[FedCom] Re: Follow-Up: Monitoring Status

[David I. Emery]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:07:11AM -0400, HornSmoke wrote:
> Absolutely correct. In fact, regarding the FAA repeater system here in 
> Maine, only ONCE have I heard any analog traffic on channel #7. I 
> initially put the freqs in as of March 2001, and daily scanned early 
> morning and late afternoon. The first (and last!) analog traffic I 
> monitored was at 0635 (EDT) on September 11, 2001 while in Waterville, 
> Maine, with a 136.5 pl. (I had just ordered, via McDonalds' drive-thru, 
> an onion-free steak and egg bagel.) A frantic conversation had ensued on 
> the Central Maine machine. It seemed oddly out of place at the time. 
> Later that morning, I watched the live feed as the second plane struck. 
> Only two weeks later did it finally click (during a CNN recap) what I 
> had actually heard early that morning. I bolted out to my car, checked 
> my log book, and was stunned. Recently, I've only detected digital burst 
> traffic on that particular freq.

	This is very interesting in a semi off-topic way.   If you
really heard the traffic at 0635 AM EDT, you heard something of great
interest as the hijackings were only detected well after 8 AM that
morning and at 6:35 NOBODY but Atta and company and Ben Laden knew what
was going to happen later on.   Or so we have all been told (and I
believe it).   If perhaps you misremembered the time and it was 8:35 AM 
and not 6:35 AM, than the situation is obviously different and what you
heard more understandable.


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