Fleet Week

[danlewis]

I'm in northern Monmouth County 4 miles from Raritan Bay and 10 miles from Sandy Hook. What frequencies should I monitor for Fleet Week?

 

[ecps92]

Past thread
https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/fleet-week.370715/

I'm in northern Monmouth County 4 miles from Raritan Bay and 10 miles from Sandy Hook. What frequencies should I monitor for Fleet Week?

 

[jaymatt1978]

So were the frequencies Bill posted active?

I'm in northern Monmouth County 4 miles from Raritan Bay and 10 miles from Sandy Hook. What frequencies should I monitor for Fleet Week?

 

[Analogrules]

I was the one who actually supplied most of those Fleet Week frequencies, but someone else was nice enough to start a Wiki for it since I couldnt figure out how to start a Wiki on my own (not exactly user friendly).

I only monitored those frequencies sporadically, and came up with nothing this year. The parade of ships frequency has always been the same as long as I can remember. However, they are always changing their port operations in the 140 MHz range in P25 mode each year. And of course, you may hear the Coast Guard clearing the way for their departure on the standard 156MHz marine channels. There honestly isnt much to monitor anymore, since their ships use TRUNKED encryption when communicating with each other within their own ships.

 

[FireBuff44]

The pier security Ops were on 138.575 N293 again this year. signal from this repeater covered further outside nyc this year than last year. marine 17 had a good amount of activity with NYPD and USCG coordinating ops in the area. CG-111 very active but encrypted.

 

[ecps92]

Trunked Encryption ?

In my monitoring experience the ENC has not been used [during Port Visits to Boston]

I was the one who actually supplied most of those Fleet Week frequencies, but someone else was nice enough to start a Wiki for it since I couldnt figure out how to start a Wiki on my own (not exactly user friendly).

I only monitored those frequencies sporadically, and came up with nothing this year. The parade of ships frequency has always been the same as long as I can remember. However, they are always changing their port operations in the 140 MHz range in P25 mode each year. And of course, you may hear the Coast Guard clearing the way for their departure on the standard 156MHz marine channels. There honestly isnt much to monitor anymore, since their ships use TRUNKED encryption when communicating with each other within their own ships.

 

[Analogrules]

I have seen mention of these Navy ships being encrypted on various threads, and havent seen anyone actually capture those TRUNKED systems within these various ships and post them on here or the wiki in recent years. If you have info on non encrypted Navy ships, please share.

 

[ecps92]

As they visit Boston, DB entries have been submitted
https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?action=regexp&regexp=uss

I have seen mention of these Navy ships being encrypted on various threads, and havent seen anyone actually capture those TRUNKED systems within these various ships and post them on here or the wiki in recent years. If you have info on non encrypted Navy ships, please share.

 

[CqDx]

I caught USS New York using EDACS system with Provoice encrypted while they were in port last week.

Before I make the DB submission, I'm always curious to know why all the USS ships are listed under Boston

 

[CqDx]

Besides 138.575 N293, shipboard security was also heard on 399.200 N293 simplex, mostly encrypted. They were using SRX2200 radios which definitely don't operate on the shipboard EDACS system.

 

[GTR8000]

I caught USS New York using EDACS system with Provoice encrypted while they were in port last week.

Before I make the DB submission, I'm always curious to know why all the USS ships are listed under Boston

Ships should be listed at their home port. This includes Navy vessels as well as cruise ships, etc.

 

[ecps92]

Home ports can/do change tho.

Most of the Reports were my submissions from when they visited Boston, hence the Boston location

Ships should be listed at their home port. This includes Navy vessels as well as cruise ships, etc.

 

[ecps92]

Thoughts on if 399.2000 was a specific ship ?
Last I had for this was USS The Sullivans, could be a fleet-wide freq, or ship specific.....

Besides 138.575 N293, shipboard security was also heard on 399.200 N293 simplex, mostly encrypted. They were using SRX2200 radios which definitely don't operate on the shipboard EDACS system.

 

[CqDx]

It was USS New York, that was the only US military ship within 10 miles radius so it is highly probable.

The other ship was HMS Glace Bay and they had APX8000 on some simplex frequency in conventional to talk amongst few crew of theirs.

 

[ecps92]

Thanks, now with two ships using this, thinking more Fleetwide
Now to add it to my standard monitoring.

It was USS New York, that was the only US military ship within 10 miles radius so it is highly probable.

The other ship was HMS Glace Bay and they had APX8000 on some simplex frequency in conventional to talk amongst few crew of theirs.

 

[CqDx]

Glad to help!