Milair traffic heard today

[autovon]

I think they were in the Crypt MOA today. Heard some chatter on the scanner before leaving the house this afternoon.

 

[nodak1crdet3]

Logs from 11-07-11,12:17 pm to 08:54 pm.

348.300 unknown VOLK area use with CYCLONE-21 at 02M
238.200 ACC/TAC A2A with unknown in the VOLK area 04:56 PM
Note other call signs used during practice sortie was MAD HOG and BROCHURE.
other freqs used
346.525 VOLK / PHOENIX

rick

Hi Rick,
348.300 WI F-16's new TAC A/A freq.
238.200 WI F-16's new TAC A/A freq.

 

[jimlawrence]

297.3 - sounds like refueling coordination. Anyone got any idea which AR track this frequency is associated with?

 

[autovon]

Ar406l

 

[jimlawrence]

Ar406l

Is that a new AR track? I don't see it in the ap1b list of AR tracks.

 

[autovon]

406 Low and High have been around a while. They're more or less along the IA/MO and NE/KS border.

 

[jimlawrence]

Thanks! Didn't see it in my documents. Do you know what the secondary/backup is?

 

[autovon]

396.200
Check out this if you haven't seen it.
http://www.carmachicago.com/profiles/Milair.pdf

 

[N9JCQ]

Autovon and all, The Carma doc is a decent baseline in my opinion but you'll note the date of the document. A lot has changed since then.

 

[jimlawrence]

Active Logs today:
354.1 - Chicago Center
372.0 - Minneapolis Center
319.2 - Chicago Center S. of Iowa City
363.1 - Minneapolis Center - NW Iowa
250.85 - IA ANG
238.9 - Air refueling

 

[splash1]

Had a little time this am for monitoring .

10:12 am (260.200 REFUEL SEC 318) air to air chit- chat about being on wrong frequency.
10:32 am (391.000 BRAVO 2x primary) Refueling // updating eta and changing callsigns from (sounded like TREND) to DEMON 01 thru 06.

rick

 

[ka0pmd]

Voice comms heard in Winterset, IA today...

I'm listening on a PSR-800. It's in the other room, so I haven't had a chance to look at frequencies, but will continue listening.

HAWKEYE ONE TWO is dropping GBU 12s on a treeline not far from here, "Dropping on the green smoke, and I do not see muzzle flashes; we will drop sensors on the site."

"Burma...good hits...no need for another reattack."

"Hawkeye One-Two has captured your location; sensors on."

"Danger close for a GBU-38 airburst."

"Cyclone push eleven, 288.3." "Checking in, Level 10,000."

"Okay, Hawkeye, that's all we got; we gotta go home for land time."

"Back to initial; push 3."

 

[ka0pmd]

Also heard today: Mentions of CRYPT and callsign CYCLONE.

 

[ka0pmd]

307.150 "Push Tower...Cyclones, push Three."

 

[ka0pmd]

Cyclones again on 257.800.

 

[MCWKen]

A few notes from this weekend. Mostly PAT flights of BE20's out and about over the weekend, one flight decided to take a few touch and go's at MCW.

While I was out with the ADS-B laptop this weekend, noted coverage in the area of both VHF and Uniform frequencies, especially originating at MCW. I know many databases show Uniform frequencies that are not used here so here is the current usage. High altitude is 323.0250, coverage with a mobile antenna is about 30nm surrounding MCW. Low altitude is 257.6750, with a useful coverage of a bit less than the high alt frequency, again using a mobile ¼ wave antenna. With the MCW ATC antennas being at 1250 feet, the VHF range is barely 20 miles, even on top of ridges.

 

[MCWKen]

Crypt South, Central, North hot at 1830 hours. Hawkeye 11 flight of 2, Cyclone 21 flight of four in the airspace. Talking to Coffin Corners 311.300mhz.

 

[MCWKen]

Friday 04/26

Crypt North active with Texas 61, 51, 41, and 31 (F-16's from 111th FS/147th FW TX ANG Ellington ANGB, TX) fueling with Upset 51 and Upset 52 (KC-135). Lot of aircraft for such a small MOA.

Tactical is 321.200

 

[jimlawrence]

Thanks for those reports, Ken! Very helpful!

 

[autovon]

Also heard today: Mentions of CRYPT and callsign CYCLONE.

Don't know if you knew it or not, but Crypt is the MOA in NW Iowa and Cyclone is one of the F-16 callsigns out of Des Moines. Take advantage of the F-16 traffic while you can, the jets are leaving Des Moines fairly soon.