Sunday 9 May 2004 DUKE 41: Flight of 2 T-38s. 12:25pm: Departs Patrick AFB to Tyndall AFB; FL 310. MOON 52: T-1A, Columbus AFB 14FTW 48FTS 12:55pm: Departs Patrick.

Thursday 16 Sep 2004 Many unusual handoff sequences today due to radar equipment outages caused by the recent hurricanes. N961BW: Casa 212, Av Worlwide Svc Melbourne (Mil training contractor) 9:58am: Lands Melbourne IAP.

Many (and perhaps ALL) of the Hurricane Hunter acft are being Hurricane-Evacuated from Keesler AFB to Homestead JARB. They will operate their missions from Homestead. They are definitely not strangers to that base. AL STERN Satellite Beach FL

Thurs, 26Aug2004 BOLT 32: KC-135R, MacDill AFB 6AMW 1:44am: Reports brake hydraulic pressure low; IFE. Is inbound and very concerned about landing. Gets wx and runway conditions. REACH 106: C-17 9:32am: Refused touch-and-go, but gets to break off approach during Patrick Quiet Hours restriction,...

Sunday, 22 Aug 2004 Many flights of F/A-18s heading to NAS Key West; I snagged the ROMANs and TBOLTs, but did not catch the callsigns of several other flights. Heard them on 370.9 Miami Ctr, 251.15 (Jax), and 351.8 (Jax Dep). ROMAN 21: F/A-18 flight, Oceana NAS, VFA-106 "Gladiators" 12:01pm: En...

KING 24, KING 70 and KING 76, all Patrick AFB C-130s, are one their way to Nashville. Most likely this is their evacuation to avoid the brunt of the storms heading to Florida. They have been advised to contact Nashville Ops on 322.9 when 15 minutes out to assure crew transportation. AL STERN ...

Mil Acft HF Comms, Tuesday 10 August 2004 13927.0 USAF MARS Operator AFA1 0250z USB wkg PITT 13 (C-130H, Pittsburgh 911AW 758AS) re ETA Pittsburgh 0130 Local. (10/Aug/2004) (ALS) 8983.0 USCG CAMSLANT-Chesapeake VA: ????z USB wkg CG 1501 (HC-130H, Elizabeth City NC) re Ops Normal report....

11175.0 SIGONELLA HF-GCS: 0410z USB wkg CACTI 42 (KC-10A, Travis AFB 60ARW) for phone patch to DSN 650-3992 McGuire AFB Metro for wx their station at 0715z. (9/Aug/2004) (ALS) 11175.0 SIGONELLA HF-GCS: 0415z USB wkg REACH 9060 (C-17A, McChord AFB 62AW) for phone patch; CACTI 42 hears, SIGONELLA...

Tuesday, 18 May 2004 VIP flights into the Shuttle Landing Facility and ground comms there related to the Atlas launch scheduled for Wed. Avon Park Bombing Range returned to normalcy after days of CSAR exercises. Arrival of NASA's WB-57F Canberra was a treat. These are the first comms I have heard...

Monday, 17 May 2004 Interesting comms today: some concerning one of the nation's newest acft, the F/A-22 now at Tyndall AFB, and some about the good old days when "The Real Stuff" was going on at Cape Canaveral, and I was there. AIR TRANSPORT 400: DC-8, Little Rock (USAF Contractor) 8:58am: Lands...

It looks like it will be another very busy day with COMPTUEX action. I am hearing: BLUETAIL 40 (E-2C), BLUETAIL 41 (E-2C), CAT (F/A-18s), RIPPER (F-14s), SCOUT (S-3Bs), DOG (F-14s), HAWK (F/A-18s), LONGHORN 27 (S-3B?)

At 1:55pm EDT (1755z) E-8 JSTARS Mission Crew "STARGATE" was in comms with AWACS "DRAGNET UNIFORM" on 364.2. They passed Table Numbers for crypto between them. STARGATE was 75 miles east of Patrick AFB at the time. He corrected his ID from "RAZOR 33" (JSTARS Flight Crew c/s) a couple of...

Wednesday, 28 Apr 2004 BOLT 22: KC-135R MacDill 6AMW 12:42am: 25 min out from MacDill AFB. BOLT 31: KC-135R MacDill 6AMW 8:30am: Comms with MacDill's Lightning Ops.

It looks like it will be another good day for monitoring the Military in the Key West area. DARKSTAR QUEBEC, an AWACS acft, is controlling aircraft in the Tarpon Range. MAKO and SHARK F-16s from Homestead JARB are working the area. VANDY flights are also working in that area; and DARKSTAR Q asked...

CNN is reporting this morning that the US Mil is about to deploy U-2 spy planes, JSTARS acft, and Rivet Joint RC-135s to search for bin Laden. They claim that the US is going to maintain round-the-clock surveillance/search to locate him. They say the acft will be controlling some RPVs in the...

The Military is conducting fairly large exercises offshore northern Florida today, and comms can be heard all over the 225-400 MHz range. Beginning at 8:14am EST (1314z), AWACS "Darkstar Quebec" was up with Sealord on 267.5 announcing the acft he would be controlling. First, there was a four-ship...

Monday, 8 March 2004 More of the same: transports to/from Haiti, several US Army personnel transport flights, tankers heading toward NAS Key West. Fewer Dutch F-16s being heard, now that some of them have moved on to Nellis AFB. Lotsa NASA acft coming and going, including STA (Shuttle Training...

It is 11:24am EST (1624z) and range clearance activities have begun in preparation for today's Titan 4 launch. Weather One arrived from Orlando, entered the Restricted Zone at the Cape a short while ago and has been transmitting cloud conditions to Range Weather on the ground. JOLLY 1, an HH-60G,...

Subj: Patrick AFB, NASA-KSC Area Log - Mon. 9 Feb 2004 COIL 01: F-15C, FL-ANG Jacksonville IAP 125FW 159FS "Jaguars" 9:25am: En route Homestead JARB. NASA 963: T-38N #59-1603, NASA-Johnson Space Ctr, Houston. 9:49am: Lands NASA-KSC Shuttle Landing Facility, Rnwy 33.

Subj: Patrick AFB Area Log - Saturday 7 Feb 2004 GATOR 81: F/A-18C, Atlanta NAS VMFA-142 "Flying Gators" Sqdn. 8:15am: Departs to Atlanta NAS (Dobbins). CG 6016: HH-60J Jayhawk Helo, CGAS-Clearwater FL 8:48am: On SAR mission east of Patrick AFB. 9:20am: RTBs Clearwater.