{"id":12690,"date":"2015-03-24T08:12:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T12:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2015-03-24T08:12:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T12:12:05","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-eam-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/shortwave-radio-recordings-eam-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: EAM messages"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StrategicAirCommand\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Inspired by SWLing Post<\/em> reader\u00a0@K7al_L3afta<\/span><\/a>, a few weeks ago, I monitored\u00a015,016 kHz\u00a0for US Air Force EAM (Emergency Action Messages).<\/p>\n

I’m no expert on military communications, but I did manage to catch a few messages–that I assume are EAM(?)–on the same frequency.<\/p>\n

All of these recordings were made on\u00a0the afternoon of\u00a0February 15, 2015 on 15,160 kHz in the upper sideband:<\/p>\n

Recording 1<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/EAMmessage115.016MHz18Feb2015\/EAMmessage1-15.016MHz-18Feb2015.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Recording 2<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/EAMmessage115.016MHz18Feb2015\/EAMmessage2-15.016MHz-18Feb2015.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Recording 3<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/EAMmessage115.016MHz18Feb2015\/EAMmessage3-15.016MHz-18Feb2015.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Recording 4<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/EAMmessage115.016MHz18Feb2015\/EAMmessage4-15.016MHz-18FEB2015.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspired by SWLing Post reader\u00a0@K7al_L3afta, a few weeks ago, I monitored\u00a015,016 kHz\u00a0for US Air Force EAM (Emergency Action Messages). I’m no expert on military communications, but I did manage to catch a few messages–that I assume are EAM(?)–on the same frequency. All of these recordings were made on\u00a0the afternoon of\u00a0February 15, 2015 on 15,160 kHz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,746,1167],"tags":[3553,3736,3735,3623,3625,3627],"class_list":["post-12690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-k7al_l3afta","tag-eam-messages","tag-military-communications","tag-usaf-hf-gcs","tag-usaf-high-frequency-global-communications-system","tag-utility"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3iG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12326,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/catching-a-usaf-hf-gcs-transmission-in-morocco\/","url_meta":{"origin":12690,"position":0},"title":"Catching a USAF HF-GCS transmission in Morocco","author":"Thomas","date":"February 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"My buddy,\u00a0@K7al_L3afta\u00a0(on Twitter), posted this interesting recording of the US Air Force\u00a0High Frequency Global Communications System\u00a0on 15,016 kHz USB at 18:01 UTC yesterday: I don't believe I've ever heard or noticed this type of USAF HF-GCS transmission before. \u00a0Sounds almost like a numbers station. 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