[MilCom] 12129.0 CHARLIE COMPANY

[wb5uom at hughes.net]

Jack -
I am totally impressed. Now that is some monitoring.
Makes me look pathetic.

I have been pondering a SDR and and looking at a few of the software
analyser programs out there but I think you are lightyears ahead. Good for
you.

David/WB5UOM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack L. Metcalfe" <jlmetcalfe at kywimax.com>
To: <AllanStern at aol.com>; <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [MilCom] 12129.0 CHARLIE COMPANY


> At 01:29 PM 5/15/2009, AllanStern at aol.com wrote:
> ><mailto:jlmetcalfe at kywimax.com>jlmetcalfe at kywimax.com writes:
> > >
> > > >
> >12129.0 CHARLIE COMPANY calling BAT COMMS for radio check in the
> >clear: 1628 USB Voice, ANDVT & USB ALE.  ALE Addresses CC8392NDBN
> >(CHARLIE COMPANY) & BC7392NDBN (BAT COMMS).  Frequencies in the net:
> >
> >    5821.5
> >    5875.0
> >    6911.5
> >    8171.5
> >    9295.0
> >10680.0
> >10818.0
> >12129.0 (15/May/2009) (JLM) <<
> >
> >I am curious, Jack; how do you know which freqs are in the Net?
> ---
> Alan,
>
> Fairly simple, actually.  I just follow the ALE calls around the
> spectrum.  In my case, I primarily use two SDR radios, the RFSpace
> SDR-IQ & the SRL Quicksilver QS1R.  Both allow a visual
> representation of various chunks of the spectrum in real time.  The
> SDR-IQ displays 190 kHz & the QS1R anything up to 30 MHz, but on HF I
> mostly use 250 kHz with it.  Once you copy a specific call on a
> frequency (ALE also looks a certain way on the displays) then you
> either start searching below or above the frequency.  Unless there is
> just one frequency in the net, they have to be moving through their
> net frequencies in one direction or another.  Then it's just a matter
> of following them up or down the spectrum as they sound or call other
> stations.  After a few years of doing this, it sort of becomes second
> nature & you can quickly build a list of  network frequencies for
> specific call signs.
>
> SDR-IQ - http://www.rfspace.com/SDR-IQ.html
>
> SRL Quicksilver QS1R - http://www.srl-llc.com/
>
> Almost forgot to mention, but for ALE decoding, I use PC-ALE or MultiPSK.
>
> -------------------
> Jack L. Metcalfe
> Stanford, KY
> jlmetcalfe at kywimax.com
> ------------------- 
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