Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site uok.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uok!mpackard From: mpackard@uok.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: re: white house radios Message-ID: <2800018@uok.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 23:06:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uok.2800018 Posted: Tue Sep 18 23:06:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 19:42:47 EDT Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #N:uok:2800018:000:934 Nf-From: uok!mpackard Sep 18 22:06:00 1984 [eat a peach] The most distressing thing to hear is the secretary of state discussing problems or passing information over a clear radio, but it happens all the time. Just listen to HF in the 11.200 to 11.300 band and you will here just about everyone of importance talking around the subject. The fact that the military spends billions on communications gear, doesn't mean they use it. Usually the operator is lazy and just gets a frequency the fastest way he can. "get me a freq as soon as possible I must speak to the president" and the operator says gee not again, Oh piss I'll just give him the HF. The easiest way to determine an aircrafts communications capability is to look at it's antenna's. (you can't tell which ones are the bogus ones) Don't forget to examine the skin for bumps which house some of the antenna's. The reason for bumps is because the maintenance types have to fix them sooner or later. uok!mpackard