STICKY thread for Fed & MilAir MS

[KE5TLF]

140.8 Supposedly Eglin F-16's

EDIT: Copying 320.65 here now too. RIPPER calls

EDIT2: 303.0 - USAF 30-30 Got a few hits just now

EDIT3: 261.35 - TAC 18 - VT9 (TAW-1)

EDIT4: 277.4 - 159th FW - Navy New Orleans
291.625 Brief unknown hit.

[KE5TLF]

Some often present TEX2 traffic
134.15 Pensacola North MOA (Jacksonville Center)
254.9 - Areas 2T/Pelican/Fox (TAW-6)
257.975 - Brewton RDO (Runway Duty Officer)

[KE5TLF]

260.125 - DARKSTAR op just started up here

[KE5TLF]

320.65 - RIPPERs at it again

[KE5TLF]

228.3 - Hurlburt 4 SOS Ops "Uniform" active now
2-3 SPUR units (AC-130s)

[darrendotcom]

Originally Posted by KE5TLF

260.125 - DARKSTAR op just started up here

Hearing activity on 260.125 here this morning.

Also hearing Jazz 1 on 348.450

Edit: Also hearing the 159th FW on 284.050

[darrendotcom]

Hammer 11 on 320.650 at Camp Shelby West Air Range
Also on 228.850 ( west range Freq)

Other call signs Hammer 12 and Hammer 13

[KE5TLF]

Yeah they (T-45's I guess) are rocking Shelby today. Think they started around 8am.

Would be nice to get a "name" for that 320.65.

EDIT...and HAMMER11 just reffered to this as AUX a couple of times now while switching to the ATIS freq and back
Maybe the Shelby AUX referred to the other day?

[darrendotcom]

Originally Posted by KE5TLF

228.85 Shelby Primary

EDIT2: HOBBY45 switching to Shelby AUX ???

Maybe this is what they were talking about.

In mid 2007 the Air National Guard opened a new combat training runway at Camp Shelby. The 210-acre (0.8 km2) Shelby Auxiliary Field 1 is one of only two facilities in the world designed for C-17 Globemaster III short-field landing operations. It was constructed to meet Air Force C-17 training requirements.

Edit: posted this before you posted your post. I have heard other units on 320.65 before. It might be an air to air channel for that range.

[KE5TLF]

Ok, just checked the CNATRA website and the the COMM CARD for the TAW-6 T-45's was updated last month.
320.65 is TAC 28.(preset 28 on both radios)

[darrendotcom]

OK, so they were from NAS Pensacola?

[KE5TLF]

Yeah, for the most part. It's usually pretty easy to tell the T-45's. Their audio is HOT as heck. Seems to almost always be that same instructor with the very distinctive voice too.

No idea about those RIPPER's though. MAYBE Meridian?

Seems that almost always ROKT's change to HAMMER when they're training at Shelby. If you pay real close attention to the FSS freq. you can hear them coming up the VR. Or at least I can being close to point Alpha when the announce their entry. Since they enter at 1500 ft or less they may not be high enough for you to catch. They also contact KPQL as they pass thru the airspace as well.

NAS Pensacola
TAW-6
VT-4 BUCK (now folded into VT-10)
VT-10 KATT T-6A
VT-86 ROKT T-39 and T-45
USAF AETC
451 FTS SNIPE T-1A
455 FTS JEDI T-6A

Also been hearing some CONGO (always T-1's iirc) call signs entering the VR's in recent months too. No Idea who they are though.

NAS Meridian T-45's
VT-7 TALON
VT-9 BOBCAT

For the benefit of anyone who may be watching:
Keesler AFB
815th AS - HOBBY (sometimes flys RCH(REACH) missions too)
53d WRS - TEAL (Hurrican Hunters)

Hurlburt Field
AC-130s - SPUR and SPOKY (Spooky)
U-28/PC-12's - DRAGON and SLAYER

KJAN ANG C-17's
172d AW - RULER

[darrendotcom]

Do you know of any Operations Freqs for NAS Merdian?
I can hear them on the Tower and Approach/ Departure freqs.

[KE5TLF]

Yep. It was the Merdian air show that actually got me going on finding the comm cards posted in the cockpits after photographing one in a T-45 cockpit in 2011. LOL

Sent you a PM with my email. Files too big to post here.

You, or anyone for that matter, can find them on the CNATRA web site too. You have to install the DOD security certificates though to view the site. Not a big deal really, Google "install dod certificates" to find out how to do that.

[darrendotcom]

320.650 busy again along with 228.850
This time with Master 11, Shelby 11 and Dealer 11 and 31

[KE5TLF]

Copy that. No clue who or what these guys are...

[darrendotcom]

Maybe Navy, Mentioned Marine ground unit that needed air support.

[darrendotcom]

Hammer 11, 12, 13 on Shelby west Air Range again this morning
on 228.850 and 320.650

[KE5TLF]

228.85 and 320.65 active again
280.1 - Pine Hill MOA active (involving DARKSTAR)
275.65 - Something going on here.

[darrendotcom]

320.65 active with Hammer 11,12,and 13 at unknown MOA

Unrelated, Pine Hill MOA active on 280.100


Meridian NAS VT9 Tac 18 on 261.350 active
and tac 26 on 316.400