123.45 Aerial Refuel Louisiana
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kny2xb
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That's not an A-A frequency, but who's going to tell the Air Force "Get off this frequency, you're not supposed to be here!"?
123.45 is a common "unicom" freq. Many pilots use it for plane to plane communications. Its pretty active all over and you can hear all kinds of stuff from weather , to flying conditions to sports scores to what they think about anything happening.
To add to this: although it's officially allocated to the flight test service it almost always used as a common chit-chat frequency.
The slang term for this frequency is "fingers". Because to try to get someone to change to this freq, you can raise one finger at a time. If you're using hand signals anyways.
MiCon
Mike
123.0 ~ 123.575 is, literally, an 'anything goes' range of frequencies. Mostly air-to-air chit chat, sometimes air-to-ground.
Over the years I've heard:
- Law enforcement a/c chit-chatting or co-ordinating ground units during survailence or a pursuit..
- Aerial fire fighting operations.
- Military a/c, usually air-to-air chit chat. My guess is that they use these freqs so they can chit-chat without their squadron office hearing what they say. I've also heard A/R and ACM comms here.
- Commercial airliners chit-chatting.
- Use at air shows (performers, air boss).
- Practice area advisories.
- Interplane aerial formation practice.
- 'Company' a/c: air-to-air and air-to-company ops (Rockwell, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, etc.).
- NASA a/c: everything from company executive a/c to the U-2 test a/c.
- Civil Air Patrol.
- Blimps, gliders.
- Field Business Offices.
- News helos.
You can hear similar comms in the 135.875 ~ 136.975 range, along with commercial airliners and their operations.
Over the years I've heard:
- Law enforcement a/c chit-chatting or co-ordinating ground units during survailence or a pursuit..
- Aerial fire fighting operations.
- Military a/c, usually air-to-air chit chat. My guess is that they use these freqs so they can chit-chat without their squadron office hearing what they say. I've also heard A/R and ACM comms here.
- Commercial airliners chit-chatting.
- Use at air shows (performers, air boss).
- Practice area advisories.
- Interplane aerial formation practice.
- 'Company' a/c: air-to-air and air-to-company ops (Rockwell, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, etc.).
- NASA a/c: everything from company executive a/c to the U-2 test a/c.
- Civil Air Patrol.
- Blimps, gliders.
- Field Business Offices.
- News helos.
You can hear similar comms in the 135.875 ~ 136.975 range, along with commercial airliners and their operations.
KB2GOM
Active Member
If you were going to search these frequencies, what interval between frequencies would you use?
25kHz. It will be 25kHz for 99% of applications in the airband outside of Europe.
MiCon
Mike
What andy51edge said.
I.e., .025 spacing: (123.000, 123.025, 123.050, 123.075, 123.100, 123.125, etc).
It's a good idea to search this segment a few times a year. That's how I came up with all of the logs I have for these frequencies.
I.e., .025 spacing: (123.000, 123.025, 123.050, 123.075, 123.100, 123.125, etc).
It's a good idea to search this segment a few times a year. That's how I came up with all of the logs I have for these frequencies.
KB2GOM
Active Member
Thanks! Very helpful.
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