ATK Promontory

[shootinnews]

Searched the post and didn't see anything on ATK frequencies. I was up there today shooting the solid rocket test, while searched for freqs, only able to find one for the launch control.

Frequency 508.5000 Tone 179.9 I have submitted it.

Wondering if anyone has or knows of other for ATK Promontory facility?

Thanks

 

[wbloss]

" ... launch control. Frequency 508.5000 Tone 179.9 I have submitted it."


Let me get this straight, the 500 MHz freq was a voice channel? We don't have
"T Band" authorization in Utah. Is this a government-used frequency smack in the middle of TV channel 20 "because they can?"

There is a bunch of business band ATK in the database...

Wally

 

[N7YUO]

Are you aware, that Hill AFB frequently talks to Thiokol (ATK) on the hill TSYS?
TGRP 9920 "Rocket Motor" Transportation.

 

[theaton]

Atk

As the others noted, this is mighty strange. Any chance it was an interference image of some other frequency? That can happen when you're close to a transmitter. Wally, can you try monitoring this from a distance?

-Tim

Searched the post and didn't see anything on ATK frequencies. I was up there today shooting the solid rocket test, while searched for freqs, only able to find one for the launch control.

Frequency 508.5000 Tone 179.9 I have submitted it.

Wondering if anyone has or knows of other for ATK Promontory facility?

Thanks

 

[wbloss]

Tim - I have programmed it, but with the Wellsvilles between us it's unlikely...

Wally
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[qlajlu]

Never Mind. Found it.

 

[shootinnews]

Now that you all mention it, maybe your right! There was a microwave antenna down near the public viewing are, maybe it was for the PA system ( I thought it was for the VIP TV monitors in the tent ). Either way it was a clean signal and can be a frequency all can use if going up there to view a test in the future. (this is the second test Ive been up on in the last month and that freq was used both times)

I will beheading up there again, Ill have to keep an ear to the ground for others.

Anyone know of others?

 

[wbloss]

...slowly it dawns to him...
AHA! Likely a wireless mike! They DO operate in UHF TV Channels.

Wally

 

[shootinnews]

Not a mic

More then likely a seperate audio channel in the microwave system that feeds to public PA system...

 

[intermodiid]

Slightly off topic, but how do you find out when they are doing rocket motor tests? I have wanted to witness one for years, and can't ever get word "before" the tests.

 

[Utah_Viper]

NASA, Utah's ATK to have full-scale test of Ares I rocket - Salt Lake Tribune

NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. will conduct the first full-scale, full-duration test of the new first-stage solid rocket motor for the Ares I rocket at 1 p.m. MDT, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the ATK test facility in Promontory. .....


Hope that I can make it and get some scanning in

 

[intermodiid]

The Utah Rocket Club is reporting that it has been moved to the 27th.

Ares Development Motor (DM-1) FIring (Updated)

Mike