{"id":5767,"date":"2013-03-02T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2013-03-03T09:40:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T13:40:03","slug":"bermuda-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/bermuda-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bermuda…Missing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\""Uh,<\/a>

“Uh, Charlie, where did Bermuda go?”<\/p><\/div>\n

My good buddy, David Goren<\/a>, directed me to the VOLMET frequency for New York Sunday afternoon on 3,485 kHz.<\/p>\n

VOMET, for those of you not familiar,\u00a0is a worldwide\u00a0network\u00a0of radio stations that broadcast\u00a0TAF,\u00a0SIGMET\u00a0and\u00a0METAR aviation weather reports on\u00a0shortwave\u00a0radio, and in some countries on\u00a0VHF, too. All of the reports are broadcast in\u00a0upper sideband, using automated voice transmissions.<\/p>\n

At any rate, they must have experienced a glitch which resulted in the loss of meteorological data for most of the United States. The broadcast preamble is as usual, but as soon as specific airport regions (mostly major US cities and some islands) are mentioned, the report takes a disturbing turn.\u00a0 It’s fodder for science fiction–one is not sure whether to be alarmed or amused by this eyebrow-raising data (or, lack thereof).<\/p>\n

The end result becomes almost like a numbers station, sans numbers, of course. Take a listen for yourself by clicking here to download the recording<\/a>, or listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n