hope you brought your lunch to read this diatribe ........ haha haha
ah

Actually, the hoppers are often not working. That is why you can hear
so much radio traffic at Red Flag. The last flag only had Have Quick
working about 20% of the time. Timber was less of a problem.

eh  eh  eh  ....... I have to say that you have an impressive personal
knowledge of a lot of  gov - military  related " stuff " in general
and a "  very " impressive  knowledge and understanding of 
activities related to the training ranges .  pretty  kewl .........

( initially I'd said a lot more about all this , but now I'm gonna
have to leave it at this ,  I'm afraid )         

I have a Microtel receiver, so I have a panoramic frequency display.
The trouble is mine is so old I don't want to take it on the road. It
is the model with a mechanical servo to track signals. It uses two
tubes. The 100GHz limit on the dial certainly is cool.

those are VERY nice radios ......... very nice.  I love that microtel
stuff ..... even better than most of  the similar  WJ stuff !   a lot
of the later model WJ black box stuff is hard to beat but in big older
rack mount radios , microtel is great stuff.   you  certainly can  use
those to  find ANY of the  SS / hopping  unified radios  , land
mobile, base , or air mobile  and a WHOLE lot more !  < g >       

take a look in the  850 mhz range up in the
bay area and get a load of those SS hoppers there.  a hint is that a
few of them are located on top of  the federal building !!!  ay a
yahah ahaah ( as in most cities ) .

  if you could carry  your microtel  around with you , you'd be
surprised at some of the places those trunking hoppers show up.  in
some cases , the  radio system gives away more than it should !   the
technical arrogance of thinking they are undetectable is  terribly
misplaced !  lots of techs are aware of this shortcoming 9 of those
systems ) and  I suspect  that is probably   pushing ( somewhat )  the
strong  move to UWB. 

http://www.lazygranch.com/wc9xqe.pdf
This is the experimental license that has left the website, well, sort
of. I'm working on resurrecting all the transmitter locations. Stuff
doesn't die on the FCC website. It just gets buried. There is a
certain facility in northern California that managed to get their
transmitter info removed from the web, but I found the applications
elsewhere and the frequencies were still good. And when security
spotted me snooping on them, well, I heard my plate go over the
air. ;-)

yayaya hah ahah a  .........