Coast Guard

If I wanted to monitor coast guard air operations out of new brunswich how would I do this. Do i monitor air, marine, or some sort of coast guard channel?

I looked through the database and couldn't find anything.

Any ideas. Thanks.

Yeah, What do the canadian CG use?

Give these a try :

Coast Guard Auxiliary/ Coast Guard
143.280, 143.875, 148.305, 148.825, 165.3375, 165.3125, 164.300, 165.2625
Tactical 162.125, 162.325, 163.125
Cutter 232.100
Search & rescue 237.900
Air/sea rescue 287.800
Coast Guard 381.800 (helicopter)
Coast Guard secondary 383.900
Coast Guard reserve 30.36, 30.38

Also check out the VHF maritime freq's

Them all on here someplace?

Muxlow said:

Them all on here someplace?

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If you mean the VHF , yes there is an American listing in the WIKI here , the freq's are the same in Canada for the most part.

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Marine

and my favorite http://www.boatnerd.com/facts-figures/boatfreq.htm

156.8000 is the intnational hailing and distress channel, and search and rescue can also be herd on 157.1250

newtoscanning said:

If I wanted to monitor coast guard air operations out of new brunswich how would I do this. Do i monitor air, marine, or some sort of coast guard channel?

I looked through the database and couldn't find anything.

Any ideas. Thanks.

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A start would be to check freq. 156.800 and 156.950. You will get conversation between CG aircraft and land CG stations (Rivière-au-Renard or Halifax).

mciupa said:

Give these a try :

Coast Guard Auxiliary/ Coast Guard
143.280, 143.875, 148.305, 148.825, 165.3375, 165.3125, 164.300, 165.2625
Tactical 162.125, 162.325, 163.125
Cutter 232.100
Search & rescue 237.900
Air/sea rescue 287.800
Coast Guard 381.800 (helicopter)
Coast Guard secondary 383.900
Coast Guard reserve 30.36, 30.38

Also check out the VHF maritime freq's

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would these be the same for example off the coast and around Cape Breton?, The coast guard chopper has been making alot of passes the past few days, was wondering what frequency(s) to look for.

It wouldn't hurt to punch them in. Also, use your Search function in case you get a hit on something that isn't published.

Wow, that was a conversation I participated in eight years ago. I feel old now.

Those USCG Aux channels changed in the past few years.

FYI, usually the AUX Operates within the US only

You might want to try the freqs listed in the Wiki

United States Coast Guard - The RadioReference Wiki

MTouesnard said:

would these be the same for example off the coast and around Cape Breton?, The coast guard chopper has been making alot of passes the past few days, was wondering what frequency(s) to look for.

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Certainly is an oldie!

You may also want to check out marine VHF channel 19, 156.95... that seems to be the channel that the CCG choppers use here to contact Halifax.

Not sure how much the US Coast Guard frequency lists would help...

What scanner are you useing?

newtoscanning said:

If I wanted to monitor coast guard air operations out of new brunswich how would I do this. Do i monitor air, marine, or some sort of coast guard channel?

I looked through the database and couldn't find anything.

Any ideas. Thanks.

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I have a Homepatrol 1 and I can listen to the Canada coast guard but the suprise is they broadcast on Marine chanels Canada slect service type transportation strange but thats where I find them. That is Port Huron back in to Lake Erie.

I have been scanning for a long time, and this is the first time I have heard any suggestion that the Canadian Coast Guard uses anything outside of the marine VHF channels or a few non marine VHF... they used to operate extensive networks in the 140's for lighthouse nets, but most manned lighthouses are gone now. I am really not convinced that CCG air operations would use milair type frequencies as it is strictly a civilian operation unlike the USCG that is essentially military. CCG helicopters are for use in maintaining aids to navigation plus on icebreakers they do advance scouting for best routes, but they are not really tasked for any kind of search and rescue ops, any more than any other civilian aircraft are, and certainly not used for any type of military purposes, All air search and rescue assets in Canada are operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force, anyone else involved on the air side is secondary... The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (which the CCG is technically part of) does operate offshore fixed-wing surveillance aircraft and they might possibly be equipped with milair in case they need to liaise with naval or air force units... but I am just speculating on that.

I am not saying that what has been listed (the US-like frequencies) is impossible but it will be a big surprise to me if it is the case.




Here in the Nova Scotia area it is possible that the CG uses the Nova Scotia 800 MHz trunk system,(soon to migrate to 700 MHz)... certainly several other federal departments use it for ops....

The Coast Guard in NS has TMR radios... I know the Inshore Rescue boats that are staffed by College Students have portables, I have seen them before but I am unsure what is in them short of MA TGs and EMO Tgs maybe?