Re: [IRCA] Here's an interesting sidebar to the Haiti Disaster

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

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--- On Wed, 1/27/10, John H. Bryant <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: John H. Bryant <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Here's an interesting sidebar to the Haiti Disaster
> To: rtetro@xxxxxxxxx, "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 11:16 AM
> Some of us should be able to hear
> this, even with ultralights... 
> Commando Solo is an AM band signal, likely on the lower
> band and, 
> unlike the local Haitian stations, the equipment should be
> operating 
> at 100% efficiency.  One of the best opportunities
> ever to hear 
> Haiti. WHAT FREQUENCY???  This link gets to a CNN
> story that does not 
> list the frequency.... the video clip... great to
> see/listen... shows 
> several shots where the transmitted frequency is just off
> camera... RATS.
> 
> Help from anyone??
> 
> John Bryant
> Stillwater, OK
> WinRadio G313e + Ultralights
> Wellbrook Phased Array
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:39 AM 1/27/2010 -0500, you wrote:
> > >From Tom Taylor's column on today's Radio-Info
> newsletter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Haiti's newest radio station is broadcasting from the
> skies.
> >
> >Thanks to a specially-equipped U.S. Air Force C-130
> that's flying
> >very slowly above the Caribbean country, broadcasting
> an AM signal
> >in Creole. The programming is mostly Voice of America,
> though CNN
> ><http://radio-info.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=16f606482a795f
> >a597872a8f1&id=5dec445cae&e=491e0cea53> 
> says there are also
> >announcements from Haitian officials about the latest
> on the
> >earthquake emergency. The AM antenna is a 264-foot
> "long wire"
> >that's "dangling from [the plane's] belly like a plumb
> line." It's
> >kept vertical by a 500-pound lead weight - not exactly
> your usual
> >antenna setup on the ground. The plane also has four FM
> antennas,
> >mounted on the wings and fuselage of the workhorse
> aircraft. They
> >call the plane "Commando Solo" - and the CNN report is
> a great
> >reminder of radio's role during emergencies. Just to
> make sure the
> >target audience can hear the Commando Solo, the
> Department of
> >Defense has distributed thousands of solar and hand-
> crank-operated
> >radios.
> >
> >
> >
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