Utility Planet

Utility Planet is the official blog for the column of the same name in The Spectrum Monitor. It replaces Utility World in the discontinued Monitoring Times magazine. Utilities are all VLF/LF/MF/HF (and sometimes low-band VHF) radio communications except broadcasting, CB, and non-emergency amateur. If you understood the last sentence, you know enough to read this blog.

Monday, June 28, 2021

Night of Nights 2021 is back on Pt. Reyes!

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From MRHS: The National Park Service has notifed MRHS President Richard Dillman that the annual Night of Nights event can be run in the Park...
Friday, October 30, 2020

WRJG440 Special Operation Saturday

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From MRHS: Special Bulletin 8/27/2020   MARITIME RADIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 29 October 2020  ...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

KPH Night of Nights is ham bands this year

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Usual time, 0001 UTC as July 12 turns into the 13th, but on amateur frequencies. From "RD:" Night of Nights 12 July When: Sun...
Tuesday, July 07, 2020

MARS Announces HF Skills Exercise

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From ARRL Letter :   Members of the Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) will conduct an HF skills exercise July 20 - 24 to hone the...
Friday, January 10, 2020

No problem with sdr.hu KiwiSDR list going members only!

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Some people got pretty upset about this.  The fact is, however, that sdr.hu was only peripherally involved with KiwiSDR. The receivers incor...
Monday, October 07, 2019

Noble Skywave exercise is this month

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Noble Skywave is an interesting global military exercise, which is run in the manner of a ham radio contest. Teams get points for each HF co...
Saturday, September 07, 2019

WRC-19 will not consider reassigning 2 meters

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IARU : The CEPT Conference Preparatory Group met this week in Ankara, Turkey. Items of interest to the amateur service which were final...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Hurricane Watch Net is on 7268 LSB

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20 meters has been wretched today due to a persistent geomagnetic storm. Instead of the usual daytime 14325 kHz USB, they are using 7268 kHz...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Dorian hurricane aircraft was heard on HF today

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You can still hear them. A UDXF member reports hearing NOAA 42 on 8918.00 kHz, working New York oceanic ATC on the Caribbean (CAR) MWARA n...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Revised frequency list for Night of Nights XX

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The heroic True Believers of KPH have made some more transmitting antennas active after the damage last winter. Here is the revised frequenc...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Will hams lose two meters?

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That is the question, and the answer will come at this year's WARC-19 and the future WARC-23. The re-allocation of the entire two meter ...
Friday, February 01, 2019

No more weather warnings on WWV/WWVH

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ARRL Letter : The National Weather Service (NWS) is discontinuing its high seas and storm warnings transmitted via National Institute...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

KPH/KFS/K6KPH resume partial operation on Saturday

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With the government shutdown over, the National Park Service has re-opened the KPH receive building to normal use. All call signs should be ...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Reception of NOJ Kodiak AK FAX on 26 Jan 19

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Here's a screen shot from about 15 minutes ago, on the 12 MHz frequency via the SDR at KPH using the big TCI antenna in a low-noise loca...
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