[HCDX] Fw: [BDXC-UK] AFRTS on USB - its official!

["Mike Terry" <michael.terry1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Got it - it's official from  www.afrts.osd.mil/afnonradio/html/satnet.htm

 On July 31, 2000 the Armed Forces Satellite Transmitted Radio Service
(AFSTRS) went off the International Maritime Satellite (INMARSAT) system.
 For the past year and a half, Navy HF service from Key West Naval Air
 Station (NAS), Florida, and Roosevelt Roads NAS, Puerto Rico, have been
> transmitting the AFSTRS service, identical service land based outlets know
> as the "Voice Line".  This has served ships in the Caribbean Sea and the
> waters around South America quite well since the AFSTRS service was
> terminated on the INMARSAT Atlantic West satellite in 1998.  We are
> negotiating for cooperative use of the transmitters and assignment of
> frequencies so the Navy HF service will also be transmitted from U.S. Navy
> facilities in Guam, Diego Garcia, Sicily, Iceland, and Maine.  With over
100
> U.S. Navy ships now equipped for Direct to Sailor (DTS) satellite
television
> and radio service it is no longer cost-effective to continue this service
on
> INMARSAT.  However, for those ships still to have DTS equipment installed
> during the next year and a half and for those few Navy ships that may
never
> have DTS equipment the HF service will help fill the gap.
>
> Current Short-Wave High Frequencies
>
> Keep checking this web page for the posting of new frequencies and
> transmitters when they become available. Location Band Daytime Nightime
>
> Key West, FL Upper Sideband 6458.5 kHz 12689.5 kHz
> RR, Puerto Rico Upper Sideband 6458.5 kHz 12689.5 kHz
> Sigonella, Sicily Upper Sideband 4993 kHz 10940.5 kHz
> Guam       tba
> Diego Garcia       tba
> Iceland       tba
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> The above information may only be reproduced if full credit is given to
> the original contributor AND to the British DX Club (BDXC-UK).
>

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