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.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

KSM Granted RTTY Frequencies

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Forward from MRHS list: KSM, the coast station of the Maritime Radio Historical Society (MRHS), has been granted two RTTY frequencies by the...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

Propagation numbers for Firefox

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N0HC Propfire is a slick little Firefox extension that unobtrusively and silently puts the "WWV" propagation numbers for solar fl...

Fall '06 Neptune Warrior Exercise in Progress

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Reception reports have noted HF traffic on 4030-4031 kHz from the annual fall Neptune Warrior exercise which started on 24 Oct and will run ...
Friday, October 27, 2006

New PC-ALE Version Is Out

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PC-ALE version 1.062G is now available from the new HF-Link site , in their beta-testing area . As always, PC-ALE remains a rather amazing p...
Monday, September 25, 2006

NATO Mediterranean Exercise Brilliant Midas, Oct. 06

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Exercise Brilliant Midas 06 29 September – 13 October 06 Between France and Corsica Purpose: To train and certify the eight rotation of the ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

NHC Drops Gordon, MeteoFrance Picks It Up

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000 WTNT42 KNHC 202015 TCDAT2 TROPICAL STORM GORDON DISCUSSION NUMBER 40 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL072006 500 PM EDT W...
Monday, September 18, 2006

Two Months in the Life of Cuban Numbers

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This is the result of lengthy examination of reception reports available in several places on the Internet. Where duplicates appear, they ar...
Saturday, September 16, 2006

Recent Cuban Numbers Frequencies

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These have been reported in the past three months as being used by the Spanish language "Atencion" station in AM (V2a), or the Cut...

Hurricane Lane Discussion #12

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Hurricanes don't listen to us telling them where they're supposed to go, and Lane listened even less than most: 000 WTPZ43 KNHC 1615...
Friday, September 15, 2006

T.S. Lane Forecast/Advisory #8

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000 WTPZ23 KNHC 151434 TCMEP3 TROPICAL STORM LANE FORECAST/ADVISORY NUMBER 8 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP132006 1500 UT...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Useful Searches

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We'd be lost without these at Utility World: Airliners.net Put in a registration, get back photos of the airplane. They have just about...

Here we go again: Lane predicted to move up Baja

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000 WTPZ33 KNHC 150556 TCPEP3 BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM LANE INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 6A NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Shuttle Countdown Well Underway

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Mission: STS-115 - 19th International Space Station Flight (12A) - P3/P4 Truss Segment and Solar Arrays Vehicle: Atlantis (OV-104) Location:...

Russian Military Exercises Continue

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PROJECT 677 LADA Testing of new Sankt Petersburg class submarine near Finland. Usual Russian naval beacons and stations are active. All sked...
Saturday, September 02, 2006

Tropical Storm John Discussion

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000 WTPZ41 KNHC 022033 TCDEP1 TROPICAL STORM JOHN DISCUSSION NUMBER 22 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP112006 200 PM PDT SAT...
Friday, September 01, 2006

Shuttle on for Sep 6

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08.31.06 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 Bruce Buckingham Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 RELEASE: 06-308 NASA...

Hurricane John Nears Baja in Pacific

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000 WTPZ31 KNHC 011811 TCPEP1 BULLETIN HURRICANE JOHN INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 17A NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP11200...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Ernesto Weakens, John Strengthens (in E. Pacific)

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Tropical Depression Ernesto: 000 WTNT35 KNHC 301507 TCPAT5 BULLETIN TROPICAL DEPRESSION ERNESTO ADVISORY NUMBER 24...CORRECTED NWS TPC/NATI...

Shuttle Back on Pad

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NASA TV showed the crawler marching toward the VAB. The NASA press conference spoke of arranging a new schedule with the Russians if they m...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Ernesto Forecast & Advisory #20

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000 WTNT25 KNHC 291432 TCMAT5 TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO FORECAST/ADVISORY NUMBER 20 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL052006 1500...
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