What's the reason of having that? most AIR comms are in VHF band anyways.
Why are there VHF and UHF frequencies?
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n4voxgill
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only military is in uhf and they needed more frequencies than were available in VHF spectrum.
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N467RX said:
History!
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n4voxgill said:
You sure?
Perhaps UHF is used instead where you have a heavily congested VHF traffic corridor.
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Perhaps VHF was used for because it was the "newest thing" (and therefore the only thing available) when they first decided to set up an aviation band, and then, perhaps they used UHF because it was the "newest thing" (and therefore the only thing available) when they added additional spectrum for military use.mciupa said:
Just "perhaps"?:roll: :roll:
N_Jay said:
You won't find any civilian a/c in the UHF bands, the only non-military in the UHF spectrum is federal government users. Perhaps maybe some civil airshow performers use the UHF spectrum with a special authorization such as the US Army Aviation Heritage Foundation flying vintage helicopters. I've heard they possibly have a couple UHF a/a freqs assigned to them.
But, this day in age almost all current military a/c are both VHF equipped. It is true that most TAC a/c prefer UHF ATC over VHF just due to less conjestion where they can have more time to (BS) on their a/a freqs. Just a guess there. I enjoy hearing both UHF and VHF and to a lot of people the UHF portion has a little more of a mistique to it from a listener's point of view. When you hear something on UHF it's like it's like an "elite" aircraft especially if the pilots have masks on.
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