Marines at the 29 Palms Base need our help
listening on HF and reporting what we hear.

Jason Pratt (KK6COH) does comms out at 29 Palms. He has been experimenting with NVIS for the military/Marines at 29 Palms.

Near Vertical Incidence Skywave, or NVIS, is a radio-wave propagation method that provides usable signals in the range between groundwave and skywave (skip) distances (usually 30 to 400  miles). It is used mainly for military and paramilitary communications and by
radio amateurs.

Anyway they can use our help. They need stations to monitor some frequencies between 7 MHz and  10 MHz to see how well they get out and what kind of coverage they get. You only need a general coverage receiver. You will not need to transmit, only monitor and report what you hear. That easy.

Jason said:
"We'll start transmitting on Friday May 10, 2013 and will using HF for the length of the exercise (28 days). Friday through Monday should have quite a bit of traffic from us.  When I know the freqs we will be using, I'll email them to you and you can forward them to anyone who want to try and monitor. Or you can forward this email to anyone interested and I'll email them the freqs directly".

So, want to be a good Desert RAT? Would you like to take part in an experiment with the Marines? (play a little Stars and Stripes Forever here). All you have to do is drop Jason an email to sign up to be a monitor and he will send you the times and freqs.

..........Jason Pratt jmpratt55@gmail.com ...........
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