Uhf Aircraft

Why would an aircraft use a high power amplifier a tx’mitter for UHF communication?

Why a Tx’mitter?

There are a lot of factors that determine how much power is needed to reliably communicate at UHF or any other frequency. Aircraft UHF antennas are usually omni-directional because it is generally impossible to predict where the ground receiver will be located with respect to a moving airplane. That means the transmitted power is spread out over a much larger solid angle than is necessary to simply reach the receiver. So, for an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio at the ground receiver, a larger power is needed than would be required for a more focused radio beam pointed directly at the receiver. That could change if aircraft were equipped with electronically steerable phased-array UHF antennas. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen. It’s so much cheaper and easier to use whatever power produces acceptable results, at whatever altitude or range the aircraft desires to be while communicating.

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Remember Freedom

Part 1 on USS Liberty Series: "It was God who kept us afloat"

It was the events of that day called 9 / 11 awakened the doctor's wife spoiled to the fact on the ground that people in the world hated the U.S. So that would aim at killing and innocent Americans.

I did not react with fear, but curiosity. I did not want to go shopping when President Bush encouraged us all to do if we wanted help. I want my questions answered and the MSM they were not asking and demanding that Congress was not them.

Seven years ago, I was the typical uninformed, uninformed American, but with diligence and perseverance that I learned a lot. However, it was not until June 2005 and my first trip to the little town of Bethlehem area occupied blew my rage against the Empire, the loyalty of American governments to the Israeli military occupation of Palestine.

It was not until the alarm weapons of mass destruction Israel Program of Mordechai Vanunu informed me of things I had never heard of it when I wake up to the depth of deception the best ally of the United States and blind collusion of the U.S. government. It was at a rooftop restaurant in east Jerusalem, which serves fish with bones and head intact, and fries on the side, that Vanunu blew my mind, "Did you know that President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Gurion to admit the Dimona was not a textile factory, as the sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said: "The nuclear reactor is only for peace." Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding that Ben Gurion show Dimona for inspection. When Johnson became president, made an agreement with Israel that two senators who come every year to inspect. Before the senators who visit, The Israelis built a wall to block the elevators and stairs underground. Between 1963 and '69, the Senators arrived, but they did not know about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them. "

It was not until 13 October 2007, when Phil tournament, the officer and survivor of the attack on the USS Liberty, said, "It was God who kept afloat" in the "No more wars for Israel" Conference in Irvine, California, I wake up that day in the last forty years, the infamy that remains "the only incident of damage to a major U.S. ship since the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in 1898, before the Spanish-American War, which has not been investigated by the U.S. Congress ".- Captain Joseph Tully, chief of the USS Saratoga, page 175, Operation Cyanide, by Peter Hounam.

On 2 November 2007, I talked by phone with colleagues in Florida, a survivor of the USS Liberty, and the current President of the USS Liberty Veteran's Association, Ernie Gallo, who was an NCO and Technical Communication of freedom. We share our frustrations seeking justice Freedom for appeal under the professed Christian and our Republican Senator Mel Martinez.

Ernie quipped, "I met with the Law Council Martinez and let me say that Congress did not lift a finger to help. AIPAC crucify them! Our government is out to lock not say anything about freedom .

For forty years our government has denied justice to our veterans and crucified the truth because "We will not embarrass an ally." President Lyndon Johnson, June 8, 1967.

Forty years ago the U.S. government not only colluded with Israel to cover up the treason attack on the USS Liberty survivors "were forced to remain silent under threat of court martial, imprisonment or worse … The U.S. government has never disputed Israel's excuse, obviously not true of "mistaken identity" nor have tried to expose the shameful cover up that continues to date. The truth and honor of States United were ignominiously sacrificed to provide cover for Israel's lies and despicable act of perfidy transparent. "Phillip F. tournament Veterans Association President USS Liberty, 8 June 2007, Marriott Courtyard, VA.

USS Liberty Veterans have repeatedly called open an independent panel to investigate the horrific attack and unprovoked them and received only pro forma letters from White House employee in this Administration stating that the attack had already been investigated.

"This is a blatant lie! "Tourney wrote in a postscript to our Commander in Chief in his latest appeal.

"The declassification of documents government and the recollections of former military revealed … [that] the Israelis knew they were attacking a U.S. Navy ship. The documents also indicate that the U.S. government, anxious to spare Israel's reputation and preserve its alliance with the U.S., closed the case with what even some of its participants now say an investigation was hasty and seriously flawed. "–
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"Israel is left with the cold blooded murder! Forty years ago the CIA and the NSA all threatened, survivors to speak! They scared me so much, I had twenty years ago … Israel wanted the world to believe that Egypt [committed the crime] … Thirty-four people died and 172 were wounded by a crew of 294 … Israeli jets marked the Star of David so that we do not know who was attacking us … the keel was broken, would have sunk, but God kept us alive … Eighteen hours after the attack they were rescued … McNamara said, "We're not going to attack our ally. "How McNamara know who attacked us?" – Phillip tournament, on 13 October 2007.

"Tony" JQ 'Hart, then a noncommissioned officer assigned to a station chief of U.S. Navy relay in Morocco that handled communications between Washington and the 6th Fleet, remembered listening as the secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, in Washington, ordered Rear Adm. Lawrence Geis, commander of the battle group America's carrier, to bring the jets home. When Geis protested that freedom was under attack and needed help, "Hart said, McNamara retorted that" President [Lyndon] Johnson is not going to go to war or embarrass one of its allies more than a few sailors. "

"The Johnson administration did not publicly dispute Israel's claim that the attack had been nothing but a disastrous mistake. But internal documents obtained from the White House of Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library show that the Israelis' explanation how the mistake had occurred was not believed. Except for McNamara, most administration officials of high rank of Secretary of State Dean Rusk closed down in accordance with Johnson's intelligence adviser, Clark Clifford, who was quoted in the minutes of a meeting of the National Security Council staff, saying was "inconceivable" that the attack was a case of mistaken identity. The attack "could not be anything else but deliberate," the NSA director, Lt. General Marshall Carter, later told Congress. [Ibid]

Ernie Gallo had been above the water line when the torpedo struck the Liberty and her informed this reporter: "It was a beautiful sunny day and all morning Israeli reconnaissance planes were flying over us, I counted twelve flights and more one came to close I could see the pilots face, greeted us under his wing and its wake. We were all very comfortable, because they were our allies. That morning Captain McGonagle called fourth overall drilling. This is a special set of emergency, I can not remember what the drill is coming, but it was to test our abilities and the captain was very happy. Since we were in danger of ground kept the gunners manning the machine guns and two players in each "nest"-that was unusual for them to stay in heavy flak jackets and helmets after the piercing, but we knew we were in hostile territory. But we were comfortable; guys were sunbathing and everyone was happy because we saw our friends the Israelis in the sky. We were all so calm because of his flight; It was like a scene from McCales Marina.

"It was half an hour after lunch, when the unmarked planes attacked us and they knew exactly where hit, communication antennas! They knew that the guns were not a threat, the pilots were careful to remove the antennas. Then he dropped two bombs napalm on us, miraculously, serious fires all abroad, and despite the hoses were bullet ridden, like a garden hose, and every boat CO2 board was used, the fire that easily could have gone inside the ship, but firefighters remain calm and did not. A Signalman constantly watched our flag was raised, the first burned in the fire, but in a few minutes raised the flag on vacation and our ship was well marked with USS Liberty on it.

"No was not until the torpedo boats came to us not see the Star of David again. But the Israelis claim mistaken identity he mistook us for the El-Quseir a transport vessel Egypt that only carried the horses [and was a third the size of freedom] and had been tied up and unused for a year. Liberty had at least forty antennas but Israel claims that he made a mistake in identifying us, if this were heard in a court of law, but that would be amazing!

"I was a 'ghost' of an interceptor, CT; Technical Communication. At that time, the NSA had security groups in all branches of military service. Normal operations were that for four months at a time, up and down the coast of Africa, anything within the ambient air waves of air monitor. The TC had a multitude of talents, administrators, linguists, Morse Code operators, communicators and experts in electronics, that is what I; kept all team workers.

"We all worked in closed, closed, none of the rest of the crew never knew what we were doing. Our purpose in life was to intercept message, UHF, LHF, long and short wave. There were two gigantic Christmas tree antennas in freedom. Mid-ship there was a pedestal, with a sixteen foot dish pointed sky rooms. How can confuse us to take a horse vessel is beyond of belief.

"You know that when the North Koreans attacked the village, who wanted to capture him? The North Koreans gave repeated opportunities to surrender. The Israelis never gave us one! Any of the torpedo could be approached and asked us to surrender or follow them, but that never happened.

"The Most of miraculous, and I sincerely believe that the Lord saved liberty for a reason and for this time in the world … That ship was built in 1944, freedom was a ship converted cargo ship and mechanics that have broken and sunk! A foot or so from that torpedo and sunk us! But that torpedo a couple, and strengthening the absorption energy and kept us from flying. "

In 1967, John Hrankowski, was nineteen and in his third cruise of freedom. "I worked in the department engineering, responsible for air conditioning, electricity, water and steam. When I was top of the blue, blasting shrapnel knocked me down. I returned to my general space-quarters in the boiler room when the call was: "This is not a drill, we are under attack."

"Fifteen yards ahead of me The torpedo hit the boat out of water! If the torpedo had struck the boiler pressure steam of 750 degrees mixed with cold water would have been the explosion of an atomic bomb!

"The lights went out, the generator was removed, shrapnel flew around me like flies on fire, it was dangerous, but somehow beautifully. I worked with a flashlight to keep the steam under control. If the boiler that exploded the ship would have exploded too! "

One of the men that was below the water line when the torpedo was Ron Kukal, which has become the chaplain of the USS Liberty Veterinary Association. In an e-mail me on 22 October 2007, reported, "On June 8, 1967, during the Vietnam War, was aboard a Navy ship named the USS Liberty. This sailboat was disarmed the waters off the coast of Israel during the six-Day War "… It may be possible that the only reason God saved liberty was to we could tell our story.

"The boat was sailing 15 miles offshore in international waters when the Israeli Defense Force attacked. She was subjected to torpedoes, 50 machine gun caliber, napalm, and rocket fire. There over 800 holes in freedom after the attack, she was on the 10 degree list to starboard, and was on fire in many places. Thirty-four men were killed and about 70% of the crew were injured, of whom I was one.

"For what seemed like an eternity … many miracles occurred during and after the attack. The only weapons we had were 50 caliber machine guns, and they were like peashooters against the French built Mirage jets that attacked the freedom … we were not prepared for any attack of any kind. The element of surprise was his.

"I survived the attack aircraft, but the worst was yet to come, as five torpedo boats upon us, with one thing in mind, and that we put at the bottom. Only one found its mark. This was the second miracle that I was exposed to that day, the first is the survival of the offensive jets.

"The freedom almost torpedo amidships on the starboard side, and I was about thirty yards from the explosion. There were a couple of bulkheads between the explosion, and I, but they were like paper to several tons of TNT that broke the bowels of Liberty. What had several compartments has become a major room in a very short time. I was immediately immersed in seawater, and quickly grew to the point where it would be over my head in a short time, and though I knew swim, the compartment would soon become completely full, and there would be no place to go. The hatch to the upper deck was closed and dogged down, and so my life again depended completely on what God would do. Just before the compartment became fully open the hatch was flooded over me for which many of us as possible out of there before it became a part of a watery grave. This was the third miracle I saw that day, but there was more to come, and as I ran to get to the main deck, was slipping and sliding through the water and the blood which was flooded along each corridor.

"The fourth miracle occurred when exposed to fire machine guns on the main deck, and was still alive, and had not more come. Each dish we had was in pieces, except one, and had never worked very well. One of the radio operators told me he had tried several times to ask help, and finally when he realized they were killed all of the antenna, which was passed had always given him trouble, and when necessary, it worked. We were able to call the Sixth Fleet, and notify them of our situation through an antenna that had hardly ever worked. The fifth miracle had happened.

"The attack lasted two hours or more, but it seemed that only a few minutes. The captain told us we had lost control direction, and we'd have to go aft, and steer the boat manually. We have been able to move, and eventually headed for the island of Malta and in dry dock. This was almost a thousand miles away, and there we were with a ship that had a forty by forty-one-meter gap on his side, fire, and full of holes.

"The Liberty could go down at any time, but sailing a thousand miles without incident, and this had to be the miracle of the day session. I was one of the crew who went down to identify the deceased, and I know God gave me the strength to go and do what is expected of me. Suffice it to say that in the conditions, only men have been reinforced and sustained by God Himself would be able to enter the dark area below. "

"For nothing is covered that not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. "- Luke 12:2

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Operation Cyanide, Peter Hounam, 2003

About the Author

Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor http://www.wearewideawake.org/

Author “KEEP HOPE ALIVE” and “Memoirs of a Nice Irish American Girl’s’ Life in Occupied Territory”

Producer “30 Minutes With Vanunu.”