Military aircraft on 146.52

[Hoofy]

About 1600est today a ham named Scott was killing time by making contacts on the ham 2mtr band on 146.52 from what he referred to as a military plane at 28000 ft over the middle of Lake Superior. I've talked to the guy over Lake Michigan before so all you hams out there should be scanning the 146.52 freq.

 

[iMONITOR]

That's pretty cool! What were they talking about?

 

[n9mxq]

He's flown over here before and although I could hear him, he had a pileup waiting for him.. Keep your ears open during maneuvers weeks..

 

[jaymatt1978]

I think ALL HAMS should have 146.52,146.535 and 146.5500 in consecutive order in ALL t heir 2 meter rigs "just in case" I also have them in my scanners.

 

[rcvmo]

Back in the late 80's, I worked an airforce commo on a KC135 at 10m while they were crossing the pond.
I set-up a phone patch to his parents who lived just south of us. We met a couple weeks later where he and his band of merry makers took us out for dinner.
rcvmo

 

[NeFire242]

I think ALL HAMS should have 146.52,146.535 and 146.5500 in consecutive order in ALL t heir 2 meter rigs "just in case" I also have them in my scanners.

UGH... no.

See that would work great if people kept it mind it's a CALLING freq. If people are going to sit there for an hour and chit-chat then I'm locking it out, they can move to another simplex and free it up for its original intended goal.

And then you always have the guys that say stuff on 52 just to hear themselves talk I guess.

 

[w0fg]

There's very little 2M simplex activity around here. I keep 146.52 in the scan on my mobile rig just for things like air mobile stations.

 

[zz0468]

I've worked a couple of commercial flights on HF over the years, but never military. There's a fair amount of time for playing with the radios on long cross country or over water flights.

I used to get my own pile ups when I went aeromobile on... you guessed it, 146.52.

 

[N9JIG]

When I was traveling more often I would always have 146.52 on. I often worked pilot/hams at night, especially out West. Most of the time they were working cargo flights (Most of these are at night).

Once, when driving thru north Texas I worked a pilot who would just say he wasn't civilian and not commercial, so the inference was he was military. Some of the other flights I worked may well have been military, they just probably didn't want to come out and say so.

I used to have a "sched" with a check run flight when I worked midnights, there was a large dual engine turbo-prop that would over fly my town at exactly 0430 almost every night. After a week or so of noticing this I started flashing my spot light and after a couple days he started to flash his landing lights. This went on for a good month or so and I was tempted to borrow a buddies Airband HT from his flight bag and try him on 123.45 but never did... Eventually I rotated off to days and the next time I worked mids I didn't see him anymore.

 

[prcguy]

About 2mo ago I worked a C130 on 20m HF that was flying between Texas and Montana. The strange thing was they claimed to be using a Kenwood HF rig and I never found out how they were powering it or what antenna they were using.
Years ago there was a Goodyear Blimp pilot that operated 146.52 while flying. I was driving with one of my kids and we saw the Goodyear Blimp overhead and I grabbed the mic to my 2m radio and asked if they wanted to talk to the blimp. I got the typical arms crossed and a "yeah, right". You should have seen the look on their face when Jimmy the pilot answered with the blimp engines roaring in the background.
prcguy

 

[nexus]

wow those are some great stories guys.... Thanks for the read. I'd love to work some military aviation on the ham bands some time. I'll have to monitor 52 simplex more often