123.45 mhz

[oldradioguy2010]

Monitoring airband while mobile, picked up a conversation at 123.45. I am mobile in Palistine TX at 1630 hrs Texas time.
Heard two people talking as tho on a CB band. So I say a simplex signals.
I am sure they are out of band in the aviation band. Sooo, I will continue tomorrow on my way home.

DW
So. Cal. /mobile in tx.

 

[hill]

This frequency is an air to air frequency. It is kind of used for general chit chat and your report is consistent with this use.

All VHF aircraft communications are simplex.

 

[rk911]

This frequency is an air to air frequency. It is kind of used for general chit chat and your report is consistent with this use.

All VHF aircraft communications are simplex.

Same situation in my area. When I was flying apart from no foul language 123.45 was akin to CB channel 19.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Monitoring airband while mobile, picked up a conversation at 123.45. I am mobile in Palistine TX at 1630 hrs Texas time.
Heard two people talking as tho on a CB band. So I say a simplex signals.
I am sure they are out of band in the aviation band. Sooo, I will continue tomorrow on my way home.

DW
So. Cal. /mobile in tx.

This is always an interesting topic and comes up often in the forums

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/123-450-in-your-area.487148/

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/agitator-on-123-450-dallas-area.498674/

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/123-45-aerial-refuel-louisiana.466512/

 

[jaymatt1978]

Monitoring airband while mobile, picked up a conversation at 123.45. I am mobile in Palistine TX at 1630 hrs Texas time.
Heard two people talking as tho on a CB band. So I say a simplex signals.
I am sure they are out of band in the aviation band. Sooo, I will continue tomorrow on my way home.

DW
So. Cal. /mobile in tx.

ALL airband is SIMPLEX! Even the center frequencies, which is why you can hear the aircraft, more than the centers.

 

[EAFrizzle]

This is one of the most entertaining airband frequencies SE of Dallas for me. Chitchat, formation practice, helicopter hog hunting, and the occasional agitator. I was fairly close to the big airport in Houston, so I never caught anything like the stuff I hear up here.

 

[wtp]

it is nicknamed "fingers"
i finally remembered it.
and oldradioguy2010, i sent a PM to you, look to the top right of this page.

 

[oldradioguy2010]

Yes WTP I got the pm.
Thank you.
Anyway I got to thinking it my have been a unicom freq.
And of course AM mode. I also thought it may have been a couple dudes with a Baofeng.
Thank you all for responding.

DW
So. Cal.
Traveling.

 

[hill]

I also thought it may have been a couple dudes with a Baofeng

A Baofeng won't transmit in the AM mode thankfully.

 

[oldradioguy2010]

Would not know Hill, don't have one. (Junk)

 

[mass-man]

123.450 is always in one of my scanners. I often hear chit chat between pilots ferrying planes to DFW from out west! Have heard more than one aerial photo session. Once even one pilot asking another if the readings on a couple of gauges could be right...the response, NO, then a fairly quick I'm gonna land at Denton airport now!

 

[GlobalNorth]

Fly an international flight over an ocean and there are are two freqs always in the radios - 121.5 MHz [Guard] and 123.45 MHz [Chat].

 

[oldradioguy2010]

So am I to understand, 123.45 is more of a uncomfortable channel.
I am not a pilot just a SWL scanning aerobands.

DW
So. Cal

 

[oldradioguy2010]

Damn spell check!
That should read unicorn channel.

DW
So. Cal.

 

[Colin9690]

It's the CB-19, or GMRS-675 of the aviation world. *Usually* non-commercial pilots only that do this.

 

[prcguy]

It's the CB-19, or GMRS-675 of the aviation world. *Usually* non-commercial pilots only that do this.

Also known as "victor sequence" for military people. "uniform sequence" was either 234.5 or 345.6, I forget which and it was used to request QSY so the foreign speaking enemy or even your superiors would not understand what was going on. If you were a military pilot and needed to change freq to avoid someone listening in you could announce QSY victor sequence and most people would have no clue you were going to 123.45MHz.

 

[dlwtrunked]

Also known as "victor sequence" for military people. "uniform sequence" was either 234.5 or 345.6, I forget which and it was used to request QSY so the foreign speaking enemy or even your superiors would not understand what was going on. If you were a military pilot and needed to change freq to avoid someone listening in you could announce QSY victor sequence and most people would have no clue you were going to 123.45MHz.

Note that I have seen specific DOD instructions not to use 123.45 but I have also personally seen (in person with my own eyes) them use it. A major problem is that there is a lack of affordable UHF air HTs. But VHF air HTs are common.

 

[Eugene]

oldradioguy2010.......Not an uncomfortable.....or unicorn channel. A Unicom channel is used by non-towered airports or towered airports when the tower is closed. Also know as a CTAF (Common Traffic Advisory Frequency). What you will hear are position reports in relation to the runway in use ("XYZ airport, Cessna 1234NY, downwind to runway 23 Airport XYZ) and things of this nature. Wherever you travel you can go to ""airnav.com"" and type in local airports and it will give you frequencies and airport pictures and sectional data. Happy and safe travels.

Eugene KG4AVE

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[oldradioguy2010]

Thank you Eugene. My smart phone is not so smart. Can't spell.
I will look at the page you sent and learn thru osmosis.
73s

DW
So. Cal/ mobile

 

[Eugene]

You're welcome...have fun.

Eugene KG4AVE