This is not a joke. https://www.dvidshub.net/news/24366...ts-hf-reach-us-mainland#.WYU_s9BjV1g.facebook W1CTC
What was old is new again. There is a renewed interest in HF by the military due to the prospect of fighting in satellite-denied areas. The Russians and and the Chinese have both either tested or fielded technology to go after our dependence on satellites for C3I. And of course Harris wants to sell the military a whole new generation of HF radios, so they have developed a new wide band rig that is optimized for pushing data.
Probably. Keep in mind that, with the rate of turnover of personnel, the military has very few experienced HF communicators compared to days of old. Reinventing the HF wheel will take time.
Exactly! Factor in the average age group (young!) of the military folks working on this. HF is probably VERY new to the vast majority of them. Dave W7UUU
Don't be shocked if it gets cranked up again. Its how USGOV does business (and I mean business - $$$$). Back in the bad old days of the Cold War the largest PX in Germany was at Robinson Barracks, Stuttgart. When the wall came down there was a giant sucking sound as the troops were withdrawn from Europe. The PX at RB was bulldozed. A few years later millions of dollars were spent to build PXs in the Stuttgart area. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent to remodel housing AFTER the Air Force pulled out of San Vito, Italy. Then the housing was used for MOUT training and trashed. Everything in the USA is a racket, my friend. Everything.
Geeze. It's a good thing we had underwater cable back in the 1960s/70s when I was in the Navy so we could pull into a port and call back home for more rum and cannon balls. I guess the Navy wasted two years of sending me to a year of advanced Electronics Technician Communications (ETN) school at Treasure Island, CA, and then another year of advanced electronics "C" schools on the East Coast. Oh well, at least in bad weather we could use those space warming URC-32s, and all those R-1051s to keep from sending the poor signalmen out to send semaphores or flap the flapper on the big lights. Former CTM-1 K8KJG
