Friday 5 October 2012

Milair in Kentucky - or how I learned to stop worrying and love the search button

Having moved from Chicago, IL (ish) to Louisville, KY the milair monitoring has improved... a lot!

Hearing lots of AAR (Air to air refuelling) as well as helicopter and fixed wing traffic into the local range (Fort Knox).

Some activity I found by punching in a load of AAR freqs but otherwise I found out that a lot of the milair frequencies on the internet were either out of date or incorrect so I set about finding my own.

I left the BCT-15 searching 230-370 and 138-144 today while I was at work and this is what I ended up with in the bank:

258.3500
288.3250
314.6500
315.0000
317.5250
322.4250
353.8000
362.5750
362.6000
362.8750
363.5000
363.5500
364.0250
364.0500
365.3500

The fun part comes trying to identify them! 

So far only one has kept the squelch open so that's locked out (315.000 I believe).

This is the list of freqs I found over another day:

0230.0000
0232.2250
0233.3500
0234.4500
0235.5250
0237.6750
0237.7750
0239.3000
0239.8000
0241.1500
0242.2250
0244.4500
0247.7750
0248.3750
0248.4000
0250.3500
0250.4500
0255.4000
0256.8500
0262.8500
0262.9250
0262.9500
0262.9750
0263.0000
0263.0250
0263.4750
0263.5000
0263.5250
0263.5500
0263.5750
0263.6000
0263.6250
0265.5500
0265.7250
0268.1000
0268.8000
0283.5000
0298.1500

Some of those are satcom downlinks in the 262 range, I believe.

The joys of trying to start from scratch!  This reminds me of the "big change" we had in Europe a few years back when all the UHF air frequencies were reallocated.  And I mean ALL of them.





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