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Old 02-16-2017, 09:48 AM   #38
johndallman
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Default Re: Detection and analysis of jamming by the Coast Guard

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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
The helicopters appear to be all located at Cape Cod. Would it be quicker to spin up one from there and fly 60 miles or man a 47' MLB or a 25' Defender class boat to motor eight miles and check things out?
The timescales are probably similar, but the chopper makes it much faster to find out where the jamming is coming from if it isn't Jewell Island. The Coast Guard will regard that jamming as a real problem, because it means people can't make ordinary distress calls. And jammers mean a military or terrorism operation, and they haven't been told about any military operations, so...
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For that matter, the USCGC Jefferson Island (WPB 1340), a 110' Island-class patrol boat has a home berth in South Portland. If it's not away on patrol somewhere hours off, it might be available to scoot over to the island. In addition to two M2 machine-guns, it comes with a 25mm autocannon, so it's properly armed.
Find out where it is, give them a heads-up, and get crews together for those boats, too.
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Thales HF medium-powered, High-Frequency Automated Link Establishment (HF-ALE) radio communications system tell you anything about the communication capabilities on their cutters?
It's a pretty good long-range radio system, and may be powerful enough to cut the effective range of that jammer, if they turn off the Automatic Link Establishment, which the jammer will be upsetting.
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Or this list of USCG technological projects?
Not from that - that's a web page from their PR department.
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