[MilCom] MIL: 11175.0 USB - HAPPY DAY; OUTPLAY; and DECURRENT

[Jeff Haverlah]

0154z  02 Mar 26

UTC 01 Mar 26

Quiet.

No HF message traffic logged during the UTC day.

0200z: OUTPLAY (suspected E6B; Due Regard - not visible on ADSB mapping
sites) worked MAINSAIL to exit the net.
0202z: OUTPLAY exited the net.
[If it conformed to a "typical" sortie it may have launched at 1800z+.]

0614z: MAINSAIL with test count.

0801z: MAINSAIL with test count.
0804z: MAINSAIL with test count.

1149z: SIGONELLA with test count; UTwente SDR.

1356z: ANDREWS with test count.

1546z: DECURRENT (presumed E6B; suspected AF2A7A despite 1551z) called and
raised MAINSAIL to enter the net.
1548z: DECURRENT entered the net.
[From time correlation it might appear that AF2A74/DECURRENT entered the
net while pending release for takeoff at TINKER.]

[1551z+/-: AF2A7A E6B launched from OFFUTT southbound until 1630z when it
entered a north/south racetrack orbit northwest of MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA for
3.5 hours duration; leaving orbit around 1959z and eventually flying to
TINKER.]

1721z: Unidentified station (did not use an ID; voice sounded familiar)
called ANY STATION for a radio check. No response.
1723z: Unidentified station called ANY STATION for a radio check.
[If he'd put an ID to it I'd suspect it to be an E6B.]

1818z: WEST COAST with test count.
1829z: HICKAM with test count.

2124z: OUTPLAY (presumed E6B; not seen on ADSB mapping sites) called and
raised MAINSAIL to enter the net.
2126z: OUTPLAY exited the net.

2140z: DECURRENT called and raised MAINSAIL to exit the net.
2142z: DECURRENT exited the net; AF2A7A was descending into TINKER from the
west at that time.

2210z: WEST COAST with test count.

2249z: HAPPY DAY (NCS) responds to LAST CALLER with no known response.
First logged instance of the callword this UTC day.

2253z: SUMMO 25 called MAINSAIL and stated he was 900 miles northeast of
HONOLULU.
2255z: SUMMO 25 called and eventually raised MAINSAIL and requested a
phonepatch to a commercial number. Did not follow to the given discrete.

Quiet.

[MOTHBALL (USSTRATCOM CP) with their communications test count was active
at 0008z and 0010z after the turn of the UTC day. Normality.]

Quiet

Jeff
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Jeff Haverlah               Coastal Texas
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