"DesignGuy" wrote in message
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I've read here before that the Air Force GHFS freqs of 8892 and 11175 were
busy durnig and shortly after 9/11. Was wondering if anyone here could
relate some of what they heard on those military freqs (or others) during
that time.

Most of what you would have heard would have sounded like:

Bravo, victor, three, Juliet, quebec, standby; repeated twice followed by
'message follows': The message of phonetic characters would be spoken and
repeated once. These types of messages are known as Emergency Action
Messages (EAM's).

There would also be many cryptic messages as well as routine traffic (phone
patches) by units to bases by calling 'Mainsail' and identifying their unit.
Many of the phonetic messages were actual attack orders; some conversations
were encrypted. You would also hear authentication messages as 'Sky King,
Sky King, do not answer', followed by an authentication (phonetic) message
with time stamp.

During the active part of the 'war' I spent many hours trying to correlate
messages based on frequency, time of day (or night), etc., to actual events
going on. I'm sure many of the readers did the same.

Oh, by the way, in 2003 GHFS was changed to HFGCS (high frequency global
communications system). Some of the group might object to your usage of the
old acronym.

HankG