CT Mil Air?

[Southtown800]

any good military air freqs for CT?...i am looking for some good ones to put in my FT-60R....anything in the 220's?

 

[BMT]

Have you tried searching 225.0-399.9? If you can't ID what you hear then others might be able to help.Searching is the best way to find frequencies but it's very time consuming.

BMT

 

[Southtown800]

yea, i have been searching all day so far because i have the next 2 days off, but i have been looking in the 230mhz - 399mhz and nothing yet, not even as much as a CW ID or a morse code from a repeater call sign, but i will keep looking

 

[BMT]

You are in the AM mode???

BMT

 

[ka3jjz]

yea, i have been searching all day so far because i have the next 2 days off, but i have been looking in the 230mhz - 399mhz and nothing yet, not even as much as a CW ID or a morse code from a repeater call sign, but i will keep looking

Milair ops in this band don't use repeaters in the same way you would expect, say in the 220 ham band. As BMT mentioned, you must be in AM mode to hear anything, and using just a duckie, it's unlikely you're going to hear much, unless the flight is over you and close by. A good antenna - say a NilJon or perhaps even a 220 mhz ham antenna - would be a step in the right direction. Some also like to use a dedicated duckie, such as the Maldol AH500 (sold by Universal). Such antennas have some gain over that tiny, almost useless duckie that's on most radios these days.

As for frequencies - as I wrote in the Military Monitoring Wiki, there are a couple of possibilities -

The Boston ARTCC has 2 Conn. sites listed - one in Shelton and in Woodstock. I wouldn't discount flights going to/from Logan Airport, or perhaps even JFK if their flight plans happens to cross your area.
I'll bet Scan Massachussetts has a nice Logan airport page....

The MidAir Refueling Tracks page on the Milair comms site shows a couple of refueling areas offshore from you - with a good antenna it might be possible to hear these as well.

From time to time Monitoring Times mag has printed a partial list of NORAD frequencies (the last time, I think, was Dec 2005). You might want to consider ordering a reprint - and pay attention to the NEADS (I think that's the Northern sector) set of freqs.

It would surprise me greatly if this wasn't discussed at one time or another on the Connscan Yahoo group. That might also be somewhere to check, as would be the ScanCom Yahoo group (which covers the NYC/LI area - but heck Ct. is a hop skip and a jump from there....)

That oughta keep you busy for awhile. 73s and good hunting...Mike

 

[ka3jjz]

According to the wiki page for the FT60 at:

http://www.radioreference.com/wiki/index.php/Yaesu_FT-60

certain parts of the milair spectrum default to FM mode - that's going to be an issue if you can't override it.

There's also a Yahoo group devoted to that radio, and a couple of software packages listed as well 73s Mike

 

[jimlawrence]

I don't know a thing about your receiver but here are a few to try all in AM mode. There are A-10s based at Bradley in Windsor Locks.

138.150
138.550
138.750
138.825
138.900
140.200
140.425
141.625
142.200
143.825
148.550
225.500

As for air refueling, try:
295.8, 324.6, 238.9, 319.7 and 341.75

When it comes to air traffic control, these guys almost always work UHF so look up the UHF freqs for Bradley and you should be all set. I probably should add that these guys don't spend a lot of time in the local area. They prefer to work over central and northern NH as well as the ranges at Ft. Drum NY and Warren Grove NJ. So unless you have a really good antenna you might only hear them coming and going most of the time.

Let us know which of these that I've listed are active, please?

 

[Southtown800]

i am back and forth from mansfield CT and Staten Island, but here i dont hear anything good using the stock antenna, i think i might want to get one of the software packages, but in terms of the AM mode, it can be overrode using the features in the menu, it's a nice little radio, i like it alot, 1000 user channels and all kinds of reverse tones and repeater options DCS and CTCSS and other Tone Scan options, so it is a pretty cool radio,

does anyone have the info for the Civil air patrol?....

a good frequency i like to use when i am here in Mansfield, is the Lifestar Dispatch out of hartford hospital, i heard a good one today off lifestar transporting a burn victim from bridgeport hospital to a hospital in new york, good stuff

 

[ka3jjz]

Again, the Wiki is your friend...

http://www.radioreference.com/wiki/index.php/Civil_Air_Patrol

73s Mike