Diego Garcia up and active on 13254 at 1515, with a female operator. Excellent signal here this morning.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a little more activity out of Diego in the next few days and weeks as there may be some relief flights headed to the earthquake affected area(s).
The tsunami must have spared Diego Garcia as they are heard here up and running on 13254 at 1330. Male operator this morning. Signal not quite as good as it was at a later time yesterday, but hopefully it will improve.
> The tsunami must have spared Diego Garcia as they are heard here up and running > on 13254 at 1330. Male operator this morning. Signal not quite as good as it was > at a later time yesterday, but hopefully it will improve.
Ace:
Just curious. Do you have one of your Drakes constantly monitoring Diego Garcia? I monitor the GHFS frequencies and have only stumbled on DG active once.
HankG wrote: > "dxAce" <dx...@eclipsed.net> wrote in message > news:41D00F94.39907640@eclipsed.net... > > The tsunami must have spared Diego Garcia as they are heard here up and > running > > on 13254 at 1330. Male operator this morning. Signal not quite as good as > it was > > at a later time yesterday, but hopefully it will improve.
> Ace:
> Just curious. Do you have one of your Drakes constantly monitoring Diego > Garcia? I monitor the GHFS frequencies and have only stumbled on DG active > once.
No, it's just that they are usually active in the mornings and I'll park the R8 there for a couple of hours. They are audible here on an almost daily basis.
> > "dxAce" <dx...@eclipsed.net> wrote in message > > news:41D00F94.39907640@eclipsed.net... > > > The tsunami must have spared Diego Garcia as they are heard here up and > > running > > > on 13254 at 1330. Male operator this morning. Signal not quite as good as > > it was > > > at a later time yesterday, but hopefully it will improve.
> > Ace:
> > Just curious. Do you have one of your Drakes constantly monitoring Diego > > Garcia? I monitor the GHFS frequencies and have only stumbled on DG active > > once.
> No, it's just that they are usually active in the mornings and I'll park the R8 > there for a couple of hours. They are audible here on an almost daily basis.
13254 is of course not a 'regular' GHFS frequency but it is one of the Diego Garcia 'discrete' frequencies.
Shortly after my initial log this morning they once again switched to a female operator, just heard here most recently at 1510.
> > > "dxAce" <dx...@eclipsed.net> wrote in message > > > news:41D00F94.39907640@eclipsed.net... > > > > The tsunami must have spared Diego Garcia as they are heard here up and > > > running > > > > on 13254 at 1330. Male operator this morning. Signal not quite as good as > > > it was > > > > at a later time yesterday, but hopefully it will improve.
> > > Ace:
> > > Just curious. Do you have one of your Drakes constantly monitoring Diego > > > Garcia? I monitor the GHFS frequencies and have only stumbled on DG active > > > once.
> > No, it's just that they are usually active in the mornings and I'll park the R8 > > there for a couple of hours. They are audible here on an almost daily basis.
> 13254 is of course not a 'regular' GHFS frequency but it is one of the Diego Garcia > 'discrete' frequencies.
> Shortly after my initial log this morning they once again switched to a female > operator, just heard here most recently at 1510.
> > > "dxAce" <dx...@eclipsed.net> wrote in message > > > news:41D00F94.39907640@eclipsed.net... > > > > The tsunami must have spared Diego Garcia as they are heard here up and > > > running > > > > on 13254 at 1330. Male operator this morning. Signal not quite as good as > > > it was > > > > at a later time yesterday, but hopefully it will improve.
> > > Ace:
> > > Just curious. Do you have one of your Drakes constantly monitoring Diego > > > Garcia? I monitor the GHFS frequencies and have only stumbled on DG active > > > once.
> > No, it's just that they are usually active in the mornings and I'll park the R8 > > there for a couple of hours. They are audible here on an almost daily basis.
> 13254 is of course not a 'regular' GHFS frequency but it is one of the Diego Garcia > 'discrete' frequencies.
Right you are. I should have said 'military frequencies'.
> Shortly after my initial log this morning they once again switched to a female > operator, just heard here most recently at 1510.
Saw your correction on time. Specifically, what is the time range that you 'park' on 13254.
> > > > "dxAce" <dx...@eclipsed.net> wrote in message > > > > news:41D00F94.39907640@eclipsed.net... > > > > > The tsunami must have spared Diego Garcia as they are heard here up > and > > > > running > > > > > on 13254 at 1330. Male operator this morning. Signal not quite as > good as > > > > it was > > > > > at a later time yesterday, but hopefully it will improve.
> > > > Ace:
> > > > Just curious. Do you have one of your Drakes constantly monitoring > Diego > > > > Garcia? I monitor the GHFS frequencies and have only stumbled on DG > active > > > > once.
> > > No, it's just that they are usually active in the mornings and I'll park > the R8 > > > there for a couple of hours. They are audible here on an almost daily > basis.
> > 13254 is of course not a 'regular' GHFS frequency but it is one of the > Diego Garcia > > 'discrete' frequencies.
> Right you are. I should have said 'military frequencies'.
> > Shortly after my initial log this morning they once again switched to a > female > > operator, just heard here most recently at 1510.
> Saw your correction on time. Specifically, what is the time range that you > 'park' on 13254.
Oh, usually from 1300 on, it just depends on what I have going on here at the time.
In article <41CED617.3D80E...@eclipsed.net>, dxAce <dx...@eclipsed.net> wrote: >Diego Garcia up and active on 13254 at 1515, with a female operator. Excellent >signal here this morning.
>I wouldn't be surprised to see a little more activity out of Diego in the next >few days and weeks as there may be some relief flights headed to the earthquake >affected area(s).
Isn't DG bound to BE an earthquake affected area. The Maldives got plastered and they were saying the tsunami was 15-30 feet at Thailand.
Now we know why palm trees evolved to not have any low branches.
Mark Zenier mzen...@eskimo.com Washington State resident
Mark Zenier wrote: > In article <41CED617.3D80E...@eclipsed.net>, dxAce <dx...@eclipsed.net> wrote: > >Diego Garcia up and active on 13254 at 1515, with a female operator. Excellent > >signal here this morning.
> >I wouldn't be surprised to see a little more activity out of Diego in the next > >few days and weeks as there may be some relief flights headed to the earthquake > >affected area(s).
> Isn't DG bound to BE an earthquake affected area.
Yes, they are indeed in an earthquake area, but apparently received no damage this time around.
> In article <41CED617.3D80E...@eclipsed.net>, dxAce <dx...@eclipsed.net> wrote: > >Diego Garcia up and active on 13254 at 1515, with a female operator. Excellent > >signal here this morning.
> >I wouldn't be surprised to see a little more activity out of Diego in the next > >few days and weeks as there may be some relief flights headed to the earthquake > >affected area(s).
> Isn't DG bound to BE an earthquake affected area. The Maldives got > plastered and they were saying the tsunami was 15-30 feet at Thailand.
I just heard this evening on NPR that DG was not affected much by the waves or the quake.
> > "dxAce" <dx...@eclipsed.net> wrote in message > > news:41D00F94.39907640@eclipsed.net... > > > The tsunami must have spared Diego Garcia as they are heard here up and > > running > > > on 13254 at 1330. Male operator this morning. Signal not quite as good as > > it was > > > at a later time yesterday, but hopefully it will improve.
> > Ace:
> > Just curious. Do you have one of your Drakes constantly monitoring Diego > > Garcia? I monitor the GHFS frequencies and have only stumbled on DG active > > once.
> No, it's just that they are usually active in the mornings and I'll park the R8 > there for a couple of hours. They are audible here on an almost daily basis.
You're likely in just the right spot for DG to fade in around sunrise your local time for a while. I find that sunrise in either one's home area or target area is a good time to hear stuff that you wouldn't otherwise. I can get a lot of stuff from the Middle East, like Saudi Arabia's domestic service, around sunrise Middle East time (0300-0400 GMT). And around sunrise my time (1500 GMT or so) I get a lot of stuff from East Asia like the Chinese domestics and Radio Free Asia, occasionally I'll get AIR or Iran too around that time.
dxAce wrote: > The female operator in answer to a query from an aircraft after giving weather > information reported no ill effects from the earthquake.
> So everything appears well on Diego Garcia.
They got lucky. DG is an atoll (for those who don't know what that is, look it up), a 30 foot high wave could easily wipe it off the face of the earth.
I talked by phone, about an hour ago, with a gentleman on DG and he said they experienced waves 3 to 4 feet high but suffered no damage. If the island's elevation is only 4 to 22 feet high, that makes sense. But why was there so much damage to the coast of Somalia, another 2000 miles further west, and no damage to DG?? Would they tell us if there really was damage on DG??
matto...@pacbell.net wrote: > I talked by phone, about an hour ago, with a gentleman on DG and he > said they experienced waves 3 to 4 feet high but suffered no damage. > If the island's elevation is only 4 to 22 feet high, that makes sense. > But why was there so much damage to the coast of Somalia, another 2000 > miles further west, and no damage to DG?? Would they tell us if there > really was damage on DG??
Nah, it's all a big secret to get you conspiracy kooks going!
But actually it probably has a lot to do with the mechanics of the wave itself and the sea floor/bed around Diego Garcia itself. The wave may have 'flowed' around Diego Garcia, but when it reached Somalia it had nowhere else to go but up the beach.
> > > "dxAce" <dx...@eclipsed.net> wrote in message > > > news:41D00F94.39907640@eclipsed.net... > > > > The tsunami must have spared Diego Garcia as they are heard here up and > > > running > > > > on 13254 at 1330. Male operator this morning. Signal not quite as good as > > > it was > > > > at a later time yesterday, but hopefully it will improve.
> > > Ace:
> > > Just curious. Do you have one of your Drakes constantly monitoring Diego > > > Garcia? I monitor the GHFS frequencies and have only stumbled on DG active > > > once.
> > No, it's just that they are usually active in the mornings and I'll park the R8 > > there for a couple of hours. They are audible here on an almost daily basis.
> You're likely in just the right spot for DG to fade in around sunrise > your local time for a while.
I not only hear them around sunrise, but for hours after that. And at times throughout the day.
> > I talked by phone, about an hour ago, with a gentleman on DG and he > > said they experienced waves 3 to 4 feet high but suffered no damage. > > If the island's elevation is only 4 to 22 feet high, that makes sense. > > But why was there so much damage to the coast of Somalia, another 2000 > > miles further west, and no damage to DG?? Would they tell us if there > > really was damage on DG??
> Nah, it's all a big secret to get you conspiracy kooks going!
> But actually it probably has a lot to do with the mechanics of the wave itself > and the sea floor/bed around Diego Garcia itself. The wave may have 'flowed' > around Diego Garcia, but when it reached Somalia it had nowhere else to go but > up the beach.
> It's pretty simple physics.
> dxAce > Michigan > USA
It all has to do with something called "run-up".........basically, it's how far the water travels inland which is determined by the sea floor. USGS has an online walk through on the mechanics of the tsunami. I am a survivor of the great Alaskan earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in 1964. Did you know that since the initial temblor (off the coast of Sumatra) there have been a total of 46 exceeding 5.0......and that there now are indications that a wave was generated as well that entered the pacific. Interesting stuff here.
> > > I talked by phone, about an hour ago, with a gentleman on DG and he > > > said they experienced waves 3 to 4 feet high but suffered no > damage. > > > If the island's elevation is only 4 to 22 feet high, that makes > sense. > > > But why was there so much damage to the coast of Somalia, another > 2000 > > > miles further west, and no damage to DG?? Would they tell us if > there > > > really was damage on DG??
> > Nah, it's all a big secret to get you conspiracy kooks going!
> > But actually it probably has a lot to do with the mechanics of the > wave itself > > and the sea floor/bed around Diego Garcia itself. The wave may have > 'flowed' > > around Diego Garcia, but when it reached Somalia it had nowhere else > to go but > > up the beach.
> > It's pretty simple physics.
> > dxAce > > Michigan > > USA
> It all has to do with something called "run-up".........basically, it's > how far the water travels inland which is determined by the sea floor. > USGS has an online walk through on the mechanics of the tsunami. I am > a survivor of the great Alaskan earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in > 1964. Did you know that since the initial temblor (off the coast of > Sumatra) there have been a total of 46 exceeding 5.0......and that > there now are indications that a wave was generated as well that > entered the pacific. Interesting stuff here.
Yes, there have been a lot of aftershocks. I subscribe to the the service here:
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