MWARA Ground Station Callsigns?

[mfn002]

Does anyone have a list of the ground station callsigns for MWARA? I have been unable to find anything online.

 

[TONYNYPD]

You mean like New York Radio. Etc. if so Radio Reference has a wiki page and there are quite a few lists online with Stations and call signs.


Never Forget 9/11

 

[TONYNYPD]

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


Never Forget 9/11

 

[mfn002]

That sort of helps, but I still need the SEA, INO, NCA, SAT, EUR, MID and SAM families. By the way, where is "Arctic Radio" located?

 

[brandon]

I don't believe arctic radio exists anymore. It appears to transmit as Gander Radio. I suspect Gander has a transmitter in western Canada, because I copy them very strong handing aircraft over to Anchorage, Edmonton, Magadan etc. Often times you can hear them on both transmitters causing a very bad echo effect.

 

[brandon]

Here are some stations off the top of my head that have been monitored within the past year.

Pacific

San Francisco Radio
Tokyo Radio
Seoul Radio
Nadi Radio
Tahiti Radio
Auckland Radio
Brisbane Radio
Petropavlovsk Radio
Magadan Radio
Khabarovsk Radio


Atlantic

New York Radio
Gander Radio
Shanwick Radio
Santa Maria
Iceland Radio
Bodo Radio
Dakar Radio
Sal Radio
Atlantico Radio
Johannesburg Oceanic

SE Asia

Jakarta Radio
Manila Radio
Singapore Radio
Ujung Radio
Lumpur Radio

Latin America

Mexico Radio
Cenamer Control
Santiago Radio
Lima Radio
Cayenne Radio

 

[ka3jjz]

Google is your friend - this list is dated just this past Feb, so it should be pretty accurate. All the families should be listed here - note that the list is by frequency, so you're going to have to do a little digging to get everything you want. Gotta put this list link in the wiki...

The Btown Monitoring Post: International Aeronautical HF Frequency List - Last Update 25 Feb 2015

Mike

 

[mfn002]

That "Mexico Radio" is from Merida, right? If so, I've heard it a couple times but the aircraft have always said "Meridacom".

 

[mfn002]

After doing some poking around, I discovered that "Arctic Radio" is located in Cambridge Bay, Canada. It has that callsign west of 88 degrees west and goes by "Baffin Radio" east of 88 degrees west. It's located in the NAT-D region. There's also a NAT-D one that isn't mentioned on the wiki page: "Rainbow Radio". It's a military station located in Tors Cove, Newfoundland.

Here's what I've found so far:
ANDERSON RADIO (Guam)
ARCTIC RADIO (Cambridge Bay, Canada-west of 88 degrees west)
ATLANTICO RADIO (Recife, Brazil)
BAFFIN RADIO (Cambridge Bay, Canada-east of 88 degrees west)
BALI RADIO (Bali, Indonesia)
BANDBOX RADIO (Nieuw-Milligan, Netherlands)
BODO RADIO (Bodo, Norway)
BOYEROS RADIO (Havana, Cuba)
BRISBANE RADIO (Brisbane, Australia)
CANARIAS RADIO (Las Palmas, Gran Canarias)
CARRASCO RADIO (Montevideo, Uruguay)
CAYENNE RADIO (Cayenne, French Guiana)
CENAMER CONTROL (Honduras)
DAKAR RADIO (Dakar, Senegal)
EZEIZA RADIO (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
GANDER RADIO (Gander, Newfoundland)
ICELAND RADIO (Reykjavik, Iceland)
JAKARTA RADIO (Jakarta, Indonesia)
JOHANNESBURG OCEANIC (Johannesburg, South Africa)
KHABAROVSK RADIO (Khabarovsk, Russia)
KINLOSS RADIO (Lossiermouth, UK)
KOLTSOVO RADIO (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
LIMA RADIO (Lima, Peru)
LUMPUR RADIO (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
MAGADAN RADIO (Magadan, Russia)
MALQUETIA RADIO (Caracas, Venezuela)
MANILA RADIO (Manila, Philippines)
MERIDACOM (Merida, Mexico)
MONTREAL RADIO (Iqaluit, Canada)
MURMANSK RADIO (Murmansk, Russia)
NADI RADIO (Nadi, Fiji)
NEW YORK RADIO (New York City, NY)
PETROPAVLOSK RADIO (Petropavlosk, Russia)
PIARCO RADIO (Piarco, Trinidad and Tobago)
PUERTO RICO RADIO (Salinas, Puerto Rico)
RAINBOW RADIO (Tors Cove, Newfoundland)
ROBERTS RADIO (Monrovia, Liberia)
SAL RADIO (Sal, Cape Verde)
SAN FRANCISCO RADIO (San Francisco, CA)
SANTA MARIA RADIO (Santa Maria, Azores)
SANTIAGO RADIO (Santiago, Chile)
SEOUL RADIO (Seoul, South Korea)
SHANWICK AERADIO (Shanwick, Ireland)
SINGAPORE RADIO (Singapore)
SVALBARD RADIO (Spitsbergen Islands)
TAHITI RADIO (Tahiti)
TOKYO RADIO (Tokyo, Japan)
TURKHA RADIO (Turkhansk, Russia)
VIPER RADIO (Port Sandry, Falkland Islands)
WEST COAST RADIO (McLellan AFB, CA)

I don't know about the spelling of some of these; the map I found them on (mentioned in an earlier thread) had really small text and using the enlarge feature on my computer only turned the text into giant pixels.

 

[ka3jjz]

I don't believe arctic radio exists anymore. It appears to transmit as Gander Radio. I suspect Gander has a transmitter in western Canada, because I copy them very strong handing aircraft over to Anchorage, Edmonton, Magadan etc. Often times you can hear them on both transmitters causing a very bad echo effect.

There is a station using that name in the list shown in the link I gave as being in Iceland (17946 Khz). That's a common MWARA NAT family frequency

It's possible that 'Arctic Radio' is/was a network name, including the station in Canada that was reported earlier in this thread, and not the name of a specific station per se

Mike

 

[majoco]

Here's a couple of charts I put together a couple of years ago. You'll notice "Arctic" in NAT-D. Don't forget the old chart at....

http://imageshack.com/f/5ehfaeroj

 

[brandon]

I cannot find any logs of Arctic Radio since the early 2000s. That was the last time I personally heard them as well. All of the polar stuff on 8891/11279 that I'm hearing is being handled by Gander. Here is Gander talking to a Emirates flight at 85 degrees north from yesterday. Once on the other side (out of North America) they are usually handed off to Magadan or Murmansk.

 

[majoco]

2.3.2.2 In addition to those six aeronautical stations, there are two other stations that operate
NAT frequencies. They are Canarias Radio which serves Canarias ACC and Arctic Radio
serving Edmonton, Winnipeg and Montreal ACC’s.

This came from the ICAO document dated November 2012 so it looks like "Arctic" radio has been sort of downgraded to a RDARA but still using the NAT MWARA frequencies - perhaps just for local coverage. I guess they will switch to Gander when they get a bit further out. I just googled for "Arctic MWARA" to get the document - pages and pages of waffle!