trainman111 said:
Thats why to me it has been so hard to find the right frequncies. There are SO MANY and when you only have 500 channels available, you have to pick and choose and hope you chose the right ones. You never know what you might hear and on what frequency.
True... You have to choose your battles carefully as they say. I've had freqs in for a couple years before I heard something. But it was worth it when I did... At least it was for me anyway. Kind of like finishing a crossword puzzle or something.
One good trick on the AAs... If you search and find an AA, then put that in the radio and just run it all the time. Now next time you hear somebody on it, turn on just the major ATC stuff in the area. Often times you can match the voices. Or sometimes they will even call the primary radio ATC freq change on the AA for the other guys. Other times you will hear them tell they're wingman they are going to get ATIS... That's the time you hit search because they will often call into base at the same time. Finding a base is the rarest catch of all. But your local ATC freqs are your most productive things to listen to, because that's where you can track where people are coming and going to. Once you figure out how that works, then you can follow them and figure out the more complicated stuff. A good way to do it is just keep the basic ATC and maybe some field base ops in one bank. Just run that so you have the best chance of catching stuff. Then when you hear somebody, that's when you turn on the other banks with whatever AAs or tactical stuff you have... Or just search. If you just leave everything running all the time, it's too much.
Dave
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