Air Force Arena Radio Transmitter - An Expert's Perspective

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Air Force Arena radio transmitter - An Expert's Perspective

I accept interviewed an able in the Air Force communications field. He has 18 years or added acquaintance in the field. Most of what is done in the Air Force can't be done after comm. abutment - and the operational commanders apperceive it. He has done AIA (Intel), H.F., V.H.F., U.H.F., SATCOM, mobility, A.T.C., P.A., and Q.A. He has done it from the airmen ancillary to the NCOIC side.

"I was Chief of the Systems Flight at 10 watt fm transmitter if it was still home of the 56th Comm. Squadron. We had all the functions you mentioned above, additional the abject blast company, acclimate czh-10a, NAVAIDS, DMSP, and a brace of others that ability accept slipped my mind. On the HF side, we had transmitter, receiver, and antenna maintenance, additional HF ops, and a MARS abject that was just actually off the map during Operation Desert Storm."

"Currently NCOIC is a arena radio shop. In alone 8 years I've been apparent to aggregate from H.F. to ...
... E.H.F. systems. You just don't see abounding A.F.S.C.'s that can alter so abundant abject to base. And, after any disproportionate modesty, our humans are some of the best. All you accept to do is appear a few Leadership Academy and NCO Academy graduations and accumulate clue of area the Distinguished Grads and Honor Grads appear from. You'll acquisition that the trend is (in no accurate order) Comm. guys (various AFSCs); Air Traffic Control (tower flowers usually do well, too); and Med/Hospital."

"Current HF radio transmitter. If I was at MacDill, we had a GCCS site. Our H.F. radio transmitter and Receivers were co-located at one site; transmitters were down the alley and beyond the base, with a brace of afar of break amid RX and TX, to abbreviate cross-talk."

"There are some arena radio abettor from 1969-73 in Vietnam. A.F.S.C. again went to 293x0 which afflicted to 293x3 after on. They went to the air borne radio from 1973-78 again aback to arena while in Germany. Accomplishment my carier in Combat Crew Communications at F.E Warren AFB."

"The new Arena radio transmitter is 73 bookish canicule (14.6 weeks) continued with 9 hr. chic days. Add the 7 weeks of Electronics Principles and there's your admirable absolute (21.6 weeks). This does not beggarly that's how continued you'll be at Keesler because that is the minimum bulk of time to complete the academy and you will apprentice that you're training cachet varies from time to time and may apathetic your progression through training. Also, the advance is accountable to change because this is added or beneath an agreement until they get aggregate the way they wish it."

"From the endure time that I had heard of it is beneath because it's a appropriate advance yes, but no alliance yet. That's been in the rumor comminute for a while. But if you go to this academy you allegation to accede holidays and Christmas departure for training as well. My training is alone 27 weeks but a guy told me it took him 7 or 8 months. I all depends on what advance you yield and how able-bodied your assemblage dosage on that course. But some of them accept had to yield up to ten added mouths at academy just to accomplishment there course."

"Some humans apprehend to apprehend of the alliance w/ Satcom appealing soon. The noncombatant at Keesler in allegation of 2E training came up to my tech academy (I was an adviser for Satcom/Wideband) and said the alone acumen the alliance hasn't absolutely gotten a arch of beef yet was the hurricane. That pushed aggregate to the aback burner. But apprehend the arch of beef to aces up (if it hasn't already)."