Interesting post.
I have had several conversations with aircraft over the years, one most notably was a communications operator aboard a "un-specified" aircraft during nighttime touch and go landings.
He did say they were at Edwards AFB, he was also using LSB mode, but would keep changing frequencies a lot.....when asked why, he said that he did not want to be caught on the CB frequencies by his superiors.
We would chat for several minutes, he would say they were going in for another touch and go and I would lose him, then he would pop back up and ask me to QSY to a different Frequency.
Lol, he was surprised that I had the capability to go up into some spectrum he did not think I could get to.
This next one some of you will think is shins, but I can assure it did happen.
I was working DX on the base one time, spinning the dial, when I ran across a guy calling North America.
I answered his call, and he asked me if I had an Internet connection and could pass a message to some friends that were on the old CB tricks Forum.
The message was that he had completed his mission, and would be back in New York in two weeks, he was doing well and everything was OK.
I went to the Forum, posted his message and was thanked by several members for the relay.
I got a PM there from one of his friends.
His Name was Colonel Xavier Stevenson, he was with an elite group of military in Afghanistan , in the Tora-Bora region looking for....Osama Bin Laden.
Turns out he was a part of MI5, the British version of the Secret Service.
About a month later, I got an E-Mail from Xavier, with an attachment.
He thanked me for passing his message along, and sent me a QSL card that featured The MI5 logo and his contact Info.
During the next year or so I keep in contact with him via e mail, he became Ill, and found out he had cancer.
He has now passed many years ago, but I will never forget that contact.
You never know who you will run across on the Air.
73
Jeff
