Abstract: In a skywave adaptable communications network, the time required to initiate communications between two transceivers can often be an important factor where the propagation characteristics of signals at various frequencies vary drastically with time. The present invention improved upon the prior art by accepting the first frequency that it hears as a communication frequency when two nodes are attempting to communicate from a known list of frequencies to be transmitted at known times. The system then adaptively changes to better quality signals as these better quality signals are received, analyzed and compared with present working frequency signals.