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- From: lrk@k5qwb.lonestar.org (Mr. Lyn R. Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
- Subject: Re: Sounds like Haiti patrol to me.
- Message-ID: <iFiwXB3w164w@k5qwb.lonestar.org>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 21:48:29 GMT
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- Organization: Radio Amateur k5qwb
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- cd651@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wally L. Blume) writes:
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- > All of these co-ords. were within 75 miles of Port Au Prince. Later
- > 1717 called in to ask if contact #15 had lights. 1717 (female) was told
- > that it was a radar contact. Since CG aircraft are numbered like 1717
- > this sounds like a ship and aircraft team looking for boat people.
- > After leaving the radio for a couple of hours I came back to hear
- > a different callsign which was identifying itself as 1719 ( the cutter
- > continued to call it 1717) And the cutter notifying 1717/1719 that it
- > was headed back to Gitmo(Guantanimo Bay).
- > Sounds like Haiti to me. Am I wrong?
-
- Yep. Sounds like you're right.
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- BTW, the Hatian Migrant Interdiction Operation (HMIO) is not new, it
- was going on back when the Coast Guard was doing their RTTY in the
- clear. At least ten years ago.
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