Re: [HCDX] Psyops in Afghanistan on 8700 kHZ USB

[Jorma Mantyla <jmantyla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I agree.
The signal on 8700 KHz USB is very strong here in Finland.  I doubt
it is coming from an aircraft.  Listeners in Afghanistan simply don't
have JRC-NRD or Icom -receivers to hear SSB mode signals.  In 1999
Commando Solo used 1003 and 1270 kHz with clear AM signal for
ordinary receivers in Yugoslavia & Kosovo.
Incirlik in Turkey is a possible location, another might be Diego 
Garcia where the military base is very active now according to press
reports. Has anyone heard AFRTS Diego Garcia recently on SW?

Jorma Mantyla
Kangasala, Finland

> I've seen reports of the 8700 programming being heard, which imply
> that this signal is coming from the Solo aircraft. This does not make a
> lot of sense to me, as who on the ground there would be able to get
> this signal? I suggest the possibility that the programming is being
> produced stateside, sat-fed to a base in the region (Incirlik would be
> one plausible possibility, or at-sea) and xmitted FROM the base on
> 8700 to be rcvd by the aircraft and then re-xmitted FROM the aircraft
> on 864 and 1107 MW, which ARE available to refugees etc. This
> would insure the program feed is up-to-date with political events, and
> frees the aircraft crew from having to originate programming. To
> examine this idea further would require hearing a good-enough
> signal on MW to examine the audio quality for artifices of SSB-type
> modulation characteristics, which I suppose is out of reach for most
> of us. Also some one in the ME area examining 8700 itself for an
> indication of being local-like.  Discussion?  - Bob Foxworth.
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