{"id":14299,"date":"2026-10-26T08:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=14299"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:18:30","slug":"skyking-skyking-do-not-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2026\/10\/skyking-skyking-do-not-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"SKYKING, SKYKING do not answer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EAM received!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found this pretty interesting website this morning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missileer.watch\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/missileer.watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Missileer.watch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a former cold guy, this brings back a bit of nostalgia. The Air Force operates something called the HFGCS (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_Frequency_Global_Communications_System\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_Frequency_Global_Communications_System\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High Frequency Global Communications System<\/a>) which has transmitter sites around the world and uses multiple frequencies. This system augments the satellite based system that is mainly used. The beauty of HF voice is it is a transmitter and a receiver. No internet, data modems, network switches, routers, etc. Moderate power levels can be heard half a world away in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Call Sign<\/td><td>Base<\/td><td>State\/Territory<\/td><td>Country<\/td><td>Comment<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Anderson<\/td><td>Anderson AFB<\/td><td>GU<\/td><td>US<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Andrews<\/td><td>Andrews AFB<\/td><td>MD<\/td><td>US<\/td><td>Net Control<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ascension<\/td><td>RAF Ascension<\/td><td>Ascension Is<\/td><td>UK Overseas<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Croughton<\/td><td>RAF Croughton<\/td><td>Northamptonshire<\/td><td>UK<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Diego Garcia<\/td><td>USN Base<\/td><td>Diego Garcia<\/td><td>UK Overseas<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Elmendorf<\/td><td>Elmendorf AFB<\/td><td>AK<\/td><td>US<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hickam<\/td><td>Hickam AFB<\/td><td>HI<\/td><td>US<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lajes<\/td><td>Lajes Field<\/td><td>Azores<\/td><td>Portugal<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>West Coast<\/td><td>Beale AFB<\/td><td>CA<\/td><td>US<\/td><td>Receive only<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Offutt<\/td><td>Offutt AFB<\/td><td>NE<\/td><td>US<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Puerto Rico<\/td><td>Salinas<\/td><td>PR<\/td><td>US<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sigonella<\/td><td>NAS Sigonella<\/td><td>Sicily<\/td><td>Italy<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Yokota<\/td><td>Yokota AB<\/td><td>Honshu<\/td><td>Japan<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">List of voice frequencies used (KHz):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>4724<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8992<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>11175<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>15016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Messages are proforma and encrypted using a one time pad which is unbreakable.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are interested in a bit of military history, head on over and check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prepare to authenticate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAM received! I found this pretty interesting website this morning: Missileer.watch As a former cold guy, this brings back a bit of nostalgia. The Air Force operates something called the HFGCS (High Frequency Global Communications System) which has transmitter sites around the world and uses multiple frequencies. This system augments the satellite based system that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2026\/10\/skyking-skyking-do-not-answer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SKYKING, SKYKING do not answer&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[231,302,350],"class_list":["post-14299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-hf","tag-history","tag-museums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14299"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14340,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14299\/revisions\/14340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}