Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 MAKOs: F-16C Flight, Homestead JARB AFRC 482FW 93FS 10:00am: Working at Avon Park Bombing Range. 10:20am: RTB. BOLT 21: KC-135R, MacDill AFB 6AMW 10:27am: Inbound; 10min out, with 30,000 pounds fuel.

Friday, 30 April 2004 GUNFIGHTER 21: F-14D, Oceana VF-101 "Grim Reapers" 10:04am: Area transition, northward to Oceana from Key West NAS. BRONCO 74: OV-10D, US State Dept Intl Narcotics Mission/Air Wing, Patrick AFB. 10:00am: Departs Patrick to fly approaches at Melbourne IAP. 10:30am: Lands...

Saturday, 1 May 2004 GUNFIGHTER 12: F-14D, Oceana NAS VF-101 "Grim Reapers" 9:40am: Area transition northward, FL 270. GUNFIGHTER 15: F-14D, Oceana NAS VF-101 "Grim Reapers" 10:08am: Area transition northward, e/r Oceana.

At 1:55pm EDT (1755z) E-8 JSTARS Mission Crew "STARGATE" was in comms with AWACS "DRAGNET UNIFORM" on 364.2. They passed Table Numbers for crypto between them. STARGATE was 75 miles east of Patrick AFB at the time. He corrected his ID from "RAZOR 33" (JSTARS Flight Crew c/s) a couple of...

Sunday 9 May 2004 DUKE 41: Flight of 2 T-38s. 12:25pm: Departs Patrick AFB to Tyndall AFB; FL 310. MOON 52: T-1A, Columbus AFB 14FTW 48FTS 12:55pm: Departs Patrick.

Tuesday, 18 May 2004 VIP flights into the Shuttle Landing Facility and ground comms there related to the Atlas launch scheduled for Wed. Avon Park Bombing Range returned to normalcy after days of CSAR exercises. Arrival of NASA's WB-57F Canberra was a treat. These are the first comms I have heard...

At 5:14pm EDT (2114z) Range Control announced on 157.1 that the Atlas 2AS will launch in about 40 minutes. The window is from 5:52pm to 8:46pm though. At 5:24pm, Cape Control announded a launch time of 2222z. But is it common for "holds" to delay the count. You can get some of the freqs I'm...

11175.0 SIGONELLA HF-GCS: 0410z USB wkg CACTI 42 (KC-10A, Travis AFB 60ARW) for phone patch to DSN 650-3992 McGuire AFB Metro for wx their station at 0715z. (9/Aug/2004) (ALS) 11175.0 SIGONELLA HF-GCS: 0415z USB wkg REACH 9060 (C-17A, McChord AFB 62AW) for phone patch; CACTI 42 hears, SIGONELLA...

Mil Acft HF Comms, Tuesday 10 August 2004 13927.0 USAF MARS Operator AFA1 0250z USB wkg PITT 13 (C-130H, Pittsburgh 911AW 758AS) re ETA Pittsburgh 0130 Local. (10/Aug/2004) (ALS) 8983.0 USCG CAMSLANT-Chesapeake VA: ????z USB wkg CG 1501 (HC-130H, Elizabeth City NC) re Ops Normal report....

Friday, 9 Apr 2004 DARKSTAR QUEBEC: E-3 AWACS, Tinker AFB. 9:15am: Gets radar correlation, position relative to MARCI, near Tarpon. Later works with MAKO and SHARK flights of F-15s out of Homestead. "Will you be Hydra or Tarpon today?" "Will there be RDR on control freq today?" 10:37am; Re BOLT...

Wed. 7 Apr 2004 I was able to snag comms from many Mil acft that abounded in Florida today from Key West down south all the way to Pinecastle Range in mid Florida. NY-ANG F-16s continued to work local ranges; some of them departed back to Syracuse, after a week's stay here. Many NASA T-38s came...

It is 11:24am EST (1624z) and range clearance activities have begun in preparation for today's Titan 4 launch. Weather One arrived from Orlando, entered the Restricted Zone at the Cape a short while ago and has been transmitting cloud conditions to Range Weather on the ground. JOLLY 1, an HH-60G,...

Monday, 23 February 2004 MOON 36: T-1A/BE-40, Columbus AFB, AETC 14FTW. 12:35pm: Departs Patrick. MOON 37: T-1A/BE-40, Columbus AFB, AETC 14FTW. 12:36pm: Departs Patrick.

Patrick AFB Area Log - Friday, 27 Feb 2004 We heard from the Dutch F-16s today; so they are still TDY at Cecil. The exercises of the USS JFK acft continued; more Hawkeye callsigns than normal. So much comms traffic that it is nearly impossible to log. I am just posting some of it now. Scott AFB...

Friday 27 Feb 2004 We heard from the Dutch F-16s today; so they are still TDY at Cecil. The exercises of the USS JFK acft continued; more Hawkeye callsigns than normal. So much comms traffic that it is nearly impossible to log. I am just posting some of it now. Scott AFB 126ARW and WI-ANG 128ARW...

Sunday 7 March 2004 TONTO 63: T-1A, Randolph 12FTW 9:40am: Dep Patrick to Hooks Memorial A/p, Houston. PAT 996: US Army Priority Air Transport 9:45am: Area transition, southbound.

Monday, 8 March 2004 More of the same: transports to/from Haiti, several US Army personnel transport flights, tankers heading toward NAS Key West. Fewer Dutch F-16s being heard, now that some of them have moved on to Nellis AFB. Lotsa NASA acft coming and going, including STA (Shuttle Training...

The Military is conducting fairly large exercises offshore northern Florida today, and comms can be heard all over the 225-400 MHz range. Beginning at 8:14am EST (1314z), AWACS "Darkstar Quebec" was up with Sealord on 267.5 announcing the acft he would be controlling. First, there was a four-ship...

CNN is reporting this morning that the US Mil is about to deploy U-2 spy planes, JSTARS acft, and Rivet Joint RC-135s to search for bin Laden. They claim that the US is going to maintain round-the-clock surveillance/search to locate him. They say the acft will be controlling some RPVs in the...

Sunday, 22 Aug 2004 Many flights of F/A-18s heading to NAS Key West; I snagged the ROMANs and TBOLTs, but did not catch the callsigns of several other flights. Heard them on 370.9 Miami Ctr, 251.15 (Jax), and 351.8 (Jax Dep). ROMAN 21: F/A-18 flight, Oceana NAS, VFA-106 "Gladiators" 12:01pm: En...