Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2024

[RichardKramer]

Lots of helos operating around Ft Indiantown Gap; Twr 126.2; Guard 21207 (UH-60 Black Hawk 21-21207) @1110L KRDG 125.150 hdg NE to KABE Lehigh Valley airport.
@1105L chatter on 274.450 AR218, mentioned 52Y.
Interesting signal Ident guide (from 2016) Military - Signal Identification Wiki

 

[TerryPavlick]

Lots of helos operating around Ft Indiantown Gap; Twr 126.2; Guard 21207 (UH-60 Black Hawk 21-21207) @1110L KRDG 125.150 hdg NE to KABE Lehigh Valley airport.
@1105L chatter on 274.450 AR218, mentioned 52Y.
Interesting signal Ident guide (from 2016) Military - Signal Identification Wiki

52Y is air to air for distance and bearing (had previous posted a list on this thread).

52Y is listed on the third page of six on the attached PDF

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjFut6t8ryEAxWsjokEHYzuCmEQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tele.soumu.go.jp%2Fresource%2Fe%2Fsearch%2Fshare%2Fpdf%2Fa2-2.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1LnB_1qChbvN4gTBq1OF5e&opi=89978449

 

[RichardKramer]

52Y is air to air for distance and bearing (had previous posted a list on this thread).

Thanks Terry, I have a list somewhere in my messy shack!
I copied your lists to a folder, so no more searching!
Chatter on 274.45 AR218/220, weak here @1215L.

 

[RichardKramer]

@1230L MD A10's on the Bollen R5802 range. 271.400 a/a; 233.450 range.
Colts w/Balky range control.

 

[n4jri]

Much traffic yesterday heard from the Yorktown, VA area on 293.3. Someone fairly strong seeming to direct engagement against ground targets, but only one voice heard AFAIK. Callsigns included AXEMAN, and SKIPPY 69. Seemed very active from mid-day to sundown. Didn't focus much on this, because I was there to check out a destroyer arriving at the Naval Weapons Station.

MD ANG?

73/Allen (N4JRI)

 

[RaleighGuy]

82-8000 just departed ADW, current path looks like possible GSO touch and go flight training.

 

[mdmonitor]

1132- Irony 11 (DOV Flying Club) patterns at DOVC (132.425).

1415- NTPS T-38s (Tester 15 & 18) up doing Mach speed runs (270.8/354.8).

1415- Exxon 11 (KC-46 # 20-46074) off McGuire heading west. Haven't seen that callsign used in quite awhile.

 

[freqhopping]

FBI Cessna has been circling Leesburg today, looks to be about 7000ft. It's a different one than last time, same style markings but maroon instead of blue. I've been sleeping most of the day so not listening.






The plane from last time.

 

[MUTNAV]

Red = clear, green = secure.

I guess everyone uses different color codes. Red to me meant classified information that wasn't encrypted, black was after it was encrypted. the different colors systems were kept separate to keep red info from accidentally being recoverable on black parts of the systems. (ie different rooms with minimal interconnections between them.

Even this definition is different than what I understood as red/black

RED/BLACK concept - Glossary | CSRC

csrc.nist.gov

This is a closer idea to what I'm thinking of.

Wikiwand - Red/black concept

The red/black concept, sometimes called the red–black architecture or red/black engineering, refers to the careful segregation in cryptographic systems of signals that contain sensitive or classified plaintext information from those that carry encrypted information, or ciphertext . Therefore...

www.wikiwand.com

Of course in context, the pilot could have been referring to almost anything.

Thanks
Joel

 

[Mark]

C-17 earlier today RCH-440 Dover #07-7176 into Richmond KRIC airport originally departed from Bahrain then Rota.
Rare stop for the C-17.. Not too far from the Navy folks down there.Was asked earlier via acars.. how many DMO Pax aboard?
I think that is a Marine Corp pax/cargo travel agency.. Distribution Management Office.

 

[mdmonitor]

1740- Couple of 2-ship flts of MD ANG A-10s off Martin State. A2A is 266.6 & 293.3. OA-10C (Wardog 01) off Martin State (317.425). Looks like they're heading for the Gap. Hearing comms on 233.45.

 

[RichardKramer]

1740- Couple of 2-ship flts of MD ANG A-10s off Martin State. A2A is 266.6 & 293.3. OA-10C (Wardog 01) off Martin State (317.425).

Ron, the 266.6 guys are on the R5802 range; 233.450 Balky range control.
Callsign is Raven.

 

[hill]

News item on the USAF V22 crash.

Air Force knows what failed in fatal Osprey crash — but not why

NBC News reported Monday that the crash was linked to chipping from the Osprey’s proprotor gearbox.

www.militarytimes.com

 

[RichardKramer]

@1850L, hearing weak chatter on Warren Grove range 283.1 possibly other A10's.

 

[NYAirOne]

I use both Stridsberg and Jim M-75 preamps in my installati

Are you guys using the pre-amps to make up for long cable runs or trying to boost weak signals? Do you get alot of overload on local freqs with them? Thanks

 

[BM82557]

Fyi --

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The TF Kaan is the latest and most impressive expression of Turkey’s increasingly ambitious military aerospace industry.

www.twz.com

 

[RichardKramer]

Are you guys using the pre-amps to make up for long cable runs or trying to boost weak signals? Do you get alot of overload on local freqs with them? Thanks

I use my Stridsberg Pre-20 since I run 15 scanners and an airspy with a 16 unit tv coupler. I have a local 102.5 radio station antenna about a half mile from me on the mountain, so I have a RS fm filter before and after the preamp. I need to get a 152 MHz paging filter; that's my only issue with rfi. The antenna is up about 40' with RG8 cable @ 75'. Every now & then I'll have a scanner lock up with another, but that's to be expected.

 

[TerryPavlick]

Are you guys using the pre-amps to make up for long cable runs or trying to boost weak signals? Do you get alot of overload on local freqs with them? Thanks

Both on my end.....yes some overload on some frequencies but I usually work around that. The PA feed uses a preamp for weak signals and on the airband you can hear other aircraft talking on frequencies other than the one the radio is showing. However, being less than 6 miles from KPHL and being right under the KEWR and KTEB arrival corridor - altitudes less than 18K....that can be expected.

 

[RaleighGuy]

POTUS heads back to DC on Thursday...

PST
4:10 PM THE PRESIDENT departs San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California en route Joint Base Andrews

EST
11:50 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives/departs Joint Base Andrews en route to the White House
12:00 AM THE PRESIDENT arrives at the White House South Lawn

While the VP heads to Michigan...

At 10:50 am ET, the Vice President will depart Washington, DC en route to Grand Rapids, MI.
At 12:30 pm ET, the Vice President will arrive at Gerald R. Ford International Airport.

At 5:45 pm ET, the Vice President will depart Grand Rapids, MI en route to Washington, DC.
At 7:10 pm ET, the Vice President will arrive at Joint Base Andrews.

 

[Mark]

Possible interesting AR-20E Res up in the Northeast this afternoon 1900z-2300z FL-190-230.
See what shows up...