost going between two ground 
stations due to a hill. I wouldn't be surprised if the DOD pushes 
satellite link ups to prevent such accidents, especially if the UAV was 
used over a populated area.

That said, you can find UAV notices right in the notams.
https://www.notams.jcs.mil
KVCV is a typical UAV playground. The FBI flies out of there as well, 
but don't know if there is a connection.



BEADWINDOW at aol.com wrote:

> 
>In a message dated 12/17/2004 12:53:42 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
>fedcom-request at mailman.qth.net writes:
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>Yeah, I  considered a UAV and even discussed it with another Monitor I was
>online  with. I heard nothing in the context of the comms that rules out  the
>possibility of it being a UAV. 
>
>The only problem was/is that if  it was some kind of UAV mounted comms
>repeater. I should heave been able to  hear to Ground side of the RABBITS. So
>I set up a search scanner working  most of the Federal/MIL VHF bands and came
>up empty handed there. I guess  they could have been encrypted but HAWK  sure
>wasn't.
>
>
>  It doesn't have to be operating as a traditional semi-duplex  repeater.  If 
>it's a UAV, it could easily have been receiving the ground  mobile RABBITs on 
>VHF simplex, and then retransmitting the audio up on a UHF or  SHF SATCOM 
>uplink to the UAV control station or their customer, which could have  been 
>anywhere in the world.
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