First SATCOM intercept of 2026 – Dark Horse 11 for a radio check on 262.225.
Tags: CONUS
Lots of radio checks from Minot Ground Maintenance on 263.925 MHz during the month of December.
Tags: CONUS
Caught a very brief radio check on CONR-2 from Tipsy 22 calling Red River.
Tags: CONUS
Chill 02 attempting radio checks with Red River on SATCOM voice.
Tags: CONUS
263.925 briefly active with Royal 34 calling Haven (sound like) for radio check.
I logged the same station (Royal 34) calling Sting for multiple radio checks. I also have similar activity from October as posted here.
Tags: CONUS
Black Diamond Forward check with Black Diamond Main on Iridium voice.
Logged more activity with Dead Beat 10 conducting a line check. Station identified as Dead Beat with Bravo Company, 1st Recon, which should be based out of Camp Pendleton, California.
Tags: iridium
English-speaking satcom pirates were active on 258.650 MHz earlier. One operator had a Southern U.S. accent and had an end-of-transmission tone after keying up, and they also discussed using a Trivec antenna. Definitely freebanders and not legit U.S. mil stations. I’d also watch for them on 256.850, as they mentioned that frequency as well.
Lots of radio testing between two stations on 263.925 MHz.
Tags: CONUS
Caught a very noisy signal from “Bull 10” for a comm check on 265.250.
Given the noisy signal, I decided to experiment with GTCRN Speech Enhancement and the result was pretty good 😉 Here is the enhanced audio to see the difference – it was pretty impressive!
Accented stations with multiple 1-2-3 test counts in English on 262.225 MHz.
Tags: CONUS
