Re: [HCDX] EC-130E Commando Solo

[Jorma Mantyla <jmantyla@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have this flying station QSLed.  A picture of their QSL-information
leaflet can be found on my web-site:

http://www.kaapeli.fi/~jmantyla/

-see Virtual QSL-collection "clandestine"-section.  
I heard Commando Solo during the Yugoslavia/Kosovo war in 1999 when they
used the name "Allied Voice" on 1270 and 1003 kHz.
The station has also an own web-site which seems to work when I
checked it some minutes ago:

http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Military_Affairs/air_national/193fact.html

There are plenty of updated pictures of this station.

Jorma Mantyla
L.Soc.Sc., journalist, dx'er
Kangasala, Finland

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Robert Foxworth wrote:

> Back in 1998, Terry Krueger, David Crawford and I toured the inside
> of this aircraft when it was open to the public for 2 days during
> the Airfest at MacDill AFB Tampa, during a kinder gentler era
> for us. We met a crew member who had been onboard during
> the airborne phase of the Spice Island Radio operation in Grenada.
> We saw the control operators position and some of the transmitting gear.
> Photos were not permitted. It was not there during the 1999 and 2000
> air shows (I missed the 2001 air show). Somewhat fewer people
> lined up to tour this aircraft than did for the C5A, or other widely
> known types. -  - Bob F
> 
> >>>So, the 193rd Special Operation Wings are back with their EC-130E
> >>>aircrafts and the 10 kW mediumwave transmitter. Anybody out there who
> >>>knows the frequency?
> 
> >NPR's "All Things Considered" ran a story on this aircraft this
> >afternoon.  It goes by the name of Commando Solo and is outfitted with
> >complete AM/FM/SW/TV broadcast facilities.  The report was mostly an
> >interview with a gentleman from Jane's Defence Weekly, who commented
> >that the planes has been used previously in Kosovo, Haiti, and Iraq, and
> >typically flies in a figure 8 pattern at about 20,000 feet.  

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