SE DOD Trunked System

SE DOD TRS NSB Kings Bay Sites
Site 1-015: 386.050 CC, 338.0875, 338.3875, 386.425, 386.725, 386.9375, 388.5375
Site 1-023: 386.1875 CC, 385.0125, 385.2125, 385.8875, 386.0325

TG 28050 - NSBKB Waterfront Security; encrypted
TG 28053 - unknown; encrypted
TG 28056 - NSBKB Security
-mix encrypted/clear, mostly encrypted
-unid "roger, en route"
TG 28057 - unknown; encrypted
TG 28058 - unknown;
-mix encrypted/clear, mostly encrypted
-MIKE 89 clg 27 and 92 with no responses
TG 28059 - unknown
-mix encrypted/clear
-93 clg 89
-E3D wkg 93 for radio check
TG 28064 - unknown; encrypted
TG 28081 - unknown; encrypted
TG 28081 - unknown; encrypted
TG 28082 - unknown; encrypted
TG 28083 - unknown; encrypted
TG 28084 - Civilian Contractors?
-comms ref junction boxes, cables, bandwidth (working on a communications system?)
TG 28087 - unknown
-mix encrypted/clear
-24 wkg 21, need him to pick up E4A at TA Gate
TG 28557 - NSBKB Fire
-ENGINE 5 wkg HQ, HQ encrypted
TG 28562 - NSBKB Police?
-mix encrypted/clear, mostly encrypted
-LE type comms
-ALPHA BASE wkg ROMEO # and 2## (both encrypted)
TG 28586 - unknown
-QUARTERDECK wkg ROVER


SE DOD TRS NS Mayport Site
380.4375 CC

TG 28146 Fire/EMS (based on traffic from May 09)
-unid traffic, unknown if Mayport or NAS Jax
TG 28175 unknown
TG 28235 unknown
-weak/broken clear comms
TG 28264 NS Mayport Airfield?
-??? wkg TOWER ref movements on airfield
TG 28283 NS Mayport Police
-MAYPORT DISPATCH, MAYPORT 2#, MAYPORT 12#, MAYPORT 22# and SAM # ref to area checks, gates, vehicle checks, RAM checks, etc.
-MAYPORT 123 wkg DISPATCH for 10-28

Mac McCormick III, KF4LMT

Effingham County VHF Fire/EMS Dispatch

Location: Savannah

Effingham County is no longer using the old 155.355 MHz repeater for initial dispatch of Fire/EMS calls. They are now using 158.7675 for initial dispatch. Currently I do not know a CTCSS tone for it, but I will pass it when I find out what it is.

Mac McCormick III, KF4LMT

Wednesday Monitoring

I thoroughly enjoyed my afternoon of monitoring here in the Glynn County area. AWACS, F-15s, and F/A-18s were active in the offshore SUAs and the NS Mayport site of the SE DOD TRS was coming in in addition to the NSB Kings Bay sites.

I'll have a more detailed report on the SE DOD TRS monitoring posted sometime on Friday.

Portable in Brunswick, GA

Mac McCormick III
KF4LMT

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Blog Admin Stuff

I'm still wrapping my mind around keeping the blog up now that I'm splitting time between Savannah and Brunswick. I think I've pretty much come up with a plan on how to keep up with it while throwing in some new wrinkles at the same time:

1. When blogging from the Blackberry, I'll be appending the posts with "Portable from Brunswick, GA." These posts will naturally be short and may not contain a lot of detailed information. These will generally be brief updates or timely heads-up posts. Many times, I'll post more detailed information later when I'm around a computer. The more detailed postings may take a few days to show up, but they will show up.
2. Non-Blackberry posts will usually be prefaced with my location, so you'll know whether I'm in Savannah or Brunswick, identifying where the information in the post is relevant to. This won't apply to the monthly recap posts; they will contain information from Savannah, Brunswick, and my trips between the two.
3. I have been making increased use of Twitter, which updates on the sidebar to this blog. This enables me to make quick and easy short reports while playing radio. I have found that sending tweets from the Blackberry is both quicker and easier than trying to send a post by email. I'll continue to send posts to email groups, but this blog will get quick updates via Twitter. I'm using UberTwitter to post tweets from the Blackberry and it allows me to append my location to tweets. On some tweets I'll be including my location, which will show up as a link at the end of the tweet, to give folks an idea of where I'm hearing the activity from. Due to the setting I'm using in UberTwitter, the location will not be specific, it will be the location of the cell tower that the phone is working through (this general location is more than adequate for the purpose, however).

As far as the monthly recap posts go, look for them to resume at the beginning of December with a November recap. I've been able to play radio a bit more lately so I'm actually getting stuff to do a recap with! Things are looking up for radio time and the more active I am on the radio, the more active this blog will be. Things have been pretty slow the last few months, but I don't think they'll be that way long.

Mac McCormick III, KF4LMT

Tuesday Evening Tropo

Location: Brunswick, GA

Shortly after 7:30 PM yesterday, I went out to the car with the intent of checking into the Camden County ARES Net at 8:00 PM. Turning on the FT-8800, the left side of the radio (which stays in scan mode) came across one of the Waycross repeaters, 145.270, active with the Pierce County Amateur Radio Emergency Service Group net. I listened in as they took a roll call then checked in when they asked for general check-ins and visitors.

After the Pierce County ARES net wrapped up, I found the 146.970 repeater in Savannah active with Ed, NC5S and Ryan, AJ4MY. I tried breaking in with them, but apparently I wasn't able to get in good enough to be recognized. Earlier in the evening while doing some monitoring at the Marshes of Glynn Overlook Park in Brunswick, I heard the 146.700 and 146.970 (I sent out a Twitter post at the time); at that point there was either no one around the repeaters or I still wasn't getting in good enough to raise anyone. I also tried the 442.700 repeater in Savannah both times; it came back with stronger signal strengths than the 146.970 or 146.700 did. Both times I don't think anyone must have been monitoring the repeater because I was getting it back at S3-S4 but still wasn't able to raise anyone.

At 8:00 PM I checked into the Camden ARES Net on the 147.195 repeater in Kingsland as planned. They have a meeting planned for December 1; it looks like my schedule will cooperate, so I plan on riding down to Kingsland from Brunswick that evening to attend.

During the Camden ARES Net, I started hearing the Statesboro Amateur Radio Society Net on the 147.105 repeater in Pembroke. Given the previous reception of the Savannah repeaters, it was obvious we were benefiting from some Tropo. I checked into the STARS Net, saying hello to the Savannah and Statesboro group then listened as stations from Baldwin, FL and Charleston, SC checked in. Interestingly enough, the 147.105 came in stronger here in Brunswick than the 146.970 and 146.700 repeaters did.

Mac McCormick III, KF4LMT

Shuttle Atlantis Launch

This afternoon, I went out with the BC396 to catch the Shuttle Atlantis launch. Surprisingly, I caught more with the HT here in Brunswick than I have with the base setup in Savannah. I don't know whether to attribute that to location or launch trajectory. Future launches may indicate which is the answer. A few minutes after launch, as usual, I began picking up the transmissions; the last one I could make out was "single engine past 104."

Portable in Brunswick, GA

Mac McCormick III, KF4LMT

SE DOD Trunked System

As promised, here are the notes from my monitoring of the SE DOD TRS Kings Bay sites on 10 November. Talkgroup IDs are from RadioReference.

386.050 NSB Kings Bay Site
386.1875 Unknown Site

Note: 386.1875 slightly weaker than 386.050 but audible in Kingsland and south end of Brunswick

TG 28027 unknown
-KINGS BAY wkg KEY WEST for radio check (sounded civilian)
TG 28050 NSBKB Waterfront Security; encrypted
TG 28052 unknown; encrypted
TG 28053 unknown; encrypted
TG 28056 NSBKB Security
-E3W clg 19 for radio check
TG 28057 unknown; encrypted/clear
-E3H wkg ????? (encrypted) "send it for E3H"
-unid ref personnel pickup
TG 28059
TG 28064 unknown; encrypted
TG 28081 unknown; encrypted
TG 28082 unknown; encrypted
TG 28087 unknown; encrypted
TG 28562 unknown; encrypted/clear
-unid ref escort
TG 28567 unknown; encrypted


Mac McCormick III, KF4LMT