30.45 MHz - Fort Hood Range Control

[blantonl]

has anyone out on the east cost copied Fort Hood Range Control on 30.45 MHz recently?

I remember the days living on the east coast and using this frequency as a band opening indicator. Is it still used? Is anyone still hearing it out east from Texas?

 

[mancow]

I dont know about out east but I hear it up here near KC almost every time there is a band opening.

 

[N8IAA]

Lindsay, when I lived in Cleve,OH, I had a RS discone with a modified adapter that used a 102" whip. I heard low band skip from CA on that antenna. I'm buried in a hole here at my present residence (no outside antennas), and get blasted by all the paging towers around me. I can't even get the local state park workers. I know it doesn't answer your question, but I thought I'd take a trip down memory lane too
Larry

 

[BushDoctor]

Low Band Skip Antenna

Where there is a will there is a way. At the present time I dont have a outside antenna but that has not stopped me from listening to skip. I took a rabbit ears antenna that was suppose top clip onto an Admiral TV. I spread out in 90 degrees tied the top of one of the elements with a shoestring to my curtain rod and let the other point to my area of interest and the side window wood trip is resting the junction if the two rods to make it stay upright for one rod and pointing for the opther one. Then i took a piece of tv 75 ohm coax with f connectors attached one end to a 300/75 ohm adapter (Xformer) the other wnd i removed the f connector and soldered on a motorola connector to fit my old realistic scanner. The free end of the transformer (75/300) has a 300 ohm wire that i attached to the rabbit ears and i have neen logging skip since mid june till early august. I have logged all three MS Hgy Patrol 42.12 42.08 42.16 and 29.60 from texas once alabama once and oklahoma once as well as wesr va state on 42.10 about 40 miles away and many other local low band stations to numerous to list. I have not coppied 30.45 in a long time which i use to receive all the time during openings. I had thought 30.45 wasnt used anymore but i still continue to listen to catch it again thanks for letting me know its still being coppied

 

[nd5y]

I drove past Fort Sill twice yesterday on the way to OKC and back and picked up Range Control on 47.000 PL 150.0 and and unidentified station on 42.600 PL 150.0. I didn't hear anything else on the other listed range control frequences. Maybe they changed some frequencies.

 

[cjrjr507]

Picked up 30.4500 - Range Control, possibly out of Fort Hood, Texas this afternoon. Also picked up 30.6000 - Military - Strike Main calling for Striker Six Romeo and there was an Alpha thrown in too. That Striker may have been Stryker. Had several hits between 30.0000 & 31.0000 this afternoon. Can't wait until tomorrow !. Oh, also picked up an repeater on 30.9000 mhz nfm giving an CW call sign at 1502 mdt

Fort Hood frequencies
Range Control Primary - 30.4500 mhz nfm
Range Control Secondary - 34.3000 mhz nfm
Range Control Medivac - 38.3000 mhz nfm
Flight Following - 38.7500 mhz nfm
Pilot to Metro - 41.2000 mhz nfm
Pilot to Dispatch - 38.7000 mhz nfm

 

[cjrjr507]

Found some other freq's for fort hood.
45.0000 FM MP's in field
49.7000 FM EOD
49.8000 FM EOD
Freq's found on Monitoring Times

 

[bryan_herbert]

Just a heads up... Sunspot numbers just jumped from 87 to 113... Lets hope they elevate the solar flux to 190 or higher like we had a couple weeks ago.

 

[cjrjr507]

Could 30.60 mhz be from Fort Bliss ?

Picked up 30.4500 - Range Control, possibly out of Fort Hood, Texas this afternoon. Also picked up 30.6000 - Military - Strike Main calling for Striker Six Romeo and there was an Alpha thrown in too. That Striker may have been Stryker. Had several hits between 30.0000 & 31.0000 this afternoon. Can't wait until tomorrow !. Oh, also picked up an repeater on 30.9000 mhz nfm giving an CW call sign at 1502 mdt

Fort Hood frequencies
Range Control Primary - 30.4500 mhz nfm
Range Control Secondary - 34.3000 mhz nfm
Range Control Medivac - 38.3000 mhz nfm
Flight Following - 38.7500 mhz nfm
Pilot to Metro - 41.2000 mhz nfm
Pilot to Dispatch - 38.7000 mhz nfm

Was doing some searching tonight for the striker or stryker main and stryker six romeo call signs I heard on my BCT15 yesterday afternoon and came up with this. Remember the Strykers | Fort Bliss Monitor Could very well be them. 30.60 FM Does anyone know if Fort Bliss uses that frequency?

 

[gvranchosbill]

I picked up a repeater on 30.9000mhz 192.8pl also from N/W Nevada.

 

[jeff]

After not hearing Ft Hood for several years, I have copied them for the last few days at the 1600 to 1700 local time frame in southern New Jersey. Weak but readable, also heard some ranges at the 1700 radio check.

 

[ukdx]

Been hearing it over here too, in fact it's S9 now with a few radio checks for 'machine gun'.

 

[gvranchosbill]

RE:Fort Hood Range Control (30.450 mhz)

RE:Fort Hood TX "Range Control Primary" (30.450 mhz)(150.0 hz)
RE:Fort Hood TX "Range Control Second" (34.300 mhz)(150.0 hz)

Heard Ft Hood Range Control today and often the last month or so on "Primary"
Heard Ft Hood Range Control today and now and then on "Secondary"

Also several other freqs on 30,31,32,34,36 mhz.

FYI: 30.450 mhz sounds like it might be crossbanded with a Digital System (Range Control has that digital sounding modulation)

 

[cjrjr507]

Hi All
Just started searching the 30.00 - 30.60 mhz area this morning and 30.45 came up; fort hood range control, and there was something about an evacuation vehicle, wonder whats going on ? what are they evacuating from. heh heh.

 

[GB1952]

i have picked up a few here in cumberland co,next to fort bragg,also fort bragg range control is working off 40,7 and 38.9

 

[N1BHH]

Yes, 30.45 has been regularly heard here in the northeast. I use 25.91, 25.95 and 25.99, all Broadcast Auxiliary Remote Pickup as ways to find low band being open to start, then move up. These come in good from Texas (WBAP 25.91), (KSCS 25.99) and Colorado (KOA 25.95) on a regular basis of late.

To clarify, the 150 hertz tone is called a noise squelch, it is not a PL tone and all low band military communications gear is wide band.

 

[mancow]

I'm getting 30.450 near K.C. right now. They are talking about number of flash bang rounds and have identified as range control.

 

[KF4ZTO]

Yes, 30.45 has been regularly heard here in the northeast. I use 25.91, 25.95 and 25.99, all Broadcast Auxiliary Remote Pickup as ways to find low band being open to start, then move up. These come in good from Texas (WBAP 25.91), (KSCS 25.99) and Colorado (KOA 25.95) on a regular basis of late.

To clarify, the 150 hertz tone is called a noise squelch, it is not a PL tone and all low band military communications gear is wide band.

All military "FM" (lowband) gear is 30.0000 to 76.0000 MHz or 30.0000 to 88.0000 MHz in 50kHz/25kHz steps...

I use those three remote broadcast pickup frequencies (25.910, 25.950 and 25.990 MHz (all NFM) - as well as a few commonly pirated 11m "freeband" frequencies and CB channel 38LSB) as indicators of a possible 11-meter/10-meter and VHF lowband band opening.