Ornge, MOH, 799 etc

[tormedic]

Was wondering if anyone could help me with what frequencies the air ambulance is operating on these days in Ontario?

Steve

 

[ve3tej]

129.275
413.6875
150.100

 

[gary123]

Add in flightradar24 Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24
or ADS-B Exchange - tracking thousands of aircraft
and you will have everything you need to track Ornge.

There are a few threads on the call signs and tail numbers for you to use.

 

[tormedic]

129.275
413.6875
150.100

Wasn't sure if the the 413.6875 frequency was still being used by rotary aircraft for 799 series. It was when I worked MEDCOM in the 1980's

Add in flightradar24 Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24
or ADS-B Exchange - tracking thousands of aircraft
and you will have everything you need to track Ornge.

There are a few threads on the call signs and tail numbers for you to use.

How does this work regarding Ornge?
Does it allow you to specify air ambulance etc?

 

[gary123]

I usually just have it in running screen mode and watch the aircraft. There are not a lot of helicopters in Ontario so they stand out pretty well. FlightRadar lets you select specific aircraft. While typing this I checked and CFGNO is in the air.

 

[Noseybody]

The helicopters stand out, fixed wing aircraft not so much. GYNH out of Toronto recently landed in Bellville for and MVC, should be leaving soon.

 

[IdleMonitor]

I don't have the 413.6875 repeater near me. I think the closest is likely Ottawa, however I did have Ornge flying by enroute to Ottawa from the Pembroke area today and I did catch them on the input frequency 418.6875. Odd, because that's the first time I've heard them at all on that frequency. When they're talking on it. (Or the repeater) for that matter, are they basically on FleetNet doing a patch?; PCOM doing a patch?; or is this their patch to hospital channel?

This is why I put everything in the radio cause you never know what frequency will become active out of nowhere.

 

[ATCTech]

Here in the GTHA and surrounding area the UHF frequency is exclusively to talk to Ornge dispatch, no hospital patches and the like at all. I presume that's province-wide protocol.

 

[IdleMonitor]

Interesting, because it definitely sounded like what a patch enroute to Hospital would sound like with all the info given on patient etc.. Unless Ornge Dispatch relays that info along.

Here in the GTHA and surrounding area the UHF frequency is exclusively to talk to Ornge dispatch, no hospital patches and the like at all. I presume that's province-wide protocol.

 

[ATCTech]

Interesting, because it definitely sounded like what a patch enroute to Hospital would sound like with all the info given on patient etc.. Unless Ornge Dispatch relays that info along.

A relay is certainly possible if the receiving location was out of range on P-COMM. I've heard "We can't raise xxxx CAAC on Provincial, can you let them know _______." And again, in the more remote areas than down here it may be far more common due to limited coverage on simplex. I personally pay zero attention to EMS on FleetNet as there's just way too much radio activity.

 

[mjf]

How does this work regarding Ornge?
Does it allow you to specify air ambulance etc?

If you have the FlightRadar24 app on your phone or tablet, you can just filter by airline. "Ornge Air" is in the list of airlines. The website doesn't have a list of airlines so no luck there.

 

[ATCTech]

I'm playing with FR24 right now on my desktop PC and I'm a business level subscriber. If I filter Ornge nothing shows up although C-GYNF is airborne off of CYXU as I type this. The common name FR24 shows in the details of the flight (ORNGE AIR) but that doesn't appear to be what they filter on, rather the top line of the flight ID which in the case of the A139s is the civilian registration. Tried the same thing with Air Canada. If I filter on ACA it works but it will not accept the full airline name, just the ICAO or IATA designator.

 

[gary123]

Try ADS-B I find its a bit more flexible in filtering. I have all the MOH and OPP set for callsign filtering and it works very well. I have also used the aircraft type filter will equally good results.

 

[ATCTech]

Regarding FR24 filtering, it does indeed work as described by @mjf on the mobile app, however the FR24 web site direct connection (www.flightradar24) still does not handle filtering as effectively.

 

[gary123]

Not sure if there is a ADS-B mobile app. I'll check into it later.

Update: there is one listed on Google.

 

[ATCTech]

Tonight I'm listening to both 413.6875 and 418.6875 (the repeater input) on two separate radios, same make/model, both on the same antenna. MEDCOM dispatch is loud and clear on 413.6875, the helos (3 in the last 15 minutes including one off of my local hospital not 3km from me that's heading to Hamilton) are ONLY appearing on the input side of the repeater and of course at different RF levels depending on their relative distance to me. These are 3 rotary aircraft all within 50km of (in one case right over) Toronto. It certainly appears in the GTHA at least they're now using the remote site(s) as ground-based receivers on 418.6875 and the corresponding site transmitters on 413.6875, but as discrete "split" frequencies rather than in a typical repeater configuration as they always have been. Of course the airborne radios are exactly opposite of that, 413.6875 being receive and 418.6875 being transmit.

Edit: I should add this may be a site fault and not a permanent change.