Yeah, so I've been monitoring 5680 again knowing Kinloss have been disbanded and replaced with UK rescue , and using the coastguard helicopters. Desperately miss Kinloss by the way , because with a wet piece of string , they were always strong to very strong. Miss hearing the Nimrod rescue 51 too
Rescue bond one and rescue bond 2. And watchdog 92, the fisheries protection agency aircraft. I'm finding UK rescue is frequently a joke how poor their signal is
Makes me wonder what the point even is using HF if their signal is as weak as I'm recieving it.( And im using about 60 feet of wire about 20 feet off the ground as an arieal) Anyone else hear them with a strong signal regularly ? They deffo don't sound like they're using the same transmitters with the same output powers Kinloss used. As far as I remember, Kinloss had multiple RX and TX sites over the UK, but what are UK rescue using? Can get the volmets on 5450 and 5505 ok. Do they just not transmit on HF as frequently as Kinloss did, and the coastguard helis just use the VHF marine channels with their appropriate coastguard stations?
I did hear the other day (barely) them talking to one of the helicopters who said that 5680 was the primary means of communication with airwave still only secondary means. But monitoring 5680, it's not that active really.
I also heard a while ago Tascomm doing radio checks with them going thru their "lines". The "3 lines". line 1 is 5680, line 2 is 4718, and line 3 was 3023. The old Kinloss channels. Kinloss used to sometimes use 6736 daytime. Nostalgia ....